From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Org links that point to filenames with space do not open Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:03:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3547.1346990606@alphaville> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9pn0-0000y7-CI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:03:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9pmz-000371-Ft for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:03:30 -0400 Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:9729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9pmz-00036x-Av for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:03:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Marcelo de Moraes Serpa of "Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:31:28 CDT." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Cc: Org Mode Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > I have several links that use the file protocol to open files indexed in > org entries. They work fine for entries that point to file whose filenames > do *not* contain space, but for entries with space in them, it just fails > silently. I.e: > > [[file:/Volumes/ext-hd/pdfs/Name\ Of\ The-\ 4th\ file.pdf]] > > I even escaped the filename using the (shell-quote-argument) function when > indexing, but no luck. > This is a link to a directory. I grabbed it with C-c l and inserted it with C-c C-l. It seems to work fine: [[file:lib/music/Arnold%20Schoenberg/Moses%20und%20Aron/][Moses und Aron] Nick