From: David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to make relative file links?
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:52:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uax7gcm6k7f.fsf@beesknees.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo1yz9tv.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com>
i have it set to adaptive, but always finish with absolute paths, even
if the link is into sub-directory of directory, where the current org file is.
Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
> David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> writes:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> i've just noticed one annoying thing. When I specify the relative file
>> link by org-insert-link, then I specify 'file:' <enter>, then i specify
>> filename with relative path, the function converts the relative path to
>> absolute path. so when i move my org files into another location,
>> well...
>>
>> is there any way how to tell to org-store-link (and as well to %a in
>> org-capture templates) to specify link path relative to the file the
>> link is stored in?
>>
>> respectively: if file contains many links, how can i assure file: links
>> portability when entire org tree changes location?
>>
>> many thanks
>>
>> david
>
> Does this help?
>
> ,----
> | org-link-file-path-type is a variable defined in `org.el'.
> | Its value is adaptive
> |
> | Documentation:
> | How the path name in file links should be stored.
> | Valid values are:
> |
> | relative Relative to the current directory, i.e. the directory of the file
> | into which the link is being inserted.
> | absolute Absolute path, if possible with ~ for home directory.
> | noabbrev Absolute path, no abbreviation of home directory.
> | adaptive Use relative path for files in the current directory and sub-
> | directories of it. For other files, use an absolute path.
> |
> | You can customize this variable.
> |
> | [back]
> `----
>
> Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-06 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-05 22:09 how to make relative file links? David Belohrad
2013-11-05 23:51 ` Nick Dokos
2013-11-06 7:52 ` David Belohrad [this message]
2013-11-20 3:18 ` Samuel Wales
2013-11-20 3:48 ` Nick Dokos
2013-11-20 4:27 ` Samuel Wales
2013-11-06 7:57 ` David Belohrad
2013-11-06 8:43 ` paul-sqPYmOVXOov10XsdtD+oqA
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