0001-clipoboard-preferred-to-copy-absolute-link.txt

From 0f61a104560ae939aefd96f73632f6728f4dcf7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Rex=20Tsai=20=28=E8=94=A1=E5=BF=97=E5=B1=95=29?=
 <rex.cc.tsai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 19:24:57 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] clipoboard: preferred to copy absolute link.

---
 zim/gui/clipboard.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/zim/gui/clipboard.py b/zim/gui/clipboard.py
index 3bd282a..ca16450 100644
--- a/zim/gui/clipboard.py
+++ b/zim/gui/clipboard.py
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ def _link_tree(links, notebook, path):
 			if type == 'page':
 				target = Path(Path.makeValidPageName(link)) # Assume links are always absolute
 				href = notebook.pages.create_link(path, target)
-				link = href.to_wiki_link()
+				# preferred to copy absolute link
+				# link = href.to_wiki_link()
 			elif type == 'file':
 				file = File(link) # Assume links are always URIs
 				link = notebook.relative_filepath(file, path) or file.uri
-- 
2.7.4

0002-notebook-prefer-to-keep-absolute-links-when-renamed-pa.txt

From 2d5c4a3b23ec5990ea54dc5f571e7de98047c982 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Rex=20Tsai=20=28=E8=94=A1=E5=BF=97=E5=B1=95=29?=
 <rex.cc.tsai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:46:20 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] notebook: prefer to keep absolute links when renamed
 pages.

---
 zim/notebook/notebook.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/zim/notebook/notebook.py b/zim/notebook/notebook.py
index 4e6c6e2..5fbb05d 100644
--- a/zim/notebook/notebook.py
+++ b/zim/notebook/notebook.py
@@ -769,6 +769,8 @@ class Notebook(ConnectorMixin, SignalEmitter):
 		else:
 			newhref = self.pages.create_link(source, target)
 
+		# prefer to keep absolute links
+		newhref = HRef(HREF_REL_ABSOLUTE, target.name)
 		text = newhref.to_wiki_link()
 		if elt.gettext() == elt.get('href'):
 			elt[:] = [text]
-- 
2.7.4