Re: Bug: Double colon in org link description breaks the link [9.4.4 (release_9.4.4 @ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/org/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Steven,
>
> "Steven Bagley" <stevenbagley@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> In emacs -Q:
>>
>> 1. M-x org-mode
>> 2. insert the following line in the buffer (created by
>> org-mac-grab-link)
>>
>> - [[https://rgoswami.me/posts/org-note-workflow/][An Orgmode Note
>>   Workflow :: Rohit Goswami  Reflections]]
>>
>> 3. You can't follow the link using mouse-left because of the "::" in
>> the link, which makes that line into an org "description list
>> item". The message is "No link found".
>
> Confirmed, thanks for the reproducible recipe.

An item bullet followed by two colons is a special syntax in Org. It has
precedence over the link.

Besides saying "don't do that", the usual trick is to insert a zero
width space between the two colons.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou