On 7/11/07, Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Apologies for my poor explanation but yes this is precisely what I'm
talking about.
You probably explained it well. I'm pretty thick at times.
I've never knowingly used indirect buffers, and I'll certainly take a
look at them as I can see
On 7/11/07, Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is this something people might find useful? I personally find I spend a
lot of time trying to re-acquire my previous context within a particular
task, something like this might help.
Actually, after thinking about this; I realise that Emacs h
Oops. lispdir won't expand due to the single quotes. Maybe this will
work a little bit better.
BATCH=$(EMACS) -batch -q -eval "(add-to-list (quote load-path) \"$(lispdir)\")"
Edd
On 7/10/07, Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Carsten,
Yep, I guess I missed that p
Sounds good. Thanks!
On 7/10/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unfortunately I have also not found a better solution. So
it now should use the base buffer, and widen it if necessary.
- Carsten
On Mar 28, 2007, at 0:34, Eddward DeVilla wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
On 7/6/07, Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After thinking about it; I have on occasion wanted to schedule a
checkboxed item into the agenda. This said I'm not convinced supporting
this is a good idea. Does anyone else have any views?
I'm usually for collapsing similar things in to on
On 7/6/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It it is only the wrapping, you could simply hack org-fill-paragraph,
for
example like this:
Thanks. I'll have to play with it.
But I guess you are really after definition lists.
I actually like definition lists, but sadly the real nit
On 7/6/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Todo keywords need to be words currently, so you could do
something like
(setq org-todo-keywords
'((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
(type "I_I" "|" "IXI")
))
Cool. I'll have to remember that. I can get back my old sta
On 7/6/07, Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Out of curiousity this led me to try doing something like this:
(setq org-todo-keywords
'((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
(type "[ ]" "|" "[X]")
))
i.e. Hack an implementation of checkboxes onto the todo-keywords
feature.
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone has a good way to embed definition list
into a plain list? I think they'd be nifty. OK, to be honest, I'm
trying to solve a problem specific to the way I do things and try to
make the solution seem more general. Specifically, I'm using a
checkbox list to re
On 7/2/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I am releasing Org-mode 5.01. It is available at my website
Good Lord! That is an awful lot of new stuff! It's going to take me
a while to soak in what all it is and how to use it. I didn't think
the properties idea was even cohere
On 6/27/07, T. V. Raman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As an example try converting this table to html. The first row
disappears mysteriously.
|+---+---+---+---|
| / | 1 | 6 | 9 | |
| 17 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 |
|| 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
|| | 1 | 5 | 3 |
|| | | | 0 |
|+---+---+---+
On 6/22/07, Scott Jaderholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think it's harder to design an interface where different levels have
different columns.
Sometimes the columns will make sense on different levels so they opt
to leave them there. Also, as we see in the screenshot, they can be
used for summ
On 6/19/07, Scott Jaderholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see a property list under each heading as a way of doing columns,
albeit in a less user friendly way. I can see this being useful
anywhere you have hierarchal data to which you would like to add
structure. Currently, I normally transfer it
On 6/19/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 13, 2007, at 17:33, Eddward DeVilla wrote:
>I'm starting to wonder if it would be useful to have a general
> format for properties (or choose some other word) to be associated
> with a heading or todo item.
On 6/16/07, Cecil Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like the following functionality:
A heading with ! text
||
! heading |
|---+---|
| column A | column B |
|---+---|
and it changes automatically:
|
Just forwarding to the list. I forgot to.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Jun 13, 2007 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally
To: Scott Jaderholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 6/13/07, Scott Jaderholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g
I'm starting to wonder if it would be useful to have a general
format for properties (or choose some other word) to be associated
with a heading or todo item. It seems the heading is getting a little
crowded.
Would it be reasonable to say that a list of non-whitespace
listing following the
On 6/12/07, Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Leo wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Anyone else find the following annoying?
>
> *** heading 1
> - item 1
> - item 2
>
> Now hit tabwith cursor right before '-', it becomes,
>
> *** heading 1
> - item 1
> - item 2
>
> Best,
I must admit I do
I could try it on some of my files.
Edd
On 6/10/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 9, 2007, at 20:02, Leo wrote:
> Just noticed that if there is no space between "*" and the rest of the
> head, that heading won't be exported.
>
> Have we finally made this change? Personally
On 6/9/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 10, 2007, at 1:36, Patrick Drechsler wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem I am having with your approach is that `mail' requires a
> full blown MTA.
what is an MTA?
Mail Transport Agent. It's a mail s
the first row: you can't add a
string ("total") to a float (50.00).
Cheers
Will
On 6/5/07, Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble trying to figure out what I've got wrong here.
> Given the t
Hi,
I'm having trouble trying to figure out what I've got wrong here.
