[O] org-notify Tutorial

2012-08-07 Thread SW
Is a tutorial/guide available for org-notify? Neither of the following were very helpful: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-api/org-notify-api.html http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52634/focus=52693 Thanks.

Re: [O] Agenda Upcoming Faces

2012-08-05 Thread SW
Bastien bzg at gnu.org writes: Can you provide a reproducible recipe? I'm going to try to make a minimal example. In the previous image, 10 days was *not* in the upcoming faces face -- it was in default face. However, in this example: http://imgur.com/ge0hY 10 days *is* now in the upcoming

Re: [O] Agenda Upcoming Faces

2012-08-05 Thread SW
I wrote: snip http://imgur.com/ge0hY snip In the example image above: 1d is in org-upcoming-deadline face 5d is in org-upcoming-deadline face 8d is in default face 10d is in org-upcoming-deadline face 26d is in default face 45d is in default face *However*, the entry for the 10d line

Re: [O] Agenda Upcoming Faces

2012-08-03 Thread SW
Bastien bzg at gnu.org writes: I have agenda TODO items due in 5d (in org-upcoming-deadline face), in 16d (in default face) and in 26d (in org-upcoming-deadline face). Why is the 16d deadline in default face? I can't reproduce this. Can you provide a recipe and/or a screenshot? It has

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-10 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Apparently the (old) latex exporter still shows symptoms of that disease. Note btw, that the buggy behavior is confined to the old exporter: the new exporter DTRT with or without the empty line. I've seen some mention of this new exporter. Where

Re: [O] Agenda Upcoming Faces

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Bastien bzg at gnu.org writes: I can't reproduce this. Can you provide a recipe and/or a screenshot? The date is different now and that particular combination of deadlines is gone. When I see it again, I'll take a screenshot. Thanks.

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Can't reproduce it here: Org-mode version 7.8.11 (release_7.8.11-107-ga69f4b @ /home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/) Tried both the old and the new exporter, exporting to ascii, latex and html of the following file: ... and I only get the bar tree

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com writes: Have you tried with a minimal setup? It's quite easy. Some instructions are included in the Org mode manual[1]. It also helps if you provide a minimal example org file, we like to call that an ECM[2] on the list. I have already confirmed that

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Jambunathan K kjambunathan at gmail.com writes: I'm using Org-mode version 7.8.11-1 7.8.11-1 is very old. Upgrade and problem will disappear. From the org-mode download page right now: Current Version: Org 7.8.11 How is 7.8.11 very old? Which version should I upgrade to?

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com writes: Have you tried with a minimal setup? It's quite easy. Some instructions are included in the Org mode manual[1]. It also helps if you provide a minimal example org file, we like to call that an ECM[2] on the list. If you would like a minimum

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Correction to previous post: This exports all three headlines. Modify as follows: should read: This exports all *two* headlines. Modify as follows:

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Jambunathan K kjambunathan at gmail.com writes: How about something in the range of 130+ - say release_7.8.11-135? Unless there is something related to exporting and possibly org-export-select-tags, I'm not sure this would help. A search here:

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Well, so far nobody else can reproduce it, so the working assumption is that it is an artifact of either the version you are running or your configuration. As Suvayu suggests, a minimal org setup[fn:1] would distinguish between the two. Otherwise,

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
SW sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: I am not familiar with downloading any version other than the one in my distro's repository or the Debian version from orgmode.org. I will look into getting a version later than 7.8.11-1, which is what my version is. I tested with the minimal file before

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
(1) I extracted the latest tar.gz file downloaded from org-mode.org (org-mode-9d16365c201201679b190c601c8d32e06530a21a.tar.gz) to /tmp/org-mode. (2) I loaded Emacs with emacs -Q and then entered: (setq load-path (cons /tmp/org-mode/lisp load-path)) into the scratch buffer. (4) I marked it and

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: What does M-x locate-library RET org-install RET say? Library is file /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/org-mode/org-install.elc (The latest version download is now different -- it no longer says version N/A N/A. It now says: Org-mode version

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Jambunathan K kjambunathan at gmail.com writes: While in your org buffer do a C-c C-e t #+TITLE: testing.org #+AUTHOR: #+EMAIL: #+DATE: 2012-07-09 Mon #+DESCRIPTION: #+KEYWORDS: #+LANGUAGE: en #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t :t

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
SW sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: I have an org-file with many headlines of various levels, but no tags. I tagged one top-level headline with :export: and exported to LaTeX with C-c C-e l. The tagged headline and everything below it was exported, but so was the first headline

