open relative path with xdg-open

[esquires]

From the documentation here I can form links using absolute paths to images to be opened with xdg-open but I can't seem to figure out the syntax for opening files relative to the current file. Is that possible?

I'd like to do something like this but neither seem to work:

{file:./mypicture.png}[mypicture]
{file:///.mypicture.png}[mypicture]

Can you point me to the right syntax for doing relative paths so that they open in an external program? It seems that the @path syntax works fine (e.g. for text files): {@ myfile.txt}[myfile]

[mrossinek]

This is (unforunately) not (officially) supported by the file URI scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme

[esquires]

Thanks for the reply. Is there any interest in adding the option of opening a relative path? I imagine a relative path could be converted into an absolute path relative to the norg file path similar to the @path specification which could then be used to open a file with xdg-open using the file uri scheme

[mrossinek]

Now that we are aware of this, we can plan something, yes. I'm afraid there are higher priority issues right now, though. I will open an issue from this discussion to keep track of this 👍