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From: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with opening a link
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:04:00 -0400
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To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>, org-mode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

On 03/31/2017 08:52 AM, Carsten Dominik 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

I'm using Xubuntu 16.04. I believe the function being used is
browse-url-browser-function which I have set to browse-url-firefox. The
variable browse-url-generic-program has no value on my system.

Scott

>
> Carsten
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <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
>
>