I have a link in my org file such as [[https://google.com][mylink]]. When I put the point over "mylink" and run M-x browse-url-at-point my browser opens "http://mylink.com".
Is there a different function or option I should be using to open the link url instead of the link text?
It appears that the function to call to browse a link in an org-mode file is org-open-at-point which is bound to C-c C-o.
Edit: Regarding the follow-up question about opening an org-mode link in a secondary browser, using another function seems to work:
(defun org-open-at-point-with-firefox ()
(interactive)
(let ((browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox))
(org-open-at-point )))
browse-url-chrome since my default browser is Firefox. I don't see any variants/options on org-open-at-point that would allow specifying that. Any suggestions?
Dec 2, 2019 at 19:08
org-link-parameters you could edit. you could either change the lambda function passed to the http and https options to use browse-url-chrome or possibly add a new link type you could prefix with chrome:path.to.site or something like that. i think the suggested answer is a good solution as well.
("chrome" :follow (lambda (path) (browse-url-chrome (concat "https:" path)))) the downside to this is that you have to make your links specific to using chrome