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From: Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Directory Links (and a bug?)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 03:48:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim13Mg5oE+RUwQPY8j5WY0Vj1ZA4d2_xe_sYUqm@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj7dxs7k.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> 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

Wildcards on links looks strange.

> [[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).
>

For me all these three gets exported as file:///tmp

Another link [[file+sys:///tmp][another link]]
Another link [[file+emacs:///tmp][another link]]
Another link [[file+emacs://tmp][another link]]

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-07 19:35 Directory Links (and a bug?) Achim Gratz
2010-09-07 22:18 ` Noorul Islam [this message]
2010-09-08 15:51   ` Achim Gratz

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