Re: Problems with hyperlinked files

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:45 AM, Leo Alekseyev wrote:

>>
>> I could reproduce this, but I don't know if this is really a bug.
>> (I never heard of protecting spaces with angle brackets.)
>
> Actually, it's right there in section 4.3 of the manual, last
> sentence: "if you need to remove ambiguities about the end of the
> link, enclose them in angular brackets. "
>
>> You do not have to protect spaces, because the URL is surrounded by  
>> the
>> square brackets. I could only insert angle brackets into a link by
>> editing it manually; when you edit a link with C-c C-l and enclose  
>> the
>> URL in angle brackets, Org will automatically remove them.
>
> Thanks, both these methods work -- although I still think it would be
> nice if org mode could properly handle angle brackets inside square
> ones; the motivation here is that often I just paste in file paths
> instead of  using C-c C-l, and then I have to use angle brackets to
> deal w/ spaces; if I later want to change it to an annotated link, it
> would be nice not to have to strip the angle brackets before wrapping
> it in square ones...

It would be hard for Org to make that distinction in a stable way.  For
all it knows, the > might be part of the link.

Best habit is to always use [[..]] when you have a link
that contains spaces, just ignore the availability of
angular brackets as delimiters.  These were used historically
in Org before the bracket notation was introduced.

I am keeping that syntax for backward compatibility, but had
I had bracket links from the start, the angular bracket
representation would not exist today.

Best wishes

- Carsten