Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Bastien
Hi Ken, Ken Mankoff mank...@gmail.com writes: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/84707 appears blank The article is displayed correctly for me, probably a temporary issue with gmane.org. so perhaps the no reply is due to a posting issue. Hence, I send the email again... I don't

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
Hi Bastien, Thanks for letting me know it displays properly and email received. The URL works for me this morning too. On 2014-04-14 at 05:22, Bastien wrote: Even for those who uses MacOSX, you should perhaps be more specific on how Org-mode would store such links, then somebody might step up.

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Nick Dokos
Ken Mankoff mank...@gmail.com writes: Hi Bastien, Thanks for letting me know it displays properly and email received. The URL works for me this morning too. On 2014-04-14 at 05:22, Bastien wrote: Even for those who uses MacOSX, you should perhaps be more specific on how Org-mode would

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-14 at 08:42, Nick Dokos wrote: What does emacs do when you C-x C-f an alias? Alias in OS X (and Shortcut in Windows) present as files. Org treats it just as it should - as a file. Everything works. If it opens it properly (i.e. opens the target file) then why is anything needed in

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Mankoff writes: Aliases are a type of links (ln on linux, shortcut on Windows alias on OS X (OS X of course also supports ln)). The difference between an OS X alias and ln is that if the target is moved, the OS X alias still points to it, and double-clicking on an alias (or issuing the

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-14 at 12:26, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Mankoff writes: Aliases are a type of links (ln on linux, shortcut on Windows alias on OS X (OS X of course also supports ln)). The difference between an OS X alias and ln is that if the target is moved, the OS X alias still points to it, and

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Charles Berry
Ken Mankoff mankoff at gmail.com writes: On 2014-04-14 at 12:26, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Mankoff writes: Aliases are a type of links (ln on linux, shortcut on Windows alias on OS X (OS X of course also supports ln)). The difference between an OS X alias and ln is that if the target is

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-14 at 13:42, Charles Berry wrote: The point of using an alias rather than a filename or the name of a symbolic link that points to the file is that it inherits the property of Mac OS X aliases that moving the file does not break the alias --- it still points to file. Exactly!

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ivan Andrus
On Apr 14, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Ken Mankoff mank...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-04-14 at 13:42, Charles Berry wrote: For this to work as you fantasize, you would need to enable the Finder application to modify the part of the *.org file that encodes the alias when you change the location of the

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Ivan Andrus wrote: On Apr 14, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Ken Mankoff mank...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-04-14 at 13:42, Charles Berry wrote: For this to work as you fantasize, you would need to enable the Finder application to modify the part of the *.org file that encodes the

Re: [O] Fwd: Mac OS Alias file links

2014-04-14 Thread Ken Mankoff
On 2014-04-14 at 20:21, Charles C. Berry wrote: BibDesk has an archive of entries typically stored at ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk/*.bdskcache and the 'NS.data' element of Bdsk-File-1 seems to point to one element. The *.bdskcache file has a bplist and I guess the