[O] Best practice for canceled/moved recurring events

I have a meeting at 09:00 every Monday: --8<---cut here---start->8--- * Diary ** TODO Weekly Meeting DEADLINE: <2016-07-18 Mon 09:00 +1w> --8<---cut here---end--->8--- What is the best way of dealing with scenarios where

Re: [O] Link-checker for Org-mode

Nicolas Goaziou mail at nicolasgoaziou.fr writes: Org Lint does that already. Please provide a link. Searching was not helpful.

[O] No ODT Export

I'm using Org 8.2.4. C-c C-e does not offer any ODT export. Where should I start looking to solve this?

Re: [O] No ODT Export

Christian Moe mail at christianmoe.com writes: Adding (add-to-list 'org-export-backends 'odt) should do the trick. Something else must be wrong, as this gives me: Symbol's value as variable is void: org-export-backends

Re: [O] No ODT Export

SabreWolfy sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: Something else must be wrong, as this gives me: Symbol's value as variable is void: org-export-backends This worked: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-05/msg00313.html

Re: [O] search for csv utilities

Use the right tool for job. Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com writes: I have concluded emacs-orgmode spreadsheet is unusable and the amount of data is at 400 records now and will grow.

[O] Where to keep draft work?

Consider the following Org file, which is used to generate an Agenda: --8---cut here---start-8--- * Write the big report DEADLINE: 2015-05-26 Tue 12:00 * Write the small report DEADLINE: 2015-06-02 Tue 12:00 * Plan the draft proposal SCHEDULED: 2015-05-28

[O] ditta image size

The following Org file: --8---cut here---start-8--- * Picture #+BEGIN_SRC ditaa :file hello-world.png :cmdline -r -s 1.0 ++ | Hi | ++ #+END_SRC --8---cut here---end---8--- rendered to LaTeX and then PDF (C-c C-e l o)

Re: [O] ditta image size

SabreWolfy sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: The following Org file: --8---cut here---start-8--- * Picture #+BEGIN_SRC ditaa :file hello-world.png :cmdline -r -s 1.0 ++ | Hi | ++ #+END_SRC --8---cut here---end

[O] TTY keys in GUI

I'm having difficulty changing dates/times in timestamps on a MacBook Air, as the keyboard shortcuts do not work. I'd like to access the keys described here: http://orgmode.org/manual/TTY-keys.html via Emacs launched via the GUI, rather than the console. If I run Emacs with '-nw', the TTY

Re: [O] Missing Agenda Export in ICS

Eric S Fraga e.fraga at ucl.ac.uk writes: Have you looked at the actual calendar entry in the ics file? The entry is not in the ICS file.

Re: [O] Missing Agenda Export in ICS

Eric S Fraga e.fraga at ucl.ac.uk writes: Have you looked at the actual calendar entry in the ics file? The entry does not appear in the ICS file. Some events are being exported, some are not.

Re: [O] Missing Agenda Export in ICS

Eric S Fraga e.fraga at ucl.ac.uk writes: Ah, so the problem is with the export from org and not the import into Google's calendar. Your original post was ambiguous! Yes. Thanks for the suggestion to look at the ICS file as well. I should have thought of that :) Have you tried exporting

[O] Missing Agenda Export in ICS

I'm using Org-mode 8.2.7c. I exported my Agenda with C-x C-w and specified an ICS file, which I then imported into Google Calendar. Many events appeared, but some did not. An example of one, which did not appear, was a standard timestamp event, where other standard ones also appeared. What are the

[O] ditaa on Mac OS X

This[1] ditaa example with ORg 8.2.7f under Mac OS X Mavericks fails with a message indicating that .../elpa/contrib/scripts/ditaa.jar is not found. I created the folder and soft-linked /usr/local/bin/ditaa to ditaa.jar and tried again. This time the export ran, but the PDF it created contained a

[O] Ditaa on Mac OS X

This[1] ditaa example with ORg 8.2.7f under Mac OS X Mavericks fails with a message indicating that .../elpa/contrib/scripts/ditaa.jar is not found. I created the folder and soft-linked /usr/local/bin/ditaa to ditaa.jar and tried again. This time the export ran, but the PDF it created contained a

Re: [O] Agenda, Deadline, DONE

hymie! hymie at lactose.homelinux.net writes: Is there a way to remove deadlines for DONE tasks from the Agenda? Add this to your .emacs: ,- | (setq org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done nil) `-

Re: [O] Agenda, Deadline, DONE

Correction: ,- | (setq org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done t) `-

Re: [O] Release Org 8.2.7c

Bastien bzg at gnu.org writes: I released Org 8.2.7c. Can someone point me to the changelog for this? Is not here[1]. Is it on that git thing somewhere? :) [1] http://orgmode.org/Changes.html

