Hi Jaap, OK, I think probably what I will try next is uninstall and reinstall.
I really do appreciate all the help that you and Mariano provided in trying to figure this out. Jason On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Jaap Karssenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > Yes, zim understands this type of file path regardless of the platform. > > In the mean time I tested on my own windows system. Interwiki link to > another notebook works fine here without the url.list setup. > > Regards, > > Jaap > > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Jason McLafferty < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Jaap, >> >> Thanks for the suggestions. Along these lines, I removed my own >> urls.list to prevent Zim from using that. I also opened the notebooks.list >> file I found in C:\Users\Jason\.config\zim and found lines that look like: >> >> ~/Notebooks/Master >> >> (I was of the impression that Windows does not understand the tilde as >> the home directory but I may be wrong on this, or maybe the way that this >> file is used by Zim allows the tilde to work in this way?). >> >> Jason >> >> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Jaap Karssenberg < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jason, >>> >>> I think the only way to debug why it doesn't work on your windows >>> install is check exactly which file zim gets the URL from. Maybe some older >>> urls.list you tried, or from the notebooks.list file in the config. If the >>> path is wrong, I guess one of these contains the wrong URL. >>> >>> Will test my own windows setup on monday to check whether there is a bug >>> or not. >>> >>> REgards, >>> >>> Jaap >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Jason McLafferty < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Quick note: I also run Linux in VirtualBox, so I put Zim on there and >>>> tried linking, and it worked. I just created two notebooks (notes and >>>> test), in notes I placed a link "test?" and clicking on that worked >>>> perfectly - a new window opened with the test notebook. >>>> >>>> I do use Windows much more though so that's why I want to get this >>>> working in that installation too. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Jason >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Jason McLafferty < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Jaap, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks again for your followup. >>>>> >>>>> This is what I tried next: >>>>> (1) remove urls.list file that I created >>>>> (2) replaced all spaces by underscores in notebook names in the file >>>>> notebooks.list in C:\Users\Jason\.config\zim\ directory >>>>> (3) tried my link Electronics? - nothing happened, so I ran it from >>>>> cmd with the --debug flag. Two things I noticed: >>>>> >>>>> (a) Error dialog: "Could not find notebook >>>>> file:///C:/Users/Jason/Notebooks/Master/zim >>>>> (Master is the name of the notebook that I try to place the link in). >>>>> >>>>> (b) I opened the zim.exe.log file and see this line near the bottom: >>>>> >>>>> INFO: Spawning: ['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Zim Desktop Wiki\\zim.exe', >>>>> 'zim', 'zim+file:///C:/Users/Jason/Notebooks/Electronics?', '--no-daemon'] >>>>> (cwd: None) >>>>> >>>>> (I'm guessing this is a copy of the command that is issued to open the >>>>> notebook being linked to). >>>>> >>>>> Two things I find strange: (a) the /zim appended to the end of the >>>>> file of the notebook I am working in, >>>>> (b) that the error reports that the file of the notebook I am working >>>>> in (where I put the link) is not being found, rather than the notebook I >>>>> am >>>>> trying to link to is not being found. I would have guessed that it would >>>>> report that it cannot find the notebook that I am trying to link to. >>>>> >>>>> Sorry for so many e-mails. I'm starting to wonder if I am doing >>>>> something really stupid. >>>>> >>>>> Jason >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Jaap Karssenberg < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Jason, >>>>>> >>>>>> I just had a look at the parsing of the url.list format. The parser >>>>>> splits the line at the first space, all subsequent text is taken as the >>>>>> url. >>>>>> >>>>>> So the name or "key" that you use in the interwiki link should not >>>>>> contain any spaces. Typically these are abreviations, so you want to keep >>>>>> them short anyway. >>>>>> >>>>>> The URL is allowed to contain spaces and is handed to the application >>>>>> handling the link without further processing. For file links I recommend >>>>>> using spaces instead of "%20" because most applications (including zim) >>>>>> just remove the "file:///" bit and assume the rest to be a valid file >>>>>> path. >>>>>> >>>>>> The "Master NOtebook" example in your last mail probably fails due to >>>>>> the "%20". >>>>>> >>>>>> The "Electronics" example you used earlier should work though. Try >>>>>> the "--debug" check on that one. However I wouldn't count on zim being >>>>>> fully robust for "nested" notebooks. It might just open the toplevel >>>>>> notebook instead. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Jaap >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Jason McLafferty < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Jaap, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thank you for your reply. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes, my entire 'urls.list' file is links to other notebooks, so it >>>>>>> seems the right way to do this then is to not worry about creating my >>>>>>> own >>>>>>> urls.list for notebooks. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> However, the link is still not working and Mariano's comment about >>>>>>> the spaces in a lot of my notebook names has me wondering if this is >>>>>>> creating a problem? Also, my Electronics notebook, which I am trying to >>>>>>> link to (and does not have spaces in the file URL) does appear below a >>>>>>> notebook which does have spaces in its name and file URL - could it be >>>>>>> what >>>>>>> he said regarding an earlier failure in reading the list, due to spaces, >>>>>>> that leads to the failure? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I did try the suggestion of running "zim --debug". When the >>>>>>> notebook open dialog appears, I chose the notebook that I am trying to >>>>>>> create the link in. Then I put the link, click on it, and I get an >>>>>>> error >>>>>>> message: "Could not find the notebook: >>>>>>> file:///C:/Users/Jason/Notebooks/Master%20Notebook/zim. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> That notebook (Master Notebook) is where I am trying to place the >>>>>>> link, not the notebook I am linking to. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Jason >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Jaap Karssenberg < >>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Stupid question, but are all your interwiki links to other zim >>>>>>>> notebooks? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If so, you shoudl not need to configure the urls.list file at all. >>>>>>>> Check the "open another notebook" dialog in zim, all notebooks listed >>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>> should already be recognized as interwiki links. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In the properties dialog you can set an interwiki keyword for the >>>>>>>> noteobook as well. This is used to set a short name to refer to. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Is that what you are looking for? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Otherwise, try running "zim --debug". When you click the link, >>>>>>>> debug info should show which urls.list file zim is reading and how it >>>>>>>> converted the link. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Jaap >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Mariano Draghi <[email protected]> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi Jason, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I suppose the space might be a problem in the first example. The >>>>>>>>> space encoded as "%20" in the URL part might be supported (I really >>>>>>>>> don't >>>>>>>>> know for sure), but I'm sure that you cannot define an interwiki >>>>>>>>> prefix >>>>>>>>> with spaces in between. At least not in Zim. Zim expects the format >>>>>>>>> of the >>>>>>>>> urls.list file to be "prefix url" (i.e., prefix, blank, url), so if >>>>>>>>> your >>>>>>>>> prefix has a blank in between, you're not using the expected syntax. >>>>>>>>> You >>>>>>>>> should change the first part to "CurveFitting" or "Curve_Fitting" or >>>>>>>>> something like that. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The Electronics example looks more or less right, except for the >>>>>>>>> extra forward-slash and the ":" in between. But if you have already >>>>>>>>> tried >>>>>>>>> the syntax I used, and it still didn't work, then I am really out of >>>>>>>>> ideas >>>>>>>>> :( >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> At first I thought that the "Electronics?" link would be invalid >>>>>>>>> (I never used such syntax), but I've just tested it in my computer >>>>>>>>> (using >>>>>>>>> "work?"), and it opens my Work notebook as you would expect. And the >>>>>>>>> other >>>>>>>>> example ("Electronics?Multimeter") looks perfectly normal. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Maybe the Electronics interwiki-prefix is not working because Zim >>>>>>>>> didn't like the space in the other prefix and aborted the parsing of >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> urls.list file (or disabled the feature completely) before reading the >>>>>>>>> Electronics line. I'm just guessing... but it might be a good idea to >>>>>>>>> get >>>>>>>>> the format right with a simpler urls.list file, with just one example >>>>>>>>> (maybe the Electronics one), so you are sure that any line with wrong >>>>>>>>> or >>>>>>>>> unexpected syntax is preventing the whole feature from working. Once >>>>>>>>> you >>>>>>>>> have one case working, you might try adding the other ones. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> One last thing: make sure you're completely closing Zim before >>>>>>>>> changing the urls.list file, and that it is not running in the >>>>>>>>> background >>>>>>>>> or systray. I'm not sure if Zim would detect any changes to that kind >>>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>>> configuration once it's running. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Sorry, I don't know what else to suggest. Maybe some other user >>>>>>>>> catches something we're missing. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>> Mariano >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> El vie., 23 de oct. de 2015 a la(s) 11:35 a. m., Jason McLafferty < >>>>>>>>> [email protected]> escribió: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hi Mariano, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thank you again for your quick reply! I really appreciate your >>>>>>>>>> detailed example. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> My urls.list is at the same location as yours (different username >>>>>>>>>> of course) following your advice in your first response. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I used a program to generate my urls.list file (my boss wrote it) >>>>>>>>>> that takes a .txt file of the contents of the Notebooks directory, >>>>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>>>> creates the urls.list file. Here is one example from my urls.list: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Curve Fitting zim+file:///c:/Users/Jason/Notebooks/Curve%20Fitting >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> (I added percent encoding for the spaces in the file URL because >>>>>>>>>> it looks like Windows needs this, from what I have read). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> To test notebook linking, I used a different notebook which has >>>>>>>>>> no space to be sure that wasn't the issue: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Electronics zim+file:///c:/Users/Jason/Notebook/Electronics >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I tried two styles of links, >>>>>>>>>> (1) Electronics? (which I assumed would open the entire notebook) >>>>>>>>>> (2) Electronics?Multimeter (which I assumed would open the >>>>>>>>>> Multimeter page in the Electronics notebook). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> In both cases, clicking the link produces no action. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> The only thing standing out to me right now is that my file URLs >>>>>>>>>> look a bit different than yours (I have three slashes after "file" >>>>>>>>>> and a >>>>>>>>>> ":" after c, whereas you have two slashes after "file" and no ":" >>>>>>>>>> after C), >>>>>>>>>> but I tried changing the format of mine to look like yours, but that >>>>>>>>>> did >>>>>>>>>> not affect the result. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Maybe you will see something I missed. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks again, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Jason >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Mariano Draghi < >>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Maybe there's a problem with the URL you are writing in the >>>>>>>>>>> urls.list file and/or the way you are using the interwiki link? >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Let's see a concrete example: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> - my username in Windows is "mariano", so the %APPDATA% folder >>>>>>>>>>> resolves to: >>>>>>>>>>> C:\Users\mariano\AppData\Roaming >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> - in there I have a urls.list file, in the following location: >>>>>>>>>>> C:\Users\mariano\AppData\Roaming\zim\data\zim\urls.list >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> - I have two Zim Notebooks, "Personal" and "Work", in the >>>>>>>>>>> following locations (these are the folders where each >>>>>>>>>>> "notebook.zim" file >>>>>>>>>>> is located): >>>>>>>>>>> C:\Users\mariano\Dropbox\Notebooks\Personal >>>>>>>>>>> C:\Users\mariano\Dropbox\Notebooks\Work >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> - In the urls.list file, I declared an "interwiki" prefix for >>>>>>>>>>> the Work notebook, with the following line: >>>>>>>>>>> work zim+file://C/Users/mariano/Dropbox/Notebooks/Work >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> - With that configuration, then if I open my Personal notebook >>>>>>>>>>> and insert a link like this: >>>>>>>>>>> work?Home:Projects >>>>>>>>>>> Then when I clic it a new instance of Zim is opened, with the >>>>>>>>>>> Work notebook, and the page Home->Projects. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Are you doing more or less something like this? >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>>>> Mariano >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> El vie., 23 de oct. de 2015 a la(s) 10:44 a. m., Jason >>>>>>>>>>> McLafferty <[email protected]> escribió: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Mariano, >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I greatly appreciate your quick reply, however I am sad to >>>>>>>>>>>> report that my links still do not work. Any other suggestions I >>>>>>>>>>>> might >>>>>>>>>>>> try? Thanks! >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Jason >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Mariano Draghi < >>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Jason, >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> The location of the XDG folders in Windows is a little bit >>>>>>>>>>>>> weird... you should put your urls.list in the folder >>>>>>>>>>>>> %APPDATA%/zim/data/zim >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> i.e., there should be an extra "zim" folder inside "data". >>>>>>>>>>>>> Weird, yes. But it works :) >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>>>>>> Mariano >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> El vie., 23 de oct. de 2015 a la(s) 5:43 a. m., Jason >>>>>>>>>>>>> McLafferty <[email protected]> escribió: >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am using Zim on Windows 7. I am trying to add my Zim >>>>>>>>>>>>>> notebooks to the urls.list file using the "zim+file://" method >>>>>>>>>>>>>> described >>>>>>>>>>>>>> here: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Config_Files.html >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I use ctrl+L to add a link to a notebook as >>>>>>>>>>>>>> name_of_notebook?, which creates a link, but when I click on it, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> nothing >>>>>>>>>>>>>> happens. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> One thing I noticed when I was working through setting this >>>>>>>>>>>>>> up, is that on my system, the directories APPDATA/zim/config and >>>>>>>>>>>>>> APPDATA/zim/data do not exist (I checked where APPDATA is on my >>>>>>>>>>>>>> computer >>>>>>>>>>>>>> with cmd by typing cd %appdata% and noting the new directory). >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not being >>>>>>>>>>>>>> sure if this is significant or not, I did some poking around in >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Explorer >>>>>>>>>>>>>> and found the following directory: C:\Users\Jason\.config\zim in >>>>>>>>>>>>>> which I >>>>>>>>>>>>>> find files like preferences.conf and style.conf. I tried >>>>>>>>>>>>>> putting my >>>>>>>>>>>>>> urls.list file, containing all my notebooks and formatted as >>>>>>>>>>>>>> name-space-zim+file:// in both of these directories >>>>>>>>>>>>>> (APPDATA/zim/data and >>>>>>>>>>>>>> C:\Users\Jason\.config\zim), but still I do not get a working >>>>>>>>>>>>>> link. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any suggestions to where I am going wrong? >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thank you, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jason >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >>>>>>>>>>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >>>>>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >>>>>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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