[BUG] org-bibtex-read requires that bibtex is properly initialized
Hi, When calling org-bibtex-read on a fresh emacs on a text which is not a .bib file, we get the following error: bibtex-parse-entry: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil This problem is solved if the (bibtex-set-dialect) function is called before. Note that this function is called automatically the first time a .bib file is opened, so many users may not have seen this problem. I don't know what the right fix would be though. For now I call (bibtex-set-dialect) in my init.el, but maybe org-bibtex-read should do it? Thank you for org-mode! Matthieu
Re: [O] org and microsoft exchange
Hi Bastien, On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:16:17 +0200, Bastien wrote: > Can you give an example of a RFC-2446 compliant entry (with the new > field you mentioned in the previous email)? If I take the example given here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45453/icalendar-and-event-updates-not-working-in-outlook Here is the original ics BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WA//FRWEB//EN METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT UID:FRICAL201 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20081108T151809Z ORGANIZER:donotre...@test.com DTSTART:20081109T121200 SUMMARY:11/9/2008 12:12:00 PM TRIP FROM JFK AIRPORT (JFK) LOCATION:JFK AIRPORT (JFK) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR and here is the update BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WA//FRWEB//EN METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT UID:FRICAL201 SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20081108T161809Z ORGANIZER:donotre...@test.com DTSTART:20081109T121300 SUMMARY:11/9/2008 12:13:00 PM TRIP FROM JFK AIRPORT (JFK) LOCATION:JFK AIRPORT (JFK) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR > I guess adding this files to org-icalendar.el is not a big fuss. Compared to what org-mode currently exports, only three fields are missing: - Organizer. This should not be too hard to do (using user-mail-adress). - Method:request (should also be easy...) - The sequence number is more difficult. I think it could be stored as a property of an org-mode node, but when should it be updated? Maybe it can be just be updated everytime the file is exported, just as ids are created when the file is exported. Matthieu
Re: [O] org and microsoft exchange
> > I have no idea what I will need to do! I really am truly ignorant of > the whole MS world other than I know, if push comes to shove, I can > install cygwin and then Emacs when I have to... ;-) Actually, there are emacs binaries for win32 that work without needing cygwin. > > For the record, here are some other things that I tried/maybe worth > > trying: > > > > - Davmail + thunderbird: allows accessing exchange mail and calendar and > > syncinc with it, but did not manage to import org ics into that. > > > > - Evolution and the openexchange client may be other things to try. > > These two seem to imply using something other than Emacs for my email? > Or have I misunderstood? Openexchange is a command line tool to synchronize with an exchange server. But it is still incomplete, and I found it a nightmare to configure and use. Evolution is indeed another mail client, but my intent was to use it solely as a mean to synchronize the org mode ics file with the exchange calendar. Instead of using outlook for this... Matthieu
Re: [O] org and microsoft exchange
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:14:19 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Matthieu Lemerre writes: > > > Hi, > > > > After some digging I found the following setup to share my calendar with > > people using outlook. > > [...] > > Matthieu, > > thanks for this. I am unable to test it but will likely have to do so > at the end of the summer (northern hemisphere) when we are supposedly > going to be expected to start using various MS tools for collaboration > (yech). I'll come back to you then! ;-) Eric, No problem. But note that currently I am able to synchronize with people using Outlook, but not really with Exchange, if that's what you would like to do... For the record, here are some other things that I tried/maybe worth trying: - Davmail + thunderbird: allows accessing exchange mail and calendar and syncinc with it, but did not manage to import org ics into that. - Evolution and the openexchange client may be other things to try. - With a bit of elisp (to implement RFC-2446 compliant export), I think full outlook/exchange compliance could be really doable. Matthieu
Re: [O] org and microsoft exchange
Hi,
After some digging I found the following setup to share my calendar with
people using outlook.
One problem is that org-mode produces ics files, but they are "calendar
snapshots", and outlook does import them well (if you import them twice,
your calendar items will appear twice)
This problem is described here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45453/icalendar-and-event-updates-not-working-in-outlook
Basically, Outlook requires RFC2446 calendars for this, which requires
some additional fields (organizer, method, and sequence). It should be
possible to convert org-mode calendar import to produce this kind of
calendars, the only difficult track being to track the sequence numbers.
As a workaround, the best solution I found wast to generate a .ics file
and put it on a private http server (webfsd is appropriate for this).
If the URL to this file is http://nommachine.domain:3000/dir/file.ics,
just change it to webcal://nommachine.domain:3000/dir/file.ics and enter
this URL to Internet explorer. Then outlook can automatically subscribe
to this calendar.
