Re: Problems with opening a link

["Tim O'Callaghan" <timo@linux.com>]

Hi,

I've had a similar issue, but with redmine links.
if i have
#+LINK: rm http://redmine/issues/%s

* link [[rm:3287]] does not work properly any more (with firefox under KDE)

best regards,

Tim.

On 31 March 2017 at 14:52, Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> which system are you on?
>
> I am using a Mac, and the "open" command in the mac as
> browse-url-generic-program
>
> Carsten
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/31/2017 05:39 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I have problems opening a link in org.
>> >
>> > The link looks like this:
>> >
>> >
>> > https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#search/q=author%3A%22Dominik%2CC%22/metrics
>> >
>> > I have copied it like this from the address bar in a browser.
>> >
>> > If I click on it in Org-mode, the link is modified to
>> >
>> > https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/%23search/q=author:%22Dominik,C%22/metrics
>> >
>> > before being sent to the browser, and the browser cannot resolve it.
>> > The problem seems to be that # has been turned into %23
>>
>> The link worked fine when I tried opening it from an Org file. I'm using
>> Org 9.0.3 in Emacs 24.5.1 and my browser is Firefox.
>>
>> Scott Randby
>>
>> >
>> > Where does this happen, and how can I fix this?
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> > Carsten
>
>