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[Christoph Held <kreisleriana@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoever made the brew install formula available for zim gets my heartfelt thanks. 

Installing Zim on the Mac is now as simple as:

brew install zim

(Obviously home-brew needs to be functional, which is easy enough, see https://brew.sh <https://brew.sh/>)

Starting Zim can be done by simply calling it from wherever brew installed (you can find out by typing ‘which zim’ in the Terminal, my case 
/usr/local/bin/zim

For convenience, adding the Cellar folder that brew uses to Launchbar and indexing it makes this process even faster (if you happen to be using Launchbar, a quick launcher amongst other things).

Perhaps this information should be added to the installation page of the Zim Wiki as the most straightforward way to get zim up and running on the Mac. In its current state, the information on the webpage is not wrong but might discourage less technically minded people without a real reason. 

Again, thanks to the creator of the script and sorry if this information has already been spread (the request to change the description on the webpage still stands, though)

Christoph


> On 9 May 2018, at 19:42, Christoph Held <kreisleriana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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>> 
>> Guilherme Lino
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