This patch makes it easy to select links from among a forest of
similar-looking machine-readable forms. Without it, the human-readable
descriptions tend to fall off the right side of the window.
From fa9522e8dd1ef602574d0fb58f8f610ef82b15d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Abrahams d...@boostpro.com
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:11:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Show human-readable link descriptions first when inserting
links
---
lisp/org.el | 12
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 3953890..34ae6c4 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -9016,6 +9016,12 @@ Note: this function also decodes single byte encodings like
(setq s (replace-match %40 t t s)))
s)
+(defun org-pretty-link (link)
+ Return a human-digestible representation of a given LINK,
+whose car must be a raw link and whose cadr must be either a link
+description or nil.
+ (concat (or (cadr link) no description) \t[[ (car link) ]]))
+
;;;###autoload
(defun org-insert-link-global ()
Insert a link like Org-mode does.
@@ -9098,9 +9104,7 @@ be used as the default description.
Use TAB to complete link prefixes, then RET for type-specific completion support\n)
(when org-stored-links
(princ \nStored links are available with up/down or M-p/n (most recent with RET):\n\n)
- (princ (mapconcat
- (lambda (x)
- (if (nth 1 x) (concat (car x) ( (nth 1 x) )) (car x)))
+ (princ (mapconcat 'org-pretty-link
(reverse org-stored-links) \n
(let ((cw (selected-window)))
(select-window (get-buffer-window *Org Links* 'visible))
@@ -9109,7 +9113,7 @@ Use TAB to complete link prefixes, then RET for type-specific completion support
(org-fit-window-to-buffer))
(and (window-live-p cw) (select-window cw)))
;; Fake a link history, containing the stored links.
- (setq tmphist (append (mapcar 'car org-stored-links)
+ (setq tmphist (append (mapcar 'org-pretty-link org-stored-links)
org-insert-link-history))
(setq all-prefixes (append (mapcar 'car org-link-abbrev-alist-local)
(mapcar 'car org-link-abbrev-alist)
--
1.7.5.4
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
