Nick, that did the trick. Thanks very much everybody. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Nick Dokos wrote: > tom writes: > > > this > > > > (setq org-link-abbrev-alist > > '(("foo" . "file:/path/to/%s.txt"))) > > > > allow me to do this > > > > [[foo:file to open]] > > > > but it creates a file with spaces in the name. so I'd like to replace > "%s" with "%(myfun)". > > > > with your example, how can I get "foo bar loo" from > > > > [[foo:foo bar loo]] > > > > see what I mean? > > > > Using Thorsten's suggestion > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (setq org-link-abbrev-alist > '(("foo" . "file:/path/to/%(foobar).txt"))) > > (defun foobar (x) > (replace-regexp-in-string "[[:space:]]" "_" x)) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > will turn > > [[foo:foo bar loo]] > > to > > [[file:/path/to/foo_bar__loo.txt]] > > when you click on it. > -- > Nick > > >