Re: [O] org-drill extremely slow with Org 9.2.5

Hi Milan, > Are there any tricks to speed it up? I noticed org-drill being slow three years ago when I tried to learn it. So I wrote my own package: https://github.com/abo-abo/pamparam/. It's quite fast: it takes 0.6s to sync my 3300 cards from the master Org file. And day-to-day learning operati

Re: [O] do you need a separate LaTeX installation to export org mode files to pdf?

Hi all, >> Would they need to install LaTeX too, or is org mode self-contained and >> able to export to pdf without LaTeX an friends installed? > > > Yes, they'd need to have a LaTeX distribution installed on their system. In > my experience, installing the full latest version of TexLive is the ea

Re: [O] Ediff org files starts folded

Here's what I use: (defun ora-ediff-prepare-buffer () (when (memq major-mode '(org-mode emacs-lisp-mode)) (outline-show-all))) (add-hook 'ediff-prepare-buffer-hook 'ora-ediff-prepare-buffer) regards, Oleh

Re: [O] [RFC] New "kbd" macro?

> Copying Oleh, as I believe he would also have some interest in this. Thanks for the info. I still prefer to denote keys as ~C-x C-f~, and code as =forward-char=: 1. It looks good in text. 2. It looks good on Github/Gitlab render. 3. It still exports as C-x C-f for HTML, and @kbd{C-x C-f} for Tex

Re: [O] Firefox extension "Org-capture" stopped working after update

Same happened to me. Downgraded Firefox on Ubuntu 16: apt-cache show firefox | grep Version sudo apt install firefox=45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1 sudo apt-mark hold firefox Next, about:config / xpinstall.signatures.required:=false. Finally, install 0.3.0.xpi from the website. There's an

[O] Commit "org-agenda: Support for dimming..." breaks agenda display

Hi all, I updated Org recently and noticed that the agenda display looks very broken, especially in `org-agenda-log-mode'. I did a bisect; reverting commit 912a385518bcf2e320cc161d573ad329111de6c7 fixes it. Anyone else have this problem? regards, Oleh

Re: [O] New package: ox-minutes [Please critique]

Kaushal Modi writes: > Hi all, > > I have never published a package. I generally write elisp snippets embedded > in my config. > > Here are my first attempts at a 'package' and defining a custom org > export backend. Congrats on your first package! It will surely come in handy when interacting

Re: [O] Is it possible to keep /all/ the heading properties in one place?

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Some users complained, and told me that "Org is not a programming > language". Fair enough. Org has, indeed, to strike a balance between > structure, required for efficiency and maintainability, and sloppiness, > needed when you want to quickly jot down notes in a docume

Re: [O] Is it possible to keep /all/ the heading properties in one place?

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > So is Lisp. I like Lisp. > It boils down to ask users to write Lisp by hand at some point. Not > everyone wants to use interactive tools. I claim that a user can get by without having to write a single line of Lisp manually. M-x `customize' has been doing it successfu

Re: [O] Is it possible to keep /all/ the heading properties in one place?

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > I do not feel like asking users to write directly the AST for their > plain text documents, really. It's not an AST though. It's simply nested lists. Like JSON or XML but better. And the idea is to both have it automatic and manual. For example, `org-set-property' would

Re: [O] Is it possible to keep /all/ the heading properties in one place?

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Because not everything is a node property. This shouldn't prevent us from keeping things that /are/ node properties all in one place. > TODO keywords, tags and properties are all different, and blurring the > distinction between them would not make Org easier. Note tha

Re: [O] Is it possible to keep /all/ the heading properties in one place?

Nicolas Goaziou writes: >> Here's a list of the diverse things that I'd like to hide into >> :PROPERTIES: >> >> - Tags - there are always a pain to re-align, they show up as diffs in >> git commits >> - The clock entries - they are stored in a :LOGBOOK:, separately from >> :PROPERTIES: >> - T

[O] Is it possible to keep /all/ the heading properties in one place?

Hi all, I've recently gotten back to reorganizing my Org setup. There are a few things I find lacking, one of which is having all the auxiliary information for a heading stored in a single place, that I can further make less noticeable with `prettify-symbols-mode'. (add-to-list 'prettify-symb

Re: [O] (message "Greedy org-protocol handler. Killing client.")