The following lisp code launches the webfsd server and regularly updates
the ics file.
This isn't really "sync", but at least allows yourself and others to see
your calendar in outlook!
Hope that can be useful
Matthieu
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun export-icalendar-at-the-right-place ()
(interactive)
(let ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/org.org"))
(org-combined-agenda-icalendar-file "~/webfsd_public/org.ics"))
(org-export-icalendar-combine-agenda-files)))
;; Automacally exports my calendar every 1800s (30 minutes)
(run-at-time "10 min" 1800 #'export-icalendar-at-the-right-place)
;; Launch webfsd to serve the .ics file
(start-process "webfsd" "webfsd" "webfsd" "-r" "/home/me/webfsd_public" "-p"
"3001")
;; To access it from outook:
;; webcal://myhost.mydomain.fr:3001/org.ics
#+end_src
[O] [PATCH] Make org-capture more generic
Hi, I really like org-capture, and especially the "hierarchical" interface for selecting possible capture templates, but I think it needs to be extended slightly so that it can be used to archive anything. Some of the things I would like to do when capturing are: 1. Just jump to some location without inserting anything so that I can edit things by myself (for instance, jump to the location where my org-capture-template is defined to manually add new templates) 2. Copying some file to some location (no org involved) 3. Extract some files from my mail to attach them to some org item 4. Insert some parametrized code at point (e.g. for repetitive projects, like planning a business trip, I would like to insert a predefined project at point, so I don't have to do all the planning every time I do it) Item 1. is feasible if I remember to use C-u before calling org-template, but this is a ugly workaround. Another way that I tried was to using "" as a template with an unnarrowed buffer, but this triggers a default template instead. My first patch just extends org-capture to allow empty template, using a new entry type, 'empty. The second allows to use functions to define template. Together with an empty template, it should allow implementing my 2, and may be useful to implement 3 and 4. I don't think these patches will be definitive; I mostly would like to discuss org-capture evolution with org-mode gurus ;) Regards Matthieu >From 8fa638b36f477f2b81e131439729dda954d2e0ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthieu Lemerre Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:04:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add a new "empty" entry-type to org-capture. This special empty entry type allows to not insert any text in a template. This can be used e.g. to only jump to a location, so that the user can edit it by hand. --- lisp/org-capture.el |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/org-capture.el b/lisp/org-capture.el index 7d3f630..7e055f9 100644 --- a/lisp/org-capture.el +++ b/lisp/org-capture.el @@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@ Point will remain at the first line after the inserted text." ((eq type 'item) (setq txt "- %?")) ((eq type 'checkitem) (setq txt "- [ ] %?")) ((eq type 'table-line) (setq txt "| %? |")) + ((eq type 'empty) (setq txt "")) ((member type '(nil entry)) (setq txt "* %?\n %a" (org-capture-put :template txt :type type))) -- 1.7.4.1 >From 4d933ee2cc91f93c8e78a792175751e27c9d03e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthieu Lemerre Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:19:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Allows org-capture template to be a function. The function should return a string, which is used as a template. --- lisp/org-capture.el | 20 +++- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/org-capture.el b/lisp/org-capture.el index 7e055f9..368532f 100644 --- a/lisp/org-capture.el +++ b/lisp/org-capture.el @@ -1171,15 +1171,17 @@ Point will remain at the first line after the inserted text." (org-capture-put :key (car entry) :description (nth 1 entry) :target (nth 3 entry)) (let ((txt (nth 4 entry)) (type (or (nth 2 entry) 'entry))) -(when (or (not txt) (and (stringp txt) (not (string-match "\\S-" txt - ;; The template may be empty or omitted for special types. - ;; Here we insert the default templates for such cases. - (cond - ((eq type 'item) (setq txt "- %?")) - ((eq type 'checkitem) (setq txt "- [ ] %?")) - ((eq type 'table-line) (setq txt "| %? |")) - ((eq type 'empty) (setq txt "")) - ((member type '(nil entry)) (setq txt "* %?\n %a" +(if (functionp txt) + (setq txt (funcall txt)) + (when (or (not txt) (and (stringp txt) (not (string-match "\\S-" txt + ;; The template may be empty or omitted for special types. + ;; Here we insert the default templates for such cases. + (cond + ((eq type 'item) (setq txt "- %?")) + ((eq type 'checkitem) (setq txt "- [ ] %?")) + ((eq type 'table-line) (setq txt "| %? |")) + ((eq type 'empty) (setq txt "")) + ((member type '(nil entry)) (setq txt "* %?\n %a") (org-capture-put :template txt :type type))) (defun org-capture-goto-target (&optional template-key) -- 1.7.4.1