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Jambunathan K kjambunathan at gmail.com writes: Looks fine to me ... What does that mean? Are you getting the behaviour you are expecting. What I meant is that the export tags *are* correctly set in the template, so only the :export: headlines *should* be exported, which, despite that

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: I can confirm that without the empty line the first subtree gets exported as well as the (tagged) second one (but not the third one in my minimal example). That's a bug. But the minimal example I posted *did* include the initial empty line;

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
SW sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: That was my fault. I recall seeing other blank lines elsewhere in your example, so I must have deleted them all. Apologies for the confusion. I personally never have such blank lines in a document, so it was a force of habit. Why *did* you start

Re: [O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-09 Thread SW
Jambunathan K kjambunathan at gmail.com writes: I can duplicate what you say. May be it is a bug... ps: Text is no text with no whitespaces. All along we have been focussed on text, when we should actually have been focussed on the whitespace (or in this curious case, the missing

[O] org-export-select-tags

2012-07-08 Thread SW
I have an org-file with many headlines of various levels, but no tags. I tagged one top-level headline with :export: and exported to LaTeX with C-c C-e l. The tagged headline and everything below it was exported, but so was the first headline (and everything below it) in the org file, even though

[O] Agenda Upcoming Faces

2012-07-04 Thread SW
I have agenda TODO items due in 5d (in org-upcoming-deadline face), in 16d (in default face) and in 26d (in org-upcoming-deadline face). Why is the 16d deadline in default face?

Re: [O] Broken LaTeX export

2012-07-04 Thread SW
Eric S Fraga e.fraga at ucl.ac.uk writes: A simple solution which keeps your interest in the outline structure at this stage of the writing is to add the line #+options: H:3 ... Thanks. That's a useful suggestion.

[O] Deadline Warning Days Faces

2012-05-30 Thread SW
Apologies if this is a basic question. Org-mode is so huge that it's sometimes difficult to know where to look. I have several DEADLINE entries set with -99d advanced warning to ensure they appear on my agenda. Entries due in, for example, 30 or less days are in a different colour to those due in

Re: [O] Deadline Warning Days Faces

2012-05-30 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Probably org-agenda-deadline-faces: I did C-h v org--deadline TAB TAB ... and scanned the *Completions* buffer. Thanks. I did C-h v org-deadline. Didn't know about org--deadline instead of org-deadline :)

Re: [O] if both schedule and deadline, appear only once in agenda

2012-05-30 Thread SW
I know I'm bumping a thread from 5 years ago :) Bastien bzg at altern.org writes: Gijs Hillenius gijs at hillenius.net writes: But maybe I should not . But here goes: I plan to start working on an item by date X - schedule stamp. The item has a deadline, so - deadline. For that I use

Re: [O] Broken LaTeX export

2012-05-30 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Interesting: it seems to be a latex bug of some sort, but I haven't had time to play with it too much yet. I'm trying things like modifying the tex file slightly and seeing if the empty page(s)/overfull page(s) persist. So far, it seems that all

Re: [O] Broken LaTeX export

2012-05-30 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Interesting: it seems to be a latex bug of some sort, but I haven't had time to play with it too much yet. I'm trying things like modifying the tex file slightly and seeing if the empty page(s)/overfull page(s) persist. So far, it seems that all

Re: [O] if both schedule and deadline, appear only once in agenda

2012-05-30 Thread SW
suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com writes: http://orgmode.org/manual/Deadlines-and-scheduling.html#Deadlines-and-scheduling ... Important: Scheduling an item in Org mode should not be understood in the same way that we understand scheduling a meeting. Setting a date for a meeting is

Re: [O] Broken LaTeX export

2012-05-30 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Interesting: it seems to be a latex bug of some sort, but I haven't had time to play with it too much yet. I'm trying things like modifying the tex file slightly and seeing if the empty page(s)/overfull page(s) persist. So far, it seems that all

[O] Timestamp, deadline and scheduling clarification

2012-05-29 Thread SW
I'd like to clarify some of the usage of timestamps. Preceeding a timestamp with DEADLINE or SCHEDULE gives extra functionality in the agenda. Omitting these keywords produces a normal timestamp which *appears* in the agenda but does not trigger advanced warning before and does not continue to

Re: [O] Outline structure and LaTeX

2012-05-29 Thread SW
. I'll post details when/if I encounter it again. It's happened in every LaTeX export I've ever tried, but I'll search for a solution again before posting. I'm working on a minimal example now to help me understand how it works too :) Thanks. SW.

