Re: [O] Seeking advice on timeline project

2012-07-22 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Alan, I would probably put the approximate date first, i.e. NOT an org date, but simply a _sorteable_ 2001 or 2002-03 and then use C-c ^ to establish the timeline. (I do not check how well this bodes with the syntax I suggest! You need to find a sort-syntax combo that works.) Later you ca

[O] Birthdays, org-contacts and agenda filters - a bug?

2012-07-22 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, I have a working setup for birthdays from org-contacts in my default agenda. However I use split work/private agendas which are discerned using org-agenda-tag-filter-preset. As it happens, my birthday heading does not inherit its tags (from FILETAGS) as I intend; I even tried this: *

[O] Problems with org-crypt on win7

2012-07-13 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, with some luck I managed top get org-crypt and gpg-agent running mostly smoothly on win7/emacs 23. Except one or two things which is why I'm seeking help here. emacs 24 did not work well (crashed when opening files), so an update is not an option so far. My files are utf-8 unix, as I

Re: [O] Showing or going to previous entry from agenda view

2012-07-08 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Karl, pretty much the same for me. org-reveal says ... With optional argument SIBLINGS, on each level of the hierarchy all siblings are shown. This repairs the tree structure to what it would look like when opened with hierarchical calls to `org-cycle'. With double optional argument C-u C-

Re: [O] Case insensitive search

2012-06-24 Thread Simon Thum
On 06/24/2012 05:21 PM, Karl Voit wrote: * Simon Thum wrote: Hi, thanks for sharing your setup. Piggybacking on this thread, I'm just starting with org-contacts and wonder how I could get it to perform case-insensitive searches? (This would make it easier to search for parts of names)

[O] Customizing org-contacts Was: Re: How I am organizing contacts

2012-06-24 Thread Simon Thum
Hi, thanks for sharing your setup. Piggybacking on this thread, I'm just starting with org-contacts and wonder how I could get it to perform case-insensitive searches? (This would make it easier to search for parts of names) Cheers, Simon On 06/23/2012 11:58 AM, Karl Voit wrote: * Sriram

Re: [O] MobileOrg - Symbol's value as variable is void: org-agenda-filter

2012-06-22 Thread Simon Thum
See commit 71089b7e3b00736f854d6e95a52229853262e12a Author: Bastien Guerry Date: Wed Jan 4 16:37:59 2012 +0100 org-mobile.el (org-mobile-push): Use `org-agenda-tag-filter'. * org-mobile.el (org-mobile-push): Use `org-agenda-tag-filter' instead of the obsolete `org-agenda-filter'.

[O] [Solved] Re: Taskjuggler and installation

2012-06-12 Thread Simon Thum
Hi, just wanted to say it was indeed emacs picking up an ages-old org-install.el. Thanks, Simon On 06/06/2012 01:46 AM, Nick Dokos wrote: Simon Thum wrote: Hi all, I am using org-mode's taskjuggler export on two machines (win7 standard emacs 23.3/linux emacs 23.4.2) with 99% iden

Re: [O] Taskjuggler and installation

2012-06-07 Thread Simon Thum
On 06/06/2012 01:46 AM, Nick Dokos wrote: Simon Thum wrote: Hi all, I am using org-mode's taskjuggler export on two machines (win7 standard emacs 23.3/linux emacs 23.4.2) with 99% identical configuartion. Except for one funny thing: What org-version? Do you byte-compile the code on

[O] Taskjuggler and installation

2012-06-05 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, I am using org-mode's taskjuggler export on two machines (win7 standard emacs 23.3/linux emacs 23.4.2) with 99% identical configuartion. Except for one funny thing: Taskjuggler export raises an undefined function on windows. Yes, I do require 'org-install, org-mode from identical sou

[O] Simple git synchronization script

2012-05-20 Thread Simon Thum
Dear org-moders, I have googled a lot for synchronization scripts but found nothing that fits my (perceived) requirements. So I cooked something up and today took the time polish it for a broader audience. It got some 6 months of testing, albeit not in its current form. As org-mode is my pri

Re: [O] Possible bug in parsing / clarification of syntax

2012-05-13 Thread Simon Thum
On 05/13/2012 07:54 PM, Bastien wrote: Hi Simon, Simon Thum writes: I have not checked master but on maint it still exists. Do you need any more details to reproduce? The fix is on master, not on maint. Please check the fix is okay for you. Also, if Charles can check if the fix does

