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Org will recognize plain URL-like links and activate them as clickable links. The general link format, however, looks like this:
[[link][description]] or alternatively [[link]]
Once a link in the buffer is complete (all brackets present),
Org will change the display so that
‘description’ is displayed instead of
‘[[link][description]]’ and
‘link’ is displayed instead of
‘[[link]]’. Links will be highlighted in
the face org-link, which by default is an underlined
face. You can directly edit the visible part of a link. Note that
this can be either the ‘link’ part (if
there is no description) or the
‘description’ part. To edit also the
invisible ‘link’ part, use C-c
C-l with the cursor on the link.
If you place the cursor at the beginning or just behind the
end of the displayed text and press BACKSPACE, you will remove the (invisible) bracket at
that location. This makes the link incomplete and the internals
are again displayed as plain text. Inserting the missing bracket
hides the link internals again. To show the internal structure of
all links, use the menu entry
Org->Hyperlinks->Literal links.