Re: [Orgmode] file link format question - How to format link when square brackets [ ] are already in filename?

[Erwin Panen]

Hi David,

Thanks for replying;
I don't understand what you mean. I was not aware off url-encoding, but found help here: http://www.eskimo.com/~bloo/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm
So far so good.
The way I interpret this is that I can 'replace' [square brackets] in orgmode  with %5Bsquare brackets%5D
However when I try this, org does not 'convert' to a link...? What am I missing?

Perhaps for clarification:
The link I used in my example may be confusing, it is a long UNC path to a file on a network server that has somewhere [32] in it's name.
It's the [32] that seems to confuse org's linking.
I also noticed when hovering over [32] that org seems to recognize this as a footnote??

Thanks,

Erwin

David Maus wrote:

At Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:50:31 +0100,
Erwin Panen wrote:
  

Hi everyone,

I guess this is a minor question, but it has puzzled me already more 
than once.
My example: The below example is normally all on one line.
---------------Begin code----------------------------------------------
** Action: started to play video 
[[\\Dcerouter\public\videos\STORY_Station (sdb1)-CORE [32]\Les Rivières 
Pourpres 720x304\The Crimson Rivers.mkv][The Crimson Rivers.mkv]]
---------------End code------------------------------------------------

The problem is that the file location already contains a number between 
square brackets [32] which renders Org to treat the link in an 
unsuspected way.

Is there any way to circumvent this behaviour e.g. by inserting special 
characters to avoid Org to look inbetween the special characters?
    

You can url-encode the square brackets with %5B ("[") and %5D ("]") --
orgmode does this when calling `org-store-link' (C-c l) for a place
that contains square brackets and opens the links fine.

HTH
 -- David