Bastien,
Thanks, the latter does exactly what I want, obviously a terminology thing confusing my question.
With Explorer in Windows I can right click on a file and select copy file name to the clipboard which copies and the path and file name to the clipboard. I can then paste the path and file name into any other program. And 'org-store-link' seems to provide the same facility with dired and Org-mode/
However, I cant get C-u C-c C-l to work.
I still seem to need to type in the file path and file name, rather than have the ability to search for a file. Presumably I am missing the obvious.
Thanks,
Graham
On 18/11/2007, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
"Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com> writes:
> When adding a file link, is there some way of searching for the file you
> want to add while in the file link and then inserting the path and file
> name of the found file rather than having to type the whole thing in.
C-u C-c C-l to find the file, then RET RET to insert it with its name as
the default description.
> Or alternatively, can you search for the file with dired and then copy
> and paste the path from dired into the file link.
I'm not sure of what you mean.
The usual way is to call `org-store-link' (`C-c l' here) on a file in
dired then to insert this link back with `org-insert-link' (C-c C-l).
Does that help?
If you want to create a list of links from dired and copy this list to
the kill-ring, maybe you can use something like this as well:
(defun my-copy-dired-files-in-kill-ring ()
"Copy files names in the kill ring."
(interactive)
(let ((files (dired-map-over-marks (dired-get-filename) nil)))
(kill-new
(mapconcat
(lambda (f)
(concat "[[file:" f "]["
(file-name-nondirectory f) "]]"))
files "\n"))
(message "%d Org links copied to the kill-ring" (length files))))
--
Bastien
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