Create a file link in org-mode that accepts spaces in the text

Question

My org file looks something like this:

* Space Radiation
** Gamma Ray Info 
   - file://Library\March 2015\Gamma Ray Radiation Fundamentals.pdf
   - some notes

However the title has spaces so the link stops at the first space. As I have literally thousands of collected papers and books that spaces in the name, adding %20 or even '+' to fill the space is a major task and also makes the linked document title difficult to read especially if you have several lines of such links.

Is there a way to work around this without having to change all the file names to convert or delete the spaces in the file name?

Answer 1

If you put the links in a file using org-mode (e.g. ending in .org), you can create links like this by:

[[file:d:/path/to/filename with spaces]]

I'm assuming you are on Windows, and this works for on Windows 8, Emacs 24.4.1.