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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Parent path for links
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:17:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a90a4h0v.fsf@kmlap.domain.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+GKSr7SXcO_vnx6w-Vb5HrjGJhpwm9Kt0os8A_eRvLNwBS_6Q@mail.gmail.com

Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> What happens is that in 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.
[...]
> Would you have any suggestions for reducing the redundancy of a common
> parent path for links in a subtree/file?

Is the reason this redundancy bothers you visual?  (I'm guessing it is
because it shouldn't be any extra work to insert the link if you're
using org-store-link.)  In that case, you could make a command that adds
a link description with the file base name (assuming these file links
tend to not have descriptions).

Another possibility (which I haven't really thought through or tested)
is to use a custom link type that grabs the project directory from
somewhere (below I use a property value) and then uses that as the
default directory.

#+begin_src elisp
  (org-add-link-type "project" 'km/org-project-open)

  (defun km/org-project-open (path)
    "Open PATH with `default-directory' set to PROJECT property."
    (let ((project (org-entry-get nil "PROJECT" 'inherit)))
      (if project
          (let ((default-directory project))
            (org-open-link-from-string (concat "file:" path)))
        (user-error "Project property not defined"))))
#+end_src

(Notice that km/org-project-open is actually making an ordinary file
link to support things like "::*heading"... definitely a hack).

You could specify the property value at the top of the project file

    #+PROPERTY: project /path/to/project

or as a project property on a heading

    * heading
    :PROPERTIES:
    :PROJECT:  /path/to/project
    :END:

This would then allow for links to a file name relative to the project
directory, like

    project:file-name.org

and

    project:file-name.org::*Heading

--
Kyle

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-19  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-19  1:55 Parent path for links Giacomo M
2015-02-19  5:17 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2015-02-19 23:49 ` Christian Wittern
2015-02-20  0:07   ` Kyle Meyer

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