[Emacs-orgmode] Org-mode 4.45

2006-08-23 Thread Carsten Dominik

Hi,

I have released org-mode 4.45.  Unfortunately, this version is only 
available on the web.  It is not in Emacs CVS because I have again been 
asked to not add any new features there until the Emacs 22 release.  I 
know we have been there in the past - we will see how this goes this 
time around.


Anyway, the new release is only at

http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org

Here are the changes.

Version 4.45
   - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for the idea.
 If you have a long checkbox list, or a hierarchy of them,
 you can now automatically display information about what
 fraction of these items have been checked.  For details,
 see section 5.5 of the manual for details.

 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/org.html#Checkboxes

   - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.

   - Bux fixes.


Enjoy

- Carsten



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[Emacs-orgmode] Emacs-Calendar export to iCal/vcal

2006-08-23 Thread Philipp Raschdorff

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Hi,

I'm using emacs +org-mode mainly for organizing todos and for  
brainstorming in project planing and organizing tasks etc. So it's  
mainly a (very powerfull) outliner.


I playes arround with the DUE & DEADLINE features and realized that  
there is one thing missing for me:


synchronizing emacs-todos / appointments to iCal (Mac OS X 10.4)

To make it easier: I really would like to have it one way: Adding  
data from emacs to an iCal-file.


I'm using my mobile phone to synchronize with my calendar (iCal) and  
it would be nice to have EMacs copying data to iCal and then have  
this data on my mobile phone after the next sync.


What do you think? Are you using the emacs-calendar-functions and how  
to you synchronize to other applications?


Any suggestions would be great.

Best regards from Berlin / Germany

Phil
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Re: [Emacs-orgmode] Emacs-Calendar export to iCal/vcal

2006-08-23 Thread Carsten Dominik


Hi Phillip,

have you read this?

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/org.html#iCalendar-export

If yes, can you be more specific about what you are missing?

- Carsten

On Aug 23, 2006, at 22:46, Philipp Raschdorff wrote:


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Hi,

I'm using emacs +org-mode mainly for organizing todos and for 
brainstorming in project planing and organizing tasks etc. So it's 
mainly a (very powerfull) outliner.


I playes arround with the DUE & DEADLINE features and realized that 
there is one thing missing for me:


synchronizing emacs-todos / appointments to iCal (Mac OS X 10.4)

To make it easier: I really would like to have it one way: Adding data 
from emacs to an iCal-file.


I'm using my mobile phone to synchronize with my calendar (iCal) and 
it would be nice to have EMacs copying data to iCal and then have this 
data on my mobile phone after the next sync.


What do you think? Are you using the emacs-calendar-functions and how 
to you synchronize to other applications?


Any suggestions would be great.

Best regards from Berlin / Germany

Phil
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Re: [Emacs-orgmode] Emacs-Calendar export to iCal/vcal

2006-08-23 Thread Piotr Zielinski

Hi Phil,

Not directly relevant, but here's what I use to synchronize the
calendar information in the other direction: from iCalendar calendars
to emacs org-mode.  The whole setup is rather hacky and complicated (I
didn't really have time to make it more presentable) but it might be
still useful to some.

I have all my org-files in ~/myfiles/org/.  File calendars.txt,
contains URLs of remote calendars I'd like to include in my
org-agenda.  The first word in each line is the name of the local file
to which the remote calendar will periodically be downloaded:

-- calendars.txt STARTS --
camtalks http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/ics/5245
msresearchtalks http://www.srcf.ucam.org/users/pz215/msr.ics
-- calendars.txt ENDS --

Once a day I execute the following script (from cron):

-- update-calendars STARTS --
#!/bin/bash

orgdir=~/myfiles/org
diary=$orgdir/calendars.diary
emacs=$orgdir/local-calendars.el


$diary

echo "(setq local-calendars '(" > $emacs

cat $orgdir/calendars.txt | \
{
   while read name url ; do
wget -N -O $orgdir/$name.ics $url
echo "#include \"$orgdir/$name.diary\"" >> $diary
echo "\"$name\" " >> $emacs
   done
}

echo "))" >> $emacs
-- update-calendars ENDS --

It downloads all the remote calendars described in "calendars.txt" and
creates two new files.  First, "calendars.diary", which is an emacs
diary meta-file that just includes the proper calendar files.

