Bastien, Thanks, the latter does exactly what I want, obviously a terminology thing confusing my question.
With Explorer in Windows I can right click on a file and select copy file name to the clipboard which copies and the path and file name to the clipboard. I can then paste the path and file name into any other program. And 'org-store-link' seems to provide the same facility with dired and Org-mode/ However, I cant get C-u C-c C-l to work. I still seem to need to type in the file path and file name, rather than have the ability to search for a file. Presumably I am missing the obvious. Thanks, Graham On 18/11/2007, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Graham Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When adding a file link, is there some way of searching for the file you > > want to add while in the file link and then inserting the path and file > > name of the found file rather than having to type the whole thing in. > > C-u C-c C-l to find the file, then RET RET to insert it with its name as > the default description. > > > Or alternatively, can you search for the file with dired and then copy > > and paste the path from dired into the file link. > > I'm not sure of what you mean. > > The usual way is to call `org-store-link' (`C-c l' here) on a file in > dired then to insert this link back with `org-insert-link' (C-c C-l). > > Does that help? > > If you want to create a list of links from dired and copy this list to > the kill-ring, maybe you can use something like this as well: > > (defun my-copy-dired-files-in-kill-ring () > "Copy files names in the kill ring." > (interactive) > (let ((files (dired-map-over-marks (dired-get-filename) nil))) > (kill-new > (mapconcat > (lambda (f) > (concat "[[file:" f "][" > (file-name-nondirectory f) "]]")) > files "\n")) > (message "%d Org links copied to the kill-ring" (length files)))) > > -- > Bastien > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >
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