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

[Erwin Panen <erwinpanen@fastmail.fm>]

David, thanks for clarifying :-)
I think I get it now.
Your example helps!

What I did (wrongly) was to exchange the outer brackets with %5B and %5D
Instead I should have exchanged the brackets enclosing 32
I get an error of the file not found now, but at least Emacs/org does 
fold the link now and only leaves the description!

I guess I'll figure out the missing file problem.

Thanks very much for helping out!

Erwin

David Maus wrote:
> Hi Erwin,
> 
> At Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:43:27 +0100,
> Erwin Panen wrote:
>> 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
>> So far so good.
>> The way I interpret this is that I can 'replace' [square brackets] in orgmode  with %5Bsquare brackets%5D
> 
> That's exactly what I meant. The behaviour you notice when /not/
> encoding the square brackets is absolutely correct because of the way
> Orgmode works: If you display a file in org-mode, the Orgmode
> functions interpret the file's content and change the way certain
> portions of the file look ("folding" of the link, i.e. only display
> the description) and what you can do on this regions (i.e. open the
> link).
> 
> So there is for instance a pattern that "tells" Orgmode that something
> is a link: [[<some characters][<some other characters>]] is recognized
> as a link with a target (first set of characters) and a description
> (second set of characters). If there are literal square brackets in
> either the description or the target, Orgmode simply does not
> recognize the string as a link.
> 
> The same principle (interpreting strings/a sequence of characters)
> causes Orgmode to recognize the [32] as a footnote. Why? Because there
> is a definition that says the "a number between two square brakets is
> a footnote".
> 
>> However when I try this, org does not 'convert' to a link...? What
>> am I missing?
> 
> Strange. What Emacs and Orgmode version do you use?[1] I use 
> 
> "GNU Emacs 23.1.92.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.6) of
>  2010-01-31 on elegiac, modified by Debian"
> 
> with
> 
> "Org-mode version 6.34trans (release_6.34c.65.g45c58)"
> 
> For me encoding the square brackets in the link name with %5B and %5D
> works. That is: Emacs/Orgmode "collapses" the link and only displays
> the description part.
> 
> ,----
> | [[\\Dcerouter\public\videos\STORY_Station (sdb1)-CORE %5B32%5D\Les Rivières Pourpres 720x304\The Crimson Rivers.mkv][The Crimson Rivers.mkv]]
> `----
> 
> gives:
> 
> ,----
> | The Crimson Rivers.mkv
> `----
> 
> Regards,
>  -- David
> 
> 
> [1] To find out your version simply execute "org-version" (M-x
> org-version RET) and "emacs-version" (M-x emacs-version RET) and
> switch to the buffer called "*Messages*" to see the version strings of
> Emacs and Orgmode.
> 
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