Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 6:06 PM, andres.ramirez wrote: > Hi. Jean Louis. > > > "Jean" == Jean Louis writes: > > Jean> You have high expectations but Emacs Org mode does not nearly > replace the capabilities of > Jean> a dedicated spreadsheet. > > Emacs has an spreadsheet mode builtin: > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > (info "(ses) Quick Tutorial") > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- > > ses-mode could be embedded within an 'org source code block'. > > Perhaps someone has a tool for converting ms-spreadsheet files to > ses-mode. I have tried to use ses-mode. I recommend that you not.
behavior/docs of iCalendar export
This is a very small thing, but it came up today for me, so I thought I'd mention it. (Org 9.4.2, for the record.) I've just started playing with the iCalendar export because eventually I want to keep everything in Org, to then get transformed and pushed to my CalDAV server, which then gets pushed to my phone. So after reading the docs[1][2] I created a minimal org file, which as it happens only had a single time for the single event in it. I tried to export via C-c C-e c f, and immediately got an error that org-agenda-default-appointment-duration wasn't set (which was perfectly true, I hadn't set it and it defaults to nil). So after looking at that variable's documentation, just to make sure it was well-named and didn't do something strange, I set it and went on about my merry way. As I say, a very small thing. I mention it only because it was slightly irritating that after actually taking the time to read the documentation, I still had to troubleshoot (if you want to call it that) briefly. All of which leads up to: my suggestion is that either that org-agenda-default-appointment-duration have an actual default value, or else that [2] should mention that one might want to set it. [1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Timestamps.html#Timestamps [2] https://orgmode.org/manual/iCalendar-Export.html
[O] Request for advice
I don't want to duplicate a bunch of effort if this is already a solved problem, so I'd like some advice, if anybody is or has been in a similar situation. Previously, I worked in a situation where I set my own schedule, and I used Org to keep track. Beginning next month, I will be working in place where there will be quite a few meetings (several of them regularly-scheduled status-type ones, but others are ad hoc) and I'll need to coordinate my schedule with 15-20 other employees. They currently use Microsoft Exchange/Outlook calendaring to coordinate. But I'd like to continue to use Org (I have no authority over others' software). What I had originally envisioned was: 1. Keep my own schedule in Org. 2. Friday afternoons, export next week's agenda as a .ics file and import it into Outlook, so that others who need to can see my free/busy times. A quick test showed me that if I did my org files as is, I would end up with multiple items in Outlook of my regularly-scheduled meetings (most are weekly, but there are also several monthly, biannual, etc).[1] In addition, but less pressingly, I have a few items whose date is determined by a sexp, and so aren't exported (which as I understand it is the fault of icalender.el, not Org). I also can't really do exports of any more than a week, since even the regular meetings could conceivably change, which, again, would give me (in this case, wrong) duplicates to clean up. Several ideas occurred to me: 1. Add all the regular meetings to Outlook manually. In Org, give them all a particular tag, and configure the agenda export to export everything except that tag. In the event that one changes, edit both in Outlook and Org. 2. On Fridays before I export, create new instances of all the regular meetings (i.e., so that at export-time, the meetings beyond the next week don't exist in Org). 3. Give up. Just keep it in Outlook. Can anybody speak to what the best way to do what I want is, with the least amount of (ongoing) effort? Any gotchas I should look out for? [1] To be clear, I mean something in the form: * Meeting On Stuff 2012-11-26 Mon 09:00-09:30 +1w
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: It might be near time to investigate wunderground.com and loose google for weather before igoogle disappears. Other weather sites capable of text output may also be available, I haven't investigated that yet. For those in the US, the National Weather Service has forecasts available in XML, which could be parsed, requestable via latitude and longitude. I haven't done anything with that other than noting its existence. URL seems to be http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=xx.lon=yy.FcastType=dwml
[O] recurring floating appointments
I'm using the builtin org 7.8.11 in Emacs 24. In an org file, I have something like * Recurring Events #+CATEGORY: Meeting ** Monthly Third Thursday Meeting %%(org-float t 4 3) This displays on my agenda fine. However, that particular meeting always happens at 10:00 AM, and I'd prefer to show it at that time in my agenda, instead of an all-day event. I looked through the documentation for org-float (as well as diary-float in the Emacs manual), and I saw nothing on assigning a time to a floating event. I tried doing something like %%(org-float t 4 3) 10:00-11:00 but that didn't work. Is assigning a time like this to an org-float even possible? Am I missing something?
Re: [O] recurring floating appointments
Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala h...@yagnesh.org writes: Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net writes: %%(org-float t 4 3) 10:00-11:00 but that didn't work. * Recurring Events #+CATEGORY: Meeting ** Monthly Third Thursday Meeting 10:00-11:00 %%(org-float t 4 3) Maybe like this. Yes, that works great. Thank you! I knew I had to be missing something obvious, since org's documentation is good.
Re: [O] mail integration, advice?
Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com writes: I'd like to take one more shot at returning to text-based email within emacs, mostly because I want to be able to integrate mail easily into my org-mode workflow. The last time I tried this I used wanderlust, and I'd be willing to give it a try again but a couple of things have discouraged me in the past: I'm in a somewhat similar situation (although in my case it's actually the reverse: I want to be able to integrate org-mode into my mail workflow). - wl causes emacs to freeze up when it checks or sends mail, and can take quite a long while to complete these operations I'm using Gnus, not Wanderlust, but it has the same problem, of course (my understanding is that it's actually Emacs which has the problem). In addition, I check my mail by logging in (via SSH) to my personal machine at home, which has a low-bandwidth DSL connection, so any slowness is magnified. I've dealt with it by simply running a local IMAP server--Dovecot, in my case, though I hear lots of people have good results using just offlineimap--and using fetchmail to pull from my ISP's mailserver. My project for the weekend is to set up Dovecot's Sieve support (Pigeonhole) to mirror my previous filtering rules. - wl seems to have gone quasi-dormant, with very little activity on the mailing list and no recent releases; it also relies on two other packages, FLIM and APEL, with similarly dormant mailing lists Gnus is currently under heavy development and only requires a recent (22, 23, 24) Emacs. Not trying to convert you, but you did bring it up. :) - fast search and easy-to-manage virtual folders of some kind -- I see mu and notmuch are very strong on both these fronts I'm looking to set up mairix, which Gnus supports, but I haven't yet. Mairix itself though just needs mail in Maildir or mbox formats, from what I understand. I hope that was helpful--probably not, though. :)
Re: [O] mail integration, advice?
Tassilo Horn tass...@member.fsf.org writes: If you talk to an IMAP or Gmane nntp server (remote or a local dovecot), you can simply hit `G G' on a group to search it without having to configure anything (in recent Gnus versions). Almost all IMAP servers index at least to/from/subject for fast searches, and some also have fulltext search plugins (e.g., dovecot has one). Yeah, the one problem I have with Gnus is that it does so damn much, I have trouble remembering it all. But seriously, good to know, and thanks for saving me some work.
Re: [O] MobileOrg Android 0.8.0 Released, many new features!
Matthew Jones bsdmatb...@gmail.com writes: MobileOrg for Android has gone through a lot of changes recently. We've added a lot of great features that users have been asking for and fixed some big issues that have been bothering people. Awesome! I can't wait to try it out. Any chance it will be available via Amazon? I'm thinking of my wife's Kindle Fire here.
Re: [O] MobileOrg Android 0.8.0 Released, many new features!
Matthew Jones bsdmatb...@gmail.com writes: Hey Carson... I've never thought of putting it on the amazon store. I'll check on that in the meantime if you want to use it and the Fire can install apks directly you can download the latest release here: http://matburt.net/files/MobileOrg-release.apk I can confirm that the Kindle Fire *can* install APKs directly. I'm just at a point in my married life where I'm trying to synchronize my wife's and my TODO list (at least partially), so if she---not always the most technically-oriented---can install it directly from Amazon (and thus---hopefully!---get eventual updates) that's all to the good.
Re: [O] how to get \circ symbol in odt export?
Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk writes:
Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk writes:
Hi,
I usually export to PDF via LaTeX. One of the symbols I use a lot is
the degree symbol (as in degrees C) and typically do this with a
latex-ism:
^{\circ}C
This doesn't export well to ODT. Can anybody suggest what I can use
that would? Using ^{o}C works but doesn't look very nice (lower case
o is not a circle, more of an oval).
Not a critical issue but I *am* curious!
Thanks,
eric
I've answered my own question: simply resort to UTF characters!
Replacing ^{\circ} with the DEGREE SIGN unicode character (°) does the
trick for both latex/pdf and odt exports! *And* looks good in the org
buffer as well.
For the sake of completeness, I'll mention that Scott Pakin's
Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List[1] lists several packages which include
\degree or something similar.
[1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/
Re: [O] how to get \circ symbol in odt export?
Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes:
I prefer utf-8 myself, but should it be impractical for any reason,
Org's built-in \deg entity is another possibility.
Terminate with {} before non-space character, e.g.:
Global mean temperature rose 0.74 \deg{}C over 1906--2005.
See the manual, 11.7.1 for pretty inline display.
Oh, hey, neat! (I'm definitely going to have to back over the manual.)
Re: [O] protect slash - suppress markup
Bernt Hansen be...@norang.ca writes: Lasse Bombien la...@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de writes: Hi, first of all: thanks for org-mode. I'm still new to it but love it already. Now, I need to find a way to produce sentences like The phonemes /l/ and /n/ … in my exported documents. However, org-mode of course transforms strings enclosed in slashes to emphasized text. This is usually great, but in my area slashes are used as brackets for phonological transcripts. Is there a way to locally suppress slashes from being interpreted as markup characters (I tried backslashing and double slashes…) or an entirely different way to accomplish this (I tried: #+MACRO: phonem /$1/ …)? I looked in the manual and the list archive but could find anything. If I missed something, I apologize. During export you can turn this off #+OPTIONS: *:nil But wouldn't that turn off, for example, *bolding* also?
Re: [O] would take more than an org-mode strip-down.
Allen S. Rout a...@ufl.edu writes: In My Opinion, the current docs in org-mode are targeted at those who expect to have their own heads and shoulders inside the 'engine compartment' of org and emacs. This makes them a poor tool to communicate with End-Users. But this might be acceptable, because there's no hood on the engine, and the bloody thing is steered with a rudder and laterals, instead of the nice sane wheel and pedals everyone else uses. :) I've always thought that Marus Ranum's comment[1] on X applied equally well to Emacs: If the designers of [Emacs] built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles---but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. Of course, he was being snarky, but some people (me!) *want* to be able to change gears with the stereo. [1] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html
Re: [O] .emacs file in windows
Bob Qualls bobquall...@gmail.com writes: I would like to add the suggested Activiation code to the .emacs file but I can't figure out which one it is. I downloaded the emacs-23.1-bin-i386.zip file for windows. When you do C-x C-f to open a file just put in ~/.emacs and hit RET -- Emacs will open the file in the appropriate place. On Windows XP this is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\.emacs and on Windows 7 it's C:\Users\username\AppData\.emacs Don't know about other Windows versions. Unrelatedly, why did you download the binary for Emacs 23.1 instead of 23.3?