-- calendars.diary STARTS --
#include "/home/pz215/myfiles/org/camtalks.diary"
#include "/home/pz215/myfiles/org/msresearchtalks.diary"
-- calendars.diary ENDS --

The second file created by "update-calendars" is "local-calendars.el",
an elisp file that contains a list of calendars:

-- local-calendars.el STARTS --
(setq local-calendars '(
"camtalks"
"msresearchtalks"
))
-- local-calendars.el ENDS --

What remains is to convert the downloaded icalendar files into the
diary files included by "calendars.diary".  To this end, I have the
following lines in my ".emacs":

-- .emacs SNIPPET STARTS --
(require 'calendar)
(european-calendar)
(load "~/myfiles/org/local-calendars.el")
(dolist (name local-calendars)
 (let ((ical (concat "/home/pz215/myfiles/org/" name ".ics"))
(diary (concat "/home/pz215/myfiles/org/" name ".diary")))
   (when (file-newer-than-file-p ical diary)
 (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect diary)
(kill-region (point-min) (point-max))
(icalendar-import-file ical diary)
-- .emacs SNIPPET ENDS --

That's it.  If you want emacs to notify you about your appointments,
take a look at the function "appt-activate" in the appt library.  If
you use a desktop environment that uses the standard notification
deamon (e.g., GNOME), you can set up the appt library to use it.  Take
a look at the "send-notify" command from the "libnotify-bin" package
(Debian/Ubuntu).

Thanks,
Piotr


On 23/08/06, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi Phillip,

have you read this?

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/org.html#iCalendar-export

If yes, can you be more specific about what you are missing?

- Carsten

On Aug 23, 2006, at 22:46, Philipp Raschdorff wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm using emacs +org-mode mainly for organizing todos and for
> brainstorming in project planing and organizing tasks etc. So it's
> mainly a (very powerfull) outliner.
>
> I playes arround with the DUE & DEADLINE features and realized that
> there is one thing missing for me:
>
> synchronizing emacs-todos / appointments to iCal (Mac OS X 10.4)
>
> To make it easier: I really would like to have it one way: Adding data
> from emacs to an iCal-file.
>
> I'm using my mobile phone to synchronize with my calendar (iCal) and
> it would be nice to have EMacs copying data to iCal and then have this
> data on my mobile phone after the next sync.
>
> What do you think? Are you using the emacs-calendar-functions and how
> to you synchronize to other applications?
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
>
> Best regards from Berlin / Germany
>
> Phil
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Re: [Emacs-orgmode] Emacs-Calendar export to iCal/vcal

2006-08-23 Thread Pete Phillips
Hi Philipp

> "Philipp" == Philipp Raschdorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Philipp> realized that there is one thing missing for me:
Philipp> synchronizing emacs-todos / appointments to iCal (Mac OS X
Philipp> 10.4)

Philipp> To make it easier: I really would like to have it one way:
Philipp> Adding data from emacs to an iCal-file.

Philipp> What do you think? Are you using the
Philipp> emacs-calendar-functions and how to you synchronize to
Philipp> other applications?

It just so happens that I have been playing around with this myself in
the last few days.

I'm not sure whether you want to sync the org-mode dated items, or items
from the emacs diary/calendar files - your last sentence tends to
suggest the latter, so...

I needed to be able to export my emacs diary file to an icalendar file
(which I assume Mac iCal supports ?) so that I could copy it to our
Intranet (our lab staff can then point SunBird or Evolution to the file
on the Intranet and see my appointments).

Now I use CVS emacs, which comes with icalendar.el - if you can't find
this on your system, you can google for it.  You need this for the ical
export function.

