Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree alanty...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote: Andrew Hyatt ahy...@gmail.com writes: This sounds like an interesting project. My advice is to make a few screenshots that give people an idea

[O] stop clocking in from changing todo state for a subtree

2012-12-06 Thread Rainer Stengele
Hi! Clocking in changes my TODO state from TODO to INWORK, which is ok. I have some tasks which I want to stay with the initial TODO state when clocking time to it. Can I configure this behavior through a property inhibiting the state change when clocking? Thanks! Rainer

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hi Vikas, Vikas Rawal wrote: The top title space on the orgmode website says: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Orgmode today does a lot more than organising/planning. FYI, AFAIK, that

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Jambunathan K
Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: The top title space on the orgmode website says: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Orgmode today does a lot more than

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote: I am attaching screen shot of LibreOffice UI. Nice - I cusomised libreoffice immediately to look like that - nice. On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly navigate to any heading, a table or a

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 10:11, Rainer M Krug wrote: On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote: I am attaching screen shot of LibreOffice UI. Nice - I cusomised libreoffice immediately to look like that - nice. On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly

[O] file link from org-mode file

2012-12-06 Thread ronaldo.mercado
Dear list, GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-06-10 on MARVIN Org-mode version 7.8.11 on windows XP I create a link to a directory file:c:/home When I mouse click or press C-c C-o (org-open-at-point) I would like the link to be opened in dired, but windows explorer appears. How

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK - Left side: is present in ecb. I installed ecb from MELPA (the other version does not work with emacs 24 and the cedet version) and I have the navigation panel - very nice. ecb, I am back. Cheers, Rainer On 06/12/12 10:14, Rainer M Krug

[O] FAILED test-org-clock/clocktable

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
The last test will fail if run before 15:00... either the clock table code gets smarter to recognize that you'd want the end of the day when specifying :tend today or the test should specify :tend tomorrow. Regards, Achim.

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread David Engster
Rainer M. Krug writes: On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote: On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly navigate to any heading, a table or a captioned figure. Couldn't the navbar from emacs be used for that? I haven't used it in a long time, but in ecb (Emacs Code Browswer) it is used

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 11:51, David Engster wrote: Rainer M. Krug writes: On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote: On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly navigate to any heading, a table or a captioned figure. Couldn't the navbar from emacs be used

Re: [O] stop clocking in from changing todo state for a subtree

2012-12-06 Thread Bernt Hansen
Hi Rainer, Rainer Stengele rainer.steng...@online.de writes: Clocking in changes my TODO state from TODO to INWORK, which is ok. I have some tasks which I want to stay with the initial TODO state when clocking time to it. Can I configure this behavior through a property inhibiting the state

Re: [O] file link from org-mode file

2012-12-06 Thread Bernt Hansen
ronaldo.merc...@diamond.ac.uk writes: Dear list, GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-06-10 on MARVIN Org-mode version 7.8.11 on windows XP I create a link to a directory file:c:/home Try file+emacs:c:/home Regards, Bernt When I “mouse click” or press C-c C-o

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:51 AM, David Engster d...@randomsample.de wrote: Rainer M. Krug writes: On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote: On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly navigate to any heading, a table or a captioned figure. Couldn't the navbar from emacs be used for that? I

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 11:51, David Engster wrote: Rainer M. Krug writes: On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote: On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly navigate to any heading,

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 12:55, Matt Price wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 11:51, David Engster wrote: Rainer M. Krug writes: On 06/12/12 09:36,

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com wrote: I am attaching screen shot of LibreOffice UI. On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly navigate to any heading, a table or a captioned figure. On the right is the style - one can choose char, paragraph,

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 12:50, Matt Price wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:51 AM, David Engster d...@randomsample.de wrote: Rainer M. Krug writes: On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote: On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly navigate to any heading, a

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Matt Price
that looks really great, I'm going to play with it as soon as I can - -thanks! Hve you set up your own window layouts using htis package? matt On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala h...@yagnesh.org wrote: Hello Matt, IIUC Scrivener, the one difficult part is implementing a

