Re: Agenda buffer and relative links

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Hi again, Org people.
> 
> When Org mode defines a link for me, it sometimes changes it so it
> becomes relative.  If within the file ~/fp/notes/notes.org, I wanted to
> create the link:
> 
> [[file:~/fp/notes/VCS/GitHub.org][GitHub]]
> 
> Org mode really creates:
> 
> [[file:VCS/GitHub.org][GitHub]]
> 
> I presume this is because of the location of "notes.org" rather than
> because of the value of org-directory, which happens to be "~/fp/notes".
> This is OK in general, but not always.
> 
> For example, doing "C-a a a" today, I get this line among others
> (squeezed so it fits in this message):
> 
>  notes: Scheduled: TODO *[[file:Informatique/Entretien.org][Entretien]]
> 
> and clicking on the displayed "Entretien" link yields a white window.
> 
> The problem is that the *Org Agenda* buffer is associated with the "~/"
> directory, and the relativized name is then wrong.
> 
> Because all my agenda-files happen to be directly within org-directory,
> a sufficient counter-measure is to have this line in my ~/.emacs file:
> 
> (add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook (lambda () (cd org-directory)))
> 
> While it solves my problem, I have feeling that there is something
> deeper which might likely affect many Org mode users, and for which I
> have no general solution to offer.  In the worst scenario, the solution
> might be to never relativize links, but maybe someone would have a
> better idea about this.  In any case, I decided to report it.
> 
> François
> 
> 

Check

   (info "(org) Handling links")

in the manual, particularly the doc for C-u C-c C-l.

Nick