The basic command line version is this:

/usr/local/emacs-cvs/bin/emacs -batch  --eval "(icalendar-export-file 
\"/home/pete/diary\"  \"/home/pete/diary.ics\")" 

The 'diary' file is the file you edit in emacs (you may call it
something else of course) and the 'diary.ics' file is the exported
icalendar file.

A word of warning - I'd advise setting up a shellscript to do all the
work for you, as you need to make sure you remove the diary.ics file
first, otherwise it appends the dates to it each time you run it. This
means that you will end up with multiple entries for the same
appointment (in some applications which aren't fussy about the files
they slurp in), or it just won't import in others - Google calendar
being one. I couldn't understand how it worked once, and then Google
Calendar just kept complaining and aborting.  It was only when I saw the
ics file getting bigger each time that it dawned on me ... :-(

So, to enable you to read it in iCal (I am a Mac ignoramus - excuse me
here) you will either need to be able to copy it to the Mac partition
from your GNU Linux/UNIX partition, or to copy the file to a web server
which you can access from your Mac iCal.

Making another assumption, I assume you can point iCal to a disk file to
import, or to add another calendar to your setup ?  With sunbird and
evolution, you can have multiple calendars, and toggle them on and off.

My shell script is appended. Hope this helps.

Now of course, it could be that you are using emacs under some M$
product or Mac O/S, in which case the shellscript itself will only be of
use to you in giving you an idea how to do what you need. I have no idea
whether you can do similar things under thos O/Ss.

Note - my application only pulls out appointments I have tagged
with :SMTL:, so my personal appointments stay private.  This is an added
level of complexity - you can delete the appropriate lines.

Final point - if I have misunderstood, and you need to get dated items
from your org-mode file, you will need to use something like this:

  /usr/local/emacs-cvs/bin/emacs  -batch  --eval 
"(org-export-icalendar-combine-agenda-files)"

Or one of the other org-mode icalendar export functions.  I managed to
get this to work once, but it doesn't create the file ~/org.ics for me
anymore. I'm sure Carsten will be able to sort this for you anyway, if
this is what you need.

All the best,
Pete

---sync-icalendar-to-apache.sh--
#!/bin/sh

#
# FUNCTION: grab all my SMTL appointments from my emacs diary file, #
# export to ical, then copy to SMTL Intranet server.#
#


### IMPORTANT###
#
# This script needs to be run *after* running ssh-add at login, so that #
# the ssh transfers will occur without human intervention.  #
#

###
# I use my ~/.xinitrc to run ssh-add and then run an 'at' job to schedule #
# it to run at 3:30 every morning:#
# #
#xterm -bg red -e ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa   #
#echo /home/pete/bin/sync-icalendar-to-apache.sh | at 3:30#
# #
# 1 -  takes my ~/diary file (maintained in emacs)#
# 2 - greps out the SMTL only appointments into another emacs diary file, #
# 3 - then uses the icalendar export funct

Re: [Emacs-orgmode] Emacs-Calendar export to iCal/vcal

2006-08-23 Thread Philipp Raschdorff
Carsten, Piotr and Pete,thanks for the replies so far - great to hear that it's possible to do plain ascii editing and still have the same data ready for syncing. I tried to play with the ideas you mentioned, but I found out that I have no .ics-files in ~/Library/Calendars. I knew I had my iCal files stored there in the past (OS X 10.3.x). Currently I'm using OS X 10.4.7 and it seems that some data is stored in~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sourcesfor each calendar in iCal, there seems to be a directory like:E2A32ED1-CBD0-4A13-B397-3742B1680F17.calendarwhich has 3 files in it:corestorage.icsIndexInfo.plistI was able to export my org-mode-data to an .ics file, but it seems that iCal imports data from that file and then creates a new file under the path given before (~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources).Question1: How can I force iCal to read and write to the .ics-file I've exported from org-mode?Question2: Why isn't there a ~/Library/Calendars Folder?Best regards from berlinphil

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[Emacs-orgmode] Re: Org-mode 'organized' visibility

2006-08-23 Thread Carsten Dominik

Hi Caspar,

On Aug 23, 2006, at 15:13, Casper Gripenberg wrote:


Hi..is it possible to not make S-TAB collapse
empty spaces between items. If I have a long
list of items I like to organize them into
groups..and then when I collapse the whole
tree I'd like my groupings it to be visible like this:

* Tasks...

* Something important...
* Something related to above...

* Something else not related...
* Again related...
* Related...

* Not related...

Instead of the current way:

* Tasks...
* Something important...
* Something related to above...
* Something else not related...
* Again related...
* Related...
* Not related...

..which doesn't allow me to see the groupings
between the tasks I have. I just think grouping provides
much quicker visual feedback of the tasks/headlines and
their relations to each other.

To implement the groupings you might have a rule that
more than two empty lines between two headings will
then activate 'grouping'.

So if I have:

* Important

  Blah blah

* Related

  Blah blah


* Not related

This would collapse into:

* Important...
* Related...

* Not related...

Or something along those lines..is that possible to
do somehow?

Thanks..

Regards,
  Casper


This is something outside the direct control of Org-mode, it is 
entirely done by outline-mode.  Looking at outline.el, I see two 
possibilities to address this:


1.  For this first one, you need a current version of Emacs (must be 
CVS, Emacs 21 does not have this).  Outline has an undocumented feature 
which makes it possible to relate an empty line before a heading to the 
heading.  So when the heading is shown, the empty line is shows along 
with it.  Similarly, a subtree is then defined to be before that empty 
line.  As I said, this is an undocumented feature in so far as the 
corresponding variable is not customizable.  However, you can still set 
it in the old way using


(setq outline-blank-line t)

If you do it in this way, there will be no difference between a single 
or a double empty line.  An empty line before a heading will create an 
empty line in the CONTENT and CHILDREN views of org-cycle.


2. If we insist on your convention on using two line to mark a 
separation (we should, because it is the better convention), you would 
have to redefine a function in outline.  This is not clean, but who 
gives a s*** :-)  And I like this convention better, because I very 
often want to have an empty line above a headline without it meaning a 
separation.


The function to modify is outline-show-heading, and it must be modified 
after outline.el has been loaded.  If you are only using outline in 
connection with Org-mode, here is a way to do this:


(add-hook 'org-load-hook
  (lambda ()
(defun outline-show-heading ()
  "Show the current heading and move to its end."
  (outline-flag-region
   (- (point)
  (cond
   ((bobp) 0)
   ((equal (buffer-substring
(max (point-min) (- (point) 3))  (point))
   "\n\n\n")
2)
   (t 1)))
   (progn (outline-end-of-heading) (point))
   nil

If you want this for other uses of outline as well, you could use 
`eval-after-load' or defadvice to achieve this change.


There is a small possibility that doing either of these things might 
break something else in org-mode.  I don't think so, but maybe I am not 
overseeing it fully.  If you see something strange, let me know.


Hope this helps.

- Carsten



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Re: [Emacs-orgmode] Emacs-Calendar export to iCal/vcal

2006-08-23 Thread Carsten Dominik


On Aug 24, 2006, at 0:45, Philipp Raschdorff wrote:


Carsten, Piotr and Pete,

thanks for the replies so far - great to hear that it's possible to do 
plain ascii editing and still have the same data ready for syncing. 


I tried to play with the ideas you mentioned, but I found out that I 
have no .ics-files in ~/Library/Calendars. I knew I had my iCal files 
stored there in the past (OS X 10.3.x). Currently I'm using OS X 
10.4.7 and it seems that some data is stored in


~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources

for each calendar in iCal, there seems to be a directory like:
E2A32ED1-CBD0-4A13-B397-3742B1680F17.calendar



Yes, you are right, this seems to be the new convention in MacOSX.

Unfortunately, I don't have 10.4 and I am not going to get it soon, so 
I will probably not be driven to fix this soon either  :-(



- Carsten


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