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

[David Maus]

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

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