Re: [O] Release Org 8.2.7c

Bastien bzg at gnu.org writes: I released Org 8.2.7c. Should this be available via ELPA[1]? [1] http://orgmode.org/elpa.html

Re: [O] Installing Org 8

I've wasted an entire day trying to upgrade to Org 8 under OS X :( I'm using a modified version of Emacs, with ESS pre-installed. I've also downloaded the latest 24.3.1 Emacs for OS X and tried with that. In both cases, I am able to install Org 8 (20140730 now) via ELPA. It installs to a local

Re: [O] Installing Org 8

Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo jorge.a.alfaro at gmail.com writes: Try putting (package-initialize) as the first line of your .emacs, that should do the trick. This solved it. Thanks :)

[O] Installing Org 8

I successfully upgraded Org mode to version 8 by following these[1] instructions. I am now trying to repeat this on a Mac OS X system. After M-x list-packages, Emacs connects to elpa.gnu.org and then to orgmode.org, but reports that it is unable to connect to orgmode.org, and presents a list of

Re: [O] Installing Org 8

This was a network/proxy issue. Emacs was also unable to contact GNU, but displayed a default/cached (?) list of packages.

Re: [O] Setup Org-mode to write diary.

Sharon Kimble boudiccas at skimble.plus.com writes: Yes, but I don't take much notice of it. See my question and the answers here[1] about slow performance in Org files when line-numbering is enabled. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5229705/emacs-org-mode-turn-off-line-numbers

[O] Move headline up/down

I know how to move subtrees up and down, but how do I change the order of top-level headline entries (the ones starting with *)?

Re: [O] Move headline up/down

SabreWolfy sabrewolfy at gmail.com writes: I know how to move subtrees up and down, but how do I change the order of top-level headline entries (the ones starting with *)? M-Up and M-Down (Strangely, *not* EScUp/Down though, which I tried initially, because M-x *is* the same as Escx for me.)

Re: [O] Move headline up/down

Thorsten Jolitz tjolitz at gmail.com writes: with point on top3: M-x org-move-subtree-up Thanks -- that works. I tried S-Up/Down, which I erroneously thought moved subtrees, but not headlines ;) What I should have tried, which works for headlines and subtrees, is M-S-Up/Down.

Re: [O] Setup Org-mode to write diary.

Sharon Kimble boudiccas at skimble.plus.com writes: But I have found that I can't have more that 3 months worth of postings in a buffer, without things slowing down and seeming to get slightly corrupted. That would be three main headings and about 30 sub-headings under each, giving a total of

Re: [O] A gentle introduction to Emacs Org-mode?

Thorsten Jolitz tjolitz at gmail.com writes: , | http://bzg.fr/learn-emacs-lisp-in-15-minutes.html ` Didn't know about this, and it's been online for 364 days :) Definitely worth reading. Thanks, Bastien!

Re: [O] Emacs with Org 8?

Nicolas Richard theonewiththeevillook at yahoo.fr writes: ... This is because Emacs 24.3.1 was released before Org 8 was released. ... As an aside, where does the sub-minor version number for Emacs originate? I'm running 24.3.1 and the next release is 24.4. However, even though I can't find

[O] Repeat task a fixed number of times

This repeats an event on the first of the month forever: --8---cut here---start-8--- * Attend Monthly Meeting 2014-05-01 +1m --8---cut here---end---8--- How do I indicate that the event should be repeated monthly for 6

Re: [O] Emacs with Org 8?

Nicolas Richard theonewiththeevillook at yahoo.fr writes: snip Alternatively you can update to Org 8 via elpa. (M-x list-packages). snip Thanks :) I really wanted to move to Org 8, but I'd been putting off upgrading for months, as I thought it was a complicated procedure, which would take a lot

[O] Emacs with Org 8?

The latest stable release of Emacs is 24.3.1, which does not contain Org version 8? Therefore, using Org 8 requires (manual) installation? I am using a modified version of Emacs on Mac, with ESS and other packages pre-installed. This version has Org 7.9.3 though :(

Re: [O] Repeat work / week days

Nick Dokos ndokos at gmail.com writes: `C-c C-x c' (`org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift') Thanks. This looks like the best solution.

[O] Include TODO for once-off events?

I use the following to include once-off events in my Agenda: --8---cut here---start-8--- * Once-Off Task 2014-06-11 Wed 09:00 --8---cut here---end---8--- What is the difference (benefit) to rather doing this:

[O] Repeat work / week days

I searched here and elsewhere, and then played with various diary sexp settings, but I could not find a way to repeat an entry on work/week days (Monday to Friday) every week. I would like a task to appear on all Mondays to Fridays. The repeat should preferably be from Monday to Tuesday, Tuesday

[O] Babel issue after upgrade to Org 8?

