On 14/06/2026 9:10 pm, Julien Dallot wrote:
- with "#xywh=<coordinates>" for highlighting a given area in a pdf
(and not to search text, which is less reliable).
At first glance, the RFC allows to combine #viewrect=... (or
#highlight=...) and #search=...
Do pdf-tools support this kind of addressing? (Or was there a feature
request for that?)
On 16/06/2026 1:36 am, Christian Moe wrote:
And as long as they can be distinguished, I suppose one could have
/both/ a doc-fragment search string /and/ additional metadata with
[[linktype:url::searchstring::(:meta data)]]
I may be wrong, but my reading of Julien's proposal is that it should be
like
[[linktype:url::(:search string :meta data)]]
However I see no reason to demand support of :meta from each link type.
Earlier, brainstorming, I tried to add "wrap:" link type (with plist, it
was easier to implement) on the top of other links without modification
of code related to specific types. Unlike Samuel Wale's and John
Kitchin's approach, it does not require extension of Org syntax:
Max Nikulin. Links & images with different attributes in the same
paragraph. Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:54:37 +0700.
<https://list.orgmode.org/[email protected]>
Max Nikulin writes:
Specifically to long attributes like link titles, I would consider new
type of links that are defined outside of paragraphs [[ext:some-link]]
#+name:some-link
- title :: Example of title
- url :: https://example.com
- rel :: nofollow,noreferrer
Definitions may be hidden from export using a special section or a
drawer. In some sense it is close to org-cite... MarkDown and
reStructuredText allows to avoid long URLs in text paragraphs.
That's a really interesting idea!
Then, back to the original post, we need to decide how to specify
fragment (search) part of URLs: should it be in the "url" item or we
allow (but perhaps do not require) to use a separate item. The latter
adds some complications and flexibility:
#+name:org-faq
- url :: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html
- title :: Org-mode Frequently Asked Questions
#+name:org-faq-mailto
- ref :: org-faq
- title :: Org-mode is not opening mailto links in my default mail client
- fragment :: #mailto-links
#+name:org-faq-mid-handler
- ref :: org-faq
- title :: Can I create links to Thunderbirds emails?
- fragment ::
- id :: mid-url-handler
(Btw, I originally took the leap to Emacs because it was the only editor
with decent rST support, then quickly abandoned rST for Org. But now
that you mention it, this is one of the things I think rST did neatly.)
I recall a thread requesting wrapping links links like in rST
Steven Penny. Re: Long links. Sun, 5 Jan 2020 08:02:23 -0600
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