Re: [O] Bug: unable to open link unless `...from-string' [7.7 (release_7.7.292.g0d4e8.dirty)]

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Sep 16 2011, David Maus <dmaus-AT-ictsoc.de> wrote:

> How did you enter the link into the Org file?
>
> The original link
>
> [[message://address@hidden
>
> Is unescaped, but Org treats links as always percent-escaped. What
> happens is that "%da" is treated as a percent escaped character and
> unescaped after read from buffer.
>
> The link should read:
>
> message://address@hidden

Yeah, I finally figured that out.

> This is a troublesome situation
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-09/msg00257.html
>
> But up to know I didn't find a solution for it.

Hmm, well, ... the link started out as a a wanderlust link of a form
more like this:

  [[wl:/message-id:"<address@hidden>"/%%5BGmail%5D/address@hidden

_That_ link used to work.  I transformed links like that by
search/replace into:

  [[message://address@hidden

So maybe it's my fault?

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