I've recently updated my Debian unstable installation and Emacs now reports this on startup: Symbol's function definition is void: org-babel-do-load-language My .emacs includes: (org-babel-do-load-languages 'org-babel-load-languages '((R . t))) I've searched for a solution and read the notes

[O] eval-line-and-step broken in org mode buffer

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.ess.general/7239 I can confirm this with Org 7.8 and ESS 13.05 and R 3.0.1 under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. eval-line-and-step (F9) when in an Org file evaluates the line in R, and then jumps the cursor elsewhere as described, instead of advancing it.

[O] Installation of Org 8

rant Please can someone point me to instructions to install Org 8? I've downloaded the tar.gz file and searched and tried several sets of instructions. The 'build instructions' are no help. Neither are the ELPA instructions. I'm on Kubuntu 13.04. The default org-mode is 7.9.something. I've purged

[O] Args out of range: 0, 1

Emacs/R is aborting running/exporting an R code block with the message: Args out of range: 0, 1 in the mini-buffer line. This is triggered when I try to use ascii or print to output a data structure. I've searched for this error and found it to be related to converting HTML to text. with a

Re: [O] Exporting output and graphics from R

Sebastien Vauban sva-news@... writes: AFAICT, you can't have both at the same time. Do you have a real use case for this? Maybe I'm not using the right tool for the job. I thought it would be useful to be able to intersperse explanatory text with output: --8---cut

Re: [O] Exporting output and graphics from R

Feng Shu tumashu at gmail.com writes: #+BEGIN_SRC R :results output :exports both pngname - testout.png png(pngname) plot(1:10, 1:10) dev.off() x - 1:10 paste([[./, pngname, ]],sep=) #+END_SRC Thanks. This is a great suggestion.

Re: [O] Guidance for preparing document with code

Hi Thorsten, Thanks for the links.

Re: [O] Guidance for preparing document with code

Sebastien Vauban sva-news@... writes: Little starter for your R code: #+BEGIN_SRC R :results graphics :file testout.png plot(1:10, (1:10)^2) #+END_SRC snip w00t! I exported a quick structured document, with text, code and the png file as an HTML document. This is super-cool :) I should

[O] Exporting output and graphics from R

When the following code is evaluated or exported, only the link to testout.png appears in the RESULTS section. --8---cut here---start-8--- #+BEGIN_SRC R :results output graphics :file testout.png :exports both plot(1:10, 1:10) x - 1:10 library(ascii)

[O] Guidance for preparing document with code

I'm using Org ~7.8 and would like to prepare a document for export to HTML to make available to others to read. This document will contain heading, text, etc., R code (for my reference) and the output of the R code. Where should I look to learn how to do this in R? Org-babel? Is this literate

Re: [O] Guidance for preparing document with code

Nick Dokos ndokos at gmail.com writes: org-babel is the right tool. Getting the headers right might involve some fiddling: there have been many question on the ML about those so you can try searching, but if after some effort you are still running into a wall, just post what you have, what

Re: [O] Guidance for preparing document with code

Hi :) Thomas S. Dye tsd at tsdye.com writes: Org mode should do what you want pretty much out of the box. Note that the exporters all changed with Org 8, so you'll want to distinguish between the old and new exporters if you look for information on line. I haven't upgraded to Org 8 yet, but

Re: [O] Guidance for preparing document with code

Hi Marcin, Marcin Borkowski mbork at wmi.amu.edu.pl writes: Just my two cents: some time ago I had a problem with Org (not the exporter, it was MobileOrg), and I was advised to install the newest Org (8.0). I was a bit afraid, but it turned out that the installation went /very/ smoothly.

Re: [O] Guidance for preparing document with code

Hi Sebastien, Thanks for the explanation and the example, which I'm going to use to get me started.

[O] Agenda items with date ranges

I remember that previously in Agenda view, entries such as: , | * A few days | 2013-02-07 Thu--2013-02-14 Thu ` would appear with a (1/8), (2/8), etc. preceding the entry. I added a similar entry today in org-mode version 7.9.2, and it appeared in the

Re: [O] Agenda items with date ranges

Bastien bzg at altern.org writes: I can't reproduce this problem. Can you reproduce it with latest Org? The agenda *shows* the (1/8), etc. in Org-Mode 7.8.11. It does *not* show it in version 7.9.2 (Debian sid), so that's why I have noticed it. If I get around to installing the latest