[Orgmode] Toolbar buttons for common actions (helping emacs newbees)

2010-09-26 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Maybe it's just me, but I think there's no configuration in org-mode to use the emacs (23) toolbar icons/buttons, for basic actions in org. I think it may be helpful for emacs noobies mainly, to have such icons available when in org mode. I'd think of a capture icon, an agenda icon, and

[Orgmode] compiling org without make

2010-09-26 Thread Gez
I'm a beginner on windows and I'm prepared to learn slowly and steadily, but I'm having trouble getting started. I have GNU Emacs 23.2.1 and I'd like to get the latest version of orgmode (my version has no org-capture). I see from

[Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Davison
I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an entry-barrier for new Org users. For example, the first thing users encounter in the

Re: [Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Thomas S. Dye
On Sep 26, 2010, at 3:33 AM, Dan Davison wrote: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an entry-barrier for new Org users.

Re: [Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread A. Ryan Reynolds
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: 2. Then we should lay out an easy route and a full route:   1. Quick and easy      Download, set your load-path and (require 'org-install)      Optionally compile (within emacs[1]?)      Suggested text below.   2.

[Orgmode] [PATCH] Always run org-insert-heading-hook when creating headlines

2010-09-26 Thread Bernt Hansen
* lisp/org.el (org-insert-heading): Run org-insert-heading-hook when creating the first heading in a file The org-insert-heading-hook was skipped when creating the first heading in a new org file. --- I use an hook which creates an inactive timestamp for new headings. This was reported by

Re: [Orgmode] FSF Copyright Assignment

2010-09-26 Thread Jambunathan K
Hello Eric Eric Hi Jambunathan, Eric Eric I've finally had a chance to test out this patch, and it's great! Eric I'd love to apply this to the core Org repository, however given Eric the size I have to ask, have you (or are you willing to) signed Eric the FSF papers? Eric Eric

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Riley
Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an entry-barrier for new Org users. For

Re: [Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread John Hendy
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Davison
Hi Richard, Richard Riley rile...@gmail.com writes: Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Sep 26, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Dan Davison wrote: Hi Richard, Richard Riley rile...@gmail.com writes: Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Riley
Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: Hi Richard, Richard Riley rile...@gmail.com writes: Info files are the issue. The addition to the infopath of the new info files is frequently an issue too. I say that because emacs info is my nemesis : I have never *properly* understood the way

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org-mode screencasts

2010-09-26 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 11:10 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen a écrit : One thing that would be really excellent is to show keystrokes as you do the tutorial. I don't know what system you're using, but this link:

Re: [Orgmode] Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

2010-09-26 Thread Jeff Horn
I wanted to mention how great it would be to have an org-mode conference. I know I can't commit to organizing anything, since time and money are both far scarcer than I'd like. But I could see attending something on the East Coast (U.S.). I imagine the key would be having presentations by a few

Re: [Orgmode] Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

2010-09-26 Thread Bastien
Jeff Horn jrhorn...@gmail.com writes: I wanted to mention how great it would be to have an org-mode conference. I agree. If many people support this idea, this is how we could do it: 1. list ideas of things we would do there 2. find out what would be the best location/date 3. figure out how

Re: [Orgmode] Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

2010-09-26 Thread Bastien
Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com writes: I think the key point he made through the whole interview was that normally note taking tools are separate from planning / organizational tools, and that Org-mode combines both! Note that Carsten mentionned this on his Google Tech Talk:

Re: [Orgmode] compiling org without make

2010-09-26 Thread Gez
I got it working, thanks to an offlist message from Don - copied with permission below... Gez - Original Message - From: Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk To: Gez regis...@geekanddiva.com Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 2:56 PM Subject: Re: compiling org without make Hi Gez, It

Re: [Orgmode] compiling org without make

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
Hi Gez, Gez regis...@geekanddiva.com writes: 1. How I find out which version of orgmode I have? I'm assuming from http://orgmode.org/ that it's 6.21b, but is there a way of confirming this? M-x org-version 2. Do I need to compile at all? At least in order to get started learning and

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists

2010-09-26 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, I've tried the patch today. There are still some easily-fixed glitches (like letters not included in org-cycle-list-bullet, or bullets allowing mixed text and numbers). But, there is apparently one major drawback, as I said in a previous post. If the line starts with a word followed by a

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an entry-barrier for new Org users. For

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [bug] Gnus author in capture templates not working

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Sébastien Vauban wrote: I now have a full timestamp (date and time) for when the mail has been sent (or received?). Well... It's the date of the Date: header field ;) What it is set to depends on the sender; that's why it is not really a reliable piece of information one should use for

Re: [Orgmode] Re: bug with spaces in regexp search

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Samuel Wales wrote: Why is that important? Noorul tried to reproduce the bug, but couldn't. Trying to reproduce a reported bug is (sometimes) important for the developers. Best, -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 Jabber dmj...@jabber.org Email. dm...@ictsoc.de

Re: [Orgmode] Re: bug with spaces in regexp search

2010-09-26 Thread Samuel Wales
The bug has been fixed, so the following is moot. Ah, but he didn't . :) Hence my question. :) I appreciated the effort to help, but I was wondering what he was trying to say, because he used strings instead of regexps and he used different settings for both variables. The bug was with