Given the table
* wealth management
|--++---|
| item | amount | total |
|--++---|
| paid | 50.00 | |
For me, my indent problems where solved when I turned off the use of
tabs. I don't remember how I did it right now and I don't have access
to my work system at the moment. I'll let you know when I can check.
Edd
On 6/1/07, William Henney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi list
I have the followin
I was thinking the same thing. (Sadly I didn't know the option of
the top of my head and had to search the .el file to try and find it.)
Would there be any way to differentiate the matched heading from the
surrounding context? In regular GUIs I'd say grey of the context, but
that doesn't work
For some reason this reminds me of a feature from the outliner hnb.
If you used it as an xml editor you could do something like the
following.
-
content in tag
The close tag was implied by the outline structure. I don't know if
something similar would work well with how folks use org-mode.
It's been a while since I've compiled org. I run uncompiled to
get more useful stacks and have easier debug. It's slower but
educational. I know when I did compile I always got a mess of errors.
I just ignored them and everything worked. For me I think it was
attempts to use packages I didn
Actually, I've never installed org-mode with make. Just unpack the
archive in some tempt directory and copy the .el files someplace where
you want to store emacs packages. (I have a .emacs_packages
directory.) If you keep xemacs, there is a second directory of xemacs
only files you'll need. Th
On a related note, should C-a, C-e M-left move the cursor around in
agenda buffers?
Edd
On 5/8/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sounds like a problem with CUA-mode. Are you using that?
- Carsten
On May 8, 2007, at 18:59, Scott Jaderholm wrote:
> I think this is a bug.
>
> S-up
On 4/24/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any.
On 3/28/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 27, 2007, at 21:06, Eddward DeVilla wrote:
> The second is more of an issue for someone like me who tends to live
> by undo and is also sloppy about have a selection. Given the file
>
> test 2 ===
Hi,
I found a bug involving indirect buffers when following links. If
I have one file with a link to a second file and I have that second
file opened with an indirect buffer narrowed such that the link is not
contained in the narrowed region, org may fail to follow the link.
Basically, if
Hi,
I found a bug with undo and selection. While putting together a simple
recreate, I also found a buglet involving A-left/A-right on plain lists.
First I'll describe the list bug. If you have a plain list before the first
heading you can't use A-left or A-right to promote or demote list ite
On 3/21/07, Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2007-03-21, Carsten Dominik said:
> - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
> buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
> into a file:
>
> #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
> #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNO
It looks like there might some more discussion here, but I'd like
to chime in and say I kinda like what you have done with the multiple
sequences. Of course, I'm not using some of the more advanced
features such as logging state changes. For my simple use of TODO
items, this is pretty nice.
Once again, it hit reply instead of reply-all.
Edd
-- Forwarded message --
From: Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mar 18, 2007 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Feature in org-move-item-down
To: Mike Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I sometimes have blank l
This looks like you need to adjust org-show-following-heading.
org-mode allows you to show the following header for context I
believe. I got your expected behavior by disabling it.
Edd
On 3/13/07, King Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Carsten:
I would like to report a bug in org mode for ta
On 3/13/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 12, 2007, at 21:19, Eddward DeVilla wrote:
After some thinking, I do find this a good idea. Lets make it work
like this:
#+OPTIONS: ^:nil never interpret ^ and _ as sub/superscript
#+OPTIONS: ^:t always do so
#+O
Hi all,
I'm writing up a document that I'm going to export to html. I
have a lot of environment variables and paths with embedded
underscores. Is there a way to turn off the automatic subscripting?
I haven't found anything other than going back and inserting
backslashes all over the place wh
On 3/8/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think you can do this in font-lock. Font-lock has many clever
mechanisms to defer font-locking of stuff that is not currently on the
screen
etc, but the current line is always done immediately, I think.
I figured as much. It's not
On 3/7/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The main problem with such an approach is that it quickly becomes
a performance issue. It is ok for a few terms, but if you accumulate
a large number of terms, and if you want to use font-lock to activate
words as links, this means that after
On 3/6/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 6, 2007, at 17:30, Leo wrote:
> Hello, Eddward!
>
> On 2007-03-06, Eddward DeVilla said:
>
>> I would like this.
>
> Follow up in the mailing list would increase the chance of this
> feature being imp
Hi,
Does anyone know an easy way to copy a link on org-mode? I want
to be able to paste it in a browser. This came up because the cygwin
version of emacs isn't able to invoke the browser. I'll have to track
that down some time, but I know other times when I want to copy a URL
for some reaso
I manually mark it [*] or [_]. I haven't really settled on a pattern
or semantics. Before org-mode and hnb before that, I think I used
_ - not started
v - in progress
x - done
s - skipped or scratched
Edd
On 1/24/07, timotheus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am wondering if there is
On 1/17/07, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Eddward DeVilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ya. I suppose it would have been useful to do that. :-) Sorry.
