Nick, that did the trick. Thanks very much everybody.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> tom <scraw...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > this
> >
> > (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
> > '(("foo" . "file:/path/to/%s.txt")))
> >
> > allow me to do this
> >
> > [[foo:file to open]]
> >
> > but it creates a file with spaces in the name. so I'd like to replace
> "%s" with "%(myfun)".
> >
> > with your example, how can I get "foo bar loo" from
> >
> > [[foo:foo bar loo]]
> >
> > see what I mean?
> >
>
> Using Thorsten's suggestion
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
> '(("foo" . "file:/path/to/%(foobar).txt")))
>
> (defun foobar (x)
> (replace-regexp-in-string "[[:space:]]" "_" x))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> will turn
>
> [[foo:foo bar loo]]
>
> to
>
> [[file:/path/to/foo_bar__loo.txt]]
>
> when you click on it.
> --
> Nick
>
>
>