Re: [Orgmode] Re: bug with spaces in regexp search

2010-09-26 Thread Samuel Wales
In other words, I was wondering why he reported the failure to reproduce a bug that I did not report on. Perhaps he had some other point he was making. Or perhaps he was confused about what the bug was. Hence my question. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Davison
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Sebastian Rose wrote: David Maus dm...@ictsoc.de writes: sh$ man utf-8 Thanks! I finally get a grip on one of my personal nightmares. It's not that bad, is it? :D Even better: It makes sense ;) The attached patch is the first step in this direction: It modifies the algorithm of

[Orgmode] Re: Org-mode screencasts

2010-09-26 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
Eric Abrahamsen eric at ericabrahamsen.net writes: One thing that would be really excellent is to show keystrokes as you do the tutorial. I don't know what system you're using, but this link: http://screencasters.heathenx.org/blog/2009/04/06/smaller-key-status-monitor/ Rustom Mody wrote:

Re: [Orgmode] Embedding images as data: URIs in the HTML exporter (was: MathJax is now the default for HTML math)

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Jan Böcker wrote: On 09/03/2010 05:07 AM, s...@blarg.net wrote: How about doing the same data: URI embedding for images in the HTML exporter? It should be possible to implement it entirely inside Emacs. It would have to be optional, of course. Derek This is certainly possible, the

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: OK, so we're agreed. But your points below don't seem to describe a less technical route. Could you describe the less technical version of the instructions for the method that you are advocating? Installing is something technical and I'm a tech-head,

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Adam
On Monday 27 September 2010 02:52 am, Dan Davison wrote: Hi Richard, Richard Riley rile...@gmail.com writes: Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all

Re: [Orgmode] FSF Copyright Assignment

2010-09-26 Thread Eric Schulte
Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: Hello Eric Eric Hi Jambunathan, Eric Eric I've finally had a chance to test out this patch, and it's great! Eric I'd love to apply this to the core Org repository, however given Eric the size I have to ask, have you (or are you willing to)

[Orgmode] ELPA [WAS] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Davison
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: OK, so we're agreed. But your points below don't seem to describe a less technical route. Could you describe the less technical version of the instructions for the method that you are advocating? Installing is

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Rémi Vanicat
Richard Riley rile...@gmail.com writes: You have no idea how pleased I am to hear you say that ... I sometimes wondered if I should go back to notepad ;) When asking the #emacs irc it seemed I was the only one in the world that constantly had issues. Of course mentioning Debian immediately

[Orgmode] saving property values when archiving

2010-09-26 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
When an item is archived to a new location, inherited tags are saved, but inherited properties are not. Was there a reason for this, or just not yet implemented? Thanks, ilya ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
The binary representation of 127 is 0111 and valid ascii char. DEL actually (sh$ man ascii) Right, and that's why it is encoded: No control characters in a URI. Great ! :) The final algorithm for the shiny new unicode aware percent encoding function would be: - percent encode all

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists

2010-09-26 Thread Nathaniel Flath
But, there is apparently one major drawback, as I said in a previous post. If the line starts with a word followed by a dot or a parenthesis, Org will see a bullet there. This is bad news because the following line will be indented, or a M-RET will delete the word, replacing it with a) or a.

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
David Maus dm...@ictsoc.de writes: Sebastian Rose wrote: David Maus dm...@ictsoc.de writes: sh$ man utf-8 Thanks! I finally get a grip on one of my personal nightmares. It's not that bad, is it? :D Even better: It makes sense ;) The attached patch is the first step in this direction:

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
rrrggrgrggrgr premature and wrong patch, sorry. Again against master: diff --git a/lisp/org-protocol.el b/lisp/org-protocol.el index 21f28e7..d69d584 100644 --- a/lisp/org-protocol.el +++ b/lisp/org-protocol.el @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ part. (defun org-protocol-unhex-string(str) Unhex

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
Also I guess the decoding is secure. Means we could change the comment of this function: (defun org-protocol-unhex-compound (hex) Unhexify unicode hex-chars. E.g. `%C3%B6' is the German Umlaut `ö'. Note: this function falls back on single byte decoding if a character sequence is not valid

[Orgmode] Re: Problem with PROPERTIES :OPTIONS: when exporting subtree

2010-09-26 Thread Matt Lundin
Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com writes: Hi I hava a problem with exporting to LaTeX. I want to export a table to latex. I put it into a subtree, containing only the table, i.e. no headers, as I want to include it into another document. I thought, that using the :OPTIONS: property, I can

[PATCH] Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Also I guess the decoding is secure. Means we could change the comment of this function: (defun org-protocol-unhex-compound (hex) Unhexify unicode hex-chars. E.g. `%C3%B6' is the German Umlaut `ö'. Note: this function falls back on single byte decoding if a character sequence is not

[Orgmode] [PATCH] Decode single byte sequence if decoding unicode failed.

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
From: Sebastian Rose sebastian_r...@gmx.de * org-protocol.el (org-protocol-unhex-single-byte-sequence): New function. Decode hex-encoded singly byte sequences. (org-protocol-unhex-compound): Use new function if decoding sequence as unicode character failed. --- lisp/org-protocol.el | 26

[Orgmode] Re: bug with spaces in regexp search

2010-09-26 Thread Noorul Islam K M
Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com writes: The bug has been fixed, so the following is moot. Ah, but he didn't . :) Hence my question. :) I appreciated the effort to help, but I was wondering what he was trying to say, because he used strings instead of regexps and he used different