On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:55 AM Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Matt Price 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. > >