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

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

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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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