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From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: Relative paths in file: links are expanded	[6.36trans]
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:29:21 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <87r5j712y7.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> (David Maus's message of "Tue, 13
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To: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
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David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de> writes:

> Matt Lundin wrote:
>>Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz> writes:
>
>>> If I create a link with C-c C-l and give it a relative "file:" link, a
>>> link is created with an absolute path.  For example, C-c C-l
>>> file:../foo.org <RET> foo puts
>>> [[file:~/path/to/working-directory/foo.org][foo]] in the buffer.  I was
>>> expecting [[file:../foo.org][foo]].
>
>>That is the default behavior. You can change it by setting
>>org-link-file-path-type to relative.
>
> And in addition there was a fix pushed to repo.or.cz

Carsten is fast!! I turns out I tested the behavior with the applied
patch installed (having just updated org-mode). Sorry for the noise.

Best,
Matt