Properly link to "internal" publications #66
Description
Linking to another page/post from the blog currently exports a file:// path.
Sample:
[[/permalink-to-another-blog-post]]
renders:
file:///permalink-to-another-blog-post
This is not what the users expect, they want a link to another post/page from
their own blog. Definitely a link which is browsable both locally (testing) and
remotely (without having to mention the full server url).
Indeed, manually removing file:// from the published post expectedly renders
a browsable link both locally and remotely.
The issue is within org-mode. If we don't write something sensible, link wise,
org-mode will, by default, refuse to export due to broken links. If we
deactivate the custom about broken link, the link disappears altogether when
the post is published/exported...
So that's not good.
Digging a bit further, aside modifying code, i think we cannot circumvent
this... But, we might be able to extend org-mode's hyperlink policy [1]
So I imagine something like adding a local or raw prefix to the link would
do. For example, the link could become (if I understood the doc right):
[[local:/permalink-to-another-blog-post]]
[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-Hyperlink-Types.html#Adding-Hyperlink-Types
@robertposthill might be interested as I started digging this when seeing his
question on stackexchange [2]. I started replying, but thought, first let's
check... Then, as it did not work ¯_(ツ)_/¯, started investigating [2]
[2] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/58628/org2jekyll-and-links