From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
To: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: suggestion - follow-link
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:56:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26D0503B-E4A0-40ED-9EC8-8FFF1E59434E@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dtvdz3kl3u.fsf@richardriley.net>
On Jul 18, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Richard G Riley wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>
>> On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Richard G Riley wrote:
>>
>>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 18, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Richard G Riley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to suggest that follow link (C-c C-o) defaults to
>>>>> "index.org" when the link is merely a directory. e.g I prefer my
>>>>> links
>>>>> to be without the "index.html/org" part ,"./projects/", so that
>>>>> "index.html" does not appear in the address bar when browsing the
>>>>> published project. At present it will open dired in that
>>>>> directory.
>>>>
>>>> I do not want to give up that link into dired while working in
>>>> Emacs - and I believe upon exporting, the link will end up pointing
>>>> to the directory, which in HML will read index.html.
>>>>
>>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>> Yes, without the specific file, the browser will indeed default to
>>> index.html. This is a standard - and what I use. It just means C-C
>>> C-o
>>> does not open the link to the file. But if people prefer dired to
>>> come
>>> up on such a link I can see that might be beneficial to some too.
>>
>>
>> I depends on application. In a web publishing project, I agree
>> that opening index.org might be the most useful approach.
>> However, when using Org for notes, planning etc, I frequently
>> rely on the ability to link to a dired list of a directory.
>> Maybe is is worth an option......
>>
>> - Carsten
>
> Hmm. Yes, I am being a bit "html centric" here since that's what I'm
> working. Maybe a nicer generic solution is to have a standard file
> select in the minibuffer with completion when there is no file
> name. Just hit enter then to select dired at that directory or "i TAB"
> for index.org for example (I use icicles completion here). Not serious
> or must have but maybe nice to have at some time.
No, I prefer an option. It is not a good idea to be bothered with
this decision each time you want to follow a link. Implemented in the
git repo.
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-18 17:29 suggestion - follow-link Richard G Riley
2008-07-18 19:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-07-18 19:19 ` Richard G Riley
2008-07-18 19:50 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-07-18 20:12 ` Richard G Riley
2008-07-18 20:56 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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