Re: [Feature proposal] Add :description function to org-link-parameters

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Oops. Indeed, :desk should be replaced with :description. I used :desk
property in my personal config, but it may be confusing for others.

Best,
Ihor


John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> This sounds reasonable. I was a little confused with the mixture of
> of description and desk in the code below. If you replace desk with
> description everywhere in your code is that what you mean?
>
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Wondering if anyone is interested in adding a new org-link property to
>> customise generating the link description.
>>
>> For now, there is global org-link-make-description-function, which is
>> shared among all the link types. If would be more convenient if the
>> description function can be set independently for different link types.
>>
>> I propose to use :description property in org-link-parameters. A sample
>> implementation working with current org version is below:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (defun yant/org-make-link-description-function (link desk)
>>   "Return description of the link LINK according to :description link property.
>> Return DESK if :desk is not set."
>>   (let ((fun (org-link-get-parameter (car (split-string link ":")) :description)))
>>     (if (functionp fun)
>> 	(funcall fun link desk)
>>       desk)))
>>
>> (setq org-make-link-description-function #'yant/org-make-link-description-function)
>> #+end_src
>>
>> Example usage:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (defun org-id-link-desk (link desk)
>>   "Description function for id: link."
>>   (let ((id (cadr (split-string link ":"))))
>>     (org-with-point-at (org-id-find id 'marker)
>>       (s-replace "||" "/" (yant/task-fulltitle)))))
>>
>> (org-link-set-parameters "id"
>>                          :desk #'org-id-link-desk)
>> #+end_src
>>
>> Best,
>> Ihor
>
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Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg