[O] [PATCH] org-odt: Emit OD compatible date string in the default case
From 263ede1b312bb9330281e179b6d767c07cfbf12f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:27:23 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] org-odt: Emit OD compatible date string in the default case * contrib/lisp/org-odt.el (org-odt-format-date): New (org-odt-update-meta-file): Use the above routine Knocks off an error reported by http://tools.services.openoffice.org/odfvalidator/ --- contrib/lisp/org-odt.el | 28 +++- 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-odt.el b/contrib/lisp/org-odt.el index bab7590..fbbf638 100644 --- a/contrib/lisp/org-odt.el +++ b/contrib/lisp/org-odt.el @@ -1351,10 +1351,36 @@ MAY-INLINE-P allows inlining it as an image. (message Created %s target) (set-buffer (find-file-noselect target t))) +(defun org-odt-format-date (date) + (let ((warning-msg +OpenDocument files require that dates be in ISO-8601 format. Please review your DATE options for compatibility.)) +;; If the user is not careful with the date specification, an +;; invalid meta.xml will be emitted. + +;; For now honor user's diktat and let him off with a warning +;; message. This is OK as LibreOffice (and possibly other +;; apps) doesn't deem this deviation as critical and continue +;; to load the file. + +;; FIXME: Surely there a better way to handle this. Revisit this +;; later. +(cond + ((and date (string-match % date)) + ;; Honor user's diktat. See comments above + (org-lparse-warn warning-msg) + (format-time-string date)) + (date + ;; Honor user's diktat. See comments above + (org-lparse-warn warning-msg) + date) + (t + ;; ISO 8601 format + (format-time-string %Y-%m-%dT%T%:z) + (defun org-odt-update-meta-file (opt-plist) (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect (expand-file-name meta.xml) t) -(let ((date (or (plist-get opt-plist :effective-date) )) +(let ((date (org-odt-format-date (plist-get opt-plist :date))) (author (or (plist-get opt-plist :author) )) (email (plist-get opt-plist :email)) (keywords (plist-get opt-plist :keywords)) -- 1.7.2.3 --
Re: [O] Habits not showing in agenda and no progress graph
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Michael Brand michael.ch.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John - State logging is working ok as seen from the LOGBOOK. Good to know. - A habit task is simply not shown before the SCHEDULED date. Try this task state to get an impression of the graph (change TODO and DONE keywords to reflect your setup): Ah. That might have done it. I was playing around a bit tonight and noticed that if I changed the scheduled date, I got a little multi-colored bar looking thing in agenda week view. Is that the graph? #+begin_src org ,* TODO note down month's accomplishments/contributions , SCHEDULED: 2011-07-25 Mon .+5d/10d , :LOGBOOK: , - State DONE from TODO [2011-07-20 Wed 12:00] , - State DONE from TODO [2011-07-15 Fri 12:00] , :END: , :PROPERTIES: , :STYLE: habit , :LAST_REPEAT: [2011-07-20 Wed 12:00] , :END: #+end_src So... is the graph the above? Simply a documented history of habits? Or is it something else (perhaps the colored thing in agenda view)? - Side note: It seems that like when experimenting you have set the task twice to DONE at the same time which is not useful but does not hurt to get started with habits. Yeah -- it was an accident. I was just verifying that cycling to done didn't really close the task but, indeed, added another state change note and updated LAST_REPEAT. In real use, I wouldn't do this more than per the scheduled habit timeline. Lastly, if that graph *is* the colored bar in agenda, I notice that it's cutting off most of my text. For example, this updated bit: ,- | ** todo note down month's accomplishments/contributions |SCHEDULED: 2011-07-22 Fri .+25d/35d `- Produces this in agenda: ,- | Wednesday 27 July 2011 | eval: todo note down month's acc ! :eval:: | Thursday 28 July 2011 `- The space between acc and the ! is filled with blue, then green, then a yellow, and then a red square(s). Can one change this appearance and how early the graph starts? If that's the graph, then I guess I just didn't understand how the display in agenda worked and was mistaken in expecting future events to show up as I scrolled through the year's view. I think that's fine. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't messing something up. The manual still gives the impression that the graph will show the history of my habits, whereas this thing in agenda is only showing whether I'm ahead, on schedule, or late for this *current* habit. Thanks for any input, John On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 23:22, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attempting to implement habits for a couple of routine things I should do at work on a regular basis. I've been following the manual to set this up: ,- | 1. You have enabled the habits module by customizing the variable org-modules. CHECK | 2. The habit is a TODO item, with a TODO keyword representing an open state. CHECK | 3. The property STYLE is set to the value habit. CHECK | 4. The TODO has a scheduled date, usually with a .+ style repeat interval... CHECK | 5. The TODO may also have minimum and maximum ranges specified by using the syntax ‘.+2d/3d’... CHECK | 6. You must also have state logging for the DONE state enabled... THINK SO `- I have mid-year and yearly reviews and *always* kick myself for not recording things I've done regularly, such that I end up scouring the earth for details about what I did in emails, calendar items, and org files. I'd like to do this monthly to save me 2x/year headaches. So... enter my first attempt at implementing habits: - ** todo note down month's accomplishments/contributions SCHEDULED: 2011-08-20 Sat .+25d/35d :LOGBOOK: - State done from todo [2011-07-26 Tue 16:02] - State done from todo [2011-07-26 Tue 16:02] :END: :PROPERTIES: :STYLE: habit :LAST_REPEAT: [2011-07-26 Tue 16:02] :END: - Note that above for #6, I said I thought so. I'm saying that as the todo - done state appears to be tracked above in my cycling. Typically, I just get a completed inactive time stamp and it gets marked done. The fact that it stays open I'm guessing means the habit is working. But... I have a couple of questions: #1: the habits aren't showing up in agenda. I did =C-c a a=, then =v y= and accepted that I really wanted to see the year. I get no monthly views of the above habit, despite seeing the minibuffer mode as Org-agenda Year Dds Grid Habit If I press =K=, it tells me that habits have been turned off, so I know they were on. #2: I just don't understand this at all (from the manual): ,- | What's really useful about habits is that they are displayed along with a consistency graph, | to show how consistent you've been at getting that task done in the past. This graph shows | every day that the task was done over the past three weeks, with colors for each
Re: [O] Habits not showing in agenda and no progress graph
Hi John On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:16, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: I was playing around a bit tonight and noticed that if I changed the scheduled date, I got a little multi-colored bar looking thing in agenda week view. Is that the graph? yes, see also the PNG link in the first post of John Wiegley, the author of org-habit.el, in this thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/43492 #+begin_src org ,* TODO note down month's accomplishments/contributions , SCHEDULED: 2011-07-25 Mon .+5d/10d , :LOGBOOK: , - State DONE from TODO [2011-07-20 Wed 12:00] , - State DONE from TODO [2011-07-15 Fri 12:00] , :END: , :PROPERTIES: , :STYLE: habit , :LAST_REPEAT: [2011-07-20 Wed 12:00] , :END: #+end_src So... is the graph the above? Simply a documented history of habits? no Or is it something else (perhaps the colored thing in agenda view)? yes, the the colored thing in agenda view Lastly, if that graph *is* the colored bar in agenda, I notice that it's cutting off most of my text. For example, this updated bit: [...] The space between acc and the ! is filled with blue, then green, then a yellow, and then a red square(s). Can one change this appearance and how early the graph starts? I would look in C-h org-habit TAB done in an agenda view and maybe also org-habit.el. (I did not change habit the config yet but someday/maybe I would like to add somehow in org-habit.el a sort order within habits of alternatively remaining days; now it's some ratio of last and remaining days.) If that's the graph, then I guess I just didn't understand how the display in agenda worked and was mistaken in expecting future events to show up as I scrolled through the year's view. I think that's fine. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't messing something up. The manual still gives the impression that the graph will show the history of my habits, whereas this thing in agenda is only showing whether I'm ahead, on schedule, or late for this *current* habit. maybe C-h org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today works for you? Thanks for any input http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/35628 http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/tracking-habits.html Michael
Re: [O] Odd behavior with first org file opened
Rafael rvf0...@gmail.com writes: Hi Rafael, If I run: emacs -Q -L ~/Dropbox/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/ (that's where I put org-mode), and then open any org file (I have tried with a very simple one, with only one heading), such file is not syntactically colored. However, if I open any second org file, then it is colored without problem. Or if I say M-x revert-file with the first. I think you need to require org-install to initialize an external org version. So basically emacs -Q -L ~/Dropbox/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/ \ -e (require 'org-install) should do the trick. Bye, Tassilo
Re: [O] Habits not showing in agenda and no progress graph
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: Ah. That might have done it. I was playing around a bit tonight and noticed that if I changed the scheduled date, I got a little multi-colored bar looking thing in agenda week view. Is that the graph? Yes. #+begin_src org ,* TODO note down month's accomplishments/contributions , SCHEDULED: 2011-07-25 Mon .+5d/10d , :LOGBOOK: , - State DONE from TODO [2011-07-20 Wed 12:00] , - State DONE from TODO [2011-07-15 Fri 12:00] , :END: , :PROPERTIES: , :STYLE: habit , :LAST_REPEAT: [2011-07-20 Wed 12:00] , :END: #+end_src So... is the graph the above? Simply a documented history of habits? Or is it something else (perhaps the colored thing in agenda view)? The colored graph in your agenda view. A setting of org-habit-following-days 7 org-habit-preceding-days 21 org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today t will show that graph, representing the past 3 weeks and the next week ahead in your *daily* Agenda for today. If you have a task like Water plants that should be done .+2d/4d, you will see how well you have been keeping up with it: * marks DONE, ! marks today. The background color reminds you of the range you set up: Green is great, yellow is okay, red is ... bad ;). Lastly, if that graph *is* the colored bar in agenda, I notice that it's cutting off most of my text. For example, this updated bit: Yes, better to keep the headlines short for habits or the graph will cut it off. The space between acc and the ! is filled with blue, then green, then a yellow, and then a red square(s). Can one change this appearance and how early the graph starts? See above. If that's the graph, then I guess I just didn't understand how the display in agenda worked and was mistaken in expecting future events to show up as I scrolled through the year's view. I think that's fine. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't messing something up. From what I read, I don't think org-habit is the tool you want. I found they work best for fairly regular tasks; I use them for cleaning tasks like Do vacuum cleaning .+3d/5d. The manual still gives the impression that the graph will show the history of my habits, whereas this thing in agenda is only showing whether I'm ahead, on schedule, or late for this *current* habit. If you are ahead, on schedule, late for this *current* habit now (!) and for the past e.g. three weeks (asterisk). Memnon
Re: [O] CLOCKTABLE multiply time expended by hourly rate?
At Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:47:25 -0500, Ryan, Thanks for chiming in. I'm still in the dark on this. I'm hoping a guru will ride to the rescue. Org is without question the best organizational tool I've ever used, and to use it for billing would be a real boon to me, but I'm stuck on this issue at the moment. Regards, Dan A Ryan Reynolds wrote: I've been quietly following this thread and I think I should chime in and say that I'm having the same problem. Maybe it's my lack of experience with Calc, but I just can't get any formula acting on time columns formatted as HH:MM to parse it as a number of minutes rather than a ratio of HH/MM. -- A. Ryan Reynolds
Re: [O] org unavailable in ELPA package manager
Hi Max, hope you'll get this sorted out -- I'm sure Jambunathan will provide usefull directions. If you see anything that can be clearer in Worg's instructions, please let us know. Thanks! -- Bastien
Re: [O] Move to item to the bottom
Hi Marcelo, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com writes: [Feature suggestion] (related to what I described in the last post of this thread): Keep configuration options for an org file in a separate file. Could be: * nameoftheorgfile.conf I don't think this is necessary. You can already include setup files by using the #+SETUPFILE: option. HTH, -- Bastien
Re: [O] Remove orgx files
Hi Nathan, Nathan Neff nathan.n...@gmail.com writes: I've recently started using org-mode to export to html, and I have empty .orgx files laying around in my directory. Is there a way have the publish routine delete these .orgx files after exporting, or is there a way to specify that they should be created in ~/tmp or something like that? it should be fixed now. .orgx files are no longer kept anywhere. Thanks for spotting this, -- Bastien
Re: [O] [PATCH] org-odt: Include mimetype in the exported odt file
Hi Jambunathan, Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: From 3530d2b3bd5b903e9b568a6412573faa79862d36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:50:48 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] org-odt: Include mimetype in the exported odt file Applied, thanks. -- Bastien
Re: [O] CLOCKTABLE multiply time expended by hourly rate?
Hi Daniel, Daniel E.Doherty ded-...@ddoherty.net writes: I am trying to take a duration output by CLOCKTABLE and multiply it by dollars-per-hour (or dollars-per-second, either way) and get an answer in units of dollars. I see, thanks for the explanation. Can you suggest a way this can be done? Since latest git commit, you can now use ;t instead of ;T as a flag for durations computations. ;t will output results according to the new variable `org-table-duration-custom-format', which you can check. See this example: #+begin_src org | Task 1 | Task 2 |Total | |-+--+--| |2:12 | 1:47 | 03:59:00 | | 3:02:20 | -2:07:00 | 0.92 | #+TBLFM: @2$3=$1+$2;T::@3$3=$1+$2;t #+end_src .92 is a fraction of hours, because `org-table-duration-custom-format' is set to 'hours. HTH, -- Bastien
Re: [O] Using org-mode for recipes (i.e. cooking)
Hi Erik, Erik Hetzner e...@e6h.org writes: https://gitorious.org/org-cook/org-cook https://gitorious.org/org-brew/org-brew I'm a terrible cooker/brewer... but I love these ideas! I allowed myself to put this in Worg -- org-hacks.org, in a new Musings section. Thanks :) -- Bastien
Re: [O] [PATCH] New org-depend trigger for finding next highest priority/effort item
Hi Max, Max Mikhanosha m...@openchat.com writes: Can you give an example? * Parent ** TODO Item 1 ** TODO Item 2 ** TODO Item 3 ** TODO Item 4 ** NEXT Item 5 Current (the one with TRIGGER property) ** TODO Item 6 ** Item 7 ** TODO Item 8 ** DONE Item 9 Below are example list of candidates depending on option from-top = 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 from-bottom = 8,7,6,4,3,2,1 from-current = 6,7,8,1,2,3,4 from-current,no-wrap = 6,7,8 Adding todo-only will eliminate item 7 from all of above, adding include-done will include item 9. After inital candidate list is established as above, its sorted by priority or effort, then 1st item is made NEXT. Cristal-clear, thanks! I grepped *.el and saw other file using it without eval-when-compile (it was htmlize.el i think), so I thought it was ok in contrib. To be clear: it *is* okay in contrib/ as files in contrib/ will not go to Emacs core. But the more we can avoid this the better. Attached is a test file you can use for all the situation that you asked clarification for. After testing this file I'm thinking maybe from-current should be a default instead of from-top. Yes, I also think from-current should be the default. Also, it would be really nice to update this tutorial on Worg and to show how to use the new feature you introduced: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-depend.html Thanks! -- Bastien
Re: [O] [PATCH] org-odt: Emit OD compatible date string in the default case
Hi Jambunathan, Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: From 263ede1b312bb9330281e179b6d767c07cfbf12f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:27:23 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] org-odt: Emit OD compatible date string in the default case Applied, thanks. -- Bastien
Re: [O] Was tj3 -- tikz gantt chart
Hi John, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: I looked into taskjuggler again, but I can't figure out what the status is on tj3 and org-mode. AFAICT, Org's Taskjuggler exporter works fine with both tj2 and tj3. You need to configure `org-export-taskjuggler-target-version'. There is some work to be done to make this library even more useful (see the the todo list in org-taskjuggler.el) but it's already usable. I use it for a project. In any case, it looks like *just* after this discussion, something a bit more formal came about for gantt charts and TikZ. I thought you and others might be interested in it: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt-tikz It looks like a summary/walkthrough of this package: http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php It looks quite reasonable and seems to be as advanced as I'd need for the moment -- just something to track progress and map action paths through a project. Anyway, let me know what you think and if you think org-mode could be adapted to export via that or pull together the necessary info to generate such a chart based on tags or properties. I haven't done much with that. Nice -- I'd love to see how Org can produce such TeX gantt charts. Thanks for the pointers, -- Bastien
Re: [O] [PATCH 1/2] Fix error with %e agenda prefix format when there is no effort set
Hi Max, Max Mikhanosha m...@openchat.com writes: 2. Two new commands, org-agenda-effort-up, org-agenda-effort-down, that would shift the effort up/down to the next value, with suggested bindings of M-Left and M-Right, which will allow effortless editing of efforts in Agenda That'd be nice -- thanks for your time! -- Bastien
Re: [O] [PATCH] New org-depend trigger for finding next highest priority/effort item
Hi Max, Max Mikhanosha m...@openchat.com writes: Amended patch attached, changes: - use (eval-when-compile) with require 'cl - changed include-done to todo-and-done-only - Added defcustom org-depend-find-next-options for default options which are now: from-current,todo-only,priority-up - cleaned up documentation Great. Applied, thanks for the fast rewrite! -- Bastien
