Re: suggestion - follow-link

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>]

On Jul 18, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Richard G Riley wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>
>> On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Richard G Riley wrote:
>>
>>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 18, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Richard G Riley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to suggest that follow link (C-c C-o) defaults to
>>>>> "index.org" when the link is merely a directory. e.g I prefer my
>>>>> links
>>>>> to be without the "index.html/org" part ,"./projects/", so that
>>>>> "index.html" does not appear in the address bar when browsing the
>>>>> published project. At present it will open dired in that  
>>>>> directory.
>>>>
>>>> I do not want to give up that link into dired while working in
>>>> Emacs - and I believe upon exporting, the link will end up pointing
>>>> to the directory, which in HML will read index.html.
>>>>
>>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>> Yes, without the specific file, the browser will indeed default to
>>> index.html. This is a standard - and what I use. It just means C-C  
>>> C-o
>>> does not open the link to the file. But if people prefer dired to  
>>> come
>>> up on such a link I can see that might be beneficial to some too.
>>
>>
>> I depends on application.  In a web publishing project, I agree
>> that opening index.org might be the most useful approach.
>> However, when using Org for notes, planning etc, I frequently
>> rely on the ability to link to a dired list of a directory.
>> Maybe is is worth an option......
>>
>> - Carsten
>
> Hmm. Yes, I am being a bit "html centric" here since that's what I'm
> working. Maybe a nicer generic solution is to have a standard file
> select in the minibuffer with completion when there is no file
> name. Just hit enter then to select dired at that directory or "i TAB"
> for index.org for example (I use icicles completion here). Not serious
> or must have but maybe nice to have at some time.


No, I prefer an option.  It is not a good idea to be bothered with  
this decision each time you want to follow a link.  Implemented in the  
git repo.

- Carsten