Re: [O] FR: Fontify links even when in comments

[Ken Mankoff]

Hi Nicolas,

On 2015-02-23 at 14:32, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > It would be nice to have an [[Org mode link]]
> >
> > # in a line that is [[commented]] and still
> >
> > be able to see that link. Currently, there is no visual 
> > indication that the link exists, although it still does work.
>
> It works as a convenience feature. However, I don't think we 
> should publicize it much, as a comment is first and foremost, 
> dead data.

To me comments are mainly things that don't get exported. I don't 
know what you mean by "dead", but comments are certainly "data", 
and data is not dead. Their utility and data density is reduced if 
they can't contain links (or I can't see that the link is there, 
which is sort-of the same thing).

When writing a document it is useful to leave informal notes to 
myself that say "see X" where X is an external file, or a section 
(or some code) elsewhere in this document, etc.

This can be done with "#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE :exports none", or 
"**SECTION :noexport:", but both of those are awful hacks when a 
single line or a few words are all that is needed.

 -k.