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread David Engster
Matt Price writes: (1) do you know if it's possible to get the speedbar buffer in a window instead of a frame? I initially thought that would be easy. Turns out it isn't. ECB uses all kinds of 'defadvice' to achieve that. There's a package sr-speedbar at http://www.emacswiki.org/SrSpeedbar

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree alanty...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote: Andrew Hyatt ahy...@gmail.com writes: This sounds like an

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
Why not just type out what the page should say? That is in the spirit of collaborative way of using things. Your mail sounds more like a complaint, but with a polite tone. Oops. I was not complaining. I am sorry if my mail gave that impression. I raised an issue. Or, what I thought was an

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 13:07, David Engster wrote: Matt Price writes: (1) do you know if it's possible to get the speedbar buffer in a window instead of a frame? I initially thought that would be easy. Turns out it isn't. ECB uses all kinds of

Re: [O] file link from org-mode file

2012-12-06 Thread Jambunathan K
ronaldo.merc...@diamond.ac.uk writes: When I “mouse click” or press C-c C-o (org-open-at-point) I would like the link to be opened in dired, but windows explorer appears. dired= C-u C-c C-o explorer = C-u C-u C-c C-o --

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Marco
Hi there, I had to describe orgmode to a young colleague of mine... and I came up with something like: Orgmode is a Free/libre plain-text versatile personal workflow and information tool for GNU Emacs allowing you to keep and organize notes, projects, calendars, do literate programming and

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On 12/06/12 20:09 PM, Matt Price wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree alanty...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote: Andrew Hyatt

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case, would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?) feature pages. Another possibility would be to make the title just say Org mode. And the first

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Jambunathan K
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: One remedy, to this, and a thing I think would be nice in any case, would be if keywords in the presenting sentence would link to (worg?) feature pages. Another possibility would be to make

Re: [O] new exporter: link abbrev

2012-12-06 Thread Michael Brand
Hi Nicolas On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: The second one is a more difficult problem. Org Elements usually translates links on the fly when parsing them: `org-element-link-parser' calls `org-translate-link'. This function requires

Re: [O] file link from org-mode file

2012-12-06 Thread ronaldo.mercado
Great. Thanks Bernt. It works wonderfully. Are there other magic combinations? -Original Message- From: Bernt Hansen [mailto:be...@norang.ca] Sent: 06 December 2012 11:46 To: Mercado, Ronaldo (DLSLtd,RAL,DIA) Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Subject: Re: file link from org-mode file

[O] Annoying empty line after M-RET / C-RET

2012-12-06 Thread Volker Grabsch
Dear Org-Mode Gurus, I noticed some strange behaviour in Org Mode. I'm not sure if this happens for a good reason, or is simply a bug. Either way, it's pretty annoying. Normally, C-RET inserts a new empty headline directly after the previous one, i.e. Stuff *

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 6 December 2012 10:03, Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com wrote: snip When description becomes boring what is needed is a catchy phrase that stirs up imagination. Free/Libre Digital diary for DIY nuts/ Gen Z geeks/ nerds Tongue only half-in cheek: Org-mode: the text editor's best

Re: [O] org-gnome-calendar

2012-12-06 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
OH MY GOODNESS, this is VERY exciting to me! Do you have any screenshots of this in action? I've been thinking of similar things for some time! Lluís Vilanova writes: It's just barely working and quite slow, but here's an initial tentative on a package to get the agenda in Org mode to show

[O] [patch] Incorrect result of org-babel-edit-distance

2012-12-06 Thread Nicolas Richard
Hello, (org-babel-edit-distance foo ffoo) returns 0, whereas 1 seems appropriate. I don't know much about computing the levenshtein distance, but it seems that part of the algorithm (which i found explained on fr.wikipedia) is missing from the code. Please find a patch below trying to address the

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: On 12/06/12 20:09 PM, Matt Price wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree

Re: [O] org-gnome-calendar

2012-12-06 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:51:07 -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: OH MY GOODNESS, this is VERY exciting to me! Do you have any screenshots of this in action? I've been thinking of similar things for some time! This can also be accomplished using org-caldav + setting up evolution to sync

Re: [O] file link from org-mode file

2012-12-06 Thread Haider Rizvi
ronaldo.merc...@diamond.ac.uk writes: It works wonderfully. Are there other magic combinations? Of course :-) See http://orgmode.org/org.html#External-links for a comprehensive list. Also keep in mind the keyboard and mouse shortcuts for opening links, described immediately below the list.