Re: [O] [PATCH] Fix %e agenda format and refresh of agenda items in general
Hi Max, Max Mikhanosha m...@openchat.com writes: Here is an updated patch, its split into 3 very small part, belowe is an explanaton of each: I applied all three, thanks a bunch for this. 1. First patch is my original patch to fix error with %e agenda format. Okay. 2. Second patch fixes what I beleive to be a logic bug. Most agenda related commands have the following format: I understand and I agree, thanks for the clear explanations and the fix. 3. Third patch changes (org-agenda-set-effort) to refresh the item. It requires the 2nd patch to work. Applied too. Thanks a lot! -- Bastien
Re: [O] How to make a tag-todo search within a time range
Hi etimecowboy, etimecowboy etimecow...@gmail.com writes: For example, I want to search the scheduled TODO items with the work tag in the past 3 days. I thought the searching string was: +work+SCHEDULED\today\+SCHEDULED=\today-3d\, ^? ^?^? ^? but failed to get the right output. Anyone could help? C-c a m +work+SCHEDULEDtoday+SCHEDULED-3d RET seems to work here. I haven't done this in ages, so I looked the great tutorial advanced-searching.org @worg. You escaped the `' which is not necessary when you are searching interactively AFAICS. Does it work with my recipe above, i.e. interactively? Memnon
Re: [O] New feature: loop over siblings for some commands
Hi David, David Maus dm...@ictsoc.de writes: I highly recommend to not use this macro but to build the intended functionality with separate building blocks: Factor out the flesh of the respective functions (e.g. org-schedule) and use org-map-entries to map. As far as I can see, the latter provides all we need: I took this road. The first patch manually reverts the commit you are commenting. The second patch lets `org-map-entries' take a region as a scope. The third patch implements the loop functionality by just using `org-map-entries', not a macro. I'm sure we could have an `org-loop' macro factoring out the duplicate code in the new `org-schedule' and `org-deadline'. If you have time to look at this, that will greatly help. Another abstraction: Instead 'org-loop-over-siblings-with-active-region' something like: 'org-loop-over-headlines-with-active-region' that can be set to a symbol or a list of symbols indicating which headings to loop over (e.g. 'siblings, 'children, ...). The variable is now called `org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region' and understand these kind of values: - nil: don't loop - t: loop over all headlines - MATCH: a tag/property/todo match to loop over matching headlines If you can test these patches and send some feedback, that'd be nice! Thanks again for the analysis and the suggested solution. From 130dc4e2b1e6a353197a6277818b94b11c0c38d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bastien Guerry b...@altern.org Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:32:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Manually revert 366254217ac6faea20a5d43fae065bd028806eab. As David Maus pointed out, the implementation is not good. * org.el (org-deadline, org-schedule): Don't loop. (org-loop-over-siblings-within-active-region-p): Remove. * org-archive.el (org-archive-subtree) (org-archive-to-archive-sibling, org-toggle-archive-tag): Don't loop. * org-macs.el (org-loop-over-siblings-in-active-region): Remove. --- lisp/org-archive.el | 426 +-- lisp/org-macs.el| 20 --- lisp/org.el | 144 -- 3 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 314 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/org-archive.el b/lisp/org-archive.el index 30e6184..f6898ea 100644 --- a/lisp/org-archive.el +++ b/lisp/org-archive.el @@ -192,159 +192,158 @@ If the cursor is not at a headline when this command is called, try all level 1 trees. If the cursor is on a headline, only try the direct children of this heading. (interactive P) - (org-loop-over-siblings-in-active-region - (if find-done - (org-archive-all-done) - ;; Save all relevant TODO keyword-relatex variables - - (let ((tr-org-todo-line-regexp org-todo-line-regexp) ; keep despite compiler - (tr-org-todo-keywords-1 org-todo-keywords-1) - (tr-org-todo-kwd-alist org-todo-kwd-alist) - (tr-org-done-keywords org-done-keywords) - (tr-org-todo-regexp org-todo-regexp) - (tr-org-todo-line-regexp org-todo-line-regexp) - (tr-org-odd-levels-only org-odd-levels-only) - (this-buffer (current-buffer)) - ;; start of variables that will be used for saving context - ;; The compiler complains about them - keep them anyway! - (file (abbreviate-file-name - (or (buffer-file-name (buffer-base-buffer)) - (error No file associated to buffer - (olpath (mapconcat 'identity (org-get-outline-path) /)) - (time (format-time-string - (substring (cdr org-time-stamp-formats) 1 -1) - (current-time))) - category todo priority ltags itags atags - ;; end of variables that will be used for saving context - location afile heading buffer level newfile-p infile-p visiting) - - ;; Find the local archive location - (setq location (org-get-local-archive-location) - afile (org-extract-archive-file location) - heading (org-extract-archive-heading location) - infile-p (equal file (abbreviate-file-name afile))) - (unless afile - (error Invalid `org-archive-location')) - - (if ( (length afile) 0) - (setq newfile-p (not (file-exists-p afile)) - visiting (find-buffer-visiting afile) - buffer (or visiting (find-file-noselect afile))) - (setq buffer (current-buffer))) - (unless buffer - (error Cannot access file \%s\ afile)) - (if (and ( (length heading) 0) - (string-match ^\\*+ heading)) - (setq level (match-end 0)) - (setq heading nil level 0)) - (save-excursion - (org-back-to-heading t) - ;; Get context information that will be lost by moving the tree - (setq category (org-get-category nil 'force-refresh) - todo (and (looking-at org-todo-line-regexp) - (match-string 2)) - priority (org-get-priority - (if (match-end 3) (match-string 3) )) - ltags (org-get-tags) - itags (org-delete-all ltags (org-get-tags-at)) - atags (org-get-tags-at)) - (setq ltags (mapconcat 'identity ltags ) - itags (mapconcat 'identity itags )) - ;; We first only copy, in case
Re: [O] New feature: loop over siblings for some commands
Hi David, I've finally managed to get there. David Maus dm...@ictsoc.de writes: The macro suffers from leaking: It let-binds symbols like beg, end etc. that might be present in ,@body. The let-bound symbols will shadow body's. Yes, you're right. The whole problem of leaking macros is discussed in Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp, Chapter 8 http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-defining-your-own.html Nice reading! The solution is a heavy use of C-h f gensym RET for all symboles needed in the macro to create fresh, unique und uninterned symbols. Thanks for the suggested solution. I'll continue replying to your other email. Thanks, -- Bastien
[O] making coloured tables
Hi there, I'm really intrigued by org-mode's table and spreadsheet functionality and would like to use it for those cases where I found excel and gnumeric impractically cumbersome. What I want are two slightly diffent things: - Make tables that have cells with individual background colours when exported as HTML or PDF. - Make tables that have cells with background colours and typeface details (bold, italic, etc.) based on contents of either the cells themselves or other cells in the table. (Example: mark all negative numerical values of a table with a red background.) Furthermore, the colouring should be portable, i.e. independent of the settings in .emacs. Is this possible with org-mode? Thanks, András
