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   Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 07:47:52 JST Luke T. Shumaker

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   • Omar Antolín

   @oantolin See also: #GNU Hyperbole is an #Emacs extension for ubiquitous magic links.

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     Omar Antolín (oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 07:47:53 JST Omar Antolín

     There are a couple of features of #orgmode links in #Emacs that I think are underappreciated:

     1. They work in all buffers, not just org-mode buffers! Bind org-open-at-point-global to a globally accessible key binding and enjoy org-links everywhere. For example, I like putting info links in comments in Emacs Lisp files, like info:calc#Graphics. Remember too, that file links can include a search string, for example file:~/.emacs.d/init.el::eshell takes me right to my eshell configuration. Shell links, that execute commands, are pretty useful too, for example <shell:zip source *.c *.h>.

     2. It's super easy to create new link types (if you know how to program). For example, here's a new type of link for keyboard macros:

     (org-link-set-parameters "kbd"
     :follow (lambda (macro arg)
     (kmacro-call-macro arg t nil (kbd macro))))

     With that definition you can write keyboard macros like <kbd:M-a M-f M-t> and execute them with org-open-at-point-global.