François Pinard <pin...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > 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 > >
Check (info "(org) Handling links") in the manual, particularly the doc for C-u C-c C-l. Nick