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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Managing files?
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On Aug 31, 2006, at 18:19, Ed Hirgelt wrote:
>
> One way I handle this is to use environment variables to define the
> root directory of a project.  Then your file links can look like
> [[file:$proj1/Docs/foo.pdf]].
>
> This requires a little hack to org-open-file to call
> substitute-in-file-name. I've included below the start of that
> function so you can see what I did.  It does make certain
> restructuring easy.

That is a good idea, and I would like to take that change - if you 
agree.  Do you?

Thanks.

- Carsten



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