Samuel Wales writes: > org-protocol works less than half the time now. > > i try it with the org-capture firefox extension on iceweasel. i also > try it with a manual bookmark created by some instruction somewhere. > > today every click puts this in my messages buffer: > > "Greedy org-protocol h

Re: [O] Bug: Regression in ox-texinfo export

Kaushal Modi writes: > The syntax change was announced in Dec last year: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-12/msg00525.html > > It is now > > #+BEGIN_EXPORT backend > #+END_EXPORT Thanks, Kaushal. I wasn't aware of the change. I assume that #+TEXINFO: and #+HTML: one-line

[O] Bug: Regression in ox-texinfo export

At the current git master, the org source: #+BEGIN_TEXINFO @quotation Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with n

Re: [O] Why does evaluating a piece of Elisp code seemingly not expand a macro?

Marcin Borkowski writes: > Why? Macro-expand the defun to get: (defalias 'print-answer #'(lambda nil (message "The answer is %s." (forty-two `lambda' is a macro that /quotes/ its body. Therefore, the body of `defun' is not evaluated or expa

[O] Need some help in customizing ox-texinfo

Hello, I'm exporting an Org-mode document to Texinfo currently, but I'm having an inconvenience with production of @subsubheading items. What I'm doing right now: #+BEGIN_TEXINFO @subsubheading #+END_TEXINFO What I would like to have instead: * :@subsubheading

Re: [O] Conditional link export?

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Oleh Krehel writes: > >> Is that a new feature? > > It is probably almost as old as Babel itself. > >> First time I've heard about it, and I did google >> for inline code block evaluation before. > > You should check the Org

Re: [O] Conditional link export?

Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Goaziou writes: > There is already inline syntax for any language, including elisp: > > src_emacs-lisp{(foo)} > > and, if you use the library of Babel, > > call_foo{} > > I don't see the need to add yet another way to call inline code from an > Org document. Is that a ne

Re: [O] Conditional link export?

Aaron Ecay writes: > Extra elisp inside the org file is an important way of extending the > power of org markup. Why don’t you want to use it? Including boilerplate Elisp, all subtly different into each markup document, just to extend the markup with the syntax that it should have in the first

Re: [O] Conditional link export?

Aaron Ecay writes: Hi Aaron, Thanks for the effort, I might use the code you suggested as a last resort:) I think the issue here is extending the power of Org markup. The task at hand is "Write a manual in Org that exports to both Texinfo and HTML", preferably with zero config outside of the O

[O] Conditional link export?

Hi all, I'm writing a manual in Org-mode, with the intent to export both to Texinfo and HTML. And I'd like to use this link for Texinfo: info:emacs#Packages and this link for HTML: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Packages.html They both link to the same infor

Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint'

Stefan Nobis writes: > Oleh Krehel writes: > >> Would it be so hard for Git to perform a single merge of master into >> maint on release, while keeping them separate and cherry-picking >> in-between for the sake of a clean linear history? > > The question is not w

Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint'

Achim Gratz writes: > Am 11.09.2015 um 13:59 schrieb Oleh Krehel: >> What is the purpose of maint exactly? > > It's a bit short on the explanation side, but does that help? > > http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/index.html It does help a bit. > Also (not exactly t

Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint'

Josiah Schwab writes: Hi Josiah, >> As I understood, for Org mode some commits are applied to maint, and >> then merged into master. Why? > > It may be helpful for you to do a some background reading on workflows > with git. Have you ever read the gitworkflows man page? > > https://www.kernel

Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint'

Kyle Meyer writes: >> As far as I understood, maint is a subset of master, i.e. all commits >> that are in maint are in master as well. Is that correct? > > Yes. As long as there aren't any new commits on maint that have yet to > be merged What is the purpose of maint exactly? In Emacs git repo

Re: [O] Merge branch 'maint'

Kyle Meyer writes: > Hello, > > Oleh Krehel writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> Was the issue of abundant "Merge branch 'maint'" commit messages >> discussed before? I couldn't find a reference... >> >> It's not a big dea

[O] Merge branch 'maint'

Hi all, Was the issue of abundant "Merge branch 'maint'" commit messages discussed before? I couldn't find a reference... It's not a big deal, really, but I personally prefer to have linear history with commits that actually do stuff. And it should be easy to switch to this style: just use the "

Re: [O] Is there a way to search for link target, not description?