> Most of my org files have a *projects heading with a template like
> the following.
I think this t
On 1/15/07, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Eddward DeVilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It would be nice to have a 'hot-key' interface to generate a project
> tree. I've looked a little at form and template packages for emacs
> to see
To be honest, what you are suggesting sounds interesting, but I don't
know remember well enough to know if it does what it sounds like.
It would be nice to have a 'hot-key' interface to generate a project
tree. I've looked a little at form and template packages for emacs to
see if any look like
I guess I'm out of my league here. I would assume auto-mode-alist
should be there. I guess I don't know where it gets defined.
Edd
On 1/15/07, Sergio Dominguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eddward,
Thanks for your answer. I have put the package under
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, where is where
Hi,
I've found that refresh the todo list with 'r' turns off the
narrowing in indirect buffers.
Also, I've found that using C-, to cycle through the agenda files
will bringup narrowed indirect buffers instead of the base buffer.
I'm not sure whether I think the indirect buffers should show
Hi,
I've been a little busy lately have haven't been able to put
together a good test case for this until now. Using tab to cycle
visibility for plain lists is broke in 4.60 and 4.61.
Given the file:
---
* foo
- bar
- baz
- pow
- kung
---
Hi,
The file below will cause a hang if you open the second heading in
an indirect buffer using C-c C-x b and then try to set tags using C-c
C-c from within the indirect buffer. In emacs 21.2.1 on cygwin, I can
exit the hang with C-g. In emacs 21.1.1 on AIX, C-g doesn't not work
and I had to
it is already in the list of agenda files). On emacs 21.2.1
under cygwin, I do not get the error if the org file is not in a
buffer. Weird.
Edd
On 12/8/06, Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I think I found a new bug. This may be another emacs 21 visibility issue.
Using a f
On 12/19/06, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 18 Dec 2006, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 17:19, Michael wrote:
> You cannot, at least currently. I am not sure how well this would
> work, because the table editor makes it very easy to swap rows, columns,
> to add and delete c
I have also wished for other 'Done' type states. Currently I mark
them all DONE and if there is something interesting about the
'Done-ness' of it I add that as a tag such as :SCRATCHED: :CANCELED:
or :REJECTED:. I haven't found it to be much of a problem, but I've
wondered if it would be difficu
On 12/15/06, Xiao-Yong Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Eddward DeVilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Maybe you've already tried this. But I guess it's still worth
mentioning. You probably need a `#' in the first row as following
|---+--+++---
ill be another excuse
to learn more lisp.
Edd
On 12/15/06, Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Eddward Devilla (2006-12-15 12:50 -0600) said:
^^^
> Can table formula's be done without calc?
That would be a pity not to employ the best maths tool in Emacs.
--
Leo
Hi,
I found a bug with table formatting in an indirect buffer. In the
file below, if you open the second bullet (My little microcosm) in an
indirect buffer and cause a table format with say C-c C-c, the table
will reformat but afterwards the cursor will be moved to the beginning
of the buffer.
Hi all,
Can table formula's be done without calc? I've been trying to do
something like the following:
|---+--++++|
| | name | P1 | P2 | P3 | TOT|
|---+--++++|
| | Al | 10 | 9 | 8 | ='(+ $3 $4 $5) |
| |
I'll follow this up with a few more wishes. Could the table minor
mode maybe be extended to allow the user to define delimiters? Say
draw a picture?
struct hugeStaticTable initData = {
// Draw a picture
// ORG-ROW-DEF { /* key*/ $1 , /* name */ $2 , /* location */ { /*
x */ $3 , /* y */ $4 }
Hi all,
Sorry for all the clutter. Using the menu, agenda or key binding to
open a sub-tree in an indirect buffer kicks me into the debugger. I
don't think I even have the debugger option on.
Here's the stack I get. I'm not sure what to make of it.
Hi,
I think I found a new bug. This may be another emacs 21 visibility issue.
Using a file like so:
--
* projects
*** TODO Something that was never meant to be :ARCHIVE:
Hi,
There is an option org-tags-column to align tags in an org file to a
column. This value can be positive or negative to say if you want the
left or right side of the tags to be anchored. There is another
option org-agenda-align-tags-to-column that does about the same thing
for the agenda bu
o people who know Lisp can hack it.
- Visiting projects (subtrees) in an indirect buffer.
This uses a dedicated frame to display the tasks. The command is
bound to `C-c C-x b' in an Org-mode buffer, and to `b' in the agenda.
This is based on a discussion with Eddward DeVilla and
I had to look that up myself. It's 'C-u C-c .'. You may want to look
up the option org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes also.
