On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 2:55 AM Nicolas Goaziou <
address@hidden> wrote:
Hello,
Matt Price <address@hidden> writes:
> MWE:
> test.org:
> --
> This is a paragraph with [[https://google.com][a link]]
> ---
> steps to reproduce:
>
> put cursor at beginning of file and type ~[[~. The paragraph text will
> collapse into the link definition, and (point) will move to the ~a~ in ~a
> link~, so manual typing of a new link will fail. Is there anything I can
> do to stop this from happening?
IIUC, this is related to the link syntax change introduced in Org 9.3,
which allows, among other things, "[[" within a link. In this situation,
once you write
[[This is a paragraph with [[https://google.com][a link]]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the underlined part becomes the link.
I agree this is not optimal. Yet, I'm not sure about how to deal with
this.
Ah, interesting. That makes a lot of sense. Would it be unworkably destructive for me to revert the link syntax locally ? I have no particular need for the new functionality and the current situation has been a significant cognitive burden, not least because I make so many typos that I am constantly re-editing existing text.