Bastien,

Thanks, the latter does exactly what I want, obviously a terminology thing
confusing my question.

With Explorer in Windows I can right click on a file and select  copy file
name to the clipboard which copies and the path and file name to the
clipboard. I can then paste the path and file name into any other program.
And  'org-store-link' seems to provide the same facility with dired and
Org-mode/

However,  I cant get  C-u C-c C-l  to work.

I still seem to need to type in the file path and file name, rather than
have the ability to search for a file. Presumably I am missing the obvious.

Thanks,

Graham

On 18/11/2007, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
>
> "Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > When adding a file link, is there some way of searching for the file you
> > want to add while in the file link and then inserting the path and file
> > name of the found file rather than having to type the whole thing in.
>
> C-u C-c C-l to find the file, then RET RET to insert it with its name as
> the default description.
>
> > Or alternatively, can you search for the file with dired and then copy
> > and paste the path from dired into the file link.
>
> I'm not sure of what you mean.
>
> The usual way is to call `org-store-link' (`C-c l' here) on a file in
> dired then to insert this link back with `org-insert-link' (C-c C-l).
>
> Does that help?
>
> If you want to create a list of links from dired and copy this list to
> the kill-ring, maybe you can use something like this as well:
>
> (defun my-copy-dired-files-in-kill-ring ()
>   "Copy files names in the kill ring."
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((files (dired-map-over-marks (dired-get-filename) nil)))
>     (kill-new
>      (mapconcat
>       (lambda (f)
>         (concat "[[file:" f "]["
>                 (file-name-nondirectory f) "]]"))
>       files "\n"))
>     (message "%d Org links copied to the kill-ring" (length files))))
>
> --
> Bastien
>
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