Kiwon Um <um.ki...@gmail.com> writes: > I didn't know what the issue in the past interpretation was, but I am > just not sure whether it's a good idea to enforce that we must use > such a special character, which we cannot directly see from the > editor.
This is because you are using an ambiguous construct. There are things you cannot do in Org (e.g., starting a line with "|" and expect it to be something else than a table), yet, Org provides a syntax to work around the problem. I agree this is not perfect. >> > [[https://somewhere-to-url][[My Link]]] is not properly exported; the >> > closing bracket "]" is not included in the exported link. >> >> This looks like a different problem. If you want to include the >> brackets, you need to escape them, as explained in the ORG-NEWS >> document, or in the manual: >> >> [[https://somewhere-to-url][\[My Link\]]] > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work either. > [[https://www.youtube.com/][\[You Tube\]]] is exported as <a > href="https://www.youtube.com/";>\[You Tube\</a>] Indeed! I forgot about that: the escaping mechanism is for the link part. For the description part, you have to use a zero width space, too. Note that `org-insert-link' (C-c C-l) does that automatically. IIRC, square brackets were forbidden in descriptions (and changed into curly brackets automatically) before that change.
