Re: [O] [PATCH] link descriptions in :file results of src blocks

[Eric Schulte]

[...]
>> I would like to apply this patch, however I have some questions about
>> the use of the :file argument and the result itself to fill in the
>> description if the :filelinkdescr header argument is left blank.  Also,
>> I would suggest that :file-desc is a better name for this header
>> argument.
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> thanks for considering this patch.  Feel free to change the term to
> anything more appropriate.
>
>>
>> In my opinion using the :file argument as a description changes (or at
>> least adds to) the meaning of the :file header argument.  Is there a
>> significant benefit to this behavior?  If not I'd prefer that an empty
>> :file-desc header argument have no effect.
>
> My original use case was indeed making a code block to
> produce [[file.pdf][file.pdf]] instead of [[file.pdf]] (see
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/53941).  So, if you
> remove the possibility to specify an empty :file-desc, for me that would
> mean to give the file name twice, as in
> : #+begin_src R :results graphics :file test2.png :file-desc test2.png
> which would be avoidable with my proposed behaviour.
>
> I could live with that, though I'd still prefer not to have to type more
> than necessary...
>

Makes sense, I've just pushed up a solution which builds on your initial
patch by

1. changing :filelinkdescr to :file-desc

2. when an empty :file-desc header argument is specified it's value is
   set to the value of the file path resulting in
   [[file.pdf][file.pdf]]

3. adding documentation and a test case

Please let me know if this misses any part of your intended use case.

Thanks for the contribution!

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/