Re: [O] Org Writer's room

2012-12-06 Thread Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
Hello Matt, On Dec 06 2012, Matt Price mopto...@gmail.com wrote: that looks really great, I'm going to play with it as soon as I can - -thanks! Hve you set up your own window layouts using htis package? No, But I used a package written by tkf called ne2wm[1] for some time which has very good

[O] Has anybody noticed ellipses instead of the top line of the window?

2012-12-06 Thread Samuel Wales
Has anybody encountered ellipses instead of the first line of the window? On 8/21/12, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com wrote: === beginning of window ... *** Above all Above all, it is a collapse of the uneasy and corrupt identification of science -- that principled, unbiased, at times

Re: [O] [PATCH] Nicer fontification for org-todo-list

2012-12-06 Thread Ingo Lohmar
On Tue, Dec 04 2012 15:39 (+0100), Bastien wrote: Hi Ingo, sorry nobody had the time to test the patch and report. It looks good to me and does the right thing. Do you mind resending it using git? Don't forget to add a changelog entry (with `C-x 4 a' in the modified places) and a

[O] [new-exporter] Macro expansion does not allow for newlines '\n'

2012-12-06 Thread Jonathan Leech-Pepin
Hello all, The new exporter does not properly parse \n characters in macro definitions. In the old exporter the following: #+MACRO: test hello\ngoodbye {{{test}}} exports to ASCII as: hello goodbye In the new exporter (e-ascii) it exports as: hello\ngoodbye I've also reproduced this using

[O] org-caldav: scripting for multiple calnedars?

2012-12-06 Thread Detlef Steuer
Hi David, org-caldav comes a godsend for me! Fantastic! I'm on owncloud and the first syncs worked like a charme! What I'm trying to figure out at the moment, is how to setup a batch so, that say work.org goes into calendar work, family.org into calendar family etc., without asking for

Re: [O] Bug? : Nested macro expansion

2012-12-06 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Jonathan Leech-Pepin jonathan.leechpe...@gmail.com writes: When trying to insert a macro as one of the variables in another macro (inline and not in the definition), the export fails in both exporters in different ways. Using the following example: #+begin_src org #+MACRO: test2

[O] [PATCH] Edit source: fix 'end' initialisation

2012-12-06 Thread Michael Gauland
I've been able to run org-edit-src-code just fine under NTEmacs 24.2.50.1 on Windows 7, but under GNU Emacs 23.2.1 on Debian, I got an error: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil With the attached patch, I've been able to run it on both systems. The change passes (make-marker) to

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Axel E. Retif
What about starting with a quote by Dr. Stefan Vollmar: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do You know, from MPI talk. Best Axel

[O] Sort by Inactive Timestamp

2012-12-06 Thread Jeff Mickey
Hey Org mailing list! So, I have been using org for years (2006?) now, absolutely adore it. The generic org-export in contrib really excites me as well, I want to try and write an org-e-mediawiki.el after I learn some more about org's implementation. However.. my current issue: I'd like to sort

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
like the following: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Keeping notes ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Literate programming Each of the above could then be linked to relevant pages of the manual or worg. A slightly

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Schulte
Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: like the following: * Org mode is useful for ** Organising projects ** Maintaining TODO lists and calendars ** Keeping notes ** Creating high quality formatted documents ** Literate programming Each of the above could then be linked

[O] priorities

2012-12-06 Thread J. David Boyd
How many of y'all have changed the default priorities from 'A', 'B', and 'C' to something else. I've changed mine to '1' - '5', which showed up a bug in MobileOrg, and I'm curious why no one else has seen this. Am I the only one that doesn't like letter priorities? Dave

Re: [O] Problem with template expansion of previous prompts.

