Re: [O] [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly)
On Thursday 22 January 2015 12:33:12 Neven wrote: > *NOTE* It's about an app which is *not* open source (some parts of code > will opened, see below). If you have a problem with that, you can stop > reading right about now... > http://www.orgzly.com/ Hi Neven, I tried Orgzly today on my work phone (which is 100% proprietary anyways). I love it. It is just not really an option for trusting important data to it if it is closed source. Back in December 2015 you planned to release Orgzly as free software in "Q2 2016": https://plus.google.com/112212983680346701286/posts/hGnkkxDsUjT I would be happy to help you work out any blockers that hinders you from releasing the source code. Several people told you that they would be happy to sponsor your ongoing work on Orgzly and I would so too. If you think your code is not ready yet to be seen by others, don't think so. It will never be ready. It would be a shame if all your great work could not be appreciated by a larger audience. We might want to continue this conversation in the google group, but maybe some other orgmode users want to express their ongoing interest in a free software version of Orgzly. Regards, Thomas
[O] org the program vs. org the format
Hi, there's a discussion on emacs-devel[1] about replacing texinfo as the documentation format and org is mentioned. RMS correctly mentions that org- mode is not a format but a program. This was also my problem when I thought about using org-mode at work in my team. Since I'm the only emacs user we decided to use asciidoc which is a format that can be edited and processed with different programs. So org-mode is a bit like PHP which also doesn't (didn't) have a specification but the implementation is the specification. Would it be possible to change the format of org-mode to be a superset of e.g. asciidoc or markdown but keep the features? [1] On being web-friendly and why info must die Regards, Thomas Koch
[O] [FeatureReq]: Move nodes in column view
Hi, I'm just learning about column view. It might be very useful to work on scrum backlogs with column view and storypoints as a column. It would be wonderful if I could move nodes up and down in column view to reorder the priority of backlog items represented as org nodes. Is this possible already? Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
[O] org-attach should detect git also higher in the filesystem
Hi, I tested org-attach with the org file being inside a git repo. I observed that the auto-commit feature of org-attach seems to work only if the data directory is the root of a git repo (detected by looking for a .git folder in the data folder). I'd like however to have the org file in the git repo too and the data folder being a sub-folder of the git repo. Actually I'd also like to use git-annex here. Some options of git rev-parse might be helpful here instead of coding the repo detection check by hand in elisp: --show-toplevel Show the absolute path of the top-level directory. --is-inside-work-tree When the current working directory is inside the work tree of the repository print true, otherwise false. What do you think? Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
[O] what are speedy keys?
Hi, I'm reading speedy keys in emacs release notes. What are they? Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
[O] Tracking flexitime
Hi, I'm searching for best practices to track flexi time with orgmode. I've a work contract of 8 hours per day in average. So I'd like to start a clock when I arrive at work, pause it for lunch and stop it when I leave. I wouldn't like to rely only on the sum of the time spent on tasks since there is always work time that can hardly be assigned to a specific task. So in my understanding I'd need two clocks: One for the time that I'm at work and the other one for the task I'm currently working on. The sum of the second clock will always be a little bit less than the first. But org-mode only supports one clock at a time? The next question is, how can I see my current overtime account? Google results: There has been a similar question on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10122813/tracking-flexitime-using-emacs-org-mode Somewhat related: lisp code for weekly timesheets http://lvalue.blogspot.ch/2010/02/weekly-timesheets-in-org-mode.html What have I done today? http://superuser.com/questions/196441/emacs-org-mode-as-a-work-diary Thank you, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
Re: [O] Tracking flexitime
On Monday, April 22, 2013 10:53:08 AM Detlef Steuer wrote: Hi Thomas, my way to handle this situation is a datetime tree. In the morning C-c a a i j jumps to today and C-u C-c ! inserts a timestamp. In the evening the same procedure followed by a C-u C-c y to calculate my time in the office. Friday evening I calculate over/under time for that week (in my head) and note it. A typical Friday entry looks like that: *** 2013-04-19 Freitag [2013-04-19 Fr 08:45]--[2013-04-19 Fr 17:05] 08:20 (+2:00 +11:10) +2:00 over/undertime this week +11:10 is total over/undertime. Very litte automatisation, but only say 1 min effort a week. Thank you Detlef for sharing this. However I can not follow. - C-c a runs the command org-agenda - a selects calendar for current week or day - i runs the command org-agenda-diary-entry - j ??? - What is a datetime tree? - Do you have an extra file only to track you time at work? Could you share (privately?) such a file? - I also could not find the binding for C-c y. What does it do? I guess you also use functionality of the calendar/diary package of emacs? Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
