On 2023-09-01, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > In theory, we might change the parser to treat anything like foo:bar or > <foo:bar> or [[foo:bar]] as a link with "foo" protocol and "bar" URI. > And introduce [[::fig:something]] to allow explicit internal links. > But, despite simplifying the parser, it will certainly be a breaking > change.
What would the implications be? FAQ 18.25 [1] contains a recipe to use colors on text like this: [[color:red][red]] Would that be a problem? Also, I use custom link types for additional markup like this: [[basic:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_(computing)][Caching]] In both cases, the part before the first colon is certainly no protocol. Besides, concerning wording in this discussion: A URIs may or may not embed a protocol. It contains a scheme, then a colon, then a scheme-specific part, see [2]. Best wishes Jens [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html [2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986
