Hi
Thanks for your response but this is not the problem I described. The targets
do exist already, but elsewhere in the hierarchy.
An example:
A
B
C
1
2
3
Imagine I am writing an entry 3 and in it I would like to link to the (already
existing) entry C.
What I do is
Cmd-L
I will type “C" (okay, the name is really longer but you get the idea)
In the drop down list that appears I select “C” and accept
What I get is a functional link, yes, but instead of taking me to C in the
above example, I find it takes me to
A
B
C
1
2
3
A
B
C
Because the syntax that was automatically inserted looks like this:
A:B:C
Instead of
:A:B:C
Note the missing leading colon, thus the link is pointing to A:B:C starting
from the actual position of the link origin (entry 3) rather than following an
absolute path starting from the highest level in the hierarchy.
I hope this is clearer now.
Again, my question is if this is a known behaviour and what I can do to avoid
this problem.
Thanks
Christoph
> On 9 May 2018, at 14:40, Guilherme Lino <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> By default there are several things that create links automatically.
>
> Writing " +something " a word starting with +
> Writing " SomeThing " camel case
> Writing " :something " a word starting with :
>
> Even if you paste the text from somewhere else. Those words will be
> clickable. Will appear grey in the tree until you put some content.
>
> Also pasting folders with .txt files inside one of Zim notebook folders will
> show in the links tree.
>
> Regards,
>
> On 9 May 2018 at 10:53, Christoph Held <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> My main Zim Notebook is accumulating links that I have not set intentionally,
> to be more precise, I have created a link but it is pointing to a target that
> does not exist where the link is pointing thus a new but empty target appears
> in the Index pane in italic letters.
> The reason in a few cases seems to be that the link target is missing the
> leading colon.
>
> I usually create a link by typing Cmd-L (on a Mac) and type a few letters
> until the desired target appears in a drop down list, I select it, sometimes
> I adjust the descriptive text to make the rendered text look a bit more
> readable and accept my choice.
>
>
> Why would Zim sometimes suggest incomplete paths thus implicitly creating
> unwanted new targets with the shortest relative path? I am pretty sure I did
> not create these link targets myself.
>
> Any ideas how to fix or avoid this behaviour in the future?
>
> Christoph
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