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From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org links that point to filenames with space do not open
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 23:47:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACHMzOGbyX2aqhbO38fWvxVDquGkaOvDzsqwODELD6_uL1GjeQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3547.1346990606@alphaville>

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Nick, it's a custom script... however, it looks like I was using the wrong
format. Instead of escaping the space chars, I should uri-encode them it
seems. I'll try that. Thanks!


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have several links that use the file protocol to open files indexed in
> > org entries. They work fine for entries that point to file whose
> filenames
> > do *not* contain space, but for entries with space in them, it just fails
> > silently. I.e:
> >
> >   [[file:/Volumes/ext-hd/pdfs/Name\ Of\ The-\ 4th\ file.pdf]]
> >
> > I even escaped the filename using the (shell-quote-argument) function
> when
> > indexing, but no luck.
> >
>
> This is a link to a directory. I grabbed it with C-c l and inserted it
> with C-c C-l. It seems to work fine:
>
> [[file:lib/music/Arnold%20Schoenberg/Moses%20und%20Aron/][Moses und Aron]
>
> Nick
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-07  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07  0:31 Org links that point to filenames with space do not open Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2012-09-07  1:13 ` Jude DaShiell
2012-09-07  4:03 ` Nick Dokos
2012-09-07  4:47   ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa [this message]
2012-09-07  4:57     ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa

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