Re: Org links that point to filenames with space do not open

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>]

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OK, found the issue, had to use url-insert-entities-in-string instead of
shell-quote-argument.

Thanks,

- Marcelo.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <
celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nick, it's a custom script... however, it looks like I was using the wrong
> format. Instead of escaping the space chars, I should uri-encode them it
> seems. I'll try that. Thanks!
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>
>> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have several links that use the file protocol to open files indexed in
>> > org entries. They work fine for entries that point to file whose
>> filenames
>> > do *not* contain space, but for entries with space in them, it just
>> fails
>> > silently. I.e:
>> >
>> >   [[file:/Volumes/ext-hd/pdfs/Name\ Of\ The-\ 4th\ file.pdf]]
>> >
>> > I even escaped the filename using the (shell-quote-argument) function
>> when
>> > indexing, but no luck.
>> >
>>
>> This is a link to a directory. I grabbed it with C-c l and inserted it
>> with C-c C-l. It seems to work fine:
>>
>> [[file:lib/music/Arnold%20Schoenberg/Moses%20und%20Aron/][Moses und Aron]
>>
>> Nick
>>
>
>

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