Re: [FR] Should we resolve environment variables in the file link path when exporting? (was: [FR] Please add environment variable substitution in `org-display-inline-images')

[Pan Xie <xiepan@skyguard.com.cn>]

Oh, that path will be horrible! Variable substitution is really 
important since it is an abstraction to make the same org file works on 
different hosts with different path hierarchies. I believe there are 
lots of users already rely on it, even without being documented. The 
reasonable thinking would be supporting more substitutions, rather than 
remove any.

On 6/1/23 16:35, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Pan Xie <xiepan@skyguard.com.cn> writes:
>
>> I think we need keep consistent with the file link. Since file link will
>> substitute the environment variables in its file path, I guess it will
>> do the same thing when export to html files. It may keep the variables
>> when export to Org (ox-org). Since both image link and file link are
>> links, from user's perspective they should be consistent.
> This feature is not even documented. We may as well go other way and
> remove variable substitution from the file links and keep the rest
> unchanged. Not that we have to. But I think that the topic is worth
> discussing first.
>