Re: [O] Disable links in Latex export

2012-05-29 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: snip You can do that by customizing the org-export-latex-default-packages-alist variable: just add the above option (without the square brackets) to the hyperref package entry. Thanks. This worked -- the red boxes are no longer displayed.

Re: [O] Disable links in Latex export

2012-05-29 Thread SW
Eric Fraga e.fraga at ucl.ac.uk writes: adding the line #+latex_header: \hypersetup{pdfborder={0,0,0}} in the org document should be sufficient? Yes, this works too -- the boxes are invisible now. In practice, I actually do: #+latex_header: \hypersetup{colorlinks=true} which

Re: [O] Disable links in Latex export

2012-05-29 Thread SW
John Hendy jw.hendy at gmail.com writes: And red isn't my cup of tea, so I use: #+LATEX_HEADER: \hypersetup{colorlinks=true,urlcolor=blue} Thanks, but it's linkcolor not urlcolor for the internal links in the TOC.

[O] Broken LaTeX export

2012-05-29 Thread SW
I'm working on a large document in org-mode which I export to LaTeX. At present, the outline/structure of the document has been created, but not much of the content. The LaTeX export has strange pagination, a blank page and text that runs off the page. Where can I paste/post this example?

Re: [O] Broken LaTeX export

2012-05-29 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: If you don't mind making it public, I'd say go ahead and post the org file (and any relevant customizations) here. M-x replace-regex RET \w+ RET Text RET I replaced all words with Text. Here is the document outline. The breakage happens from page 3

Re: [O] Largest org file you have + performance

2012-05-24 Thread SW
I'm not familiar enough with Emacs to comment about the performance of overlays, etc., but I'm surprised that processing *text* can be so CPU intensive. These days we have games running with millions of pixels and shading or whatever (some use the GPU of course), and browsers with fancy Flash

[O] Highlighting text

2012-05-21 Thread SW
I know about *bold*, _underline_, etc. which can be used to highlight text. This is shown in the text itself and in the export. Is there any other way to highlight text *within* Emacs? I'm looking for something similar to how org-mode highlights the TODO word. I would like to, for example,

[O] Outline structure and LaTeX

2012-05-20 Thread SW
I'm preparing an academic document with several chapters. The text will eventually exist as a LaTeX document. However, I am doing my early planning and writing directly in an org file, making use of the structure elements (*, **, ***, etc) to provide structure and entering text for the relevant

[O] Tables in Plain Lists

2012-05-16 Thread SW
I was making notes today as follows: == * List of important items [0%] - [ ] Item 1 - This is an important item. - Remember to do the hokey-pokey. |---|---| | A | B | | C | D | - [ ] Item 2 - This is not as important. == Of

Re: [O] Tables in Plain Lists

2012-05-16 Thread SW
Bernt Hansen bernt at norang.ca writes: TAB won't indent it but you can use the rectable C-x r o to shift it right so it is part of the list. Thanks. That's awesome :)

Re: [O] Tables in Plain Lists

2012-05-16 Thread SW
Nicolas Goaziou n.goaziou at gmail.com writes: Also, the table can't be indented as part of the list. It can: just move it in manually. Then it will stay there. Thanks. I thought any indentation should be avoided, but I think this is a good solution.

Re: [O] Tables in Plain Lists

2012-05-16 Thread SW
Joost Kremers joostkremers at fastmail.fm writes: TAB won't indent it but you can use the rectable C-x r o to shift it right so it is part of the list. actually, IME, if you select the table and then hit tab, it does indent. Not for me. The rectable solution is a good one though.

Re: [O] Tables in Plain Lists

2012-05-16 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Are you sure? As Joost says, you have to select the table (C-space at one end and move to the other end; and I think transient-mark-mode must be in effect - which is on by default in emacs24, but maybe not in emacs23? - so you should see the table

[O] Timestamp: Forward or backward by a week

2012-05-15 Thread SW
Pressing S-left/right anywhere on a timestamp decreases/increases it by one day. Pressing S-down/up on a component of a timestamp decreases/increases it by one unit of that component. How can we include an easy and quick way to decrease/increase the timestamp by one week. I find myself having to

Re: [O] Timestamp: Forward or backward by a week

2012-05-15 Thread SW
Christian Moe mail at christianmoe.com writes: C-c . +1w This updates the timestamp to be one week from *today*. I want to push the timestamp one week forward from wherever it is.

