org: External links
4.3 External links
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Org supports links to files, websites, Usenet and email messages, BBDB
database entries and links to both IRC conversations and their logs.
External links are URL-like locators. They start with a short
identifying string followed by a colon. There can be no space after the
colon. The following list shows examples for each link type.
http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik on the web
doi:10.1000/182 DOI for an electronic resource
file:/home/dominik/images/jupiter.jpg file, absolute path
/home/dominik/images/jupiter.jpg same as above
file:papers/last.pdf file, relative path
./papers/last.pdf same as above
file:/myself@some.where:papers/last.pdf file, path on remote machine
/myself@some.where:papers/last.pdf same as above
file:sometextfile::NNN file, jump to line number
file:projects.org another Org file
file:projects.org::some words text search in Org file(1)
file:projects.org::*task title heading search in Org file
file+sys:/path/to/file open via OS, like double-click
file+emacs:/path/to/file force opening by Emacs
docview:papers/last.pdf::NNN open in doc-view mode at page
id:B7423F4D-2E8A-471B-8810-C40F074717E9 Link to heading by ID
news:comp.emacs Usenet link
mailto:adent@galaxy.net Mail link
mhe:folder MH-E folder link
mhe:folder#id MH-E message link
rmail:folder RMAIL folder link
rmail:folder#id RMAIL message link
gnus:group Gnus group link
gnus:group#id Gnus article link
bbdb:R.*Stallman BBDB link (with regexp)
irc:/irc.com/#emacs/bob IRC link
info:org#External links Info node link
shell:ls *.org A shell command
elisp:org-agenda Interactive Elisp command
elisp:(find-file-other-frame "Elisp.org") Elisp form to evaluate
On top of these built-in link types, some are available through the
‘contrib/’ directory (
Installation). For example, these links
to VM or Wanderlust messages are available when you load the
corresponding libraries from the ‘contrib/’ directory:
vm:folder VM folder link
vm:folder#id VM message link
vm://myself@some.where.org/folder#id VM on remote machine
vm-imap:account:folder VM IMAP folder link
vm-imap:account:folder#id VM IMAP message link
wl:folder WANDERLUST folder link
wl:folder#id WANDERLUST message link
For customizing Org to add new link types Adding hyperlink
types.
A link should be enclosed in double brackets and may contain a
descriptive text to be displayed instead of the URL (Link
format), for example:
[[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][GNU Emacs]]
If the description is a file name or URL that points to an image, HTML
export (HTML export) will inline the image as a clickable
button. If there is no description at all and the link points to an
image, that image will be inlined into the exported HTML file.
Org also finds external links in the normal text and activates them
as links. If spaces must be part of the link (for example in
‘bbdb:Richard Stallman’), or if you need to remove ambiguities about the
end of the link, enclose them in square brackets.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) The actual behavior of the search will depend on the value of the
option ‘org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline’. If its value is
‘nil’, then a fuzzy text search will be done. If it is t, then only the
exact headline will be matched. If the value is ‘'query-to-create’,
then an exact headline will be searched; if it is not found, then the
user will be queried to create it.
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