Re: suggestion - follow-link

[Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:

> On Jul 18, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Richard G Riley wrote:
>
>>
>> I would like to suggest that follow link (C-c C-o) defaults to
>> "index.org" when the link is merely a directory. e.g I prefer my links
>> to be without the "index.html/org" part ,"./projects/", so that
>> "index.html" does not appear in the address bar when browsing the
>> published project. At present it will open dired in that directory.
>
> I do not want to give up that link into dired while working in
> Emacs - and I believe upon exporting, the link will end up pointing
> to the directory, which in HML will read index.html.
>
> - Carsten

Yes, without the specific file, the browser will indeed default to
index.html. This is a standard - and what I use. It just means C-C C-o
does not open the link to the file. But if people prefer dired to come
up on such a link I can see that might be beneficial to some too.