Re: [O] How to set org-make-link-description-function

[John Kitchin]

I don't know how to do that either. It does seem like you can set it globally. You can try something like:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp

(setq org-make-link-description-function

      (lambda (link desc)

(cond

((s-starts-with? "ebdb:uuid/" link)

  (replace-regexp-in-string "ebdb:uuid/" "" link))

(t

  desc))))

#+END_SRC

It doesn't seem too ideal, as it seems like something that should get set in the link parameters. 

Does anyone else have an idea?

John

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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 5:54 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:

I've coded Org link support for EBDB, a contact management package,
where the :complete key looks like:

(lambda ()
  (format "ebdb:uuid/%s"
          (ebdb-record-uuid
           (ebdb-prompt-for-record
            (ebdb-records)))))

Which prompts for a record based on the contact name, then inserts the
contact's UUID as the link.

The problem is that Org then prompts for a link description. I'd like to
provide the contact name as a default description (the user has just
typed it in, after all), but haven't figured out how to do that.

Clearly `org-make-link-description-function' is meant to play this role,
and it would work perfectly, but I don't know to set it. I can't set it
globally, but also don't know how to let-bind it locally.

How am I supposed to use it?

Thanks,
Eric