[Orgmode] Re: org-beamer: How to get items appear sequentially rather than all at once

2010-03-23 Thread Christian Wittern
Dear Matt, On 2010-03-24 9:01, Matt Lundin wrote: You need to set the default overlay argument on the frame (i.e., [<+-]). This instructs LaTeX to create slides that reveal the items in the frame one by one. If you want to enable this behavior for all slides, you can place the following line be

Re: [Orgmode] Problems with hyperlinked files

2010-03-23 Thread Leo Alekseyev
> > I could reproduce this, but I don't know if this is really a bug. > (I never heard of protecting spaces with angle brackets.) Actually, it's right there in section 4.3 of the manual, last sentence: "if you need to remove ambiguities about the end of the link, enclose them in angular brackets.

[Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Bernt Hansen
Richard Riley writes: > Matt Lundin writes: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> Alexander Poslavsky writes: >> >>> There is a new tutorial on worg: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/ >>> org4beginners.php. The idea is to write a tutorial for somebody who is >>> new to org-mode. >> ... >>> For everybody: >>

[Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Matt Lundin wrote: > > Sorry if my question was unclear. I'm simply wondering whether we should > recommend a multi-step process to new users (i.e., C-x b to create a new > buffer and then C-x C-s to activate org-mode) when C-x C-f (find-file) > both creates a new bu

[Orgmode] iCalendar export using wrong directory?

2010-03-23 Thread David A. Gershman
Hello, My .emacs includes these lines: '(org-agenda-files (quote ("projects.org" "calendar.org"))) '(org-directory "~/") '(org-combined-agenda-icalendar-file "~/webdav/org.ics") ~/webdav is used for my MobileOrg staging area also. In my 'org-directory' are my source .org files including one

[Orgmode] Re: Confusion about TODO tags

2010-03-23 Thread Matt Lundin
Chao Lu writes: > Why we need the tag-todo, what's the difference between the tag-todo > and if I define a tag named with TODO? I could not find a "tag-todo" anywhere in the manual. Are you referring to the "tags-todo" search discussed in the documentation for org-agenda-custom-commands? If so,

[Orgmode] Re: org-beamer: How to get items appear sequentially rather than all at once

2010-03-23 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi Christian, Christian Wittern writes: > On 2010-03-24 1:08, Thomas S. Dye wrote: >> >> >> Aloha Christian, >> >> Please see the beamer documentation for >> \beamerdefaultoverlayspecification. You can likely set it to yield >> the behavior you're after. >> > Thomas, > Hmm, there does not seem

[Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Matt Lundin
Alexander Poslavsky writes: > On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Matt Lundin wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> Alexander Poslavsky writes: >> >>> There is a new tutorial on worg: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/ >>> org4beginners.php. The idea is to write a tutorial for somebody who is >>> new to org

Re: [Orgmode] org-beamer: How to get items appear sequentially rather than all at once

2010-03-23 Thread Christian Wittern
On 2010-03-24 1:08, Thomas S. Dye wrote: Aloha Christian, Please see the beamer documentation for \beamerdefaultoverlayspecification. You can likely set it to yield the behavior you're after. Thomas, Hmm, there does not seem to be such a thing as \beamerdefaultoverlayspecification. The

Re: [Orgmode] Basic orgmode tutorial

2010-03-23 Thread Russell Adams
The idea of a tutorial is great, but has anyone considered a pre-configured out-of-the-box Org customized Emacs distribution? I've had to help several new users get things like basic agenda, emacs initialization, and remember templates setup and it seemed very repetitive. The Emacs learning curve

Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas S. Dye
On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote: Hi Alexander Poslavsky schrieb: I was wondering if you could elaborate on the following. Are you suggesting that new users should never use M-x customize? Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I *never* use it. I think i

Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:43 PM, David Maus wrote: > Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote: >> Hi > >> Alexander Poslavsky schrieb: I was wondering if you could elaborate on the following. Are you suggesting that new users should never use M-x customize? >>> Well, I don't know about anybody

Re: [Orgmode] using orgmode to send html mail?

