Hi François,
François Pinard wrote:
> Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes:
>
>> François Pinard <pin...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>>> When Org mode defines a link for me, it sometimes changes it so it
>>> becomes relative. [...] This is OK in general, but not always.
>>> [...] I have feeling that there is something deeper which might
>>> likely affect many Org mode users, and for which I have no general
>>> solution to offer.
>
>> Check
>> (info "(org) Handling links")
>> in the manual, particularly the doc for C-u C-c C-l.
>
> Hi, Nick, and gang.
>
> Yes, I knew about prefixes to C-c C-l, which may be used to force links
> to be absolute. Systematic use of C-u C-u C-c C-l instead of C-c C-l
> would be tedious, that's why I think there is a deeper problem about the
> current defaults.
>
> There is a virtue in relative links which I recognize. So having an
> option to force all links to be absolute might not be a solution.
> Having all links relative just cannot work. Letting the user properly
> manage is quite error-prone, and fairly annoying at least.
Would this help you?
┏━━━━
┃ org-link-file-path-type is a variable defined in `org.el'.
┃ Its value is adaptive
┃
┃ Documentation:
┃ How the path name in file links should be stored.
┃ Valid values are:
┃
┃ relative Relative to the current directory, i.e. the directory of the
file
┃ into which the link is being inserted.
┃ absolute Absolute path, if possible with ~ for home directory.
┃ noabbrev Absolute path, no abbreviation of home directory.
┃ adaptive Use relative path for files in the current directory and sub-
┃ directories of it. For other files, use an absolute path.
┗━━━━
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
