[O] hiding the PROPERTIES drawer
Hi, Is there an easier solution to hiding the :PROPERTIES: drawer by default ? I was reading through this [1] but it's extremely complicated and I would like to use this but.. currently it's absent from org-mode. What do you use for this ? (Btw, I mainly want to hide the PROPERTIES drawer because of the ID that's always there for me. I need the ID to be there, but I don't want to see it, and so I would prefer the drawer to be hidden/folded) [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17478260/completely-hide-the-properties-drawer-in-org-mode
[O] org-mode timestamp and calendar questions
Hi, Is it possible to make org-mode timestamps inactive? (I mean, the calendar(Google calendar) and the org-agenda would ignore them) I tried specifying that I should be notified 1h in advance for an event like this : 2015-03-24 Mon 07:30 -1h but apparently this is not the way to do it. Is it currently possible to do this and if so, what is the correct org-mode timestamp markup for this ? Best regards, Stefan
Re: [O] Possible bug: Can not search for text in links - only description
Hi Rainer, In terms of searching through all open buffers, here is what I use (helm and helm-multi-occur): , | (setq helm-M-x-requires-pattern 0) | | ;; http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/740 | (require 'helm-regexp) | (eval-after-load helm-regexp | '(setq helm-source-moccur | (helm-make-source Moccur 'helm-source-multi-occur :follow 1))) | (defun my-helm-multi-occur-buffers () | multi-occur in all buffers backed by files. | (interactive) | (helm-multi-occur |(delq nil | (mapcar (lambda (b) |(when (buffer-file-name b) (buffer-name b))) | (buffer-list) | (global-set-key (kbd C-x C-p) (lambda () | (interactive) | (helm-mode 1) | (my-helm-multi-occur-buffers) | (helm-mode 0) | )) ` There are other solutions to this such as org-velocity: - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-velocity.html - https://github.com/Fuco1/org-velocity Both helm + helm-multi-occur and org-velocity offer auto-complete search functionality. Best regards On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:44:29PM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I got an error as follow when I tried to export: , | org-babel-exp process R at line 5495... | Evaluation of this R code-block is disabled. | user-error: Unable to resolve link *uLELFit ` I thought OK - I'll search for uLELFit and just fix this link - but I could do what I wanted, I did not manage to find the link. I figured out that I can not search for text in the link. Thins is quite annoying, especially as I even thought of opening the file in another texteditor, search for the string, and save it again. As an example: if this link is in an org-mode file, A search for exa does not return any results. [[*Examples][Link to exp]] Is this a problem on my side? , | Org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-927-ge0b19d @ /Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp/) | GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0, Carbon Version 157 AppKit 1343.16) of 2015-02-02 on Rainers-MacBook-Pro-4.local ` Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug email: Raineratkrugsdotde PGP: 0x0F52F982
Re: [O] [proposal] timezone-aware timestamps enhancement
Hi Eric, I've also seen these threads from the archive of the mailing list discussing about the very same thing. In summary it seems that in 2008 Carsten's opinion on this was that it would add a lot of complexity and it's a pandora's box about to be open. In 2014, Nicolas's reply seems a bit more encouraging. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/93082/focus=93082 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5145/focus=5145 On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 04:33:44PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote: There is no specific solution unfortunately. Having spent a year living and working across time zones, I was unable to find a good solution. And, in fact, the problem was compounded by trying to synchronise org data with Google's calendar and with MS Outlook. I eventually simply stopped synchronising and relied on my computer having the time that was appropriate for where I was at the time. All So would your computer find out the timezone and switch it automatically ? (IIRC Ubuntu does that by default) On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 04:33:44PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote: org data were local time with a fluid definition of local. I'd be interested in knowing a bit more about the fluid definition.
