Re: Problems with hyperlinked files

["Jan Böcker" <jan.boecker@jboecker.de>]

On 23.03.2010 10:13, Leo Alekseyev wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am unable to open locally linked files if I use angle brackets to
> protect spaces, like so:
> 
>    [[<file:E:\ebooks\math\Probability and statistics\The Elements of
> Statistical Learning (2nd ed).pdf>][Hastie et al]]
> 
> -- the echo area displays "no such file: E:\ebooks\math\Probability
> and statistics\The Elements of Statistical Learning (2nd ed).pdf>"
> <---- note the right angle bracket here.  Generally, any file links
> with angle brackets refuse to open.  Is this a known bug?...  is there
> a patch?..  (Org mode 6.31a, emacs 23.1)

Hi Leo,

I could reproduce this, but I don't know if this is really a bug.
(I never heard of protecting spaces with angle 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.

HTH, Jan