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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org links that point to filenames with space do not open
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:03:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3547.1346990606@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> of "Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:31:28 CDT." <CACHMzOGtFP5U8DptR8HH-20K-mtvfYSmKNHqRYXn=X7PB0ERRw@mail.gmail.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-07  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07  0:31 Org links that point to filenames with space do not open Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2012-09-07  1:13 ` Jude DaShiell
2012-09-07  4:03 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-09-07  4:47   ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2012-09-07  4:57     ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa

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