Re: [O] Timestamp: Forward or backward by a week

2012-05-15 Thread SW
Christian Moe mail at christianmoe.com writes: Oops, sorry! Forgot the double-plus. With point on the timestamp, C-c . ++1w Ah, that works. Thanks :)

Re: [O] Timestamp: Forward or backward by a week

2012-05-15 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Should I just bind ``C-u 7 S-right`` and ``C-u 7 S-left``? I wouldn't bother but I'm not you: if you really want to, you can define a trivial function (defun sw-one-week-bump () (org-timestamp-up-day 7)) and bind it. snip

Re: [O] Timestamp: Forward or backward by a week

2012-05-15 Thread SW
Brian van den Broek brian.van.den.broek at gmail.com writes: A data point: I've the same broken info system on the ssame version of CrunchBang. I really like cb, but there are wrinkles like that. The TODO for solving that hasn't percolated up my list yet In the meantime, I've posed it on the

Re: [O] Timestamp: Forward or backward by a week

2012-05-15 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: snip But I saw a message implying that Debian does not consider emacs documentation free (!?!?), so the info files may be in emacs23-common-non-dfsg in this case. Thanks, that's the package :) FWIW, I think you meant: (info (emacs) Key Binding

[O] Edit Links

2012-05-14 Thread SW
I inserted a link to a file with C-c l, file and then navigated to the file using autocompletion of the path and file names. Movinvg over that link and pressing C-c l prompts me with the path to the file. Edits in this path will not longer support autocompletion now. I have searched both generally

Re: [O] Edit Links

2012-05-14 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: o ``C-c C-l'' is an org-mode keybinding to org-insert-link: it takes the saved information that org-store-link squirreled away and creates a link at your current location. Apologies. Yes, I am inserting a link with ``C-c C-l``, navigating to the

[O] Leading zeros in plain lists

2012-04-23 Thread SW
Is it possible to include leading zeros in plains lists: 01. Item 1 02. Item 2

Re: [O] Leading zeros in plain lists

2012-04-23 Thread SW
Bastien bzg at gnu.org writes: SW sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: Is it possible to include leading zeros in plains lists: 01. Item 1 02. Item 2 No, sorry. Ok :) It was just to avoid lists looking out alignment: 8. Fetch the package 9. Open the package 10. Look inside

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-20 Thread SW
Bastien bzg at altern.org writes: I think this is intended. If timestamps were not removed from today's date, agenda listing items scheduled/timestamped for today would be less readable. If the year in the timestamp of +1y repeating items is the current year, it *is* removed from the

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
SW sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: I have entries such as the following: *** 2011-01-01 +1y New Year's Day :holiday: which appear on the agenda on the correct day each year, but they appear as: File: 2011-01-01 +1y Public Holiday: Freedom Day :holiday

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
SW sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: Apologies -- the above was a copy and paste nightmare between Emacs and Firemacs. What I meant was the following in an org file: *** 2011-01-01 +1y New Year's Day :holiday: and the following appearing on the agenda: File: 2011-01-01 +1y New

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
Brian van den Broek brian.van.den.broek at gmail.com writes: 1) I believe org works much more happily if you don't include timestamps in headlines. This *** New Year's Day 2011-01-01 +1y does *not* include the timestamp in the agenda, yes. However, timestamps are *not* included in the agenda

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
SW sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: This *** New Year's Day 2011-01-01 +1y does *not* include the timestamp in the agenda, yes. However, timestamps are *not* included in the agenda from other entries which *do* have timestamps in the headline. I've tested with repeating timestamps

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes: Indeed - I can reproduce that. It happens in org-agenda-get-timestamps, in the call to org-agenda-format-item: this function takes a regexp argument, remove-re, and removes any matches from the string it produces. The regexp is constructed from the

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
Brian van den Broek brian.van.den.broek at gmail.com writes: On 17 Apr 2012 09:39, Brian van den Broek brian.van.den.broek at gmail.com wrote: 2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system. Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary:

Re: [O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-17 Thread SW
SW sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: 2) I just added a bunch of holidays / days of observation to my system. Your use case is better accomplished via org-anniversary: (org-anniversary 2011 01 01) New Year's Day Emailing before first coffee is a bad idea. I left out some syntax. See

[O] Yearly repeats on the agenda

2012-04-16 Thread SW
I have entries such as the following: *** 2011-01-01 +1y New Year's Day:holiday: which appear on the agenda on the correct day each year, but they appear as: File: 2011-01-01 +1y Public Holiday: Freedom Day :holiday: with the date showing. Other deadline/schedule/plain

[O] Disable links in Latex export

2012-04-11 Thread SW
I'm exporting a structured document to Latex/PDF. The table of contents contains hyperlinks for each section which I would like to disable. I tried setting org-export-latex-href and org-export-latex-hyperref to empty strings, but this did not help. Thanks.