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Re: function to copy org buffer substring with link description only
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Alexis |
Subject: |
Re: function to copy org buffer substring with link description only |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:25:56 +1100 |
Paul <mafeuser@gmail.com> writes:
thank YOu for the function
I believe that there must be something ready to be used, because
org-mode does provide function that is able to export document
or its part as text file. Of course such function probably
removes more elements than link only, but that would be no
harm.
Oh, well, if you're not worried about affecting other elements,
then you could wrap the `org-export-as` function like so:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun org-delinkify-region-2 ()
"Replace all Org-style links within the region with only the
link description text, and return the result."
(interactive) (org-export-as 'ascii nil t t))
#+END_SRC
The four arguments to `org-export-as` mean:
- Use the 'ascii export backend;
- Don't transcode the sub-tree at point; we're relying on
`org-export-as` working on the
region if the region is active.
- Don't export the contents of hidden elements.
- Don't add a surrounding template.
Note that `ox-ascii.el`, which defines the 'ascii export backend,
/does/ have an `ox-ascii-link` function, but that function needs
to be /passed/ the 'description' part of the link, the very thing
we want to extract. In usual usage, this extraction is done by
building a parse tree of an Org buffer, then calling
`ox-ascii-link` with the relevant parse tree data for all links in
the parse tree. So if i understand correctly, my code above is
probably as simple as one can get for your use-case.
Hope that helps!
Alexis.