From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Achim Gratz Subject: Directory Links (and a bug?) Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:35:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87lj7dxs7k.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39411 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ot4NG-000169-Bc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:02:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ot3x2-0001Vn-Ml for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:35:33 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ot3x2-0001Vd-Br for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:35:28 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ot3wy-0004wO-2L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:35:24 +0200 Received: from p57aace9d.dip.t-dialin.net ([87.170.206.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:35:24 +0200 Received: from Stromeko by p57aace9d.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:35:24 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Making a directory link like this: [[file://bla/fasel/]] will open that folder in explorer on Windows at work, which is nice since I can just keep a bunch of those in my notes.org file and fire them up whenever I need to (the history in Explorer is never that helpful). I have since learned that there's a special form to make that link open in EMACS [[file+emacs://bla/fasel/]] and that fires up dired. Or, if I had set up org-mode so that file:-links would open inside EMACS, I could use [[file+sys://bla/fasel/]] to force the link to open in an external application. So far so good... what I'd want in addition is to have the link open in dired with wildcard patterns (giving a file name that doesn't exist or looks like a directory gets me into dired, but doesn't give it the "file" part as a wildcard argument) or alternatively directly into vc-dir like [[file+dired://bla/fasel/*.org]] and [[file+vc-dir://bla/fasel/]]. Whatever the part after the "+", the links should be exported like normal file: links. The link abbrevs don't really work for this as they are supposed to return a string and not go off into another buffer (it does sort-of work, but I suspect it breaks exporting etc.). An elisp link works, but gets me a Yes/no question and shows up verbatim in export, not as link. The +sys/+emacs links (and some abbrevs) export as file:-links with the complete link-syntax appended as anchor (like file:///bla/fasel/#file+emacs://bla/fasel/ - this works, but that looks like a bug to me or an accidental feature at least). Now, looking into the code I see that there's a lot of special casing going on and no obvious hooks to tap into and that I don't really understand what's going on... If anybody could shed light on how this is all supposed to work "under the hood" and how some extra link methods would need to be implemented, please discuss. Achim.