Marcin Borkowski writes: > Hi all, > > as in the subject. So, when I have e.g. [[foo][bar]], C-s finds bar, > but not foo. > > Any way to find foo without e.g. temporarily resorting to text-mode? The `swiper' command can do this. Available in GNU ELPA. I haven't used `isearch' for half a year n

Re: [O] John's amazing indexing posts

Hi Xebar, Xebar Saram writes: > i start using counsel and the counsel-recoll and is quite good, thx for this! > a small Q. when i launch the command am i supposed to see the search term > inline (like in grep) or just the file name it > resides in. currently i just see the filename that contai

Re: [O] Commit ceae5d651b80295f35c01ecfc53661c7e8eceba7 Breaks syncing with Android

Hi Charles, Charles Philip Chan writes: > > Just want to let you know, this commit: > > , > | commit ceae5d651b80295f35c01ecfc53661c7e8eceba7 > | Author: Oleh Krehel > | Date: Tue Jul 28 15:06:25 2015 +0200 > | > | lisp/org.el (org-set-tags): Simplify t

Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

Hi Aaron, Aaron Ecay writes: >> Besides, CC-BY-NC-SA is compatible with GPL! Compatible. With GPL. > > This isn’t correct. -NC licenses are non-Free (in the FSF sense of the > word): > -SA licenses are Free, but not GPL-compatible, as

[O] Is it possible to remove org-completing-read and org-completing-read-no-i?

Hi all, I'd like to remove them in favor of using `org-icompleting-read' everywhere (or better yet, `completing-read'). `org-completing-read-no-i' doesn't do much, is called twice and can be replaced with a let binding wrapper. `org-completing-read' could be updated this way: (defmacro wit

Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

Andreas Hilboll writes: >>> However, when the interpreter is extended to provide “bindings” to >>> other facilities (often, but not necessarily, libraries), the >>> interpreted program is effectively linked to the facilities it uses >>> through these bindings. So if these facilities are released

Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

Andreas Hilboll writes: >>> Look here: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU_General_Public_License§ion=11#Libraries >>> >>> Most useful quote: >>> The Free Software Foundation (which holds the copyright of several notable GPL-licensed software products and of the license t

Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

Eric S Fraga writes: > Anyway, I think we've beaten this to death already. Time to get real > work done! :-) That is my usual approach: label everything I write with GPL and not think about it:) It's just that most posts about GPL cast it in a bad light: I think it's the best license, and I do

Re: [O] John's amazing indexing posts

Erik Hetzner writes: > I believe that you can rewrite using the recoll tool directly instead > of recollq, using `recoll -t -b 'search string'`: > > (defun counsel-recoll-function (string &optional _pred &rest _unused) > "Grep in the current directory for STRING." > (if (< (length string) 3)

Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

Eric S Fraga writes: > On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 19:04, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > [...] > >> Nope. As stated by someone here (Oleh, I guess), if I (require 'org), >> or possibly even just write Elisp, and want to distribute it, it has to >> be GPL. > > I do not think this is true. I would lik

Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

Marcin Borkowski writes: >> As Oleh Krehel pointed out in a reply to another mail of yours, if your >> code links to org-mode code (or other GPL code) you cannot release it >> under a different license. I'm not sure about how linking is intended in >> Elisp sense of

Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

Marcin Borkowski writes: > And what if I explicitly want people to be able to use my code in > a proprietary software? Then you're out of luck. Just like thousands (millions) of programmers are out of luck when they want to examine the code of a closed source proprietary software. If I asked so

Re: [O] John's amazing indexing posts

Hi Erik, Erik Hetzner writes: > I previously hooked up org with recoll with pretty good results. > ... > http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ Thanks for the link. I tried it, and it actually works great on my system (unlike swish-e). And I did no configuration of mimeinfo, I only told it to in

Re: [O] Org-mode exporters licensing

Rasmus writes: > Oleh Krehel writes: > >> If anywhere in your code there's (require 'org), you have to release >> your code under GPL. > > Are you sure about that? By this logic, *any* .el file should be GPL as > they use (defun ·), implicitly loaded fr

Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

Marcin Borkowski writes: > Hi all, > > after a short discussion in a recent thread, I have a serious technical > question. > > Assume that (for some reason) I want to write an Org-mode exporter which > won't be GPL'd. (Use-case: having written a few custom exporters, I'm > writing a tutorial on

Re: [O] Org-mode exporters licensing

Marcin Borkowski writes: > I'm preparing a tutorial on writing Org-mode exporters. To this end, > I'm writing a (simplistic) Oddmuse/WikiCreole exporter. Rather > obviously, I'm modeling it on existing exporters (mainly ox-latex), > which seem to share a lot of structure (function names and doc

Re: [O] old ob-clojure in orgmode.org/elpa/?