Re: [O] [proposal] timezone-aware timestamps enhancement
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 02:09:31PM -0400, Ken Mankoff wrote: I have a solution that works quite well outside of Org. Apple Calendar supports timezones plus a floating option. I use Org for all my floating events - local to the computer and me, whatever TZ we're in. I haven't found a way to put TZ-specific events into Org. If scheduling a Skype with someone in NZ, I enter it in iCal at the NZ time in the NZ timezone. Org pulls in my iCal events. Then wherever I am when that event happens, I get the alert at the correct time. Most things are local to me, so I use floating and stay in Org. I wrote a silly elisp function that does the conversion for me. Hah, yeah ! exactly, I use it for the exact same thing, scheduling an interview with someone on the other side of the planet. So for example they ask me Can you provide us with times when you're available for an interview ? and I just make a table and let them decide when: | time Tokyo | time Sofia | |+| | 2015-03-20 18:00 | 2015-03-20 Fri 11:00 | | 2015-03-21 14:00 | 2015-03-21 Sat 07:00 | | 2015-03-22 14:00 | 2015-03-22 Sun 07:00 | | 2015-03-23 14:00 | 2015-03-23 Mon 07:00 | | 2015-03-24 14:00 | 2015-03-24 Tue 07:00 | #+TBLFM: $1='(concat (org-tz-conv $2 Asia/Tokyo to) ) You said above you're using iCal (do you mean, Google Calendar or Apple Calendar?). I'd be interested in setting this up as well, which one should I be using ? At this point in time I'm using Org-Mode's agenda to view events. Should I try to sync them up with my phone and if so what is the recommended way to go ? This is the implementation of org-tz-conv: (defun org-tz-conv (stamp tz way) (let* ( (current-tz-offset (shell-command-to-string date +%z)) (stamp1(concat (replace-regexp-in-string [] stamp) current-tz-offset)) (date-cmd-p0 TZ=%s date -d \%s\) (date-cmd-p1 date --date=\TZ=\\\%s\\\ %s\) (date-cmd-p2 +\%F %H:%M\) (date-cmd-rendered1 (format date-cmd-p1 tz stamp1 )) (date-cmd-from (concat date-cmd-rendered1 date-cmd-p2)) (date-cmd-to(concat (format date-cmd-p0 tz stamp1) date-cmd-p2)) (shell-result-from (shell-command-to-string date-cmd-from )) (shell-result-to (shell-command-to-string date-cmd-to )) (result-from (replace-regexp-in-string \n shell-result-from) ) (result-to (replace-regexp-in-string \n shell-result-to ) ) ) (message shell-result-from) (message shell-result-to) (cond ((string-equal way from) result-from) ((string-equal way to ) result-to )) ))
[O] ID property generated by org-mobile
Does the ID property have any use? I know I can disable it, but where is it being used ? (the ID property that org-mobile generates for each heading) Are there any drawbacks to just disabling it with (setq org-mobile-force-id-on-agenda-items nil) ? Is it being used somewhere in particular ?
Re: [O] How to represent Emacs keystrokes in Org?
Hi Marcin,
I'm going to reference a hangout of Sacha Chua and Xah Lee
where they talked about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPKWqvTImA
( you can download it with livestreamer like so
livestreamer -o xlsc.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPKWqvTImA 360p )
At 26:53 Xah Lee starts explaining about how his
setup related to rendering keystrokes in emacs.
At 27:13 he mentions this function = xhm-htmlize-keyboard-shortcut-notation
Apparently this is used to render the keystrokes.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:48:30PM +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
Hi there,
it seems that reviving old threads is my new hobby;-).
On 2014-11-29, at 22:58, Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl wrote:
On 2014-11-29, at 22:53, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
On 2014-11-24, at 19:38, Rasmus wrote:
Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl writes:
Hello,
I'm writing (in Org) a text on Emacs usage. How to
correctly/canonically represent keystrokes, like C-x RET f?
Currently, I use =C-x RET f=; are there any alternatives?
That's what I'd do. Or ~C-x RET f~. You could also use a macro, if you
want it to me be more semantic (I hope I use this word correctly).
This might seem a good idea, but how do I do it? (See below for
a concrete problem statement.)
Houston, we've got a problem. What about =M-,=? Somehow it seems not
to be interpreted in the right way: it does not get fontified correctly,
nor does export in the right way. What can I do about it? I found
about org-emphasis-regexp-components, is it the only way? Also, how do
I reload Org without restarting Emacs? (I am an Emacs geek and I try to
beat my record of emacs-uptime, you know. ;-) )
Wow, I got an idea, and it worked. Here's an excerpt from `C-u C-x ='
at my solution;-):
position: 11859 of 16051 (74%), column: 253
character: (displayed as ) (codepoint 8205, #o20015, #x200d)
preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x200D
syntax: .which means: punctuation
to input: type C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT or C-x 8 RET NAME
buffer code: #xE2 #x80 #x8D
file code: #xE2 #x80 #x8D (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
display: by this font (glyph code)
xft:-unknown-Phetsarath
OT-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x120)
Character code properties: customize what to show
name: ZERO WIDTH JOINER
A bit ugly trick, but works. What are the opinions?
