Re: doi proxy , a test patch

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

I know nothing about doi services.  From what you say, the proxy servers
are not inter-changeable.

For the sake of argument -

Can a given Org document contain links to two different doi proxies?  In
that case will a defcustom help.

Fabrice Pardo <fabrice.pardo@lpn.cnrs.fr> writes:

> Does it really achieve the same effect ?
> Don't you need to use double square bracket
> eg [[doi:10.1016/j.jphysparis.2011.09.011]]
> instead of doi:10.1016/j.jphysparis.2011.09.011 ?
>
> If I'm wrong please correct me, I'm a newbie.
>
> My proposal is to customize the already defined doi External link,
> which was hardcoded in org-open-at-point function.
>
>
> On 12-05-23 03:04 PM, Christian Moe wrote:
>> I think so.
>>
>> I find DOI links simplify life a great deal in any case:
>>
>> (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
>> '(("doi" . "http://dx.doi.org/")))
>>
>> e.g. doi:10.1016/j.jphysparis.2011.09.011
>>
>> (Simply replace "dx.doi.org" with any privileged access point your
>> institution might have)
>>
>> Yours,
>> Christian
>>
>> On 5/23/12 2:27 PM, Jambunathan K wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a way one can avoid the defcustom and achieve the same effect
>>> using link abbreviations? I don't know.
>>>
>>> (info "(org) Link abbreviations")
>>>
>>>
>>> Fabrice Pardo<fabrice.pardo@lpn.cnrs.fr> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> My institution library permits direct access to abstracts
>>>> with pdf contents if we access to article through an address like
>>>> http://dx.doi.org.my.instituti.on/... instead of http://dx.doi.org/...
>>>>
>>>> In the attached patch, I have defined a new variable org-doi-proxy
>>>> which can be customized by the user.
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
>>>> index 05f5375..c5d17a9 100644
>>>> --- a/lisp/org.el
>>>> +++ b/lisp/org.el
>>>> @@ -1838,6 +1838,10 @@ For more examples, see the system specific
>>>> constants
>>>> (string :tag "Command")
>>>> (sexp :tag "Lisp form")))))
>>>>
>>>> +(defcustom org-doi-proxy "http://dx.doi.org/"
>>>> + "The doi proxy"
>>>> + :group 'org-link-follow
>>>> + :type 'string)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (defgroup org-refile nil
>>>> @@ -9714,7 +9718,7 @@ application the system uses for this file type."
>>>> path))))
>>>>
>>>> ((string= type "doi")
>>>> - (browse-url (concat "http://dx.doi.org/" (if (org-string-match-p
>>>> "[[:nonascii:] ]" path)
>>>> + (browse-url (concat org-doi-proxy (if (org-string-match-p
>>>> "[[:nonascii:] ]" path)
>>>> (org-link-escape
>>>> path org-link-escape-chars-browser)
>>>> path))))
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>

--