r...@rosslaird.com (Ross A. Laird) writes:
> I'd like to post one sentence from this manuscript every day as a
> tweet with a link back to the sentence
Will this do what you need?
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(defun org-linkify-sentence (url)
"Converts a sentence to an Org-mode link."
(interactive "sURL: ")
(save-excursion
(forward-char)
(backward-sentence)
(push-mark)
(forward-sentence)
(kill-region (region-beginning) (region-end))
(insert "[[" url "][" (first kill-ring) "]]")))
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Just put the cursor on the sentence and type M-x org-linkify-sentence
RET. You might want to create a keybinding for it if you use it often:
(define-key org-mode-map "\C-cs" 'org-linkify-sentence)
Also, I'd recommend creating a link abbreviation if you link to the same
site often: http://orgmode.org/org.html#Link-abbreviations
I have a series of custom org-linkify-* functions that I use to convert
various pieces of text to Org-mode links. I'm still trying to figure
out how they can be generalized to be useful to others.
Regards,
Jason