2010-03-23 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:54:39 -0600, Eric Schulte wrote: > Nice to see this topic has come back to life. > I've been playing with my old org-html-mail.el file, and come up with a > much simpler solution, which takes advantage of the mml message mode > functionality with is used in gnus (and I would

Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread David Maus
Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote: >Hi >Alexander Poslavsky schrieb: >> > I was wondering if you could elaborate on the following. Are you >> > suggesting that new users should never use M-x customize? >> Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I *never* use it. I think it is >> awful. But th

[Orgmode] Confusion about TODO tags

2010-03-23 Thread Chao Lu
Dear all, Why we need the tag-todo, what's the difference between the tag-todo and if I define a tag named with TODO? And is it possible when I change the state of one task to done, it will be archived automatically? Besides, how could I modify the behavior of the archive function, since I found

[Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Richard Riley
Matt Lundin writes: > Hi Alex, > > Alexander Poslavsky writes: > >> There is a new tutorial on worg: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/ >> org4beginners.php. The idea is to write a tutorial for somebody who is >> new to org-mode. > ... >> For everybody: >> -What kind of tutorial would be the

Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs
Hi Alexander Poslavsky schrieb: > > I was wondering if you could elaborate on the following. Are you > > suggesting that new users should never use M-x customize? > Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I *never* use it. I think it is > awful. But then, what do I know…. ---Zitatende--- Mayb

Re: [Orgmode] How to open pdf file links with evince under linux?..

2010-03-23 Thread Jan Böcker
On 23.03.2010 10:17, Leo Alekseyev wrote: > When using org mode under windows, links to local PDF files bring up > Acrobat. However, under linux, these links just spawn a new empty > buffer in emacs in fundamental mode. How can I make PDF links bring > up evince?... > As far as I know, Org uses

[Orgmode] Re: apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread Detlef Steuer
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:30:55 +0100 David Maus wrote: > The "quote(" looks like a leftover of something. The line should read: > > '(org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "STARTED" "WAITING" | "DONE"))) > > Maybe fixing this does the job? No, it didn't. > > If the (defmacro is not working my

Re: [Orgmode] Problems with hyperlinked files

2010-03-23 Thread Jan Böcker
On 23.03.2010 10:13, Leo Alekseyev wrote: > Hi all, > I am unable to open locally linked files if I use angle brackets to > protect spaces, like so: > >[[ Statistical Learning (2nd ed).pdf>][Hastie et al]] > > -- the echo area displays "no such file: E:\ebooks\math\Probability > and statistic

[Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Matt Lundin wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Alexander Poslavsky writes: > >> There is a new tutorial on worg: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/ >> org4beginners.php. The idea is to write a tutorial for somebody who is >> new to org-mode. > ... >> For everybody: >> -What

[Orgmode] [PATCH] Allow org-agenda-entry-types to trump org-agenda-include-deadlines

2010-03-23 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi Carsten, Commit 3a3a1023486111ef4e986de9f22e94ea9c05d890 introduced a new variable org-agenda-include-deadlines. In the commit, org-agenda-include-deadlines is set always to override org-agenda-entry-types (i.e., :deadline is automatically added to the local org-agenda-entry-types whenever org-

Re: [Orgmode] using orgmode to send html mail?

2010-03-23 Thread Eric Schulte
Nice to see this topic has come back to life. I've been playing with my old org-html-mail.el file, and come up with a much simpler solution, which takes advantage of the mml message mode functionality with is used in gnus (and I would imagine in some other Emacs mail clients, but I can't be sure).

Re: [Orgmode] Re: apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread David Maus
Detlef Steuer wrote: >Ok, here we go. >I put >(defmacro ignore-errors (&rest body) > "Execute BODY; if an error occurs, return nil. >Otherwise, return result of last form in BODY." > `(condition-case nil (progn ,@body) (error nil))) >in my .emacs as Carsten advised. >This action seems to be a

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Basic orgmode tutorial

2010-03-23 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: > Hi, > Alexander Poslavsky writes: > >> attached is an updated version of the file, added agenda and some lines on >> gtd and exporting. > > I just read it and you did a great job so far; I will have a closer look > later again, sadly I am very

[Orgmode] Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi Alex, Alexander Poslavsky writes: > There is a new tutorial on worg: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/ > org4beginners.php. The idea is to write a tutorial for somebody who is > new to org-mode. ... > For everybody: > -What kind of tutorial would be the most useful? > -What in your expe

[Orgmode] Re: Basic orgmode tutorial

2010-03-23 Thread Richard Riley
Memnon Anon writes: > Hi, > Alexander Poslavsky writes: > >> attached is an updated version of the file, added agenda and some lines on >> gtd and exporting. > > I just read it and you did a great job so far; I will have a closer look > later again, sadly I am very busy right now :(. > > Just o

[Orgmode] org-mode tutorial questionaire

2010-03-23 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
Hi! There is a new tutorial on worg: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org4beginners.php. The idea is to write a tutorial for somebody who is new to org-mode. Question for people new to org-mode: - What did you find especially confusing? - How did you start out? - What would you like to see

