On 09/06/2026 2:23 pm, Julien Dallot wrote:
I feel like the format with a plist inside the link is simple and
understandable enough, while enabling to encode pretty much anything.
I find the idea of plist in links as interesting, however, I am afraid,
it has no chance to be adapted outside of Emacs. I strongly believe that
it should be easy to send links to friends and colleagues. So, if
possible, I would stick to existing URL conventions. Some formats have
documented ways to specify document fragment.
Org got support of search links earlier, but nowadays browsers have the
text fragment feature (scroll to text fragment)
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments>.
It would be nice to adapt it to Org.
If fragment support is rather limited for some format then perhaps it
should be discussed with the community around the format.
I consider it as a kind of failure that for Texinfo manuals users prefer
http links even if they have document locally. Even Org has some
shortcomings in respect to "info:" links.
As to PDF, I do not think it deserves a dedicated link type.
`org-file-apps' should be enough. In my previous message I did not add
links to earlier threads.
- PDF page, search, and anchor options:
Max Nikulin. Re: Org mode links: Open a PDF file at a given page and
highlight a given string. Sat, 3 Sep 2022 20:00:47 +0700.
<https://list.orgmode.org/[email protected]>
The thread started in 2021. As I wrote, addressing accordingly
to the RFC should be more portable.
- An example how to get some info from xpdf v3 (aka xpopple fork):
Maxim Nikulin. Re: Bring up a screen giving option to open a series of
orgmode files. Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:41:03 +0700.
<https://list.orgmode.org/[email protected]>
