Re: [RFC] Change visibility for bracket links

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

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Le mercredi 5 octobre 2016, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> a
écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to make the following change to bracket links display (i.e.,
> when `org-highlight-links' contains `bracket', which is the default).
>
> Basically, I want to leave a visible pair of brackets around the link,
> i.e.,
>
>   [[uri][description]]
>
> is displayed as
>
>   [description]
>
> instead of
>
>   description
>
> and
>
>   [[uri]]
>
> is displayed as
>
>   [uri]
>
> instead of
>
>   uri
>
>
+1

Very good suggestion.

Rainer

The rationale behind this suggestion is that editing a mostly invisible
> link is unintuitive when point is at the boundaries of its visible part.
>
> More precisely, in the following visible part of a link
>
>   description
>
> if point hits "d" from the right, changes happen in the description of
> the link, but if point comes from the left, changes happen before the
> link.
>
> I guess I could get used to it, but sometimes, the link happens to be at
> column 0. In this case, the only way to "come from the left" is to move
> to the previous line and go past the newline character. This is, IMO,
> very annoying, notwithstanding the fact that it is impossible to realize
> at the beginning of the buffer.
>
> Leaving a pair of brackets, OTOH, disambiguates the situation. Editing
> before the opening bracket makes changes before the link. Conversely,
> editing after the former makes changes to the uri or the description,
> whichever is displayed.
>
> The cost a little more visual clutter, but it seems very acceptable to
> me. I attach a quick patch for testing.
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou                                                0x80A93738
>


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