Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com> writes:

> Looks like org-insert-link doesn't have any tab completion feature to list files on the
> system. How do I get that?
>
> I can tab complete file+sys: but then can't do ~/directory/file.txt
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>     Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     > Is there any way to quickly add a file's location rather than typing
>     > the whole file://path/to/location. The files are mostly freemind or
>     > libreoffice calc/ word files.
>     >
>     > If the file or the directory is not there, it can also be created
>     > from within org easily.
>     >
>     > Thanks
>
>     Are these links to files? You can use `org-insert-link' with a prefix
>     argument, to get the usual find-file interface, and a link inserted once
>     you've found it.

You must have missed the "prefix argument" part of Eric's answer: C-u C-c C-l

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Nick