Hi Julien, I asked this before, and the reason is that it was missed in the last release. And there's still some time until the next release that will finally update it. regards, Oleh

Re: [O] Unclear org-icompleting-read interface

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Moreover, > `org-icompleting-read' is not harder to read as `completing-read' > anyway. I disagree on this. `completing-read' at least declares its own argument list. So it's possible to distinguish which argument is which, albeit with some effort for a large amount of

[O] Unclear org-icompleting-read interface

Hi all, The current `org-icompleting-read' is defined as taking only `&rest args', which can be as many as 8, all of them without a name. I propose to update the definition to: (cl-defun org-icompleting-read (prompt collection &key predicate require-match

Re: [O] CUSTOM_ID doesn't work for HTML export on Org trunk

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Oleh Krehel writes: > >> It's not: I'm getting this in my Firefox address bar if I click the link: >> >> testorg.html#orgheadline1 > > What link? There is no link in your example. The link to the headline in the tabl

Re: [O] CUSTOM_ID doesn't work for HTML export on Org trunk

Hi Nicolas, Thanks for helping. Nicolas Goaziou writes: > The following buffer > > * Headline > :PROPERTIES: > :CUSTOM_ID: my-id > :END: > > > exports as > > >class="section-number-2">1 Headline > > > I'm getting the same behavior. > It looks correct. It's not: I'm getting

[O] CUSTOM_ID doesn't work for HTML export on Org trunk

Hi all, I don't know if this has been raised before, but it seems not to be fixed yet. Currently, in HTML export, instead of #custom_id I'm getting e.g. #orgheadline10. The commit that broke this was 2 months ago: 160820bc9498e9364103e72b55a27cf92576dbb8 still works fine. Let me know if this i

Re: [O] navigate between source code blocks

Leo Ufimtsev writes: >>And it's got the best Helm implementation for navigating to > headings. > > Well, when I hear someone use the word 'best', I see it as a challenge X-D. > > I used worf-goto for a while. It's certainly amazing and on the odd occasion > I still use it, but lately I've switch

Re: [O] navigate between source code blocks

Leo Ufimtsev writes: > Worf I think is a bit on the vi side of things. Helm is more generic. Worf is as much on the vi side of things, as `org-use-speed-commands' are. Almost not at all. It just takes vi-style "hjkl" arrows, because Emacs-style "bnpf" arrows aren't convenient. And it's got the

Re: [O] navigate between source code blocks

Hi Zhihao, > I’ve got a simple question: how to speed up jumping > between code blocks? You might be interested in https://github.com/abo-abo/worf. It allows you to traverse anything that starts with "*" or "#+" with just "hjkl" keys. See the docs here: http://oremacs.com/worf/README.html. regar

Re: [O] Could org-mode use `completing-read-function' instead of `org-icompleting-read'?

Hi Marcin, On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > On 2015-04-16, at 17:35, Oleh Krehel wrote: > >>>> I don't know how to use helm of ivy. But I think the attached patch is >>>> better. Would that work with helm and ivy? >>

Re: [O] Could org-mode use `completing-read-function' instead of `org-icompleting-read'?

>> I don't know how to use helm of ivy. But I think the attached patch is >> better. Would that work with helm and ivy? Yes, both work fine. > I could live with it, but basically `org-completion-use-ido` says "I > don't care if you've temporarily disabled `ido-mode' or not, I'll use > ido anywa

Re: [O] Could org-mode use `completing-read-function' instead of `org-icompleting-read'?

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Rasmus wrote: > Hi Oleh, > > Oleh Krehel writes: > >>>> I was just trying to customize the completion back end for refiling >>>> (ido isn't >>>> great for that, even with the ido-vertical upgrade). And it&#x

Re: [O] Could org-mode use `completing-read-function' instead of `org-icompleting-read'?

Hi Rasmus, On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Rasmus wrote: > Hi Oleh, > > Oleh Krehel writes: > >> I was just trying to customize the completion back end for refiling (ido >> isn't >> great for that, even with the ido-vertical upgrade). And it's not a

[O] Could org-mode use `completing-read-function' instead of `org-icompleting-read'?

Hi all, I was just trying to customize the completion back end for refiling (ido isn't great for that, even with the ido-vertical upgrade). And it's not at all easy, since ido seems to be hard-wired into org-mode's completion. Could we just change to use `completing-read-function' instead of `or

[O] Updating to the current org-mode in emacs trunk, and Org stable

Hi all, I normally use the git master version of org-mode, so I didn't notice this for the longest time, but my several of my updates to org-mode still aren't merged into stable versions. For instance, ob-J.el was added over a year ago, and there have been stable releases since then, but it wasn'

[O] bug#14910: org-mode `org-open-at-point' doesn't follow id links

Hi Bastien, > please make sure to send your replies on the list, you'll get a > quicker answer. Thanks for reminding, I keep forgetting. > As for requiring org-id for `org-open-at-point', I'm not sure this > is the right thing to do since it will require it for all users, even > those who don't u