Yes, I think there could be arguments for different behaviors, but I suspect the expected behavior should be the same as when you select the link by other methods, such as starting a region at one end and then jumping to the beginning or end of the line with move-beginning-of-line or move-end-of-line. When killing the line or region after that movement, the entire text (URL, description, all brackets) is killed.
Also, when emphasis markers are hidden (org-hide-emphasis-markers t), and the same experiment is performed on a word at the beginning of a line that is emphasized , for example "/italicized/", all of the hidden slash characters are successfully killed. So I think that is another indication that the expected behavior would be to kill all of the characters, hidden or not. I think the fact that it is only some, perhaps underused, methods of selecting the text--arrow keys or mouse-dragging--that result in this unusual behavior, also points to the behavior not being intended. On Wed, Apr 12, 2023, at 3:53 AM, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > "Miguel Garza" <miguelga...@fastmail.com> writes: > > > [[www.google.com][link]] > > > > Org Mode will turn the above text into a clickable link called "link". > > > > Now, select the link either by clicking and dragging the mouse from the end > > of the word "link" to the beginning of the word, or by starting a region at > > either the beginning or end of the word (or on the next line) and then > > using the arrow keys to move point to either the "l" or "k" in "link". > > > > Your region should now encompass "link" and nothing else. > > > > Now, kill the line or region. > > > > You will see immediately that the full text was not killed. Instead, the > > link description is killed, along with, depending on where point was, > > possibly some of the brackets, leaving behind the opening brackets, the > > link URL, the URL closing bracket, and in some cases the final two brackets. > > Well. Part of the link text is indeed hidden, causing all kinds of > unexpected behaviours depending on the point move direction. > I am not sure what can be done here. I am not even sure what is the > expected behaviour. > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode contributor, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92> >
