Fixing mailto and irc links in ox-md.el

Fixing mailto and irc links in ox-md.el

[Jay Kamat]

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Hi!

I would like to submit a patch to org mode, which fixes the behavior
of mailto and irc links in markdown export.

Previously, these org mode snippets:

[[mailto:some.email@server.net][Jane Doe]]
[[irc:/irc.com/#emacs/bob][bob]]

would export to:

 [Jane Doe](some.email@server.net)
 [bob](/irc.com/#emacs/bob)

which causes broken links in browsers when they try to view exported markdown.

The new behavior exports them to:

[Jane Doe](mailto:some.email@server.net)
[bob](irc:/irc.com/#emacs/bob)

so that browsers can open the proper respective application when
opening said links.

The patch that I have made is very small (only one line), and is attached.

There is an external report of this bug here:
https://github.com/larstvei/ox-gfm/issues/17

This is my first time submitting a patch to anything big like org
mode, so please let me know if I've done anything wrong or if anything
seems amiss.

Thanks for looking at this, and thanks for making/developing on org
mode (it's changed my life completely)!

-Jay Kamat

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From 0ef21fcd6394b3551a94a5878d414f2e7d17e372 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 17:50:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ox-md.el: Fix export of irc and mailto links

* lisp/ox-md.el (org-md-link): Add mailto and irc to links that pass
their types through to markdown export

See: https://github.com/larstvei/ox-gfm/issues/17  for an external
bug report

TINYCHANGE
---
 lisp/ox-md.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/ox-md.el b/lisp/ox-md.el
index e2b3d29e1..08e385282 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-md.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-md.el
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ a communication channel."
      (t (let* ((raw-path (org-element-property :path link))
 	       (path
 		(cond
-		 ((member type '("http" "https" "ftp"))
+		 ((member type '("http" "https" "ftp" "mailto" "irc"))
 		  (concat type ":" raw-path))
 		 ((string= type "file")
 		  (org-export-file-uri (funcall link-org-files-as-md raw-path)))
-- 
2.11.0

Re: Fixing mailto and irc links in ox-md.el

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com> writes:

> Subject: [PATCH] ox-md.el: Fix export of irc and mailto links
>
> * lisp/ox-md.el (org-md-link): Add mailto and irc to links that pass
> their types through to markdown export
>
> See: https://github.com/larstvei/ox-gfm/issues/17  for an external
> bug report

Applied. Thank you.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou