Re: [O] Org release 7.8.08 (BUGFIX-only release)
Hi On 2012-04-02 17:41, Bastien wrote: I released 7.8.08. snip Please spread the word and test this release heavily. org-version reports 7.8.07 -- Chris Randle
Re: [O] Bug: Recurring items don't always show up in timeline
On 2011-03-18 21:20, Nick Dokos wrote: Mark Sthroa...@yahoo.com wrote: I posted this before as a question, but since it has been confirmed by others, and shows up under Linux and Windows, I'll now post the details as a bug. The Timeline view *would* be very useful for scheduling months in advance, reviewing history, or printing a year event calendar. Unfortunately, it appears that it can't really be trusted. The basic problem is that in AGENDA TIMELINE view (C-a L) recurring items are frequently and unpredictably dropped from the view. The regular AGENDA view works fine AFAIK -- its the TIMELINE that is at issue. AFAICT, the culprit is org-get-all-dates: it matches date strings, translates to number of days since the (imaginary) date 0001-12-31bce, accumulates them in a list, sorts them, takes care of gaps - but completely ignores any repeaters: iow, the don't always show in the Subject line should more accurately say never show. Unless I'm missing something (again!), when I try it, they *do* repeat *sometimes*. For example, the entry TODO [#A] Bath for dog 2011-03-10 Thu +1w appears in agenda timeline as follows: 2011-03-10, miss 1 week, 2011-03-24, 2011-03-31, 2011-04-07, miss 7 weeks, 2011-06-02, miss 8 weeks (agenda terminates 2011-07-31). -- Chris Randle
Re: [O] Re: Recurring items don't always show up in timeline
Hi Mark On 2011-03-14 22:36, Mark S wrote: Are there any other dates in your calendar? Have you tried it with +90d? Yes, oodles of other dates. My initial test was with +90d. And looking through 2011, I saw the four dates listed in my previous reply. Will try your sample data. -- Chris Randle
Re: [O] Re: Recurring items don't always show up in timeline
Hi Mark On 2011-03-14 22:55, Mark S wrote: Here's a version of the calendar I'm using. There are two date ranges as well as regular dates. It might be that recurring events that occur on days that are inside of a date range do not show up. On mine, Bath for dog doesn't show up on April 14th, for instance which happens to be inside of a date range. The Pay Cell Phone item does not occur 90 days later (about 4/15) which would also be inside of a date range. BUT it also does not occur on or near 7/15, which is not inside of a date range. The Do this every 3 months item does not show up in June, even though it would not fall inside of a date range. I've pasted your sample Org-mode data into my Org-mode file after first deleting everything I had in there; i.e. nothing but your data but with my .emacs file and settings. TODO Pay Cell Phone Bill TriMonthly 2011-01-15 Sat +90d showed up (using C-c a a) 2011-01-15, 2011-04-15, 2011-07-14, 2011-10-12, 2012-01-10, etc. The entry for 2011-04-15 appeared together with ranged entry (5/12) of Spring Break. TODO [#A] Bath for dog 2011-03-10 Thu +1w appeared every Thursday, including 2011-04-14. Do this every 3 months 2011-03-28 Mon +90d appeared on 2011-03-28, 2011-06-26, 2011-09-24, 2011-12-23, 2012-03-22, etc. So, it all seems to work OK here. Sorry I don't know what to suggest to try at your end other than the usual things about reverting to minimal .emacs and putting things back in one at a time. Also, making sure that there isn't a clash between compiled units/modules and .el files. That's something I can't comment on as I don't compile my Org-mode, just run from the .el files. -- Chris Randle
Re: [O] Slow movement in large buffers
Hi Matt On 2011-03-15 03:25, Matt Lundin wrote: I've been navigating the org-issues file (14000+ lines) and have found movement within the file to be fairly slow. Sometimes Emacs will lock up for several seconds. snip Do others have the same experience? If so, does anyone have any tips on how to diagnose this further? I keep all my info in one big Org-mode file which is currently just shy of 115,000 lines. There's the occasional stutter of a fraction of a second when I move across closed nodes containing large chunks, but it's still perfectly acceptable (to me, anyway!). My PC is an Intel dual-core 2.66GHz with 4GB RAM, so nothing earth-shattering. -- Chris Randle
Re: [O] Re: Recurring items don't always show up in timeline
Hi Nick and Mark On 2011-03-15 16:59, Nick Dokos wrote: I think Mark is using C-c a L to get the timeline: that's where the problem lies. C-c a a works fine. Oh . Sorry for all the noise. I was really unobservant. I've never used C-c a L so I'd just assumed there was only one agenda view with dated entries. Trying again (using C-c a L). All expected dates listed, but those that did *not* appear are in parentheses: TODO Pay Cell Phone Bill TriMonthly 2011-01-15 Sat +90d Results: 2011-01-15, (2011-04-15), (2011-07-14) TODO [#A] Bath for dog 2011-03-10 Thu +1w Results: 2011-03-10, (2011-03-17), 2011-03-24, 2011-03-31, 2011-04-07, (2011-04-14)...and 6 more intervening weeks missing...2011-06-02...and then 8 more missing (up to 2011-07-31) Do this every 3 months 2011-03-28 Mon +90d Results: 2011-03-28, (2011-06-26) The timeline stopped at 2011-07-31, I assume because that's the last actual date in the file. Adding another entry * End of year 2011-12-31 to force another 5 months, and redoing the Timeline added no extra repeating items at all, just the End of year entry preceeded by [... 153 empty days omitted] So my results agree with yours, Mark. Sorry again for previously adding confusion to the mix. -- Chris Randle
Re: [O] Re: Recurring items don't always show up in timeline
Hi Mark On 2011-03-15 17:34, Mark S wrote: You say showed up using C-a a Yes, but what about the Timeline? C-a L So sorry, complete misunderstanding. Please see my reply to Nick Dokos's earlier post pointing out my mistake. -- Chris Randle
Re: [O] Recurring items don't always show up in timeline
Hi Mark On 2011-03-14 19:02, Mark S wrote: Has anyone else seen this? Working OK here. I get entries in 2011 for: 2011-01-15 2011-04-15 2011-07-14 2011-10-12 and switching to +1w, I see an entry every Saturday. I'm running the same s/w as you, I think Windows XP Pro SP3 GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 Org-mode version 7.5 (d/l from Org-mode site, not from Git) -- Chris Randle
Re: [Orgmode] Is there a way to fill org-mode's table cell with the values nearby?
Denny Zhang (filebat Mark) wrote: I am wondering whether we have a handy way to fill table's cell with the values nearby. S-RET will do the trick. If the current cell is empty, it copies the first non-blank line above. If the current cell is not empty, it copies and moves to the cell below. It will also (depending on value of org-table-copy-increment) increment integer values as it does so. If you supply an arg, S-RET copies from that many non-empty lines above. With a 0 (zero) as the arg, it disables the integer increment for the next copy. There's a description on p.18 of v6.34c of the manual. -- Chris Randle. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] TODO dependencies and file-level keywords
Hi Carsten, I'm using Org-mode 6.33f under GNU Emacs 22.1.1 and Windows XP Pro SP3. In one of my Org files, I have the line: #+TYP_TODO: TODO NEXT WAIT PROJ | DONE NODO But I find that, in the snippet below for example, tasks b and c are not dependency-blocked, i.e. I can switch them to DONE or NODO when task a remains in one of the non-DONE states. * Parent :PROPERTIES: :ORDERED: t :END: ** TODO a ** TODO b, needs to wait for (a) ** TODO c, needs to wait for (a) and (b) If I switch from file-level TODO keywords to setting them globally in my .emacs file, thus: (setq org-todo-keywords '((type TODO NEXT WAIT PROJ | DONE NODO))) then dependencies work as expected, i.e. tasks b and c cannot be switched to DONE or NODO when task a is one of TODO, NEXT, WAIT or PROJ. Is this as intended for some reason? -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Problem with sparse tree not displaying results
Hi Carsten I'm using Org-mode 6.32b under GNU Emacs 22.1.1 and Windows XP Pro SP3. I've just noticed that creating a sparse tree with `C-c / r' is not displaying matches in my org file. It hasn't always been this way, I *think* things were working OK around 6.29, but it's hard to be sure. I've managed to pare my org file down to a few lines that demonstrate the problem === * Customers ** Customer A *** Billing Support during September :ARCHIVE: ** Customer B 07964-xx *** Problem with Laptop ** Customer C *** Current Details *** Test of 07968 showing up ** Customer D 01673-xx 07968-xx *** Laptop slowdown fix spoolsv.exe at 99% === Setting a sparse tree by regexp 0796[48] returns 3 match(es) for regexp 0796[48], but the tree doesn't expand at the hit locations. If I manually expand the tree at the locations of the hits, the results are highlighted. It makes no difference if the hits are in a headline or in notes beneath a headline. Remove the ARCHIVE tag from the Support during September headline with `C-c C-x a' and redo the sparse tree. Everything now appears expanded as I'd expect. The values of my org-show variables are org-show-hierarchy-above is a variable defined in `org.el'. Its value is ((default . t)) org-show-following-heading is a variable defined in `org.el'. Its value is ((default)) org-show-siblings is a variable defined in `org.el'. Its value is ((default) (isearch t)) org-show-entry-below is a variable defined in `org.el'. Its value is ((default)) -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] run emacs.exe - point to specific .emacs
Hi Erwin Erwin Panen wrote: - Is there any command line parameter to point emacs to a specific /dir/subdir/.emacs_2 file? This would allow me to experiment with various subsets of .emacs settings? Don't know if this helps at all, but I do the same thing myself. I have a copy of Emacs on a USB stick, and my Org-mode files on a TrueCrypt volume on the same stick. I synchronize the org files with my desktop using Subversion and Tortoise SVN. Works a treat. On the USB stick, I have a batch file called notepad.bat containing the following. The equals signs just delineate the start and end of the file, they're not part of the file: == @echo off set OLD-HOME=%HOME% set HOME=%cd% set /p DRIVE_LETTER=Enter drive letter of SD card: %DRIVE_LETTER%:\_Usb\Emacs\bin\runemacs.exe notepad.org set HOME=%OLD-HOME% set OLD-HOME= set DRIVE_LETTER= Also on the stick, I have a shortcut to the batch file with Target: N:\emacs-data\Notepad.bat Start in: N:\emacs-data Windows seems to be smart (unusual, I know) in that it has no problem with the hard coded drive letter in the shortcut. If drive changes letter on mounting, it copes. But you must create the shortcut with the correct drive letter at that moment. The Start in value designates the current directory which the batch file picks up in the %cd% environment variable and sets HOME to it, so that Emacs knows where to get the .emacs file. Perhaps you could make different shortcuts with different Start in values pointing to folders containing different .emacs files. The complication with %DRIVE_LETTER% is because the USB stick and Emacs itself get mounted with one drive letter and then my org files and .emacs are mounted on the encrypted volume with another drive letter, and the batch file encrypted volume has no way of knowing the drive letter of the USB stick to start Emacs. If you're keeping everything on the one drive letter, you won't need that bit. -- Chris Randle Windows XP Pro SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.29c ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Re: Sourceforge community award
Rick Moynihan wrote: I think using analogy and metaphor might be a more effective way to get the message across in 140 characters. So rather than describing org-mode features in this constraint are we not better using the opportunity to pique curiosity? I'd been mulling this one over for a while. Don't know how good/apt others think these are: Org-mode: stop texting your friends and start texting your life. or Org-mode, for when you're ready to text your life. Something along those lines. Of course this collapses utterly if you don't use the expression texting to mean sending a text message via the SMS on a mobile/cell phone. It's common in the UK; beyond there, I don't know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Sourceforge community award
Hi All, For an alternative logo, I went to glassgiant.com and generated the attached file using Christophe Bataillon's logo. I thought it fitted the your life in plain text strapline rather well. -- Chris Randle .=.. O... ...7O... ..Z= .~8. .Z,. OO.. ...~O,.. ..,O=... .D$Z,... .,..NM...~O= ...:DMNZNMM.,OO, ...DDMMDOZZOODN8OZ~. ...,7$ZOZODD8MMMDDDOOOD= .ZOZZZ8DD8DD88D8DD8. .,?OZZ8DD8NMMMD8Z,.. ...=OZ8D88DN888ODD888DDD8DI: .+8ZZZ8D8DNND:.. ...?OZZDD8DDDD.. .,8ODD8D8D$. :ZZZODD8D,.. ...?OZDDDNM= ..,O8O8DD88NMMMD ..OODDD8ND888D8,$DDD8DD8DD888D8. .:ZZZOOO88OZ8DD8DDO. .OZZZDDDNDD88D88O... .OZZZ8DDODDDND88O... .ODD88DD8888~... .OODD888 .ZO8D8OODDDNND8D .:Z8DDD888DDD88D~... ..ZZZOZODD8ND888O... ..+Z88DO8DD888DDD~.. ...OZZZO8DND888, ...~OOOODDD8DDDND8.. :OZZZO8OO8D8DD88D8DZ ..=OZDDD8D88D$.. ~DDDNDD, ..NDDD888O8D$... ...:D88D88.. .DD. ...O8DD8DD888DD8 +$87Z~.$D... ...~88.. ..,7DDO. .=D. ...: GlassGiant.com ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Donations
Hi Carsten Carsten Dominik wrote: Long story short: There is now a PayPal donation button on the website. I'm so glad you've decided to do this. I've been meaning for ages to ask if you felt something like that was appropriate. I've used so many different bits of software over the years in an attempt to keep myself organized, and most of them have been commercial, requiring payment. They all fall by the wayside after a while for one reason or another. I mentioned to my wife how Org-mode may be the one as I'd now been using for more than a couple of months, only to discover on checking that it was actually over 18 months! Don't think it's quite what St Paul had in mind when he wrote it, but see 1 Corinthians 3:14 -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Changing TODO state to DONE does not stop clock in frame
Hi Carsten Carsten Dominik wrote: I am no able to reproduce this. Can anyone else try, please? On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Chris Randle wrote: Summary: Changing TODO state to DONE does not stop clock in frame Thanks for looking into this for me. I was worried that it may be something odd in my setup, but I don't think so. Full version info in my sig below. I can reproduce the problem with the following fairly simple steps: I stripped my .emacs down until it consisted of just this line: (add-to-list 'load-path ~/elisp/org-mode/lisp) I created a file called test-clock.org, which consisted of everything between - but not including - the equals signs below: == * Item 1 * Item 2 ** TODO Something Now is the time * Item 3 == I fired up Emacs and loaded test-clock.org using `C-x C-f' I then did `M-x org-mode' I fully expanded the contents with 'C-u C-u C-u TAB' I put my cursor on the Item 2 line I did 'C-c C-x b' This opened the subtree in a secondary buffer in a new window. Originally my problem was with frames, but it seems that windows makes no difference. I switched to the secondary window with 'C-x o' I put my cursor on the TODO Something line I did 'C-c C-x C-i' I did 'C-c C-t' At this point the TODO item was marked DONE, but the item was still clocked in. If I repeated the experiment, but didn't open a secondary buffer, then the marking of the TODO as DONE clocked the item out, as expected. Hope this helps, and thanks again. -- Chris Randle Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3 Emacs-version: GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE Org-version: Org-mode version 6.24b ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Changing TODO state to DONE does not stop clock in frame
Hi Carsten, Summary: Changing TODO state to DONE does not stop clock in frame I have one giant Org-mode file for everything. I frequently use `C-c C-x b' to take the current node and show it in a new frame with narrow subtree so that I can concentrate on just that region of my file. Rather like hoist in GrandView, if anyone remembers that. My Org Manual (6.24b) says The indirect buffer...will contain the entire buffer, but will be narrowed to the current tree. Editing the indirect buffer will also change the original buffer, but without affecting visibility in that buffer. I've noticed that, when working in the new frame, changing the TODO state of any item within the frame to DONE (when it is the currently clocked in item) does not stop the clock. Going back to my main frame and doing the same thing there on the same item does stop the clock. I haven't altered `org-clock-out-when-done', and Emacs reports its value as t. Is this something that's easily fixed/modified? -- Chris Randle Windows XP Pro SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.24b ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Checkboxes and intermediate state
Hi Carsten Carsten Dominik wrote: this was an intentional change, I thought that a simple command to get rid of a checkbox was more important. I have put setting to [-] back in now, but you will need a double prefix Thanks for doing that. The 6.22b manual needs updating on p46 (half-way down). I hate to come across as awkward, but I'd like to find out how others use checkboxes and their opinion of this change. I use checkboxes daily. Largely as a sub-set of mini-todos under a main todo heading. For example, I have a computer in for a fix, and as I work on it removing bits or changing settings, I'll quickly add a new line (`M-S-RET') to remind me to revert the changes afterwards. Mini-example of being part-way working through the finished list with a defrag kicked off: *** TODO Finish up - [X] Uninstall WinPcap driver - [X] Uninstall UltraVNC - [-] Defrag - [ ] Reset screen resolution to 1280x854 I've not used the new ability to convert lines to/from checkboxes, although I can see how it could be useful, especially on a block of items. But, there are a couple of things I'd like to get a feel for from others using checkboxes heavily: Taking the example above, and doing `C-u C-c C-c' on the defrag line, I don't see why this result *** TODO Finish up - [X] Uninstall WinPcap driver - [X] Uninstall UltraVNC - Defrag - [ ] Reset screen resolution to 1280x854 should be more important/useful/common than the previous pending state. Converting items to/from checkboxes, I should have thought, would have been something done once, whereas manipulating the state of a checkbox was something that is done more often. So I think that `C-u C-c C-c' should stay as toggle pending state and `C-u C-u C-c C-c' (less frequently used?) should be remove checkbox. Also, why then doesn't (currently) `C-u C-c C-c' put a checkbox back in? I do so much want to stress how I don't want to criticise your fabulous code. I'm so grateful to you for Org-mode - it's miraculous. I just want to see if my usage is a minority style. -- Chris Randle Windows XP Pro SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.21b ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Checkboxes and intermediate state
Hi Carsten Until recently, if I used `C-u C-c C-c' with the cursor on the line with Item B in the following example: - [X] Item A - [ ] Item B - [ ] Item C I'd get: - [X] Item A - [-] Item B - [ ] Item C Now (6.21b) I get: - [X] Item A - Item B - [ ] Item C Think this may be an unintentional side-effect of the recent changes to the list code. Hope so, because I quite like using that mark to register the item that I'm working on currently - an in progress marker. The fact that it's taken me weeks to spot this shows how often any progress is made in my world! -- Chris Randle Windows XP Pro SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.21b ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Broken plain list check boxes?
Hi Carsten Just updated to 6.20e. Before, on 6.18c, if I had a plain list like this: * Test - [ ] A - [ ] B - [ ] C With the cursor on the test line, typing `c-c c-x c-b' would check all the boxes, and repeating would uncheck them. Now it doesn't seem to toggle, only check. I hope this isn't a permanent change, or that there's another way to turn them all off because I use lists of check boxes 20 or 30 items long to mark off the little bits pieces I like to get done every day. It'd be a bit tedious to have to manually set them all unchecked at the beginning of each day, even with a macro. -- Chris Randle Windows XP Pro SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.20e ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Broken plain list check boxes?
