From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: David Lord <dlordster@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org files and directory hierarchies
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:33:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D028030B-0D3D-4AD4-AB5F-4C85B94397AD@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1FEB88C0-5145-4D72-A9CA-DF455AEA4548@gmail.com>
On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:40 PM, David Lord wrote:
>
> On 8 Ion 2009, at 17:07, Matthew Lundin wrote:
>>
>> One caveat. Org attach doesn't work in quite this way. The data
>> directory hierarchy isn't really human readable (i.e., it doesn't
>> mirror the org outline hierarchy). But that would be a nightmare to
>> make work, I imagine, because of constant changes to the org outline
>> structure. Rather, directories containing files are attached to
>> outline headings via automatically generated IDs.
>
> Well, why not allow the user to choose a directory, there's no real
> reason why the directory structure has to match the org file?
>
> I started using attachments when the feature came out and really
> liked them, especially the simple interface for choosing a file to
> attach (even better with ido). But after a while, I found the fact
> that I could only reasonably get to attachments through the org file
> difficult to work with - what happens when I've finished a task and
> archived it off? I've got to go hunting through the archive file to
> find the old task before I can find the attachments. So I stopped
> using them and decided I'd use normal hyperlinks instead. But then
> I found out just how awkward is is to have to either cut-and-paste
> the directory path or type it in manually whenever I want to link to
> a file.
Did you see Matt' answer in the other thread? That will also work for
you.
- Carsten
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10330/focus=10331
>
>
> Regards
> David Lord
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 15:58 Dan Davison
2009-01-08 17:07 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-01-08 20:40 ` David Lord
2009-01-08 21:33 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-01-09 11:04 ` David Lord
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