This update improves the solution so that it doesn't step on other minibuffer echo-area messages when it has nothing to report
(defun my-org-mode-post-command-hook () "Show POINT's \"help-echo\" information in the echo area. This could be information about an org-link at POINT, or some other data." (let ((message-log-max) ; suppress output to *Messages* buffer (msg (get-text-property (point) 'help-echo))) (when msg (ignore-errors (message "%s" (url-unhex-string msg) nil t))))) -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0