Re: [O] calculation question
Hi Michael, Michael Brand michael.ch.br...@gmail.com writes: As an alternative to overlays used by C-c } on a table to display the coordinate grid, I would suggest the attached patch that displays the coordinates in the table editor C-c ` like this: #+begin_src org # # Edit field @2$3 and finish with C-c C-c # 123 #+end_src This is a neat addition, it enhances accessibility. I've now applied this patch. Thanks! -- Bastien
Re: [O] org-icons package
Hi Renzo, Renzo Been swangdood...@gmail.com writes: However, some things about the org-icons package... It seems to be a little outdated. Are there many org-moders out there still using it? I'm not using it. Were there ever any plans to include it in the org-distribution? I don't know, I wasn't aware of this package. Right now it needs to be installed by hand, because the patch to org.el is outdated... Also, I need to load it two times in my .emacs before the icons work... The best thing would be to invite Nicolas Girard to discuss this on this list. Can you do this? Thanks, -- Bastien
[O] Trouble compiling
To whom it may concern, I am trying to load orgmode via the emacs-starter kit. Following the instructions, I did the following: 508 cp -R emacs-starter-kit ~/.emacs.d 509 cd /Users/avery/.emacs.d 511 git submodule init 515 git submodule update The update procedure failed with the following output: Cloning into src/org... error: Unable to get pack file http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git/objects/pack/pack-beb4230c6615129746e9adfd39b5a38d78a4c191.pack transfer closed with 49103369 bytes remaining to read error: Unable to find db094c320412204a990668024f88eef00d307a44 under http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git Cannot obtain needed object db094c320412204a990668024f88eef00d307a44 error: Fetch failed. Clone of 'http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git' into submodule path 'src/ org' failed Is there a way for me to fix this? I suspect that it is a configuration issue since when I tried the URL I got a 403. Thanks! Avery
Re: [O] Remove orgx files
On 27.7.2011, at 14:37, Bastien wrote: Hi Nathan, Nathan Neff nathan.n...@gmail.com writes: I've recently started using org-mode to export to html, and I have empty .orgx files laying around in my directory. Is there a way have the publish routine delete these .orgx files after exporting, or is there a way to specify that they should be created in ~/tmp or something like that? it should be fixed now. .orgx files are no longer kept anywhere. Hi Bastien, I have not looked at you patch. But the orgx files are produced for index and sitemap (I think) purposes. If a site has many files and the index get recreated after republishing a single changed file, the orgx files would be needed. Cheers. - Carsten Thanks for spotting this, -- Bastien
Re: [O] Agenda view filter
Hi Renger, Renger van Nieuwkoop ren...@ecoplan.ch writes: I try to define a view that should show me my agenda for today with all NEXT/TODO items with priority A. I found some code for the priority but did not manage to get it running with filtering for NEXT/TODO (I tried adding (todo “NEXT| TODO”) but that did not work). (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '((p Prio A and scheduled agenda ((org-agenda-entry-types '(:scheduled)) (org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp \\[# A\\] ) I don't have time to help more right now but I suggest you read this great tutorial: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-custom-agenda-commands.html Best, -- Bastien
Re: [O] Trouble compiling
Avery Chan misterav...@gmail.com writes: Cloning into src/org... error: Unable to get pack file http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git/objects/pack/pack-beb4230c6615129746e9adfd39b5a38d78a4c191.pack This URL works okay for me. transfer closed with 49103369 bytes remaining to read error: Unable to find db094c320412204a990668024f88eef00d307a44 under http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git Cannot obtain needed object db094c320412204a990668024f88eef00d307a44 error: Fetch failed. Clone of 'http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git' into submodule path 'src/org' failed Is there a way for me to fix this? I suspect that it is a configuration issue since when I tried the URL I got a 403. Sorry I can't help further. Hope someone will jump in. Best, -- Bastien
Re: [O] Org-Mode Homepage error
Hi Achim and Sebastian, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: Bastien b...@altern.org writes: I fail to understand why an additional div id=preamble should break Sebastian's tool. /mode lazybum For starters, the title now resides in the preamble, but the script looks for it in content. This error is easily fixed, but I don't know if it has further repercussions. Mhh... I tried to patch org-info-src.js with this fix, to recompile it (and get org-info.js). I copied the result here: http://orgmode.org/org-info2.js Then setting this path in `org-infojs-options', I tried various ways of getting a working HTML file, with the new div structure, but with no good result. I have taken the simplest road for now: I've put the title back in the content div and removed it from the default preamble -- although you can still add it in the preamble. I think it's better since it doesn't break people's configuration when using org-info.js. For such changes about the HTML structure, I need to better sync with Sebastian to see how org-info.js can be updated and/or more flexible. For example content is hardcoded in org-info.js and is not anymore in org-html.el, so this might lead to troubles. Thanks for your input so far, -- Bastien
[O] Capture/refile and file+headline inquiry
1) How might it be possible to set custom expansion headlines for capture templates? For example, using the symbols from the capture note itself (kind of), something like this: - (setq org-capture-templates '((j journal entry (file+olp ~/org/refile.org Journals %-mm) * %u %? \n :clock-in t :clock-resume t))) - To produce something like: * Journals ** 2011-Jul *** [2011-07-27 Wed] thing I'm capturing 2) Also, it seems that capture needs a single target file (refile.org above), but most of the time, I just like to use it as an interface to quickly file to any file. The tree structure options seem to only apply to the target file; when refiling within capture (C-c C-w to a file vs. sending off to refile.org), it will just send the headline itself to something I have to manually specify for the refile target. In other words: --- C-c C-c automatically puts it into a datetree or whatever in refile.org --- C-c C-w requires that I have the same datetree structure manually created in a file other than refile.org, and then I have to choose it by typing some letters, tabbing to completion, typing the next level headline, tab completing, etc. How can I refile to a set tree structure across any number of files via capture? Thanks, John
Re: [O] New feature: loop over siblings for some commands
