Re: [O] Feature request: Allow export to convert broken links to plain text

[Berry, Charles]

> On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:33 PM, Ryan Thompson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately it seems that the 
> `broken-links:mark' option doesn't preserve the text of the link. In fact, 
> looking at the source, the code that handles broken link errors doesn't even 
> have access to the link's text, only the link target, so it's already too 
> late once the org-link-broken signal is thrown. This also means that the 
> implementation I was considering won't work.
> 
> So, it looks like I need to intercept execution earlier in the export 
> process. Any ideas on how to do that?

Looks like your original idea to revise `org-export-data' might be best. 

IIUC, you need to add the link text to the SIGNAL-DATA in each of the places 
where `org-export-resolve-*-link' functions call `signal', then modify 
`org-export-data' to ignore the addition for `mark' and add it back for your 
new `mark-with-text' option.

HTH,

Chuck