From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: =?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Agenda buffer and relative links
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:43:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8067.1325825020@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Pinard) of "Thu\, 05 Jan 2012 22\:39\:32 EST." <87zke1ebyj.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> Hi again, Org people.
>
> When Org mode defines a link for me, it sometimes changes it so it
> becomes relative. If within the file ~/fp/notes/notes.org, I wanted to
> create the link:
>
> [[file:~/fp/notes/VCS/GitHub.org][GitHub]]
>
> Org mode really creates:
>
> [[file:VCS/GitHub.org][GitHub]]
>
> I presume this is because of the location of "notes.org" rather than
> because of the value of org-directory, which happens to be "~/fp/notes".
> This is OK in general, but not always.
>
> For example, doing "C-a a a" today, I get this line among others
> (squeezed so it fits in this message):
>
> notes: Scheduled: TODO *[[file:Informatique/Entretien.org][Entretien]]
>
> and clicking on the displayed "Entretien" link yields a white window.
>
> The problem is that the *Org Agenda* buffer is associated with the "~/"
> directory, and the relativized name is then wrong.
>
> Because all my agenda-files happen to be directly within org-directory,
> a sufficient counter-measure is to have this line in my ~/.emacs file:
>
> (add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook (lambda () (cd org-directory)))
>
> While it solves my problem, I have feeling that there is something
> deeper which might likely affect many Org mode users, and for which I
> have no general solution to offer. In the worst scenario, the solution
> might be to never relativize links, but maybe someone would have a
> better idea about this. In any case, I decided to report it.
>
> François
>
>
Check
(info "(org) Handling links")
in the manual, particularly the doc for C-u C-c C-l.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-06 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-06 3:39 Agenda buffer and relative links François Pinard
2012-01-06 4:43 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-01-06 11:55 ` François Pinard
2012-01-06 13:16 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-01-07 17:39 ` François Pinard
2012-01-07 19:26 ` François Pinard
2012-01-07 20:58 ` Sebastien Vauban
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