Re: [O] Possible bug in parsing / clarification of syntax

2012-05-13 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Bastien, I have not checked master but on maint it still exists. Do you need any more details to reproduce? Cheers, Simon On 05/08/2012 02:13 PM, Bastien wrote: Hi Simon, Simon Thum writes: I have to revoke my earlier statement. The patch does _not_ remove the TODO_ line from the

Re: [O] Org-babel: Maxima invocation fix

2012-05-08 Thread Simon Thum
Hi, thanks for the swift inclusion. I've read through the how to contribute now to do better itf. On 05/08/2012 02:15 PM, Bastien wrote: Hi Simon, Simon Thum writes: attached the new fix. Does the "v2" line count as changelog? Not really -- but thanks for the new p

Re: [O] Org-babel: Maxima invocation fix

2012-05-08 Thread Simon Thum
Hi, attached the new fix. Does the "v2" line count as changelog? Cheers, Simon On 05/07/2012 11:02 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Simon Thum writes: I'm sure there is a better way to fix this, but the attached patch helps me to not get something like "Warning: argument nil not

[O] Org-babel: Maxima invocation fix

2012-05-07 Thread Simon Thum
check. Cheers, Simon >From c2a506dd076d0ddb4a7eb925ff5276fdd60abe58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Thum Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 21:05:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] fix maxima invocation without explicit parameters Signed-off-by: Simon Thum --- lisp/ob-maxima.el |2 +- 1 files changed,

Re: [O] Possible bug in parsing / clarification of syntax

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Bastien, I have to revoke my earlier statement. The patch does _not_ remove the TODO_ line from the agenda. I see no change at all. Cheers, Simon On 04/10/2012 07:31 PM, Bastien wrote: Hi Simon, Simon Thum writes: I have found some irritating behaviour, potentially a bug. I have a

Re: [O] multiple date_tree values possible in a single file

2012-04-15 Thread Simon Thum
On 04/14/2012 03:23 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: On 12.4.2012, at 16:55, Nick Dokos wrote: Stuart McLean wrote: Hi, Nick I have expressed myself poorly. It is not so much what I can not get to work. It is more "is such-and-such possible". I would like to have two headings in one file, and to

Re: [O] Possible bug in parsing / clarification of syntax

2012-04-15 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Bastien, my agenda is fine with the patch. Cheers, Simon On 04/10/2012 07:31 PM, Bastien wrote: Hi Simon, Simon Thum writes: I have found some irritating behaviour, potentially a bug. I have a block agenda which goes like: tags-todo "@home&TODO=\"TODO\" and it dis

[O] Date parsing silent failure / german dates

2012-04-01 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, it seem org-mode has some support for dates of the form dd.mm.[]. This is a popular notation in germany and probably elsewhere, but the support is undocumented and apparently very limited. For example, 06.03. => 2012-06-03 but adding a time like 03.06. 17:00 => today's date T

Re: [O] [DEV] New git workflow

2012-04-01 Thread Simon Thum
depends on the fix and the project and what not. Just my 2c. Cheers, Simon On 03/24/2012 08:29 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: Simon Thum wrote: Hi Daniel, On 03/24/2012 12:05 PM, Daniel Dehennin wrote: Simon Thum writes: It seems that one problem with cherry-picking is the tracking of what is

Re: [O] [DEV] New git workflow

2012-03-24 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Daniel, On 03/24/2012 12:05 PM, Daniel Dehennin wrote: Simon Thum writes: It seems that one problem with cherry-picking is the tracking of what is in which branch and from where it comes. I'm not a git neither DVCS guru, but daggyfixes[1][2][3] is saner than cherry-picking. I&#x

Re: [O] [DEV] New git workflow

2012-03-21 Thread Simon Thum
On 03/21/2012 10:01 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Simon Thum writes: Whether multiple branches are involved depends mainly on what releases one intends to maintain. The nice thing in the model is the gradual maintenance: A really critical fix could see more backports than a nicety. Yes. Bastien h

Re: [O] [DEV] New git workflow

2012-03-21 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Achim, On 03/20/2012 11:27 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Sorry, but cherry-picking into multiple release branches would simply not be a sane development model for a small project like orgmode. I just wanted to make sure it's considered. Whether multiple branches are involved depends mainly on wha

