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How to suppress the interpretation of double brackets in org mode?
Some of my text heavily used the double brackets but org-mode defined it to be links. Can I suppress the interpretation of double brackets, or more conveniently, temporarily suppress it where I do not need it to be interpreted as links.
I've tried quote (~~ ==) it as code but it does not work.
The only way I found is to embedded them into an EXAMPLE or SRC.
Are there any other methods, maybe some OPTIONS?
Thanks very much!
You can use M-x org-toggle-link-display to only disable the collapsing of the double brackets, although this still formats the text within the brackets as a link (blue, underlined).
The formatting of bracketed links can be disabled entirely by changing org-highlight-links, which is set to '(bracket angle plain radio tag date footnote) by default. By removing bracket from this list, bracketed items will not be treated as links anymore. This can be done by setfing the variable, or via M-x customize.
When you change this list, you have to use M-x org-mode-restart for the changes to take effect (see C-h v org-highlight-links for more details).
org-highlight-links? Btw, are there any OPTIONS to do this? just like prettyentities that both have org-toggle-pretty-entities command and entitiespretty OPTION
– cmal
Jul 20 '17 at 7:46
org-highlight-links is aliased to org-activate-links, so you might try that as well. Did you load org-mode before trying to find the variable?
– Arnot
Jul 20 '17 at 8:23
You can also customize the variable org-activate-links with a local value by putting this line at the beginning of the file:
;; -*- mode: org; org-activate-links: '(angle plain radio tag date footnote); -*-
