Re: Expand macros in links

[Michael Dauer <mick.dauer@gmail.com>]

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I'm aware of this theoretical conflict. But I see the risk as very low
compared to the value of not having to make a lot of customizations for
export and internal link handling. It should just work out of the box.

If you deem necessary there would still be the possibility to define a
global switch for this. This could then still have the 100% save default,
while still being easy to "configure".

If you want to go so far you could mitigate the risk of a conflict by
"escaping" the macro brackets. {{{{{{not-a-macro}}}}}} would be treated as
{{{not-a-marco}}} without expansion. Or any other escape sequence to bring
the conflict probability to 0.0000001.

Am Di., 27. Dez. 2022 um 16:51 Uhr schrieb Ihor Radchenko <
yantar92@posteo.net>:

> Michael Dauer <mick.dauer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I mean something like:
> > * Heading
> > [[http:abc{{{input-file}}}]
> >
> > When exporting it to html then the link is not replaced.
>
> This is to be expected, and I do think that Org is doing it right by not
> replacing macros in links.
>
> You cannot exactly control what is inside link path - if an actual
> website link happens to contain {{{...}}} pattern, you will have no
> options left how to prevent Org from replacing that pattern.
>
> If you want to generate link paths programmatically, you can instead
> define custom links types or link abbreviations. See
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Link-Abbreviations.html and
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-Hyperlink-Types.html
>
> You can control custom link export as well.
>
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