Relative autolink to doc root becomes absolute

[Jaap Karssenberg]

Hello,
Here a new question about external link :)

When I create a new link, I fill the dialog menu with "/test.png" and Zim autocomplete with root folder address like this "File://D:/test.png". When I change address of root folder the previous link is not updated.
Things are working great if I use only one computer, but I want to share my Zim wiki with the link I enter.

Can we disable autocompletion of links?

I'm working on win 8 ( I know... but it is needed for my researchs!)

Regards
Zacl

[LOVEJesus (juan+++)]

I agree with Zacl: the autocompletion of relative links is a great disadvantage because it makes the notebooks non-portable between machines.

In my case I create a relative link using "Ctrl+L" to, let's say, ../../../mypdfs/file.pdf
And Zim autocompletes to the full path when I save the link, let's say /some/absolute/path/myspdfs/file.pdf

I have found an awkward provisional solution: to edit the link in the source text
That is, to change
[[/some/absolute/path/myspdfs|my_link_text]]
into
[[../../../mypdfs/file.pdf|my_link_text]]

This solution works, however, if you could deactivate the automatic autocompletion of relative paths it would be perfect.
Blessings!

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Afraid I don't fully get the issue. When I use Ctrl-L and type a relative link it is not auto-completed at all.

Can you explain step by step what is happening ?

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