The emacs binding to the w3m browser does this if you type file: in
the minibuffer
when prompted for a URL.
"Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
Carsten> Hmmmm, this is *such* a good idea, that I will
Carsten> implement this retroactively into all versions since
Carsten> ... 2.0 or so? Abracadabra! Done.
Carsten>
Carsten> In fact, it has been working just so for a very long
Carsten> time.
Carsten>
Carsten> file:foo.html -> href="foo.html" file:foo.org ->
Carsten> href="foo.html"
Carsten>
Carsten> The second line assumes that the org file foo.org
Carsten> will also be converted to an html file in the
Carsten> publishing process....
Carsten>
Carsten> Also, I was mistaken earlier:
Carsten>
Carsten> http:foo.html becomes href="http:foo.html" and not
Carsten> href="foo.html"
Carsten>
Carsten> so this actually cannot be used for a local link.
Carsten>
Carsten> So what remains from this exchange? Should we
Carsten> accept links that look like absolute file names
Carsten> (including ./foo.html) as equivalent to
Carsten> file:./foo.html ?
Carsten>
Carsten> - Carsten
Carsten>
Carsten> On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:25 PM, T. V. Raman wrote:
Carsten>
I think writing http:foo.html is a bad idea because typing that
string in other contexts is sort of meaningless as a URL.
Until now, everything one types in org-mode sort of has
meaning elsewhere. If you want it to look like a url in
this case too then I'd suggest file:foo.html -- rther than
http:file.html.
I did not suggest that earlier because it's more chars to
type, but that's not a huge concern since emacs does the
typing, and we could always augment c-c c-l to enable
authoring of relative links with file completion.
so file:a/b/c.html would become href="a/b/c.html" in the
generated html.
"Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <address@hidden>
writes:
Carsten> On Apr 13, 2008, at 5:33 PM, T. V. Raman wrote:
Carsten>
I've not tried http:foo.html -- but I suggest doing that
to author a relative URL is a bad idea.
Carsten>
Carsten> Can you explain why you think that this is a bad
Carsten> idea? Educate me! What is wrong with writing
Carsten> http:foo.html ??????
Carsten>
Carsten> - Carsten
Carsten>
I tried ./foo.html and that didn't work either. One compromise
would be to get ./foo.html to link to a relative url,
while foo.html continues to link to a local anchor
"Carsten" == Carsten Dominik
<address@hidden> writes:
Carsten> On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:49 AM, T. V. Raman wrote:
Carsten>
Hi,
org-export turns links of the form [[foo][link to
relative url foo]]
ends up creating links of the form <a
href="#foo">...</a>
this means that it becomes impossible to write
hyperlinks that are relative URLs.
Carsten>
Carsten> Hi Raman,
Carsten>
Carsten> the url goes into the first pair of square brackets,
Carsten> the description into the second. If you put
Carsten> something into the first bracket pair that does not
Carsten> look lie a url, it will be treated as an internal
Carsten> link.
Carsten>
Carsten> Have you tried to use something like
Carsten>
Carsten> [[http:foo.html][link to relative url]]
Carsten>
Carsten> ?
Carsten>
Carsten> - Carsten
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