[O] Sending reminder Emails to other people with org-mode
Hi, A common workflow (of mine) is: Work on something, submit and wait several days or weeks for a review or reply before I can continue. So I switch to the next task. I'd love if org-mode could keep track of tasks that are waiting for others and semi-automatically remind those others in a weekly email that I'm waiting for them. I imagine a command that I could run over my tasks. The command finds such tasks, prepares a reminder mail that I can send directly from within emacs and remembers the date when I last naged the other. Any ideas? Thanks for your attention, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
Re: [O] org-mode moves point in other window
Bastien: Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro writes: I've got a large org-mode (7.9.2, emacs 24.2.1) table and two windows, top and bottom. I shrink the upper window to only show the headline of my table and work in the lower window. When I move with tab in the lower window or recalculate the formula, the upper window moves its point to the formula. How can I make the upper window to remain as it is? Instead of splitting the window, you can create an indirect buffer. It will visually be equivalent, and the point in the upper window will not move when C-cC-c'ing on the formulas. Hi Bastien, thank you. First I tried to narrow the indirect buffer only to the headline of the table but then the point still jumped to the end of the table and enlarged the narrowing to the full table when the column width changed. Now I left the narrowing to include the full table and the point seem to remain where it is even on column resizes. Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
[O] org-mode moves point in other window
Hi, I've got a large org-mode (7.9.2, emacs 24.2.1) table and two windows, top and bottom. I shrink the upper window to only show the headline of my table and work in the lower window. When I move with tab in the lower window or recalculate the formula, the upper window moves its point to the formula. How can I make the upper window to remain as it is? Thank you, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
Re: [O] [wish] also provide documentation for contrib
cbe...@tajo.ucsd.edu: ,[from contrib/README] | These contributions are not part of GNU Emacs or of the official | Org-mode package. But the git repository for Org-mode is glad to | provide useful way to distribute and develop them as long as they are | distributed under a free software license. Maybe http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html is what you need? Hi Chuck, I know that org-drill has its own webpage with good documentation. The point is, that the Debian maintainer (or Fedora, Gentoo, ...) just takes the org- mode tarball and packages everything found in there. It would be an extra burden for the maintainer to go out to every single contrib site and somehow add the documentation in the package. It would be much easier IMHO, if the org-mode developers would not only distribute the code of contribs but also their documentation. I would even say that distributing code without documentation is kind of a bug. It would even be an extra advantage, if you could encourage the contrib developers to provide documentation in info format. Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
[O] how to avoid floating number problems with org-table for finances?
Hi, I use a simple org-mode table to sum up the expenses and incomes of a small private project. Now I remembered that I should know as a programmer to NEVER EVER USE FLOATS FOR FINANCES!!! But I did... |0.3 | |0.3 | |0.3 | | 0.9000222044604925031308084726 | #+TBLFM: @4$1=vsum(@1..@3);%.40f Do you know any quirck how I can continue using point notation but be sure that the numbers are added correctly? I think I'd need another vsum method that would - find the number of decimal points of the most precise field - parse all numbers to integers by filling up zeros at the end and ignoring the decimal point - sum up - write the result with a decimal point at the right position Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
[O] [wish] also provide documentation for contrib
Hi, I was about to fill a bug about debians org-mode package because it does not come with documentation for the org-mode contrib org-drill. However I believe that this issue should rather be raised to you as the upstream. I'd like to encourage you to consider any org-mode contrib in your distribution without accompanying documentation a bug. I don't know enough about the info system or your build system so I'll refrain from any suggestion. Thank you, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
Re: [O] [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?
Russell Adams: Thus I pose the question: What is a valid contact manager for a console-mode user with sync, fast searching and update? Hallo Russell, I'm also searching for a contact manager since ages. What I want to try when I've time (tm): - GNU recutils - plain text database, avail. in Debian et al. http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils - http://www.nongnu.org/addressbook From the author of recutils but abandoned. Elisp, like lbdb but uses vcard3 format. Would be wonderful if somebody would update to [vx]card4. - Postgresql on the Desktop After having worked with Hadoop and looked into other NoSQL systems I'd like to have a closer look at old SQL stuff again. MySQL vulgarized me. ...But wouldn't it be better to use something semantic for contact management? Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
