Question

BACKGROUND

1. I using great htmlize.el to export my org-mode buffer contents with font hi-lock.
2. Emacs org-mode has a Link format.

PROBLEM

For Example, here is a org-mode file with contents:

[[http://hunmr.blogspot.com][blog]]

When I Using Htmlize.el to htmlize buffer to HTML contents, The link was missing.
produces HTML like:

<span style="hyperlinkFOOBAR">blog</span>

EXPECTED

I expected it produces clickable link like:

<a style="hyperlinkFOOBAR" href="http://hunmr.blogspot.com">blog</a>

QUESTION

EDIT1 The org-export-as-html can export link, but can not create CSS for the Hi-locks.

• Do you know other ways to to export org-mode links to HTML?
• To read the real link in org-mode buffer using elisp, how to do that? read text
  property?

THANKS IN ADVANCE, YOUR HELP WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.

Answer 1

Thanks for @Andreas ‘s hints, I add following code to htmlize.el. Currently the org-link can be htmlized to clickable link.

The code was shared on github:

https://github.com/whunmr/dotemacs/blob/master/site-lisp/htmlize.el

and

http://hunmr.blogspot.com/2012/08/enhance-htmlizeel-now-can-export-org.html

FOLLOWING IS THE MAIN CODE:

(defun expand-org-link (&optional buffer)
  "Change [[url][shortname]] to [[url] [shortname]] by adding a space between url and shortname"
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\\[\\[\\([^][]+\\)\\]\\(\\[\\([^][]+\\)\\]\\)?\\]"
                nil t)
    (let ((url (match-string 1))
      (link-text (match-string 3)))
      (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))
      (insert "[[" url "] [" link-text "]]"))))

(defun shrink-org-link (&optional buffer)
  "Change [[url] [shortname]] to [[url][shortname]], remove the space between url and shortname"
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\\[\\[\\([^][]+\\)\\] \\(\\[\\([^][]+\\)\\]\\)?\\]"
                nil t)
    (let ((url (match-string 1))
      (link-text (match-string 3)))
      (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))
      (insert "[[" url "][" link-text "]]"))))

(defun transform-org-link ()
  "transform htmlized <span> to <a>"
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\\[\\[<span \\([^>]+\\)>\\([^][]+\\)</span>\\] \\[\\([^][]+\\)\\]\\]"
                nil t)
    (let ((style (match-string 1))
          (url (match-string 2))
      (link-text (match-string 3)))
      (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))
      (insert "<a " style " href=\"" url "\">" link-text "</a>"))))