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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: unlinking links
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:30:08 -0500
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	(Adam Spiers's message of "Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:57:19 +0100")
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Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> writes:

Try this:

(defun unlinkify ()
  "replace an org-link with the path, or description."
  (interactive)
  (let ((eop (org-element-context)))
    (when (eq 'link (car eop))
(message "%s" eop)
      (let* ((start (org-element-property :begin eop))
	     (end (org-element-property :end eop))
	     (contents-begin (org-element-property :contents-begin eop))
	     (contents-end (org-element-property :contents-end eop))
	     (path (org-element-property :path eop))
	     (desc (and contents-begin
			contents-end
			(buffer-substring contents-begin contents-end))))
	(setf (buffer-substring start end) (or desc path))))))


> Hi all,
>
> Is it just me or is there no quick way to remove the link from some
> hyperlinked text? If so, please consider this a feature request ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>

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