Hello Org experts,
I want to auto insert a title from an HTML page as description for an org link in my notes. I stumbled upon some old message by Miro Bezjak on this list: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-09/msg01435.html I have seen the replies, but I am not sure how to use org-make-link-description-function, so I coded my own version of Miros idea: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun org-link-from-clipboard () "Insert an org link into current buffer from an URL in clipboard." (interactive) (let ((marker (point-marker)) (url (if (string-match-p "^\\(http\\|https\\)://" (current-kill 0)) (current-kill 0) (read-string "URL: "))) (title nil)) (when url (url-retrieve url (lambda (buffer) (goto-char (point-min)) (when (re-search-forward "<title>\\(.*\\)</title>" nil t) (setq title (string-trim (match-string-no-properties 1)))) (with-current-buffer (marker-buffer marker) (save-excursion (goto-char (marker-position marker)) (org-insert-link nil url (or title (read-string "Description: ")))))) nil t t)))) #+end_src While my function is not very big, I would still like to learn how to use the suggested built-in stuff from that discussion. I also dislike the interactive fallback in asynchronous callback if the title is not found, but I would also dislike to have a bunch of "No description found" strings in my notes too, so I am not sure which one is less evil there. Thankful for any help and advice.
