OK, found the issue, had to use url-insert-entities-in-string instead of shell-quote-argument.
Thanks, - Marcelo. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < celose...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nick, it's a custom script... however, it looks like I was using the wrong > format. Instead of escaping the space chars, I should uri-encode them it > seems. I'll try that. Thanks! > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > >> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I have several links that use the file protocol to open files indexed in >> > org entries. They work fine for entries that point to file whose >> filenames >> > do *not* contain space, but for entries with space in them, it just >> fails >> > silently. I.e: >> > >> > [[file:/Volumes/ext-hd/pdfs/Name\ Of\ The-\ 4th\ file.pdf]] >> > >> > I even escaped the filename using the (shell-quote-argument) function >> when >> > indexing, but no luck. >> > >> >> This is a link to a directory. I grabbed it with C-c l and inserted it >> with C-c C-l. It seems to work fine: >> >> [[file:lib/music/Arnold%20Schoenberg/Moses%20und%20Aron/][Moses und Aron] >> >> Nick >> > >
