Re: [O] Column width cookies stopped working in 9.2.3?
Hi all Some opinions and very old history about exactly the same issue: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-03/msg00766.html | | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |---+---+---+---+---+---| | 8:15 | Math | Compute=> | - | Math | Compute=> | | 13:15 | - | Math | Compute=> | - | Math | commit b34982368728d791c80e21f07f5046a050292f2d Author: Carsten Dominik Date: Sat Mar 27 16:13:45 2010 +0100 Tables: Interpret as fixed width, not maximum width Requested by Michael Brand Michael
Re: [O] [RFC] org-style
Ciao Gregor, >> What do you think about this? Is this worth to merge into org mode? > > This is nice, I played with it and see it's merit, but I think > this should not be enabled by default. > > Even if the user had to enable it first via customization, this > version of the code has another drawback: if it actually touches > the buffer in order to change the number of blank lines it at the > same time removes the indentation of the first non blank line. > This might not be what the user wishes and should either not be > the case or also disabled per default: Thanks for the feedback. I fully agree to just offer this styling as an option. The other issue, i.e. accidential deletion of leading whitespace and thanks for pointing that out, can be solved by using the following code AFAICS. #v+ (defun org-style-blanklines-assure (num) "Assure exactly NUM blanklines and set point to the end of those. The buffer remains unchanged when the blanklines are already there and empty." (skip-chars-backward "\t \n") (let ((numplusone-newlines (make-string (1+ num) ?\n))) (if (looking-at (concat numplusone-newlines "[^\n]")) (goto-char (1- (match-end 0))) (when (looking-at "\\(\\(\t\\| \\)*\n\\)+") (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))) (insert numplusone-newlines #v- Ciao, Marco
Re: [O] GTD and CRM workflow for org-mode using Agenda and org-super-agenda [followup]
On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 17:26, Daryl Manning wrote: > The DEADLINE with an intermediary step would be cool. The only thing I > could think of that might make something like that work is if you might > create a "subtask" that had the DEADLINE and then follow that and resolve > before the actual top level task got resolved, though being a relative > newcomer to org-mode, I have absolutely not a clue how you'd do accomplish > that (sorry). Yes, that's why I mentioned about not being able to store a link from the agenda. My initial thoughts had been to store the link to the current task and create a new one with the intermediate deadline, one that linked back to the original task. But I cannot do this from the agenda view. I can, obviously, do this from where the task is defined but that distracts as it takes me away from the agenda. > Rather than using a note, btw, I've found it much more useful to signify > delegatee with a tag (so, something like :jones:). I do this as well but the note I take gives details about what I have asked the person to do etc. so still useful. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.2-341-ga9d3ea
Re: [O] Column width cookies stopped working in 9.2.3?
On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 22:39, Nick Dokos wrote: > > Just to clarify: my intention was to advertise etc/ORG-NEWS more > widely and point out that it's probably the best place to learn about > things that are likely to break one's workflows (and if you read it > before you update, you just might avoid unpleasant surprises - and > this is not a specific "you", but a general "you" that includes > everybody, including me: I often forget to do this and suffer the > consequences). Understood, and I appreciate your reply and interest in this topic. > > Am I right about my use case being different, and therefore perhaps > > having been caught up unintentionally in this change? > > > > That may well be true: personally, I always thought of these cookies as > minimum width specifiers, not > maximum width. > > But I think you could do what you want by having a row that contains fixed > width strings, instead of > width cookies. To make it as unobtrusive as possible, I'd use non-breaking > spaces as the character: > > | || > | > | || > | > > There may be better solutions, but this is what sprang to my mind after > reading your use case. Yes indeed, and that is the solution that I'm now using. I'm not totally sure yet if it's a durable solution or just a workaround - but it's working for now. Best wishes, Neil
Re: [O] GTD and CRM workflow for org-mode using Agenda and org-super-agenda [followup]
Thanks! That's quite kind. Just glad to know someone found it useful. The DEADLINE with an intermediary step would be cool. The only thing I could think of that might make something like that work is if you might create a "subtask" that had the DEADLINE and then follow that and resolve before the actual top level task got resolved, though being a relative newcomer to org-mode, I have absolutely not a clue how you'd do accomplish that (sorry). I'm sure there is probably a better way. =] Rather than using a note, btw, I've found it much more useful to signify delegatee with a tag (so, something like :jones:). The advantage is when you have a meeting with someone or need to refer to their stuff, just sort all tasks/todos by tag :jones" and you know everything Jones is on the hook for. I also generally keep a file for someone - usually to organize 1:1 notes and similar and use a setup like: # jones.org ``` elisp #+TITLE: Jones * Jones :jones:loka: ** Jones 1:1 - 2019-05-03 *** Team Structure and Leads shifts *** PMS reviews *** Martech ... ``` Also very handy if you put the TODOs inline with the 1:1 notes as they'll still be tagged to find them from the personnel buffer. Anyhow, YMMV but that has worked surprisingly well though it does not solve your *actual* intermediary/delegated DEADLINE step. Sorry. =] ciao! Daryl. On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 4:24 PM Fraga, Eric wrote: > On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 10:50, Daryl Manning wrote: > > A surprising (to me, anyway) number of people asked me privately to > follow > > up about my setup and how I was using thing, so I promised I would put a > > blog post together (I had a draft from march anyhow... =] ). > > Thanks for this. Very interesting and well written. It's given me some > things to think about. > > The one feature that I am missing is chained TODOs in the following > context. Like you, I spend an inordinate amount of time chasing > people. I often have tasks that I delegate. I change the task to WAIT > from TODO and add a note that says to whom I have delegated the > task. The original task will typically have a DEADLINE but I would like > to associate a deadline for the delegated step. This is not easy to > do. For instance, I cannot store a link from the agenda view which > would allow me, from that view, to easily create a new linked task. > > Anyway, thanks again. > -- > Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.2-290-g300f15 >
