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["Dr. Andreas Wehler" <awehler@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Pl.

Thanks a lot for your hint about hidden directories starting with "." or 
"_".
It works. Very good! Also, all subdirectories and contents, even with 
ordinary
names, are ignored also, as in:

mkdir -p             .HideMe/InvisiblePage
echo "Hello world" > .HideMe/InvisiblePage.txt
echo "Year 2016  " > .HideMe/InvisiblePage/SomeAttachment.asc

Nevertheless you may link files in those directories as usual, just
adjust the path accordingly. I didn't know this possibility, which solves
everything needed. This gives the possibility to embed a whole tree of
any sort within zim.

This should also find its way into the zim help pages, assuming it is
a stable intentionally designed feature.


Thank you!

Best regards and happy new year,

     Andreas



On 12/23/2015 05:20 PM, Pl wrote:
>      Hi Andreas,
>      I think this feature may be useful. But, IMHO, it's not very
> convenient to add '.zimignore' file to each directory you want to
> ignore. Also there will be confusion if you create a new subpage with
> the same name as the directory (the subpage will try to use it for
> subsubpages). I think it may be easier to create a directory with a
> special name which will be ignored by zim and put attachments there.
>      For example, as I know zim currently ignores directories which
> starts with '.' or '_' (they are considered as hidden) and doesn't allow
> to create such pages. If there is no special meaning in ignoring them it
> may be possible to use a directory with a name like '_attachments' or
> '.attachments' as a storage for files/dirs to be ignored.
>
> Regards, Pl
>
> On 11.12.2015 10:59, Wehler Andreas wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > What about attaching a subtree within a zim book which is ignored by
> > zim, say, not handled as pages?