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/)]

[Steven Bagley]

I am aware of the meaning of "::". Is this a design decision or an 
implementation constraint? My intuition, obviously wrong here, is that link, 
being a special kind of object, should have priority over what amounts to a 
formatting command.

Thanks.

--Steve

On Mon, May 3, 2021, at 08:59, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> 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
>