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From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ol.el: add description format parameter to org-link-parameters
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 17:26:51 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tae9hc$vgv$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8s8n1bm.fsf@heagren.com>

On 08/07/2022 02:57, Hugo Heagren wrote:
> Since the last version of this patch, I have:

Thank you, this version should be more reliable.

> tl;dr The question is: what is the Good Behaviour when
> :default-description is set to something, which is meant to return a
> string and returns 'nil instead? Should it be treated like an empty
> string, or as an error?
Just an idea: if the :default-description function returns "" then use 
empty description, if it returns nil then try 
`org-link-make-description-function'.

Unsure if it is better but I would consider `or' instead of `cond':

(or description
     (let ((make (org-link-get-parameter type :default-description)))
      (and make (condition-case ; ...
     )))
     (and org-link-make-description-function
          (condition-case ; ...
     ))
     desc)

So it becomes a kind of responsibility chain and nil becomes a valid and 
useful value.

I am in doubts concerning "default-description" as the parameter name. I 
would consider either more specific "insert-description" or shorter 
"description". Concerning the former, sometimes I do not mind to have 
default description for export shared by most of backends without 
necessity to explicitly write :export function handling all backends. 
E.g. for <info:org#Protocols> generate 
https://orgmode.org/manual/Protocols.html target and 'info "(org) 
Protocols"' description that is suitable for LaTeX/PDF, HTML, Markdown. 
If something like this were implemented, default-description would 
become ambiguous if it is related to insert or to export.

> +(defmacro test-ol-with-link-parameters-as (type parameters &rest body)
[...]
> +  ;; Copy all keys in `parameters' and their original values to
> +  ;; `orig-parameters'. For `parity': nil = odd, non-nill = even
> +  `(let (parity orig-parameters)
> +     (dolist (p ',parameters)

Have I missed something or the whole macro may be simplified to just 
copy `org-link-parameters'?

   `(let ((org-link-parameters (copy-tree org-link-parameters)))
      (org-link-set-parameters ,type ,@parameters)
      ,@body))

Otherwise `gensym'-generated name should be used instead of hardcoded 
rtn to avoid accidental modification of the variable by the body code:

> +         (let ((_ (org-link-set-parameters ,type ,@parameters))
> +               ;; Do body
> +               (rtn (progn ,@body)))

In addition, `declare' form should be added to `defmacro' to specify 
which argument is considered as its body.

> +    (setq type
> +          (cond

My opinion is that it should be inside
    (let ((initial-input ...
and maybe even be a sibling of
    (def (org-link-get-parameter type
to keep related code more local.

> -	      ((not org-link-make-description-function) desc)
> +              (desc)
> +              ((org-link-get-parameter type :default-description)
> +               (let ((def (org-link-get-parameter type :default-description)))

I have not tested, so I may be wrong in respect to the following. It 
seems, you rises priority of desc value that earlier was a fallback. The 
reason why I am in doubts, is that it seems, desc is initialized from 
current link description when point is withing an existing link and in 
such cases desc likely should be preserved. I can not say that I like 
that it is responsibility of all description functions to return the 
desc argument if it is supplied.

>  	      (t (condition-case nil
>  		     (funcall org-link-make-description-function link desc)

Notice that before you modification `funcall' was guarded by "(not 
org-link-make-description-function)" test.

I like the idea of description specific to link type and it is sour that 
previous attempts to implement the feature was not completed.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-10 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-28 23:15 ol.el: add description format parameter to org-link-parameters Hugo Heagren
2022-03-28 23:15 ` [PATCH] " Hugo Heagren
2022-04-04  9:49   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-04-05 19:29     ` [PATCH v2] " Hugo Heagren
2022-04-07  5:13       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-21 12:03         ` [PATCH v3] " Hugo Heagren
2022-06-21 13:41           ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-07 19:57             ` [PATCH v4] " Hugo Heagren
2022-07-09  3:31               ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-14 13:08                 ` [PATCH v5] " Hugo Heagren
2022-07-16  9:09                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-16 21:20                     ` Hugo Heagren
2022-07-17  6:11                       ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-17 10:27                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-17 10:18                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-17 20:59                         ` [PATCH v6] " Hugo Heagren
2022-07-18 10:55                           ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-23  7:48                             ` [PATCH v7] " Hugo Heagren
2022-07-23  7:59                               ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-23 13:06                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-23 15:46                                   ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-24 10:34                                   ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-24 13:15                                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-25 11:55                                       ` [PATCH v8] " Hugo Heagren
2022-07-29 12:54                                         ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-29 19:05                                           ` [PATCH v9] " Hugo Heagren
2022-07-30  6:29                                             ` Ihor Radchenko
     [not found]                                               ` <87tu6zf2o1.fsf@heagren.com>
2022-07-30  8:02                                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-30 12:34                                                   ` [PATCH] ol-info: Enable :insert-description feature Max Nikulin
2022-08-06  7:00                                                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-14 16:41                                                       ` [PATCH v2] ol-info: Define :insert-description function Max Nikulin
2022-08-19  4:28                                                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-19 12:26                                                           ` Max Nikulin
2022-08-20  7:29                                                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-21 14:49                                                               ` Max Nikulin
2022-08-22  4:10                                                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-24 14:37                                                                   ` [PATCH v3] " Max Nikulin
2022-08-26 13:15                                                                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-04 15:05                                                       ` [PATCH] ol-info: Enable :insert-description feature Max Nikulin
2022-09-05  6:36                                                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-06  6:06                                             ` [PATCH v9] ol.el: add description format parameter to org-link-parameters Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-29  1:47                               ` [PATCH v7] " Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-29  7:05                                 ` Bastien Guerry
2022-07-10 10:26               ` Max Nikulin [this message]
2022-06-21 15:01           ` [PATCH v3] " Max Nikulin

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