Re: org-url-hexify-p is not respected

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> wrote:


> My bad, wrong variable. I should have customized "Org Link To Org Use
> Id." Now I see hexify is to turn, e.g., <spc> into %20.

>  I'm still really confused how the ID options work. Last night, I
> could not get org to generate a link without creating an ID (using the
> default value of org-link-to-org-use-id). Now, I tried to verify what
> happens with ID-style links, so I customized org-link-to-org-use-id to
> be 't' -- and org now refuses to generate the ID. ??? This is even
> after saving the custom setting, quitting and relaunching emacs. It
> simply is not making the link according to the variable. (The link
> target is an org file.)

C-h v org-link-to-org-use-id RET should help in alleviating (at least
some of) the confusion. Note the default value: you probably want to set
it to create-if-interactive-and-no-custom-id.

>  Anyway, I'm going to set that variable to nil, and just hope that
> tomorrow org won't interpret nil to mean "I'll make whatever link
> style I choose, thank you very much."

Actually, setting it to t gets pretty close to this description :-)

Nick