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[Christoph Held <kreisleriana@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Thanks for your response but this is not the problem I described. The targets do exist already, but elsewhere in the hierarchy. 

An example:

A
	B
		C
		
1
	2
		3

Imagine I am writing an entry 3 and in it I would like to link to the (already existing) entry C. 
What I do is 
Cmd-L
I will type “C" (okay, the name is really longer but you get the idea)
In the drop down list that appears I select “C” and accept

What I get is a functional link, yes, but instead of taking me to C in the above example, I find it takes me to

A
	B
		C
		
1
	2
		3
			A
				B
					C

Because the syntax that was automatically inserted looks like this:
A:B:C

Instead of 
:A:B:C
Note the missing leading colon, thus the link is pointing to A:B:C starting from the actual position of the link origin (entry 3) rather than following an absolute path starting from the highest level in the hierarchy.

I hope this is clearer now. 
Again, my question is if this is a known behaviour and what I can do to avoid this problem.

Thanks
Christoph

> On 9 May 2018, at 14:40, Guilherme Lino <guih.lino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> By default there are several things that create links automatically.
> 
> Writing " +something " a word starting with +
> Writing " SomeThing " camel case
> Writing " :something " a word starting with :
> 
> Even if you paste the text from somewhere else. Those words will be clickable. Will appear grey in the tree until you put some content.
> 
> Also pasting folders with .txt files inside one of Zim notebook folders will show in the links tree.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> On 9 May 2018 at 10:53, Christoph Held <kreisleriana@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kreisleriana@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> My main Zim Notebook is accumulating links that I have not set intentionally, to be more precise, I have created a link but it is pointing to a target that does not exist where the link is pointing thus a new but empty target appears in the Index pane in italic letters.
> The reason in a few cases seems to be that the link target is missing the leading colon. 
> 
> I usually create a link by typing Cmd-L (on a Mac) and type a few letters until the desired target appears in a drop down list, I select it, sometimes I adjust the descriptive text to make the rendered text look a bit more readable and accept my choice. 
> 
> 
> Why would Zim sometimes suggest incomplete paths thus implicitly creating unwanted new targets with the shortest relative path? I am pretty sure I did not create these link targets myself.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix or avoid this behaviour in the future?
> 
> Christoph
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