From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Moving and resetting attachments
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:39:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lw05njr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ogmcua$c4l$1@blaine.gmane.org
Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> two questions about moving attachments to org files:
>
> C-c C-a a attaches a file and stores it under ./data/ID/...
>
> Using C-c C-a s I can set another directory a attachment directory.
> Can I make org-mode move the content of the previous
> directory to the new directory?
>
> Can I "reset" the attachment directory, i.e. like C-c C-a s but
> :ATTACH_DIR: is deleted and the contents of the previous
> directory are moved to ./data/ID?
>
> Rationale:
>
> I use org mode as a document management system. Create an entry Papers -> Interpolation -> ECCOMAS. I know create an
> custom attachment directory ECCOMAS, next to the org file as long as I
> am working on that paper. When it's finished, I
> want to move the contents of the ECCOMAS attachment directory to ./data/ID/.
It doesn't work this way now, but I think it makes sense, and I would
also find that helpful. `org-attach-set-directory' could be changed to
check for existing files, and offer to move them. There's no
`org-attach-unset-directory', but I suppose there could be.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-01 4:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-31 12:29 Moving and resetting attachments Florian Lindner
2017-06-01 4:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-06-01 11:20 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-02 9:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-02 9:51 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-02 12:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-02 14:34 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-02 16:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-04 7:59 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-04 23:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-06 13:56 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-07 7:52 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-10 7:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-13 8:49 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-13 21:41 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-20 18:12 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-24 8:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-28 14:57 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-13 8:53 ` Florian Lindner
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