Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-14 at 20:21, Charles C. Berry wrote: > BibDesk has an archive of entries typically stored at > > ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk/*.bdskcache > > and the 'NS.data' element of Bdsk-File-1 seems to point to one element. > > The *.bdskcache file has a bplist and I gue

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Ivan Andrus wrote: On Apr 14, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Ken Mankoff wrote: On 2014-04-14 at 13:42, Charles Berry wrote: For this to work as you fantasize, you would need to enable the Finder application to modify the part of the *.org file that encodes the alias when you chang

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ivan Andrus
On Apr 14, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Ken Mankoff wrote: > On 2014-04-14 at 13:42, Charles Berry wrote: > >> For this to work as you fantasize, you would need to enable the Finder >> application to modify the part of the *.org file that encodes the >> alias when you change the location of the aliased fi

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-14 at 13:42, Charles Berry wrote: > The point of using an alias rather than a filename or the name of a > symbolic link that points to the file is that it inherits the property > of Mac OS X aliases that moving the file does not break the alias --- > it still points to file. Exactly!

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Charles Berry
Ken Mankoff gmail.com> writes: > > > On 2014-04-14 at 12:26, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Ken Mankoff writes: > >> Aliases are a type of links ("ln" on linux, "shortcut" on Windows > >> "alias" on OS X (OS X of course also supports "ln")). The difference > >> between an OS X alias and "ln" is that if

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-14 at 12:26, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Mankoff writes: >> Aliases are a type of links ("ln" on linux, "shortcut" on Windows >> "alias" on OS X (OS X of course also supports "ln")). The difference >> between an OS X alias and "ln" is that if the target is moved, the OS >> X alias still po

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Mankoff writes: > Aliases are a type of links ("ln" on linux, "shortcut" on Windows > "alias" on OS X (OS X of course also supports "ln")). The difference > between an OS X alias and "ln" is that if the target is moved, the OS X > alias still points to it, and double-clicking on an alias (or is

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-14 at 08:42, Nick Dokos wrote: > What does emacs do when you C-x C-f an alias? Alias in OS X (and Shortcut in Windows) present as files. Org treats it just as it should - as a file. Everything works. > If it opens it properly (i.e. opens the target file) then why is > anything needed

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Nick Dokos
Ken Mankoff writes: > Hi Bastien, > > Thanks for letting me know it displays properly and email received. The > URL works for me this morning too. > > On 2014-04-14 at 05:22, Bastien wrote: >> Even for those who uses MacOSX, you should perhaps be more specific >> on how Org-mode would store such

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
Hi Bastien, Thanks for letting me know it displays properly and email received. The URL works for me this morning too. On 2014-04-14 at 05:22, Bastien wrote: > Even for those who uses MacOSX, you should perhaps be more specific > on how Org-mode would store such links, then somebody might step up

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Bastien
Hi Ken, Ken Mankoff writes: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/84707 appears blank The article is displayed correctly for me, probably a temporary issue with gmane.org. > so perhaps the no reply is due to a posting issue. Hence, I send the > email again... I don't use MacOSX so it

[O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-13 Thread Ken Mankoff
Hi, I posted something at the beginning of the week, and have received no reply. If nobody had anything to say that is fine. But I notice that my original post on gmane http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/84707 appears blank, so perhaps the no reply is due to a posting issue. Hence, I sen