Re: managing aggressive link activation within lines?

[Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:55 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > MWE:
> > test.org:
> > --
> > This is a paragraph with  [[https://google.com][a link]]
> > ---
> > steps to reproduce:
> >
> > put cursor at beginning of file and type ~[[~.  The paragraph text will
> > collapse into the link definition, and (point) will move to the ~a~ in ~a
> > link~, so manual typing of a new link will fail.  Is there anything I can
> > do to stop this from happening?
>
> IIUC, this is related to the link syntax change introduced in Org 9.3,
> which allows, among other things, "[[" within a link. In this situation,
> once you write
>
>   [[This is a paragraph with  [[https://google.com][a link]]
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> the underlined part becomes the link.
>
> I agree this is not optimal. Yet, I'm not sure about how to deal with
> this.
>
> Ah, interesting. That makes a lot of sense.  Would it be unworkably
destructive for me to revert the link syntax locally ? I have no particular
need  for the new functionality and the current situation has been a
significant cognitive burden, not least because I make so many typos that I
am constantly re-editing existing text.

>
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