2012-12-06 Thread Aaron Ecay
You need to escape the backslash inside the string, I think. \1 is interpreted as a string consisting of one character, the ASCII character with hex code 0x01, which happens to be C-a. \\1 is a 2-character string: backslash, then one. -- Aaron Ecay

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
Org-mode is useful for - Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars - Creating high quality formatted documents - Keeping notes - Literate programming and Reproducible Research Use lower case for RR, since everything else is lower case? Vikas

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Vikas Rawal vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org writes: Org-mode is useful for - Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars - Creating high quality formatted documents - Keeping notes - Literate programming and Reproducible Research Use lower case for RR, since everything else

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread David Rogers
Axel E. Retif axel.re...@mac.com writes: What about starting with a quote by Dr. Stefan Vollmar: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do I'm not SO sure that it's difficult. Let me try: Org-mode is a set of

Re: [O] Sort by Inactive Timestamp

2012-12-06 Thread Samuel Wales
I can't give you the answer, only the tools, as my setup contains years of stuff. The manual says how to do sorting in the outline and the agenda using user-defined functions. The key thing is converting timestamps into something that you can use reliably. I wrote these over a long period years

Re: [O] Sort by Inactive Timestamp

2012-12-06 Thread Samuel Wales
I think your setup is only by time, so you don't really need to convert the timestamps, and you don't really need the generalized get function. You can just use org-entry-get. -- The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com The disease DOES progress. MANY people have died from it.

Re: [O] Has anybody noticed ellipses instead of the top line of the window?

2012-12-06 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 6 Dec 2012 13:46, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com wrote: Has anybody encountered ellipses instead of the first line of the window? On 8/21/12, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com wrote: === beginning of window ... *** Above all Above all, it is a collapse of the uneasy and

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Axel E. Retif
On 12/06/2012 06:18 PM, David Rogers wrote: Axel E. Retif axel.re...@mac.com writes: What about starting with a quote by Dr. Stefan Vollmar: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do I'm not SO sure that it's

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
Org-mode is a set of processors that work in the background of Emacs to convert your text into action and your chaos into structure. With the help of those processors, almost anything you type while using Org-mode is already a computer program. Well said. Vikas

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
Suggested slight change which mentions RR in addition to LP, and doesn't abuse the outline syntax (one of the most common beginner mistakes IMO). Org-mode is useful for - Organising projects, maintaining TODO lists and calendars - Creating high quality formatted documents - Keeping notes

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com writes: Axel E. Retif axel.re...@mac.com writes: What about starting with a quote by Dr. Stefan Vollmar: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do I'm not SO sure that

Re: [O] Annoying empty line after M-RET / C-RET

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Volker Grabsch v...@notjusthosting.com writes: Dear Org-Mode Gurus, I noticed some strange behaviour in Org Mode. I'm not sure if this happens for a good reason, or is simply a bug. Either way, it's pretty annoying. Normally, C-RET inserts a new empty headline directly after the previous

Re: [O] The statement on what is orgmode.

2012-12-06 Thread brian powell
6. Org-mode: It's difficult to say what exactly Emacs' Org-mode will do for you; it's easier to list all things it doesn't do. Wow! Great thread. I was going to ask the question what @isn't@ Emacs OrgMode--and not in a trite way at all; in a serious way. Emacs is a mode-less (concurrent major

[O] Emacs user conference

2012-12-06 Thread Ivan Kanis
Hello, A user emacs conference would consist of talks of about an hour. I think a week end should be sufficient. If we don't have enough talks we can split workshops in smaller group on a given topic. They are plenty of talk proposals listed on this web site. http://emacsconf.herokuapp.com/ I

Re: [O] Emacs user conference

2012-12-06 Thread joakim
Burton Samograd bur...@samograd.ca writes: Ivan Kanis ivan.ka...@googlemail.com writes: Hello, A user emacs conference would consist of talks of about an hour. I think a week end should be sufficient. If we don't have enough talks we can split workshops in smaller group on a given topic.