[O] Reusing the same agenda view
Hello org-mode, I have noticed a small thing that bothers me about agenda view: every agenda command just resets the agenda buffer. What I would really like to do is to start e.g. viewing my global todo list, moving the point to where I would like to work, stop viewing the todo list and getting to work, and then getting back to the global todo list. Eventually while I am working, I might want to use other org-agenda commands. To get back to the global todo list, I usually relaunch this command as it is so fast with org-agenda. But the point is lost and restored to the beginning of the buffer. - Is it possible to always reuse the same todo list buffer, so that my point is not lost? I mean using the agenda dispatcher, because I could of course use switch-buffer but I don't think it is meant to be used that way. - Or as a fallback, is it is possible to put the point in some special place in the todo list using custom agenda commands? - Or is my use wrong? Thanks Matthieu
[O] [Florian Friesdorf] Re: Org-mode support
Hi, Florian Friesdorf has suggested this patch to org-notmuch so that it is enough to require org-notmuch in user init, and it seems a good idea. Is it possible to include his patch? Thanks Matthieu >From 4128169c3d22527342c90b675e847f4227f3b0c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Friesdorf Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:44:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] org-notmuch: require org for org-add-link-type and others --- contrib/lisp/org-notmuch.el |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-notmuch.el b/contrib/lisp/org-notmuch.el index 9cde34f..9283385 100644 --- a/contrib/lisp/org-notmuch.el +++ b/contrib/lisp/org-notmuch.el @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ ;;; Code: +(require 'org) + ;; Install the link type (org-add-link-type "notmuch" 'org-notmuch-open) (add-hook 'org-store-link-functions 'org-notmuch-store-link) -- 1.7.4.4
Re: [Orgmode] Org support for the notmuch mail client
Hi Bastien, > I'm not using notmuch, but people reported it as useful -- I'm willing > to add org-notmuch.el to the contrib/lisp/ folder in org-mode.git. [...] > PS: just add a "This file is not part of GNU Emacs" somewhere in the > comments. Great! Here it is. org-notmuch.el Description: application/emacs-lisp Best, Matthieu ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Mails with icalendar appointments (Was: Org support for the notmuch mail client)
Hi Andreas, I have the same problem at work. I also use icalendar-import-buffer, but I find it not ideal... I have recently found this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-07/msg00732.html but did not try it yet. Matthieu ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Re: Org support for the notmuch mail client
I should have mentioned that the reason why I wrote it is that I would very much like to have it included in org-mode, and I'm OK to sign the copyright papers if necessary. Regards, Matthieu On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:26:29 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > > Hello, org-mode! > > The attached file implements links to mail collections and "searchs" to > the notmuch mail client. A "search" is a query to be performed by > notmuch; it is the equivalent to folders in other mail > clients. Similarly, mails are refered to by a query, so both a link can > refer to several mails. > > I had read on this list > (http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg28411.html) that > there already was an implementation of links to notmuch, but it could > not be implemented because of paperwork problems. I have implemented > this because I got tired of waiting :) > > I'm new to hacking org-mode, and the implementation might not be > perfect. I would be happy to receive comments. I already have one > question: why is it needed to url-encode the links in org mode? For > instance, I would like to be able to hand-write links like this: > > [[notmuch-search:to:xxx and not from:]] > > But it only works if I org-link-encode/org-link-decode the link (else, > the and not .. is completely skipped from the query). Similarly, if I do > > (org-open-link-from-string > "notmuch:id:\"7f39qo4aut@aeuaue.free.fr\"")) > > The last " gets removed in the argument I receive in org-notmuch-open. > > This is a pity because hand-writing url-encoded links is not > user-friendly. > > > PS: could you please Cc me because I am not subscribed to the list. > > Matthieu > Attachment: org-notmuch.el (application/emacs-lisp) ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Org support for the notmuch mail client
