Hi! I would like to submit a patch to org mode, which fixes the behavior of mailto and irc links in markdown export.
Previously, these org mode snippets: [[mailto:some.em...@server.net][Jane Doe]] [[irc:/irc.com/#emacs/bob][bob]] would export to: [Jane Doe](some.em...@server.net) [bob](/irc.com/#emacs/bob) which causes broken links in browsers when they try to view exported markdown. The new behavior exports them to: [Jane Doe](mailto:some.em...@server.net) [bob](irc:/irc.com/#emacs/bob) so that browsers can open the proper respective application when opening said links. The patch that I have made is very small (only one line), and is attached. There is an external report of this bug here: https://github.com/larstvei/ox-gfm/issues/17 This is my first time submitting a patch to anything big like org mode, so please let me know if I've done anything wrong or if anything seems amiss. Thanks for looking at this, and thanks for making/developing on org mode (it's changed my life completely)! -Jay Kamat
From 0ef21fcd6394b3551a94a5878d414f2e7d17e372 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Kamat <jaygka...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 17:50:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ox-md.el: Fix export of irc and mailto links * lisp/ox-md.el (org-md-link): Add mailto and irc to links that pass their types through to markdown export See: https://github.com/larstvei/ox-gfm/issues/17 for an external bug report TINYCHANGE --- lisp/ox-md.el | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/ox-md.el b/lisp/ox-md.el index e2b3d29e1..08e385282 100644 --- a/lisp/ox-md.el +++ b/lisp/ox-md.el @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ a communication channel." (t (let* ((raw-path (org-element-property :path link)) (path (cond - ((member type '("http" "https" "ftp")) + ((member type '("http" "https" "ftp" "mailto" "irc")) (concat type ":" raw-path)) ((string= type "file") (org-export-file-uri (funcall link-org-files-as-md raw-path))) -- 2.11.0
