Re: [Orgmode] Directory Links (and a bug?)

[Noorul Islam]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Achim Gratz <address@hidden> 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