Re: [BUG] URI handling is overly complicated and nonstandard [9.6.7 (N/A @ /gnu/store/mg7223g8mw90lccp6mm5g6f3mpjk70si-emacs-org-9.6.7/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-9.6.7/)]

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 01/09/2023 16:04, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> Max Nikulin writes:
>> 
>>> However I do not mind to have an easy way to delegate URI from :export
>>> function to the link transcoder of active export backend.
>
>> Just make the :export function return nil.
>
> I missed this feature, but anyway it does not work as expected.
>
>    (org-link-set-parameters "tel")
>
> or
>
>    (org-link-set-parameters
>     "tel"
>     :export (lambda (_path _descr _backend) nil))
>
> strips link type and exports links as e.g.
>
>    \href{321}{call}
>
> "tel:" is missed. Each backend has its own hardcoded list of blessed 
> link types to preserve link type/protocol/scheme:
> - LaTeX: "http" "https" "ftp" "mailto" "doi"
> - HTML:  "http" "https" "ftp" "mailto" "news"

In `org-latex-link',

(path (org-latex--protect-text
                (pcase type
                  ((or "http" "https" "ftp" "mailto" "doi")
                   (concat type ":" raw-path))
                  ("file"
                   (org-export-file-uri raw-path))
                  (_
                   raw-path))))

is fishy.

We may simply use (org-element-property :raw-link link) and leave
special handling to "file" links only.

Does it make sense?

> Actually I had in mind more flexible delegation. :export functions 
> should be able to alter URI, attributes and to provide description if it 
> is missed, but did not care if '<a href=""></a>' or '\href{}{}' should 
> be used.

I'd call that :filter rather than :export :)
Have nothing against it, though it is not 100% relevant to this
particular report.

> Easy way to add protocol/scheme should include :follow with `browse-url' 
> as well.

Sorry, but I do not understand what you are referring to.
May you elaborate?

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