Re: Org-mode element API: How to extract link description

[Ihor Radchenko]

Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:

> With the Org-mode element API, when I get an element of type "link", how
> do I extract the link description ?

> It's not a property of a link, from what I can see in when explore the
> content of a link element. And I found nothing on the documentation.

Link description is considered to be link contents.
But do note that simple `org-element-at-point' does not compute
contents. It is only available in the full parse tree. From
`org-element-at-point', a practical way to retrieve description text is
using substring between :contents-begin/end.

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