Edd
On 11/22/06, J. David Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry everyone, I thought I saw this in the docs, but I can't find it now.
Is there someway to insert a timestam
On 11/21/06, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 20, 2006, at 17:49, Eddward DeVilla wrote:
Well, there is possibility that this might have worked, but I am not
convinced.
For me, if I use this file, I do get an entry "quick info" on November
2 in
my agenda, I don&
Looks like this will work.
Thanks,
Edd
On 11/15/06, J. David Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Eddward DeVilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a little trouble with the agenda buffer global todo list.
> The cursor is in the first column
Hi all,
I have a little trouble with the agenda buffer global todo list.
The cursor is in the first column where the there is no text and the
closest text is the category which for me tends to be the same for
several contiguous lines. Its hard for me to tell which item the
cursor is on. If I u
On 11/11/06, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 10, 2006, at 21:09, Eddward DeVilla wrote:
> (I need to learn to open individual Todo items in
> their own indirect buffer.)
I don't understand what you mean with this.
It would have been a way to keep the head
I'm fine with the bindings except I don't have a meta and there are
quite a few apps at work that seem to like Alt the way it is. I'm
little nervous about remapping ALT for all of X. I haven't found a
way to tell just emacs to consider ALT a Meta.
Edd
On 11/10/06, Tim O Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTE
Hi,
Another basic question, but should there be equivalent ESC key
bindings for all of the Meta key bindings? I know the binding for
M-S-RET doesn't seem to work. In checkbox/bullet lists, I get a
bullet but no checkbox and the checkbox counters don't update. I can
go through and put togeth
Hi all,
I'm afraid this might be more of an emacs question than an orgmode
specific question. I'm trying to move my org-mode config out of my
.emacs as much as possible and into something a little more
compartmentalized. I had tried to do as much as I could with #+, but
they can only go some
Hi,
I'm not on the latest version yet and it will be a few day until I
can get there. However, I found a bug in 4.51 when trying to store a
link using C-c C-l. I believe that's org-insert-link. In any case
org-insert-link gets called in there somewhere and dies calling
(file-truename buffer
Hi,
I have a potentially crazy feature request. There's a feature I
liked in a previous outliner I use that I kinda miss in org. In that
outliner, each node had it's own state as to whether or not is was
collapsed, such that you could collapse a node and it's children would
disappear, but wh
On 10/23/06, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 22, 2006, at 2:39, Eddward DeVilla wrote:
> ... but I don't know one aspect of Org that I hope is maintained.
> It's really flexible. Kind of like perl. It has a lot of little
wow. Can you tell I was
On 10/21/06, Christopher Kuettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aside from that...
What is the basic design model for org-mode? What is org supposed to
be? Where it is headed? I thought I got an outliner with
dates-capabilities. No it's almost a full fledged publishing platform...
I think you
Hi.
I assume this is a simple question and I should probably take it
somewhere else. I hope you'll forgive me. I'm still very new to
elisp and emacs code conventions. I'm trying to create a custom hook
to set the buffer name for org-mode buffers. Here's what I have so
far:
(defun my-org-b
Hi,
I had a question about link abbreviations. The manual says that you
can have a function that parses the abbreviated link and returns a
normal link. Is there a way to do that with in an org file using
"#+LINK:" or the like? I'm guessing the answer is no and the reason
being security.
Edd
ration of your setup will be restored when the agenda
exits. Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for triggering this
development. The new variables are org-agenda-window-setup
and org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit.
For example, Eddward, you might want to use
(setq org-agenda-
Hello,
Currently org-mode will adjust the justification in a column if it
thinks it is a numeric field. I use hexidecimal a lot and got some
wierd results. Eventually I found the option to adjust it and have
set my own RE of (org-table-number-regexp
"^\\([<>]?[-+^.0-9]*[0-9][-+^.0-9eEdDx()%]
Hi,
I've started to play with the agenda buffer and right up front
I've hit a bit of a problem. I tend to open really big emacs frames
(aka, a big window) and then open up several windows (aka. buffers) in
the frame. When I open the agenda buffer, I lose all of my windows
and get two windows
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out if I found a bug. I running org 4.47 on
emacs 21.1.1 on AIX. I'm pretty sure I've seen similar in cygwin and
linux with various version of emacs 21.
When I add or edit tags on a collapsed heading using C-c C-c, the
tags get place after the ellipse like so. (
I don't know if I'm following or not. I think I get the grouping you
are after. If trailing blank line are empty it does not collapse into
the text for a heading. If it is blank, but contains white space
character, it does collapse.
So I am able to do the following
--
* heading
Hi,
I've been using org mode for a few months and am far from
mastering it. I am moving off of another app call hnb that did
outlining. I prefer org mode to hnb but there things that I miss from
hnb. One of them was that check list would display status. For
instance, if I had the list...
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