[Orgmode] [PATCH] Use save-excursion in org-map-dblocks

2010-03-23 Thread Magnus Henoch
This patch has been sitting in my tree for a while... It's a fix to org-map-dblocks, to make it use save-excursion instead of remembering position values. I need this since I have a dblock function that asynchronously updates dblocks from HTTP responses, and some dblocks ended up getting updated

[Orgmode] Re: Basic orgmode tutorial

2010-03-23 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi, Alexander Poslavsky writes: > attached is an updated version of the file, added agenda and some lines on > gtd and exporting. I just read it and you did a great job so far; I will have a closer look later again, sadly I am very busy right now :(. Just one suggestion: I think it would be ni

Re: [Orgmode] Publish atom feeds based on Org files

2010-03-23 Thread David Maus
Eric S Fraga wrote: >> >> Thanks, I'll look into this. It looks like that the (dolist on the >> beginning requires cl. Never considered byte compiling the file. >Actually, all that's required for org-atom to load properly for me is to have Ah, yes. Forgot the obvious. Thanks. -- David -- Op

Re: [Orgmode] Typo in website worg/org-blog-articles.php

2010-03-23 Thread David Maus
Jens Kubieziel wrote: >[1 ] >[1.1 ] >Hi, >in http://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-articles.php> is a link "Using >org-mode with ikiwiki". The URl reads >http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/blog/2008/06/08/Using_org-mode_with_Ikiwiki/%20%3E%3E>. >But the %20%3E%3E ( >>) is wrong here and should

[Orgmode] Re: apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread Detlef Steuer
Ok, here we go. I put (defmacro ignore-errors (&rest body) "Execute BODY; if an error occurs, return nil. Otherwise, return result of last form in BODY." `(condition-case nil (progn ,@body) (error nil))) in my .emacs as Carsten advised. This action seems to be a complicated form of do-noth

Re: [Orgmode] [PATCH] Avoid leaving point inside hidden block

2010-03-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Dan, please go ahead and apply it to the master branch. Thanks - Carsten On Mar 23, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Dan Davison wrote: If you 1. fold a code block 2. place point at the beginning of the #begin_src line 3. switch to the edit buffer using C-c ' 4. exit the edit buffer with C-c ' point w

[Orgmode] [PATCH] Avoid leaving point inside hidden block

2010-03-23 Thread Dan Davison
If you 1. fold a code block 2. place point at the beginning of the #begin_src line 3. switch to the edit buffer using C-c ' 4. exit the edit buffer with C-c ' point will not return to where it started but instead be by the ..., reflecting the fact that it returned to a buffer position that is not

Re: [Orgmode] Re: apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:50:08 +0100, Detlef Steuer wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:11:26 +0100 > Jörg Hagmann wrote: > > > Try without a space between Test and [/] ? > > No change. > > One more observation while trying this out: > > C-c C-c in a checkbox line _always_ gives > Invalid funct

[Orgmode] Strange results of special symbol inside brackets in PDF output

2010-03-23 Thread Keith
Dear all, Well..., I am just new to both emacs and org-mode and trying to get used to it :-) I noticed something strange and I think it's might be a bug converting to tex file. I've been trying to put a special symbol inside a bracket, e.g. air temperature (degree Celsius) and the symbol

Re: [Orgmode] apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Detlef, `ignore-errors' is defined in cl-macs in Emacs 22. You need to compile the .el file to get this macro. Alternatively, define it in your .emacs file before loading org-mode stuff: (defmacro ignore-errors (&rest body) "Execute BODY; if an error occurs, return nil. Otherwise, r

[Orgmode] RE: Displaying your Org agenda after idle time

2010-03-23 Thread Marvin Doyley
This is an awesome function. Thanks M ___ 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: apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread Detlef Steuer
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:11:26 +0100 Jörg Hagmann wrote: > Try without a space between Test and [/] ? No change. One more observation while trying this out: C-c C-c in a checkbox line _always_ gives Invalid function: ignore-errors Detlef ___ Ema

Re: [Orgmode] apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Try without a space between Test and [/] ? On 3/23/10 10:51 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:37:14 +0100, Detlef Steuer wrote: Hi! I try to use checkboxes (never used before): * TODO Test [/] - [ ] first - [ ] second Now I can C-c C-c to state-change a single box, bu

[Orgmode] Re: [feature request] use relative path in the file set by org-agenda-files

2010-03-23 Thread Mikael Fornius
I have made a small patch implementing the following behavior: With org-agenda-files = "/home/mfo/org/agenda", a filename. | Line in agenda-file| Expands to: | |+--| | $HOME/org/org-mode.org | "/home/mfo/org/org-mode.org" |

