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Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com> writes:

> Looks like org-insert-link doesn't have any tab completion feature to
> list files on the system. How do I get that?
>
> I can tab complete file+sys: but then can't do ~/directory/file.txt

Perhaps try playing with the value of org-link-file-path-type?

>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>     Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com> writes:
>    
>     > Is there any way to quickly add a file's location rather than
>     typing
>     > the whole file://path/to/location. The files are mostly
>     freemind or
>     > libreoffice calc/ word files.
>     >
>     > If the file or the directory is not there, it can also be
>     created
>     > from within org easily.
>     >
>     > Thanks
>    
>     Are these links to files? You can use `org-insert-link' with a
>     prefix
>     argument, to get the usual find-file interface, and a link
>     inserted once
>     you've found it.
>    
>