Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes:
> Sébastien Gendre <s...@k-7.ch> writes:
>
>> With the Org-mode element API, when I get an element of type "link", how
>> do I extract the link description ?
> [...]
> Link description is considered to be link contents.
> But do note that simple `org-element-at-point' does not compute
> contents. It is only available in the full parse tree. From
> `org-element-at-point', a practical way to retrieve description text is
> using substring between :contents-begin/end.
> [...]
I use org-link-display-format to get the description part when I have
the link as a string. Perhaps something along the lines of
(org-link-display-format (buffer-substring-no-properties
(org-element-contents-begin link)
(org-element-contents-end link)))
for your use-case?
Hoping to have helped,
--alexander