Re: [Orgmode] apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:37:14 +0100, Detlef Steuer wrote: > > Hi! > > I try to use checkboxes (never used before): > > * TODO Test [/] > - [ ] first > - [ ] second > > Now I can C-c C-c to state-change a single box, but the summary box in the > headline never gets updated. Very strange. T

Re: [Orgmode] Publish atom feeds based on Org files

2010-03-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:47:40 +0100, David Maus wrote: > > [1 ] > Eric S Fraga wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:00:23 +0100, David Maus wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> Carving another stone that might fit into the cathedral known as > >> Emacs/Orgmode I am glad to present attached file org-ato

[Orgmode] apparently too stupid to use checkboxes

2010-03-23 Thread Detlef Steuer
Hi! I try to use checkboxes (never used before): * TODO Test [/] - [ ] first - [ ] second Now I can C-c C-c to state-change a single box, but the summary box in the headline never gets updated. If I try C-c # I get an error messge Invalid function: ignore errors Even if I cut'n'paste the

Re: [Orgmode] 'Double-entry' journals

2010-03-23 Thread Jan Böcker
> So... 1.org and 2. org will be like this. The problem is > that when I export I want the output to look like this: > > * > **Activity for project 1 on day 1 here > **Activity for project2 on day 1 here > * > **Activity for project 1 on day 2 here > **Activity for project2 on day

Re: [Orgmode] Exporting non utf8 org documents

2010-03-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Francesco Pizzolante wrote: Hi Carsten, I'm sorry for my very very late reply on this topic, but I'm just observing problem with this. you can remove the code I sent you again, and instead grab the latest git release. Then you can also do (setq org-export-

[Orgmode] How to open pdf file links with evince under linux?..

2010-03-23 Thread Leo Alekseyev
When using org mode under windows, links to local PDF files bring up Acrobat. However, under linux, these links just spawn a new empty buffer in emacs in fundamental mode. How can I make PDF links bring up evince?... ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Ple

[Orgmode] Problems with hyperlinked files

2010-03-23 Thread Leo Alekseyev
Hi all, I am unable to open locally linked files if I use angle brackets to protect spaces, like so: [[][Hastie et al]] -- the echo area displays "no such file: E:\ebooks\math\Probability and statistics\The Elements of Statistical Learning (2nd ed).pdf>" < note the right angle bracket here

[Orgmode] Typo in website worg/org-blog-articles.php

2010-03-23 Thread Jens Kubieziel
Hi, in http://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-articles.php> is a link "Using org-mode with ikiwiki". The URl reads http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/blog/2008/06/08/Using_org-mode_with_Ikiwiki/%20%3E%3E>. But the %20%3E%3E ( >>) is wrong here and should be removed. Thanks -- Jens Kubieziel

Re: [Orgmode] 'Double-entry' journals

2010-03-23 Thread Haroldo Stenger
hi , 2010/3/19 Jan Böcker : > generated the project specific ones automatically from that. The normal > Org approach is to go the opposite direction: you edit your project > files directly and use the agenda to view tasks (and notes, if you > include an active timestamp in them or tell the agenda

[Orgmode] [feature request] use relative path in the file set by org-agenda-files

2010-03-23 Thread zwz
The variable "org-agenda-files" can be a list of file names or a single file name. I prefer the latter, since it is much easier to maintain one ordinary file without modifying the .emacs. So in my .emacs I just use: (setq org-agenda-files (expand-file-name "agenda" org-directory)) However, it s

Re: [Orgmode] bug exporting code blocks to html

2010-03-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Mar 22, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Eric Schulte wrote: Hi Martin, This appears to be a bug in org-mode at large, rather than anything specifically babel related. notice that the following slight alteration of your new reference syntax works as expected #+begin_src xml -n -r -l "ref:%s" ref:i

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Meta-return on an empty headline breaks the headline instead of leaving it empty

2010-03-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
Fixed, thanks. - Carsten On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:13 AM, Ryan Thompson wrote: I have found a bug. When the point is at the end of an empty headline and you press M-RET (or C-RET) to make a new headline, it deletes all the whitespace at the end of the empty headline first, which causes the headlin

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Displaying your Org agenda after idle time

2010-03-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:15 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: I like this also. It would be fantastic if the agenda were displayed, as it is now, while a simple keystroke would return one to the point he was at when the function was called. I might one day have time to try to figure out how to do this,

[Orgmode] org-beamer: How to get items appear sequentially rather than all at once

2010-03-23 Thread Christian Wittern
Hello Org-mode users, I am trying to prepare a presentation with org-mode. So far, I got it working by changing the sample file on the website until it looks like I need it. However, I did not manage to get the points on a slide to appear one after the other, they are always there at once. The