Wikilinks to absolute files

[mgroth0]

Is it possible? I am trying and it is not working.

[clutcher]

@mgroth0 In theory, yes, but I decided to not implement it. I think that such references would not work on others machines. Win vs Unix for some outside project files or different project initial folder for project files.

What is your uses case for absolue path?

[mgroth0]

You're right. Absolute file paths links would not work, and would likely be bad to include, in shared code. Especially for portable shared software development projects .

But I have some code that I will likely never share, and likely never have on a different machine. I already reference files such as configuration or data files at times. This would just be a nice convenience.

For example, since I work in research much of my code is pointing to data files on differnet folders in my machine. The data files aren't always located inside my project fodlers, because the data folders can be so large and mulitple projects in different project folders on the machine can point to the same data.

Having a nice way to link to and open those files in Finder or even just in IntelliJ would be really convenient.

[clutcher]

@mgroth0 Why not to still use relative path? You can use ../ to get out of project dir. In my case - I put all the pojects and projects data under ~/projects. So from ~/projects/name/Process.java you can reference ~/projects/data/input.txt as [[../../data/input.txt]].

[mgroth0]

Interesting idea. But wouldn't that break if the .java file moved? Also, it would not be easy to copy and paste that path anywhere or move the link anywhere else. An absolute path is like a constant ID, which I would usually prefer.

[mgroth0]

For example, it would not be convenient to open up a quick terminal and call cat ../../data/input.txt. I would have to cd to the correct path first.

[clutcher]

Hmm... Ok, I'll think about that.

[clutcher]

@mgroth0 Would add that into next release.

[clutcher]

Released