Questions tagged [hyperlinks]

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Rendering URLs as clickable links

Comments in source code often contain URL's. It would be nice to have these (or links in any plain text context) rendered as clickable links for the convenience factor when navigating a file using the mouse. Q: Is there built-in emacs functionality…
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Link string to url and make it clickable

In my LaTeX code I have strings like: \arXivid{1602.00735} that create, in the generated PDF file, a link to, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00735. I'd like to have the string \arXivid{1602.00735} clickable, like urls in goto-address-mode, opening…
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Importing text with hyperlinks

I have a file in (say) odt format that contains hyperlinks, like this, and I want to edit the content of this file using emacs-org. I can't just copy paste the content from *odt to *org, the links don't persist. What, then? PS: there is a post whose…
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Any way to embed links with part of their content in Emacs?

The question itself might be confusing given I'm using the word embed here, which have different meaning. What i mean by that is: Embed like what chat.stackoverflow does. Say I'm posting a single SO/SE link (from a post) on any chat on SO/SE, it…
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Hyperlinks to webpages in a named buffer

I can add hyperlinks to webpages in the docstring. But is it possible to do the same when writing text in a named buffer? (defvar msg "URL `https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html'") (get-buffer-create bufname) (insert msg)
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How can I create a hyperlink on text naming a variable, so clicking shows `C-h v` help?

I have a number of documentation variable. Would it be possible ta have a help page with a list of lines that when I click on one the variable gets printed in the help buffer. An then be able to go back to the list of help selections.
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