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fix(links): Resolve bare file: paths from org file - #1198
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A file: link without a ./ prefix, like the ones Emacs writes, opened relative to the working directory instead of the directory of the org file. Org mode treats such a path as relative to the file that holds the link. Bare paths after file: now resolve like ./ paths. Links without the file: prefix are unchanged, since a bare link there is a headline search. The shared path helper keeps returning nothing for bare paths, because other callers rely on that. AI-assisted: Claude Code
kristijanhusak
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Oct 12, 2026
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file:links written the way the Org manual writes them resolve against the wrong directory. Currently[[file:foo.org]]opensfoo.orgrelative to Neovim's working directory instead of the org file's directory. But the Org manual treatsfile:papers/last.pdfand./papers/last.pdfas the same link.get_file_pathpasses a bare path on unchanged, so Vim resolves it against the working directory. That is right for links withoutfile:, where a bare word is a headline search, butfile:links go through the same code.Bare
file:paths now get a./prefix before they resolve, as:tanglepaths already do.