Hi,
I use a lot of custom links (for citations) and cannot stand the escaped
mess in the help-echo. So I've been using the patch below for quite some
time without any noticable slowdown.
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index bf74afd..470f93d 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -5806,10 +5806,7 @@ by a #."
(if (and (re-search-forward org-bracket-link-regexp limit t)
(not (org-in-src-block-p)))
(let* ((hl (org-match-string-no-properties 1))
- (help (concat "LINK: " hl))
- ;; FIXME: Above we should remove the escapes. But that
- ;; requires another match, protecting match data, a lot
- ;; of overhead for font-lock.
+ (help (concat "LINK: " (save-match-data (org-link-unescape hl))))
(ip (org-maybe-intangible
(list 'invisible 'org-link
'keymap org-mouse-map 'mouse-face 'highlight
--
Florian Beck
