This is pretty cool, Sean. One issue I'm having is that it does not
properly handle "breaking" the link:
"[[link][description]]" is displayed as "link", with the cursor after
link. In org-mode, if I hit backspace, it deletes the trailing ']' and
changes the display to "[[link][description]". But using this minor
mode, it keeps still just shows "link". If I turn minor mode off again,
it's clear that the trailing bracket was deleted.
I took a look at the org source regarding links, but I couldn't quite
figure out how org does this. It just calls org-delete-backward-char,
which doesn't appear to have any magic for links.
Thanks
...cj
On 8/12/12 4:25 PM, Sean O'Halpin wrote:
Hi,
I've been hacking this weekend to try to create a minor mode that
enables org-mode bracket links in modes other than org-mode.
I believe this has been mooted before
(e.g.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-08/msg00573.html).
The following codes works for me but I'm sure it could be improved.
I'm an elisp noob so I'd very much appreciate feedback on the approach
I'm taking. For example, I'm not sure how to prevent turning on
org-link-minor-mode from an org-mode buffer - advice would be welcome.
Regards,
Sean
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(require 'org)
(define-minor-mode org-link-minor-mode
"Toggle display of org-mode style bracket links in non-org-mode
buffers."
:lighter " org-link"
(let ((org-link-minor-mode-keywords (list
'(org-activate-bracket-links (0 'org-link t)))))
(save-excursion
(save-match-data
(goto-char (point-min))
(if org-link-minor-mode
(progn
(font-lock-add-keywords nil org-link-minor-mode-keywords t)
(set (make-local-variable 'org-descriptive-links)
org-descriptive-links)
(if org-descriptive-links (add-to-invisibility-spec
'(org-link)))
(font-lock-fontify-buffer)
)
(progn
(font-lock-remove-keywords nil org-link-minor-mode-keywords)
(org-remove-from-invisibility-spec '(org-link))
(while (re-search-forward org-bracket-link-regexp nil t)
;; Remove all org-link properties
(remove-text-properties (match-beginning 0) (match-end
0) (text-properties-at (match-beginning 0)))
)
)
)))))
(provide 'org-link-minor-mode)
#+end_src