Hi Russell,

I am using Doom Emacs, and in its default Org configuration it does exactly that: the link target is shown in the minibuffer after a brief delay, when the cursor is on the link. A bit of investigation reveals that it's using org-eldoc. This seems to be the code responsible for it:

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/modules/lang/org/config.el#L167-L171

  (defadvice! +org-display-link-in-eldoc-a (&rest _)
    "Display full link in minibuffer when cursor/mouse is over it."
    :before-until #'org-eldoc-documentation-function
    (when-let (link (org-element-property :raw-link (org-element-context)))
      (format "Link: %s" link)))

--Diego


On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 5:15 PM Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com> wrote:
Are there other ways to view information about an org link that I
don't list below?

 - M-x org-insert-link, the prompts for link and description show the
   current values. Requires interacting with the prompts.

 - Switch to fundamental mode

 - M-x org-toggle-link-display

Are there ways to see this information live while navigating? Maybe on
the modeline, or messages?

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