Hi Bastien, At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:28:36 +0200, Bastien wrote: Hi David, David Maus dm...@ictsoc.de writes: I highly recommend to not use this macro but to build the intended functionality with separate building blocks: Factor out the flesh of the respective functions (e.g. org-schedule) and use org-map-entries to map. As far as I can see, the latter provides all we need: I took this road. The first patch manually reverts the commit you are commenting. The third patch implements the loop functionality by just using `org-map-entries', not a macro. I'm sure we could have an `org-loop' macro factoring out the duplicate code in the new `org-schedule' and `org-deadline'. If you have time to look at this, that will greatly help. My vacation starts saturday so I do have time and really like to get my hands dirty with some Lisp hacking. Now for the macro (2 iterations later): It might not be necessary to factor out the functions if the function that invokes the looping can be called recursively. E.g. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defmacro org-with-headline-siblings (function) Apply function to siblings of current headline. `(org-map-entries ,function 'siblings)) (defun org-schedule () (...) (if (or (not (org-region-active-p)) (not org-loop-over-siblings)) (let ((org-loop-over-siblings nil)) (org-with-headline-siblings 'org-schedule #+end_src If the function takes arguments, we need to wrap the function call at the end in a lambda. And if this works out, we are almost there: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defmacro org-with-headline-siblings-maybe (predicate rest body) Execute body on current headline's siblings if PREDICATE. `(progn ,@body (if ,predicate (org-map-entries '(lambda () (progn ,@body)) 'siblings #+end_src Another abstraction: Instead 'org-loop-over-siblings-with-active-region' something like: 'org-loop-over-headlines-with-active-region' that can be set to a symbol or a list of symbols indicating which headings to loop over (e.g. 'siblings, 'children, ...). The variable is now called `org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region' and understand these kind of values: - nil: don't loop - t: loop over all headlines - MATCH: a tag/property/todo match to loop over matching headlines Nice. These values can fit into org-map-entries MATCH argument, can't they? We would have: org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region / (org-map-entries FUNC optional MATCH SCOPE rest SKIP) / \ our functionregion is active I'm not quite sure, but a/ we move the check for an active region to org-map-entries: If SCOPE is 'region but no region is active, org-map-entries simply returns. b/ we modify org-map-entries, so that a MATCH of nil means: No match. This way we can express the predicate as a condition of map. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defmacro org-loop-over-headlines (rest body) `(progn ,@body (org-map-entries '(lambda () (progn ,@body)) org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region 'region))) #+end_src If you can test these patches and send some feedback, that'd be nice! Scheduled for Sunday. Best, -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 Jabber dmj...@jabber.org Email. dm...@ictsoc.de pgpQlLCvr2mkI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [O] [PATCH] New org-depend trigger for finding next highest priority/effort item
At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:33:16 +0200, Bastien wrote: Also, it would be really nice to update this tutorial on Worg and to show how to use the new feature you introduced: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-depend.html Done, will push once I have permissions
Re: [O] Trouble compiling
On 27.07.2011 11:18, Avery Chan wrote: To whom it may concern, I am trying to load orgmode via the emacs-starter kit. Following the instructions, I did the following: 508 cp -R emacs-starter-kit ~/.emacs.d 509 cd /Users/avery/.emacs.d 511 git submodule init 515 git submodule update The update procedure failed with the following output: Cloning into src/org... error: Unable to get pack file http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git/objects/pack/pack-beb4230c6615129746e9adfd39b5a38d78a4c191.pack transfer closed with 49103369 bytes remaining to read error: Unable to find db094c320412204a990668024f88eef00d307a44 under http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git Cannot obtain needed object db094c320412204a990668024f88eef00d307a44 error: Fetch failed. Clone of 'http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git' into submodule path 'src/org' failed Is there a way for me to fix this? I suspect that it is a configuration issue since when I tried the URL I got a 403. Thanks! Avery Hi ! Just try to download this with my browser, and it worked Okay for my. Maybe you hav become victim of a network glitch ? In which case a retry would help (if you not already have done this) regards, Marc
[O] ordered lists with intervening paragraphs export to LaTeX
Greetings! I have the following setup in my orgmode file: 1. blah blah some text in a paragraph 2. foo bar some text in a paragraph 3 . and so on In LaTeX it starts renumbering at 1 each time. I read the orgmode manual for ordered lists and it tells to use [@1] , [@2], and so on to force a certain number. However, it is exported to LaTeX verbatim. What to do? Thanks, Henri-Paul -- Henri-Paul Indiogine Curriculum Instruction Texas AM University TutorFind Learning Centre Email: hindiog...@gmail.com Skype: hindiogine Website: http://people.cehd.tamu.edu/~sindiogine
Re: [O] making coloured tables
Hi Andras, Andras Major wrote: I'm really intrigued by org-mode's table and spreadsheet functionality and would like to use it for those cases where I found excel and gnumeric impractically cumbersome. What I want are two slightly diffent things: - Make tables that have cells with individual background colours when exported as HTML or PDF. - Make tables that have cells with background colours and typeface details (bold, italic, etc.) based on contents of either the cells themselves or other cells in the table. (Example: mark all negative numerical values of a table with a red background.) Furthermore, the colouring should be portable, i.e. independent of the settings in .emacs. I add wishes on the above list. Maybe someone will be able to implement them, if they seem to make sense... So, here's my idea: having some automagic style (background) applied on the cells to distinguish: - the input cells (the ones you cannot delete... without troubles): they don't have any formula associated with them - the final result cells: the ones with computed results - the other ones, whose content is computed, but serves as input to other cells. Would these be in different colors, I think it would make the reading of tables much more efficient. And, as far as I know, this does not exist yet in tools like Excel -- though people can manually apply such color conventions. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
[O] Agenda global list tweak
I have nested tasks that are much harder to parse when presented in the unindented agenda view. I would like to replace the CATEGORY column with a column that shows the parent of the task. So instead of todo.txtmow lawn todo.txtclean mower todo.txtbuy fuel i'd see todo.txt mow lawn mow lawn clean mower mow lawn buy fuel Is this easy to do?
