Hi everyone, thank you for your input. Matt, thanks a lot for the detailed look into this. Indeed there are inconsistencies on how this works in Org, and there are things happening that are system dependent. I thibk what is biting me this time is the system dependence which is really weird.
When I, on my Mac, call this from a commandline in bash $ open https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#search/q=author%3A%22Dominik%2CC%22/metrics things work. So I made a little perl program, myopenurl, that looks like this: #!/usr/bin/perl $url = join(" ",@ARGV); system "open \"$url\"; and that does the trick when I put it into browse-url-generic-program. Fixed for now, but I think the entire url quoting scheme in Org might deserve another look. Thanks. Carsten On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Matt Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> wrote: > Hi Carsten, > > Carsten Dominik <domi...@uva.nl> writes: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have problems opening a link in org. > > > > The link looks like this: > > > > https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#search/q=author%3A%22Dominik% > 2CC%22/metrics > > > > I have copied it like this from the address bar in a browser. > > > > If I click on it in Org-mode, the link is modified to > > > > https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/%23search/q=author:%22Dominik,C%22/metrics > > > > before being sent to the browser, and the browser cannot resolve it. > > The problem seems to be that # has been turned into %23 > > I cannot replicate this on Linux, but there do seem to be some > inconsistencies with how Org-mode is escaping/unescaping links: > > AFAICT, Org-mode itself is not modifying the "#". The relevant lines of > org-open-at-point are 10747-10748: > > ((functionp (org-link-get-parameter type :follow)) > (funcall (org-link-get-parameter type :follow) path)) > > Just simply copying and pasting the link from the browser, I found that > `path` at the lines above is: > > //ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#search/q=author:"Dominik,C"/metrics > > Note: the time one gets to this point, the path has already been > unescaped (see line 10712). > > Meanwhile, `type` is... > > https > > ...which results in org-open-at-point calling the following: > > (lambda (path) (browse-url (concat "https:" path))) > > However, there are inconsistencies when one turns the pasted url above > into an actual org-link (e.g., by calling org-insert-link). > > Then the link in org-mode looks like this (note that the escape > percentage characters are themselves escaped, which seems a bit strange > to me): > > [[https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#search/q=author%253A% > 2522Dominik%252CC%2522/metrics]] > > Now when you open at point, the `path` at line 10748 is: > > //ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#search/q=author%3A%22Dominik%2CC%22/metrics > > Hope this helps in debugging. > Matt >
