Re: file link format question - How to format link when square brackets [ ] are already in filename?

From: Erwin Panen <erwinpanen@fastmail.fm>
To: David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file link format question - How to format link when square brackets [ ] are already in filename?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:43:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B68805F.9000605@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hqvfue9.wl%maus.david@gmail.com>

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Hi David,

Thanks for replying;
I don't understand what you mean. I was not aware off url-encoding, but 
found help here: 
http://www.eskimo.com/~bloo/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm 
<http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebloo/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm>
So far so good.
The way I interpret this is that I can 'replace' [square brackets] in 
orgmode  with %5Bsquare brackets%5D
However when I try this, org does not 'convert' to a link...? What am I 
missing?

Perhaps for clarification:
The link I used in my example may be confusing, it is a long UNC path to 
a file on a network server that has somewhere [32] in it's name.
It's the [32] that seems to confuse org's linking.
I also noticed when hovering over [32] that org seems to recognize this 
as a footnote??

Thanks,

Erwin

David Maus wrote:
> At Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:50:31 +0100,
> Erwin Panen wrote:
>   
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I guess this is a minor question, but it has puzzled me already more 
>> than once.
>> My example: The below example is normally all on one line.
>> ---------------Begin code----------------------------------------------
>> ** Action: started to play video 
>> [[\\Dcerouter\public\videos\STORY_Station (sdb1)-CORE [32]\Les Rivières 
>> Pourpres 720x304\The Crimson Rivers.mkv][The Crimson Rivers.mkv]]
>> ---------------End code------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The problem is that the file location already contains a number between 
>> square brackets [32] which renders Org to treat the link in an 
>> unsuspected way.
>>
>> Is there any way to circumvent this behaviour e.g. by inserting special 
>> characters to avoid Org to look inbetween the special characters?
>>     
>
> You can url-encode the square brackets with %5B ("[") and %5D ("]") --
> orgmode does this when calling `org-store-link' (C-c l) for a place
> that contains square brackets and opens the links fine.
>
> HTH
>  -- David
>
>   

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