Re: [O] ordered lists with intervening paragraphs export to LaTeX
Hello, Henri-Paul Indiogine hindiog...@gmail.com writes: I have the following setup in my orgmode file: 1. blah blah some text in a paragraph 2. foo bar some text in a paragraph 3 . and so on It should be: 1. blah blah some text in a paragraph 2. foo bar some text in a paragraph 3. ... You can use C-j instead of RET to add a newline inside a list. Now, if you want to use [@number] syntax, it should be: 5. [@5] blah blah 6. foo bar Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
Re: [O] CLOCKTABLE multiply time expended by hourly rate?
Bastien, Just re-gitted (git pull make clean make) and applied your new 't' format specifier, and ... joy! Many thanks for following up on this. I will now retire my old Windows-based invoicing system in favor of org. Great work. Regards, Dan At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:25:46 +0200, bzg wrote: Hi Daniel, Daniel E.Doherty ded-...@ddoherty.net writes: I am trying to take a duration output by CLOCKTABLE and multiply it by dollars-per-hour (or dollars-per-second, either way) and get an answer in units of dollars. I see, thanks for the explanation. Can you suggest a way this can be done? Since latest git commit, you can now use ;t instead of ;T as a flag for durations computations. ;t will output results according to the new variable `org-table-duration-custom-format', which you can check. See this example: #+begin_src org | Task 1 | Task 2 |Total | |-+--+--| |2:12 | 1:47 | 03:59:00 | | 3:02:20 | -2:07:00 | 0.92 | #+TBLFM: @2$3=$1+$2;T::@3$3=$1+$2;t #+end_src .92 is a fraction of hours, because `org-table-duration-custom-format' is set to 'hours. HTH, -- Bastien
Re: [O] [DEV] Org-Startup.el concept
Bastien and the group, I am thinking that to successfully pull this off I am going to have to do two separate files for what I am wanting to do. One that will be called in .emacs through load that will load the custom agenda view. So, my question is, I have my custom agenda command in a .el file that I call from .emacs like this : start code-start code--- (load Org-Startup-Agenda-Views) end code -- end code -- I should be able to in the Org-Startup-Agenda-Views.el have a command that appends/cons/adds to the custom agenda views so that the agenda views I want are available (at first going to be one but I think this will expand to more than one) to be called for the startup view that gets called after this. I am thinking this will go at the end of a .emacs file and then call the function to open the selected view (variables already set for it in configuration (remember this is for beginners who use the GUI to make it easy to customize out of the box)) for the startup with the agenda in it. Also, what will happen if I run the command to append the custom agenda views and none have been defined? Thanks, -- Matthew On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Bastien b...@altern.org wrote: Hi Matthew, Matthew Sauer improv.philoso...@gmail.com writes: The agenda view will be a user definable number of days calendar with a user defined number of days in the future view of upcoming deadlines or just unscheduled deadlines (a choice between the two may have to be implemented in the future as my skills grow and more contribute?) and at the bottom we would find TODO keywords (maybe I need to change this to != all not done keywords in the future) that are not scheduled and do not have a deadline on them (kind of a someday/sometime todos). Mmhh... an interactive interface for building custom agenda views? I'd be curious about the result, but that'd probably be useful! What I am needing to know is about adding an agenda view via a .el file to the custom agenda views. Could I do that, something like this: -Cut here---start code---cut here---start code- (add-to-list '(org-agenda-custom-commands (quote ( (s Startup View --Cut Here---end codecut hereend code Did you try this? It should not work. In this file in Worg http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.html you can see this example: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands '(b Big books tags +BIB_PAGES1000)) #+end_src When I get my basic idea for the package outlined a little more I will ask for some help with testing on it at the github I have setup. Keep us posted! Thanks, -- Bastien
Re: [O] Move to item to the bottom
Hi Bastien, Thanks, did not know about it. M On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Bastien b...@altern.org wrote: Hi Marcelo, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com writes: [Feature suggestion] (related to what I described in the last post of this thread): Keep configuration options for an org file in a separate file. Could be: * nameoftheorgfile.conf I don't think this is necessary. You can already include setup files by using the #+SETUPFILE: option. HTH, -- Bastien
[O] Development workflow
Hey guys, I'd like to start hacking the orgmode codebase and perhaps add my own extensions and modifications. What's the best workflow? My main editor is now MacVim, could I use it to edit and compile with emacs? I can understand if things go smoother with emacs, and I could use viper if needed. I just need to know how the overall hacking process look like. Cheers, Marcelo.
