Re: Orgmode links trouble with Emacs 24.4 on Windows 7: "ShellExecute failed: ..."

[AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>]

As this does not seem to be an orgmode, but an emacs on windows issue, I'll 
ask on the emacs list, so beware: crossposting.

Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2014, 16:25:18 schrieb AW:
> Am Dienstag, 18. November 2014, 22:36:46 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de> writes:
> > > I installed Emacs 24.4 on Windows 7.
> > > 
> > > Everything works, except some of my links in orgmode. They worked under
> > > Emacs 24.3, and they work with Emacs 24.4 under Linux.
> > > 
> > > The non-working links have a certain structure: I'm using shorcuts. I
> > > have
> > > a file "AW-org-file.el", containing lines like:
> > > 
> > > (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
> > > '(name . "//SBS2011/path/to/folder/%s"))
> > 
> > It should be
> > 
> >   (setq org-link-abbrev-alist '(("name" . "//SBS2011/path/to/folder/%s")))
> >   
> > > The links in the org-files look like this:
> > > 
> > > [[name:filename]]
> > > 
> > > or
> > > 
> > > [[name:./path/down/the/folder/filename.pdf]]
> > 
> > Use
> > 
> >   M-: (org-element-property :path (org-element-context))
> > 
> > with point on each of them. Is the path a valid (according to Windows)
> > file name?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> Hello,
> 
> yes, I did that and the path is valid, it becomes, well, say, "expanded".
> 
> Except that it contains slashes ( "/" ) instead of backslashes, it is
> exactly what I expected. And to be clear: the same link works with Emacs
> 24.3 under Windows 7 as well as under Linux and Emacs 24.4.
> 
> Thank you for your much appreciated help!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alexander