You're right.... and now I have no idea what I was testing. I'm apologize for that.
The attached patch should actually work this time. It's not great (setq in a let), but anything else would likely be a much larger change.
>From 6ca24ca705fc3856c68957cfa50dfce77c9148c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Allen <ste...@stebalien.com> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 11:49:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] org.el: inline display of attached images in link descriptions * lisp/org.el (org-display-inline-images): inline display of attached images in link descriptions. Previously, `org-display-inline-images' only inlined images in link descriptions when they were explicit "file:" links. This change adds support for "attachment:" links. E.g.: [[https://orgmode.org][attachment:emacs-screenshot.png]] --- lisp/org.el | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el index 0e5740412..405cae9a5 100644 --- a/lisp/org.el +++ b/lisp/org.el @@ -16301,7 +16301,8 @@ defun org-create-formula-image 2. Its description consists in a single link of the previous type. In this case, that link must be a well-formed plain - or angle link, i.e., it must have an explicit \"file\" type. + or angle link, i.e., it must have an explicit \"file\" or + \"attachment\" type. Equip each image with the key-map `image-map'. @@ -16332,7 +16333,7 @@ defun org-create-formula-image ;; "file:" links. Also check link abbreviations since ;; some might expand to "file" links. (file-types-re - (format "\\[\\[\\(?:file%s:\\|attachment:\\|[./~]\\)\\|\\]\\[\\(<?file:\\)" + (format "\\[\\[\\(?:file%s:\\|attachment:\\|[./~]\\)\\|\\]\\[\\(<?\\(?:file\\|attachment\\):\\)" (if (not link-abbrevs) "" (concat "\\|" (regexp-opt link-abbrevs)))))) (while (re-search-forward file-types-re end t) @@ -16371,7 +16372,9 @@ defun org-create-formula-image ;; description. (= (org-element-property :contents-end link) (match-end 0)) - (match-string 2))))))) + (progn + (setq linktype (match-string 1)) + (match-string 2)))))))) (when (and path (string-match-p file-extension-re path)) (let ((file (if (equal "attachment" linktype) (progn -- 2.40.1