Re: [O] bulk relative time shift (in org file)?
On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: Bastien b...@altern.org writes: On an item, `C-c C-s' and `C-c C-d' now allows you to use +2d to say schedule in 2 days from today or ++2d to say schedule in 2 days from existing timestamp. In agenda, `B s' and `B d' will also understand this and let you reschedule/redeadline items relatively. Let me know if this works okay for you -- and thanks for bringing this up again! ++ looks very useful! I pinged Michael who started this thread, I hope we'll get an update on his perspective. I missed the ++ usage in this context completely. Yes, this gets me close to what I was looking for. Ideally, something like this should be available in the org file, rather than in the agenda. The reason being is that it is a common project planning task to shift all related tasks back by some set period of time. I can see expanding the notion to take dependencies into account, but that is not critical. I'm just looking for a way to do this routine in the project management planning contexts in my own work and in my organization But if I shift back and forth to the agenda, then I can make this work. I'm assuming that the 'Cc C-s' and 'C-c C-d' commands don't work on regions or on everything under a heading? — Michael
Re: [O] Habits not showing in agenda and no progress graph
Thanks to both you and Michael for persisting with me! On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Memnon Anon gegendosenflei...@googlemail.com wrote: John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: Ah. That might have done it. I was playing around a bit tonight and noticed that if I changed the scheduled date, I got a little multi-colored bar looking thing in agenda week view. Is that the graph? Yes. Got it. snip A setting of org-habit-following-days 7 org-habit-preceding-days 21 org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today t will show that graph, representing the past 3 weeks and the next week ahead in your *daily* Agenda for today. I see the bar, but it's just not intuitive to me. Maybe I don't have enough history, but I see now way that this bar is connected to anything but the current task. That much I get, seeing the history of my habits is not making sense. snip If that's the graph, then I guess I just didn't understand how the display in agenda worked and was mistaken in expecting future events to show up as I scrolled through the year's view. I think that's fine. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't messing something up. From what I read, I don't think org-habit is the tool you want. I found they work best for fairly regular tasks; I use them for cleaning tasks like Do vacuum cleaning .+3d/5d. Yeah; I don't know that I need the bar. I removed the style: habit property and the functionality seems to be identical except that I get no colored bar, and all the future events show up rather than only when they are in the range. That's fine with me. I think I could get the same with org-habit if I want to keep them out of the agenda (thought I bet there's a way to fiddle with displayed recurring events given what org-mode allows anyway). The manual still gives the impression that the graph will show the history of my habits, whereas this thing in agenda is only showing whether I'm ahead, on schedule, or late for this *current* habit. If you are ahead, on schedule, late for this *current* habit now (!) and for the past e.g. three weeks (asterisk). I think I just must not have history -- I have no asterisk, just green, blue, yellow, red, and !. Thanks again to both of you (just responded to this one as the info was pretty much the same and this one was more recent) John Memnon
Re: [O] Development workflow
Hey guys, I'd like to start hacking the orgmode codebase and perhaps add my own extensions and modifications. What's the best workflow? My main editor is now MacVim, could I use it to edit and compile with emacs? I can understand if things go smoother with emacs, and I could use viper if needed. I just need to know how the overall hacking process look like. If you are comfortable with MacVim go with it. You don't have to compile your elisp files at all and as a developer I would even venture to say you shouldn't. One's development workflow is well one's own and the only way to start is to start with what one already knows and what one is already comfortable with. In my experience, trying to be efficient while starting out will remove the fun out of what you are doing. If you are serious about your work, choose to work with the info/manuals ONLY and use Google only as a supplement. Make a note of things as you USE things so that you don't have to do it twice and keep organizing the notes as it evolves. Good NOTE TAKING is a practical skill that will help you in all endeavours. Jambunathan K. Cheers, Marcelo. --
[O] #+STARTUP: nologrefile seemingly not respected
Hi all, Either #+STARTUP: nologrefile is not behaving as intended, or I've misunderstood the intention. I have '(setq org-log-refile 'time)' in my .emacs. I have the line '#+STARTUP: nologrefile' in a subtree at the bottom of my inbox.org. Given this setup, I'd expect to get refiling notes with the time of refiling when I refile from org files *other* than inbox.org and not to get refiling notes when refiling from inbox.org. However, I get refiling notes when refiling from any .org file, including inbox.org. I am using org-mode 7.6 on emacs version 23.2.1 Is the problem with my expectations or in org-mode's behaviour? Thanks and best, Brian vdB
[O] Fwd: Development workflow
Thanks Jambunathan, that's really some good advice. You're right, sometimes we just postpone things because we think we should get ready for it. Profound and true. To make things easier though, I think I'll just go with Emacs + Vipermode :) Cheers, Marcelo. * * On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys, I'd like to start hacking the orgmode codebase and perhaps add my own extensions and modifications. What's the best workflow? My main editor is now MacVim, could I use it to edit and compile with emacs? I can understand if things go smoother with emacs, and I could use viper if needed. I just need to know how the overall hacking process look like. If you are comfortable with MacVim go with it. You don't have to compile your elisp files at all and as a developer I would even venture to say you shouldn't. One's development workflow is well one's own and the only way to start is to start with what one already knows and what one is already comfortable with. In my experience, trying to be efficient while starting out will remove the fun out of what you are doing. If you are serious about your work, choose to work with the info/manuals ONLY and use Google only as a supplement. Make a note of things as you USE things so that you don't have to do it twice and keep organizing the notes as it evolves. Good NOTE TAKING is a practical skill that will help you in all endeavours. Jambunathan K. Cheers, Marcelo. --
