Hi again, Org people. When Org mode defines a link for me, it sometimes changes it so it becomes relative. If within the file ~/fp/notes/notes.org, I wanted to create the link:
[[file:~/fp/notes/VCS/GitHub.org][GitHub]] Org mode really creates: [[file:VCS/GitHub.org][GitHub]] I presume this is because of the location of "notes.org" rather than because of the value of org-directory, which happens to be "~/fp/notes". This is OK in general, but not always. For example, doing "C-a a a" today, I get this line among others (squeezed so it fits in this message): notes: Scheduled: TODO *[[file:Informatique/Entretien.org][Entretien]] and clicking on the displayed "Entretien" link yields a white window. The problem is that the *Org Agenda* buffer is associated with the "~/" directory, and the relativized name is then wrong. Because all my agenda-files happen to be directly within org-directory, a sufficient counter-measure is to have this line in my ~/.emacs file: (add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook (lambda () (cd org-directory))) While it solves my problem, 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. In the worst scenario, the solution might be to never relativize links, but maybe someone would have a better idea about this. In any case, I decided to report it. François
