* How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
@ 2011-11-09 17:22 Christoph LANGE
2011-11-09 18:03 ` Samuel Wales
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From: Christoph LANGE @ 2011-11-09 17:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Orgmode Mailing List
Dear all,
I know that org-mode supports links to local files via relative file:
URLs, e.g. file:filename.html. It also supports links to fragments (aka
anchors/bookmarks) in remote files via http: URLs, e.g.
http://www.example.org/filename.html#section2.
Now, is there a way to combine these? I would like to use something
like file:filename.html#section2 to link to a fragment in a file that is
in the same directory as my org file. For portability reasons I don't
want to use any other way of linking to that file than a relative file: URL.
Please read on if and only if you are interested in my reasons for
wishing for such a feature :-)
My concrete use case is that before learning about org-mode I managed my
personal knowledge in a TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/), and
some of my knowledge I'm still keeping there. (Why? See below.) The
pages ("tiddlers") in a TiddlyWiki can be accessed as fragments of the
TiddlyWiki HTML file, e.g. file:/path/to/tiddly.html#WikiPage. I have
my TiddlyWiki file in the same directory as my org file and would like
to link to specific pages of it using file:tiddly.html#WikiPage in order
to achieve a tight integration between both knowledge collections.
FYI, and really just FYI, as I don't want to start a flamewar: The one
single thing that I still like better in TiddlyWiki than in org-mode and
that I haven't been able to reproduce in org-mode is that I can organize
my knowledge in a hierarchical and linked way by tagging pages with
other pages. E.g. I could have a page OrgMode tagged with
ProductivityTool, where ProductivityTool would not merely be a tag, but
the name of another page, which contains general information about such
tools. That is, to the best of my knowledge, not possible in org-mode,
which treats outline headlines and tags as two completely different things.
Cheers, and thanks in advance for any help,
Christoph
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2011-11-09 17:22 How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)? Christoph LANGE
@ 2011-11-09 18:03 ` Samuel Wales
2011-11-11 20:06 ` Christoph LANGE
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From: Samuel Wales @ 2011-11-09 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph LANGE; +Cc: Orgmode Mailing List
If you search for "ID markers" in the ML archives, you will find a
proposal by me that provides mechanism for this that is non-brittle.
In the meantime maybe you can use the existing brittle mechanism for
search links (see the manual) in combination with a personal special
keyword that you never change. A possibility anyway. You might need
to change a hook.
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* Re: How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
2011-11-09 18:03 ` Samuel Wales
@ 2011-11-11 20:06 ` Christoph LANGE
2011-11-11 20:30 ` Samuel Wales
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From: Christoph LANGE @ 2011-11-11 20:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Samuel Wales; +Cc: Orgmode Mailing List
Hi Samuel,
2011-11-09 19:03 Samuel Wales:
> If you search for "ID markers" in the ML archives, you will find a
> proposal by me that provides mechanism for this that is non-brittle.
thanks for this pointer. This is definitely helpful and interesting
information for me – when working _within_ org-mode. I am actually a
semantic web researcher and thus highly interested in giving everything
an ID that can be linked to – not just for my research, but, of course,
also for my personal knowledge management.
But my question in this thread was a different one: linking to fragments
of _external_ files, most commonly HTML files that I'd like to open
outside of Emacs in a browser.
Cheers,
Christoph
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* Re: How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
2011-11-11 20:06 ` Christoph LANGE
@ 2011-11-11 20:30 ` Samuel Wales
2011-11-11 20:51 ` Christoph LANGE
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From: Samuel Wales @ 2011-11-11 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph LANGE; +Cc: Orgmode Mailing List
Hi Christoph,
Really?
Very strange.
I thought I had explained pretty clearly in the proposals that ID
markers can be put in comments in the /external/ files.
If you look up file link search, you will see that it is breakable by
corrupting the thing searched for.
Org IDs in external files -- which I propose to be in ID markers --
are as unbreakable as you can arrange in a practical way.
In any case, it is just a proposal, so if it doesn't work for you, no
need to use it.
Samuel
On 2011-11-11, Christoph LANGE <ch.lange@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
>
> 2011-11-09 19:03 Samuel Wales:
>> If you search for "ID markers" in the ML archives, you will find a
>> proposal by me that provides mechanism for this that is non-brittle.
>
> thanks for this pointer. This is definitely helpful and interesting
> information for me – when working _within_ org-mode. I am actually a
> semantic web researcher and thus highly interested in giving everything
> an ID that can be linked to – not just for my research, but, of course,
> also for my personal knowledge management.
>
> But my question in this thread was a different one: linking to fragments
> of _external_ files, most commonly HTML files that I'd like to open
> outside of Emacs in a browser.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701
>
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* Re: How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
2011-11-11 20:30 ` Samuel Wales
@ 2011-11-11 20:51 ` Christoph LANGE
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From: Christoph LANGE @ 2011-11-11 20:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Samuel Wales; +Cc: Orgmode Mailing List
Hi Samuel,
2011-11-11 21:30 Samuel Wales:
> I thought I had explained pretty clearly in the proposals that ID
> markers can be put in comments in the /external/ files.
Ah, OK, sorry, I didn't notice that. But, anyway, I'm not sure if I'd
want to put such markers into all pages of my TiddlyWiki. And while
that would still be _possible_, I'm sure that there is also a use case
for linking to fragments of local HTML files that you really don't want
to change or can't change. Imagine being a non-privileged user and
linking via file:///path/to/software/manual.html#feature to some section
of the manual of a software installed by an admin user, or to some
downloaded e-book or archived web page.
> Org IDs in external files -- which I propose to be in ID markers --
> are as unbreakable as you can arrange in a practical way.
BTW that reminds me of purple numbers
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Numbers), which I have seen in some
wikis. But they don't scale as well as your ID markers.
Cheers,
Christoph
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