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Replacing hyperlinks with shorthand phrase (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by Speedracer69696969@alien.top to c/emacs
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Is there a way to replace all hyperlinks in a buffer with some shorthand phrase say "link" while keeping them as clickable links to their respective site?

I've been importing csv files as tables and one of the columns stores links but they're quite long and making things awkward looking so I'd like to replace them with some shorthand.

Sorry, probably a noob question, still new.

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[–] MitchellMarquez42@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

you can do this with an Overlay, if you know where the link starts and ends. For example I have the buffer README.org

#+title: hypop - emacs minibuffer-frame + hyprland

* Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXRt598HqCY

the first character of the link is the 60th and the last is the 103rd. So I could write

(with-current-buffer "README.org"
  (overlay-put (make-overlay 60 103) 'display "link"))

Clicking the "link" text still opens YouTube as expected.

To do this all over a buffer you'd want to add a font-lock rule based on a regular expression like browse-url-button-regexp.

If you only need it in Org files, there's probably some machinery to facilitate that as well