Hi!
IRC links in ox-html are currently broken. There exists a special 'irc'
content handler on the web, telling browsers to open an irc link in an
external irc client. The format for such links seems identical to org
(irc:irc.freenode.net/user).
Previously links such as:
[[irc:irc.freenode.net/test][Irc link]]
Would export to
<a href="irc.freenode.net/test">Irc link</a>
in ox-html.
After this tiny patch, it exports to:
<a href="irc:irc.freenode.net/test">Irc link</a>
which tells browsers such as firefox to open links in irc clients.
Let me know if you find any issues!
-Jay
>From fa1a5ad3bf63158775ffa8ab3de37fb056103ab4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Kamat <jaygka...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 01:11:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ox-html.el: Fix irc links exporting to link to local files
* lisp/ox-html.el: Add "irc" to special link types which are exported
as their link type and path separated by ':', so that browser irc
content handlers work properly.
---
lisp/ox-html.el | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/ox-html.el b/lisp/ox-html.el
index d91ca73622..8756cda7e5 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-html.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-html.el
@@ -2973,7 +2973,7 @@ INFO is a plist holding contextual information. See
(desc (org-string-nw-p desc))
(path
(cond
- ((member type '("http" "https" "ftp" "mailto" "news"))
+ ((member type '("http" "https" "ftp" "mailto" "news" "irc"))
(url-encode-url (org-link-unescape (concat type ":" raw-path))))
((string= type "file")
;; Treat links to ".org" files as ".html", if needed.
--
2.11.0