Hello, org-mode! The attached file implements links to mail collections and "searchs" to the notmuch mail client. A "search" is a query to be performed by notmuch; it is the equivalent to folders in other mail clients. Similarly, mails are refered to by a query, so both a link can refer to several mails. I had read on this list (http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg28411.html) that there already was an implementation of links to notmuch, but it could not be implemented because of paperwork problems. I have implemented this because I got tired of waiting :) I'm new to hacking org-mode, and the implementation might not be perfect. I would be happy to receive comments. I already have one question: why is it needed to url-encode the links in org mode? For instance, I would like to be able to hand-write links like this: [[notmuch-search:to:xxx and not from:]] But it only works if I org-link-encode/org-link-decode the link (else, the and not .. is completely skipped from the query). Similarly, if I do (org-open-link-from-string "notmuch:id:\"7f39qo4aut@aeuaue.free.fr\"")) The last " gets removed in the argument I receive in org-notmuch-open. This is a pity because hand-writing url-encoded links is not user-friendly. PS: could you please Cc me because I am not subscribed to the list. Matthieu org-notmuch.el Description: application/emacs-lisp ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Bug and patch in org-toggle-fixed-width-section
Hi There is a bug in org-toggle-fixed-width-section in the org version shipped with emacs23: this function only inserts ":", when this colon should be followed by a space. I joined a patch for your convenience; it seems to work. Maybe this has already been fixed in later versions. Regards, Matthieu Lemerre *** /tmp/ediff3735oPQ 2009-10-22 15:02:21.0 +0100 --- /tmp/ediff37351ZW 2009-10-22 15:02:21.0 +0100 *** *** 1,3 --- 1,7 + ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation. + ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f, + ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer. + (defun org-toggle-fixed-width-section (arg) "Toggle the fixed-width export. If there is no active region, the QUOTE keyword at the current headline is *** *** 13,19 (end (if regionp (region-end))) (nlines (or arg (if (and beg end) (count-lines beg end) 1))) (case-fold-search nil) !(re "[ \t]*\\(:\\)") off) (if regionp (save-excursion --- 17,23 (end (if regionp (region-end))) (nlines (or arg (if (and beg end) (count-lines beg end) 1))) (case-fold-search nil) !(re "[ \t]*\\(: \\)") off) (if regionp (save-excursion *** *** 31,37 (forward-line -1)) ((and off (looking-at re)) (replace-match "" t t nil 1)) !((not off) (org-move-to-column cc t) (insert ":"))) (forward-line 1))) (save-excursion (org-back-to-heading) --- 35,41 (forward-line -1)) ((and off (looking-at re)) (replace-match "" t t nil 1)) !((not off) (org-move-to-column cc t) (insert ": "))) (forward-line 1))) (save-excursion (org-back-to-heading) ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Adding latex packages
Hello,
I wondered if it was possible to include custom Latex packages when
processing embedded LaTeX fragments in org. This would require only a
simple change in org-create-formula-image:
(defun org-create-formula-image (string tofile options)
(let* ((tmpdir (if (featurep 'xemacs)
(temp-directory)
temporary-file-directory))
(texfilebase (make-temp-name
(expand-file-name "orgtex" tmpdir)))
;(texfilebase (make-temp-file "orgtex"))
; (dummy (delete-file texfilebase))
(texfile (concat texfilebase ".tex"))
(dvifile (concat texfilebase ".dvi"))
(pngfile (concat texfilebase ".png"))
(scale (number-to-string (* 1000 (or (plist-get options :scale) 1.0
(fg (or (plist-get options :foreground) "Black"))
(bg (or (plist-get options :background) "Transparent")))
(with-temp-file texfile
(insert "\\documentclass{article}
\\usepackage{fullpage}
\\usepackage{amssymb}
\\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\\usepackage{amsmath}
\\usepackage{latexsym}
\\usepackage[mathscr]{eucal}
XXX insert custom packages here
\\pagestyle{empty}
\\begin{document}\n" string "\n\\end{document}\n"))
(let ((dir default-directory))
(condition-case nil
(progn
(cd tmpdir)
(call-process "latex" nil nil nil texfile))
(error nil))
(cd dir))
(if (not (file-exists-p dvifile))
(progn (message "Failed to create dvi file from %s" texfile) nil)
(call-process "dvipng" nil nil nil
"-E" "-fg" fg "-bg" bg
"-x" scale "-y" scale "-T" "tight"
"-o" pngfile
dvifile)
(if (not (file-exists-p pngfile))
(progn (message "Failed to create png file from %s" texfile) nil)
;; Use the requested file name and clean up
(copy-file pngfile tofile 'replace)
(loop for e in '(".dvi" ".tex" ".aux" ".log" ".png") do
(delete-file (concat texfilebase e)))
pngfile
This should be global or per-file options. The point is that there are
plenty of good LaTeX environments that it would be useful to have in
org (for instance algorithm or tikz).
One of these environments is tikzpicture, and using tikzpicture in org
would allow to create high-quality graphics in org documents. There is
one remaining difficulty though; tikz pictures aren't extracted with
dvipng.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Matthieu Lemerre
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