Re: [O] [RFC] Change visibility for bracket links

[Detlef Steuer]

Am Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:40:08 +0200
schrieb Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden>:

> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to make the following change to bracket links display (i.e.,
> when `org-highlight-links' contains `bracket', which is the default).
> 
> Basically, I want to leave a visible pair of brackets around the link,
> i.e.,
> 
>   [[uri][description]]
> 
> is displayed as
> 
>   [description]
> 
> instead of
> 
>   description
> 
> and
> 
>   [[uri]]
> 
> is displayed as
> 
>   [uri]
> 
> instead of
> 
>   uri

+1

Detlef

> 
> The rationale behind this suggestion is that editing a mostly
> invisible link is unintuitive when point is at the boundaries of its
> visible part.
> 
> More precisely, in the following visible part of a link
> 
>   description
> 
> if point hits "d" from the right, changes happen in the description of
> the link, but if point comes from the left, changes happen before the
> link. 
> 
> I guess I could get used to it, but sometimes, the link happens to be
> at column 0. In this case, the only way to "come from the left" is to
> move to the previous line and go past the newline character. This is,
> IMO, very annoying, notwithstanding the fact that it is impossible to
> realize at the beginning of the buffer.
> 
> Leaving a pair of brackets, OTOH, disambiguates the situation. Editing
> before the opening bracket makes changes before the link. Conversely,
> editing after the former makes changes to the uri or the description,
> whichever is displayed.
> 
> The cost a little more visual clutter, but it seems very acceptable to
> me. I attach a quick patch for testing.
> 
> Feedback welcome.
> 
> Regards,
>