After a while I have to say that my opinion is strongly negative: this
breaks LaTeX export. (LaTeX doesn’t like some unicode characters, it
turns out.) Also, this was really an ugly hack...
So, here is my problem: how to represent a key like M-, or
e.g. a sequence \, (important in regexps) as “code” or “verbatim stuff”
in org-mode? Neither =\,= nor ~\,~ work, of course. Also, I’d like
this to be backend-agnostic, so \texttt{M-,} doesn’t really work.
What is the rationale behind forbidding the comma as the “border”
character in org-emphasis-regexp-components? Should I change this
variable in my setup or is there a more general way to convince Org that
I really want verbatim/code snippets like =\,=?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
[O] [proposal] timezone-aware timestamps enhancement
Hi, Currently, AFAIK when scheduling something in Org-Mode, the timestamp doesn't have a timezone. Use-case example: Let's say Carsten Dominik schedules a meeting with someone, then jumps on a plane and travels to some place that's on a timezone difference of -/+ 3 hours. He will probably miss the meeting. I propose one of the following alternatives: * either all timestamps are considered UTC and they dynamically change with the timezone of the system where Emacs is running * timestamps come with timezone so the user can see what time the meeting was scheduled at. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I welcome any feedback on this as I'm interested in how other people are solving this sort of problem.
[O] [proposal] better documentation around syntax highlighting Org-Mode code blocks when exporting to LaTeX
Hi, While writing technical documents, as a programmer and an Org-Mode user, for me it's important to have ways to syntax highlight code blocks when exporting them to LaTeX. While I am aware of the customizations that need to be done to Org-Mode's configuration in order to get that to work, in particular customizing these variables(see [1] for details): * org-latex-listings * org-latex-custom-lang-environments * org-latex-minted-options and having tried them, I got this working for one document, but it really felt like a lot of trial-and-error and a lot of room for error on my side as a user. Although this is Org-Mode and it is supposed to be very customizable (like Emacs is), I still believe the documentation and the implementation can be improved on this. I think there's even reason to believe that this should be working out of the box. The only reason I see for this not being the default setting is to not add pygments [2] as a dependency. Still, I think it should be much easier for me as a user to spend less time getting it to work. I welcome any feedback on this. Thank you for taking the time to read my proposal. [1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-12-2 [2] http://pygments.org/
[O] Bug: columns in tables with fixed length affected by folded links
Hi, I've noticed that if I have a table like this: | l30 | l85 | |+---| | Question | Answer | |+---| |Stuff | | || [[http://very-long-link/][text that would fit the column fixed width]] | || | And I do C-c C-c (or M-x org-table-align) and org-toggle-link-display to fold the link, it still shows up as = which means that Org-Mode has taken into consideration the actual length of the entire link when it did the folding. Instead, I propose that it only takes into consideration the length of the link text. I'm not sure what part of the code is responsible for this. I am reporting this as a bug here on the mailing list.
[O] [proposal] enhancement of Org-Mode tables and related features
Hi 1) Org-Mode tables currently do not have an easy way to format each cell individually. For regular text, I can select a region and do M-x fill-paragraph and that works fine, but for Org-Mode tables, I cannot do that. Yes, I know about M-x org-table-wrap-region , I have tried to use it for a few hours, read the manuals, read pages that talked about it and I was unable to get it working. 2) As a user, I'd also really appreciate M-x RET to work better. Currently if I go somewhere on a line and run that, the text until the end of that line is deleted and prepended to the start of the next line. So, by doing that, I solved the length of the text on the current line, but now I moved the problem to the next line, where the text is again longer than it should be. 3) I've used C-c ` a few times and tried to make sense of it. As far as I can tell it only works for one line. For me personally, in order for C-c ` to be useful, I would expect it to work on the entire table cell, not just one line in the table cell. These are my suggestions for improvements. I welcome feedback on them. Thanks for taking the time to read this
[O] Bug: columns in tables with fixed length affected by folded links
Hi, I've noticed that if I have a table like this: | l30 | l85 | |+---| | Question | Answer | |+---| |Stuff | | || [[http://very-long-link/][text that would fit the column fixed width]] | || | And I do C-c C-c (or M-x org-table-align) and org-toggle-link-display to fold the link, it still shows up as = which means that Org-Mode has taken into consideration the actual length of the entire link when it did the folding. Instead, I propose that it only takes into consideration the length of the link text. I'm not sure what part of the code is responsible for this. I am reporting this as a bug here on the mailing list.
