On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote: > Making a directory link like this: [[file://bla/fasel/]] will open that > folder in explorer on Windows at work, which is nice since I can just > keep a bunch of those in my notes.org file and fire them up whenever I > need to (the history in Explorer is never that helpful). I have since > learned that there's a special form to make that link open in EMACS > [[file+emacs://bla/fasel/]] and that fires up dired. Or, if I had set > up org-mode so that file:-links would open inside EMACS, I could use > [[file+sys://bla/fasel/]] to force the link to open in an external > application. So far so good... what I'd want in addition is to have the > link open in dired with wildcard patterns (giving a file name that > doesn't exist or looks like a directory gets me into dired, but doesn't > give it the "file" part as a wildcard argument) or alternatively > directly into vc-dir like [[file+dired://bla/fasel/*.org]] and
Wildcards on links looks strange. > [[file+vc-dir://bla/fasel/]]. Whatever the part after the "+", the > links should be exported like normal file: links. > > The link abbrevs don't really work for this as they are supposed to > return a string and not go off into another buffer (it does sort-of > work, but I suspect it breaks exporting etc.). An elisp link works, but > gets me a Yes/no question and shows up verbatim in export, not as link. > The +sys/+emacs links (and some abbrevs) export as file:-links with the > complete link-syntax appended as anchor (like > file:///bla/fasel/#file+emacs://bla/fasel/ - this works, but that looks > like a bug to me or an accidental feature at least). > For me all these three gets exported as file:///tmp Another link [[file+sys:///tmp][another link]] Another link [[file+emacs:///tmp][another link]] Another link [[file+emacs://tmp][another link]] Thanks and Regards Noorul _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode