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On 2015-02-19 10:55, Giacomo M wrote:
> What happens is that in project.org <http://project.org> I end up specifying
> a lot of links all starting with ~/working/project/. This is useful as I can
> directly jump from "organization" to "action", or just to switch in a
> quicker way across project files.
> 
> I know there is an header arg (i.e. dir) for the path of code execution, but
> I am not aware of anything similar for link referencing.
Look at Section 4.6 Link Abbreviations in the manual.  What you would want
to do is having

#+LINK: wp ~/working/project

in your header, than you can reference it as [[wp:your-project.org]] instead
of [[~/working/project/your-project.org]].

Best, Christian

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Christian Wittern, Kyoto