Re: [O] How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
Hi Samuel, 2011-11-09 19:03 Samuel Wales: If you search for ID markers in the ML archives, you will find a proposal by me that provides mechanism for this that is non-brittle. thanks for this pointer. This is definitely helpful and interesting information for me – when working _within_ org-mode. I am actually a semantic web researcher and thus highly interested in giving everything an ID that can be linked to – not just for my research, but, of course, also for my personal knowledge management. But my question in this thread was a different one: linking to fragments of _external_ files, most commonly HTML files that I'd like to open outside of Emacs in a browser. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701
Re: [O] How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
Hi Christoph, Really? Very strange. I thought I had explained pretty clearly in the proposals that ID markers can be put in comments in the /external/ files. If you look up file link search, you will see that it is breakable by corrupting the thing searched for. Org IDs in external files -- which I propose to be in ID markers -- are as unbreakable as you can arrange in a practical way. In any case, it is just a proposal, so if it doesn't work for you, no need to use it. Samuel On 2011-11-11, Christoph LANGE ch.la...@jacobs-university.de wrote: Hi Samuel, 2011-11-09 19:03 Samuel Wales: If you search for ID markers in the ML archives, you will find a proposal by me that provides mechanism for this that is non-brittle. thanks for this pointer. This is definitely helpful and interesting information for me – when working _within_ org-mode. I am actually a semantic web researcher and thus highly interested in giving everything an ID that can be linked to – not just for my research, but, of course, also for my personal knowledge management. But my question in this thread was a different one: linking to fragments of _external_ files, most commonly HTML files that I'd like to open outside of Emacs in a browser. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701 -- The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com === Bigotry against people with serious diseases is still bigotry.
Re: [O] How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
Hi Samuel, 2011-11-11 21:30 Samuel Wales: I thought I had explained pretty clearly in the proposals that ID markers can be put in comments in the /external/ files. Ah, OK, sorry, I didn't notice that. But, anyway, I'm not sure if I'd want to put such markers into all pages of my TiddlyWiki. And while that would still be _possible_, I'm sure that there is also a use case for linking to fragments of local HTML files that you really don't want to change or can't change. Imagine being a non-privileged user and linking via file:///path/to/software/manual.html#feature to some section of the manual of a software installed by an admin user, or to some downloaded e-book or archived web page. Org IDs in external files -- which I propose to be in ID markers -- are as unbreakable as you can arrange in a practical way. BTW that reminds me of purple numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Numbers), which I have seen in some wikis. But they don't scale as well as your ID markers. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701
[O] How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
Dear all, I know that org-mode supports links to local files via relative file: URLs, e.g. file:filename.html. It also supports links to fragments (aka anchors/bookmarks) in remote files via http: URLs, e.g. http://www.example.org/filename.html#section2. Now, is there a way to combine these? I would like to use something like file:filename.html#section2 to link to a fragment in a file that is in the same directory as my org file. For portability reasons I don't want to use any other way of linking to that file than a relative file: URL. Please read on if and only if you are interested in my reasons for wishing for such a feature :-) My concrete use case is that before learning about org-mode I managed my personal knowledge in a TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/), and some of my knowledge I'm still keeping there. (Why? See below.) The pages (tiddlers) in a TiddlyWiki can be accessed as fragments of the TiddlyWiki HTML file, e.g. file:/path/to/tiddly.html#WikiPage. I have my TiddlyWiki file in the same directory as my org file and would like to link to specific pages of it using file:tiddly.html#WikiPage in order to achieve a tight integration between both knowledge collections. FYI, and really just FYI, as I don't want to start a flamewar: The one single thing that I still like better in TiddlyWiki than in org-mode and that I haven't been able to reproduce in org-mode is that I can organize my knowledge in a hierarchical and linked way by tagging pages with other pages. E.g. I could have a page OrgMode tagged with ProductivityTool, where ProductivityTool would not merely be a tag, but the name of another page, which contains general information about such tools. That is, to the best of my knowledge, not possible in org-mode, which treats outline headlines and tags as two completely different things. Cheers, and thanks in advance for any help, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701
Re: [O] How to link to a fragment (aka anchor/bookmark) of a local file (e.g. a TiddlyWiki)?
If you search for ID markers in the ML archives, you will find a proposal by me that provides mechanism for this that is non-brittle. In the meantime maybe you can use the existing brittle mechanism for search links (see the manual) in combination with a personal special keyword that you never change. A possibility anyway. You might need to change a hook.
