Absolute file paths using ~

[fxkrait]

In #128 it was posted that to get absolute file paths, to do (setq-default org-download-abbreviate-filename-function 'expand-file-name)

My org-download-image-dir is using ~ for the absolute path:

• (setq-default org-download-image-dir "~/Documents/org/.images")

Yet when I org-download-screenshot an image, the absolute path does not start with ~

• [[file:/home/myUser/Documents/org/.images/dir/2021-08-26_09-59-34_screenshot.png]]

I would like to also have the attached images use ~, so that I can view the absolute path images on different systems where I might not have the same user name.

• [[file:~/Documents/org/.images/dir/2021-08-26_09-59-34_screenshot.png]]

[fxkrait]

Just an update: I ended up incorporating relative paths into my workflow, so you can close this issue if it doesn't seem necessary to add a ~ option to absolute paths.
The reason for the issue, was that I was trying to find a way I can copy the attached images around to different org documents. Emacs copies the raw file links with relative paths, which break if org documents are in different directories, so that's why I was looking into absolute file paths of the images.

However, now I'll just use relative file paths (./.images/), and use ox-clip (ox-clip-image-to-clipboard), which lets me copy the attached image from one document into the clipboard, where I can then do a org-download-screenshot again and paste it into a new document (albeit now with a duplicate image).

• One example of the need to copy images to new org documents, would be when making anki cards in a separate file and using anki-editor.

[jingminglang]

(setq-default org-download-abbreviate-filename-function 'concat) works for me