Re: [O] [DEV] New git workflow

2012-03-20 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, as discussion started anyway, I'd like to mention that I see some problem with maint, that is, it only ever pertains to the latest release. It's hard to hotfix and release old versions in the proposed model. Moreover, maint is bound quite tightly to master. maint seems like a somewha

[O] Request for hacks: Project month notations

2012-03-19 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, I'm working on a project where project dates were initially defined by a relative time given in months to some fixed date (the kick-off). So I've got a lot of dates which look like "M19" (month 19 after kick-off), and I would like to use this notation (or something resembling it) for

Re: [O] [bug] org-agenda-write does not handle date stamps without day of week

2012-03-17 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Karl, why don't you add something like an "xx" day which will probably please org-mode - in my tests org ignored the weekday. I concluded it's there for viewing convenience, and editing (C-.) always got me the right DOW. I don't use org2ical, however. Cheers, Simon On 03/05/2012 03:44

[O] Possible bug in parsing / clarification of syntax

2012-03-04 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, I have found some irritating behaviour, potentially a bug. I have a block agenda which goes like: tags-todo "@home&TODO=\"TODO\" and it displays a certain org line that reads TODO_ state triggers Which is just a heading for dealing with TODO state triggers, and I appended the

Re: [O] agenda view for TODOs without deadline and a certain tag

2012-02-21 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Renato, one of my block agendas has (tags-todo "@work&TODO=\"TODO\"&SCHEDULED=\"\"&DEADLINE=\"\") i.e. lists todos which are tagged @work and aren't scheduled or deadlined. I guess for interactive you have to unquote the "s. HTH, Simon On 02/20/2012 10:41 PM, Renato wrote: Hi, h

Re: [O] Recurring multiple days events

2012-02-05 Thread Simon Thum
On 02/04/2012 11:45 PM, Brian van den Broek wrote: On 4 Feb 2012 22:55, "Simon Thum" wrote: Hi all, it seems to me that specifying recurring multi-days things like <2012-12-24 +1y>--<2012-12-15> do not show up in the agenda. I know there sexp dates, but thes

[O] Recurring multiple days events

2012-02-04 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, it seems to me that specifying recurring multi-days things like <2012-12-24 +1y>--<2012-12-15> do not show up in the agenda. I know there sexp dates, but these have other drawbacks. Is that just the wrong notation or not even something org-mode intends to support? Cheers, Simon

Re: [O] Possible bug in mobile export

2012-02-02 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Gerd, thanks for the pointer! I guess I could have googled it... On 02/01/2012 01:58 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: The following fix is in org master, but not in 7.8. I am able to use org-mobile-push. commit 71089b7e3b00736f854d6e95a52229853262e12a Author: Bastien Guerry Date: Wed Jan 4 16:37

Re: [O] Google Tasks Integration

2012-02-01 Thread Simon Thum
On 01/31/2012 08:10 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: Simon Thum writes: On 01/31/2012 02:12 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: I would be very interested in this. I have links to and from google calendar for appointments but could not figure out how to do either direction for TODO items. You might want to

[O] Possible bug in mobile export

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Thum
Dear all, I've set up my mobile sync, which worked fine in versions 6.3 - 7.7. Now I upgraded to 7.8 and when I fire up org-mobile-push I get: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-agenda-filter) org-mobile-push() call-interactively(org-mobile-push nil nil) The variable is not

Re: [O] how do scientists use org mode?

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Christopher, to add my 2c: I'm using org-mode to track our participation in a mid-sized project (9 Partners, ~30 People, 3 Years). I'm not coordinating, in which case I'd probably look for more project management centric tools, and thus found org-mode to be very useful. I use it to track

Re: [O] Google Tasks Integration

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Thum
On 01/30/2012 08:33 PM, Patrick Brennan wrote: This weekend, while trying to avoid doing any real work, I started noodling around with the Google Tasks API and I got a respectable distance toward a script which will read your Google Tasks and export them to Org-mode. Currently it will capture the

Re: [O] Google Tasks Integration

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Thum
On 01/31/2012 02:12 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: I would be very interested in this. I have links to and from google calendar for appointments but could not figure out how to do either direction for TODO items. You might want to give my script a try: https://github.com/simonthum/ical2org I'm using

[O] New iCalendar import script

2012-01-29 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, I've written an iCalendar import script in ruby (I know, not emacs lisp, but at the least I should let you be aware). I think it's an improvement over the awk script, so you may consider mentioning it in the appropriate places. See https://github.com/simonthum/ical2org It has more

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