Re: [O] Bug: Toggle descriptive and literal links [7.4]

[Thomas S. Dye]

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> address@hidden (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
>
>> Thanks for adding this.  I work with literal links and this potentially
>> saves time and effort.
>>
>> I wonder if I'm using it correctly?  In .emacs I set
>> org-link-display-descriptive nil and have:
>>
>> --------
>> org-link-display-descriptive is a variable defined in `org.el'.
>> Its value is nil
>>
>> Documentation:
>> Non-nil means Org will display descriptive links.
>> E.g. [[http://orgmode.org][Org website]] will be displayed as
>> "Org Website", hiding the link itself and just displaying its
>> description.  When set to `nil', Org will display the full links
>> literally.
>>
>> You can interactively set the value of this variable using the
>> `org-toggle-link-display'.
>> --------
>>
>> But when I open an Org-mode buffer I find the links displayed
>> descriptively.  
>
> The initialization of the link display relied on 
> `org-descriptive-links' and I discover this variable (doh!)
>
> So I've now remove `org-link-display-descriptive' and use
> `org-descriptive-links' instead for backward compatibility.  
>
> Please use this variable too and let me know if things are
> all right now.
>
> Best,

Aloha Bastien,

I pulled from git and put this in .emacs:

  (setq org-descriptive-links nil)

Now links display as expected on startup.

Thanks for looking into this.

All the best,
Tom

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