Yes, that works for the example I quoted. The source of the original "::" is org-mac-link, not my typing. Maybe that could insert a different character sequence to avoid any confusion.
--Steve On Mon, May 3, 2021, at 10:30, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > "Steven Bagley" <stevenbag...@fastmail.fm> writes: > > > I am aware of the meaning of "::". Is this a design decision or an > > implementation constraint? My intuition, obviously wrong here, is that > > link, being a special kind of object, should have priority over what > > amounts to a formatting command. > > - ... :: is also a special kind of syntax. It starts before the link > (and being a block element, it even has priority over link). > > Have you tried the solution I gave you? > > Regards, >