James TD Smith wrote: Have you looked at org-checklist.el in contrib? I wrote that to handle this kind of thing. Make sure org-checklist.el is in your load path, and add (require 'org-checklist) to your .emacs. You can then set up your daily task like so: ,[ test.org ] * TODO test SCHEDULED: 2009-01-29 Thu + 1d :PROPERTIES: :RESET_CHECKBOXES: t :END: - [ ] Task 1 - [ ] Task 2 - [ ] Task 3 ` and when you mark it done all the checkboxes will be cleared. That's cool! -- Chris Randle Windows XP Pro SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.20f ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Timestamps and checkbox cookies on same line
Hi Carsten When I edit a timestamp with the shifted cursor keys on a line such as: * Today [2008-12-10 Wed] [2/10] the checkbox cookie is removed. -- Chris Randle Windows XP SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.13a ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Inactive and Active date stamp editing
Hi Carsten You wrote: I have fixed issue 1 and 2, but I think 3 I will leave alone. It is purely cosmetic, and Org asks for a date/time in so many places that it would be a lot or work to always pass that information. The only thing I might consider is to remove the brackets alltogether in the live display of the read-date interface. But then I do not think this is really relevant. Thank you for implementing those changes. I agree with you on point 3 - it's cosmetic (although it does convey some information), so if it's not trivial to implement, I'm glad you've passed on it to devote time to more worthy items. And I'd vote for leaving the Date+time editor's brackets alone in that case. Thank you for Org-mode and the herculean effort you put in to accommodating requests, yet somehow managing to avoid polluting the clean design and orthogonal functionality. -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] OSD alerts for appointment reminders (+ erc hook to useOSD)
Richard Riley wrote: I thought some of you linux users might like this - use gnome-osd-client to put an on screen reminder of your looming appointments. In a similar vein, I've coded something for Windows. It's an interactive function currently called my-org-update-desktop-from-agenda. It takes the current week's agenda view and sets it as the desktop's wallpaper. Not an alert, but it keeps your workload forever in front of you. It needs a couple of functions defined in .emacs and a windows executable (90KB) that I've written which updates the desktop wallpaper from an html file. The wallpaper will look exactly the same as the agenda view you'd normally see within org-mode. It's trivial to adjust one of the functions if you prefer more/fewer days than 7 displayed. Only tested on the setup quoted in sig. Anyone who'd like a bundled copy of the required bits, just drop me an email: chris[at]amlog[dot]co[dot]uk. Off-list might be best. -- Chris Randle Windows XP SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.07b ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Re: Question about cursor movement
henry atting wrote: Okay, that explains how to move the cursor. But the question is how to reduce the cursor movement (or to avoid unnecessary cursor movement in that particular case) Would 'C-c C-c' do the trick? -- Chris Randle Windows XP SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.06b ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Question and observation about org-agenda-week-view
Hi I've written an emacs function which uses: (org-agenda nil e) To export my agenda to HTML. I'd like to make sure that the output always shows a weekly view, so I tried preceeding that line with (org-agenda-week-view) But evaluating the function with the week-view line gives Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil. Interactively, I see that you have to call the (org-agenda-x-view) functions from within the *Org Agenda* buffer. How can I force the org-agenda function, called programmatically, to output a week view? Also, I think the help text for the org-agenda-week-view function has a typo, as it says Switch to *daily* view for agenda (my emphasis). -- Chris Randle Windows XP SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.06b ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Feature request for copy cell in tables
Hi Carsten I use the table feature in org-mode daily to keep a log of incoming work requests. These requests have a 16-digit ID based on date such as the first row/column in the example below. Sometimes I want to copy the same ID to the line below, but S-return gives the result in the second row: |--+| | 200809091121 | 10 | | -2147483648 | 11 | |--+| This is presumably due to integer overflow. Secondly, I sometimes want to duplicate the cell which contains a simple integer such as 10 without it being incremented to 11 (although the auto-increment is also very useful). I don't really want to start setting org-table-copy-increment one way or the other as I'd use both types of copy equally. Two ideas: A) Could the table copy feature be altered to do a string-type copy if integer arithmetic is overflowing or wrapping round? And/or B) Could there be some keystroke to ignore integer increment and just treat the number as text? Would 'C-u 0 S-return' do the trick or has someone got a more elegant combination? C-S-return might also be a candidate, although it currently seems to mimic C-return and call (org-insert-heading-after-current). Thanks for your consideration. -- Chris Randle Windows XP SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.06b ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Displaying images inline
James TD Smith wrote: On 2008-08-22 17:52:46(-0400), Lindsay Todd wrote: Is there a way to link to a file containing an image, and have the image display inline in org-mode? You can do this using iimage; add the following to your .emacs: snip Every time I've tried to follow the instructions for getting inline images to work, I've had no luck. The iimage mode is shown, but links just stay as links. I think that my setup is capable of displaying graphics because I can see the GNU Emacs logo at Emacs startup. In principle, should iimage-mode work with Org-mode 6.06b, GNU Emacs 22.1.1 on Windows XP Pro SP3? If so, I'll take a closer look for where I may be going wrong. -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Problem with date calculations in a table
Nick Dokos wrote: I've been trying to make a table with the following structure: column 1 contains either a date or is empty; column 2 contains a date that's calculated from the corresponding date in column 1 (if column 1 contains a date) or is empty (if column 1 is empty). In the example below, column 2 is supposed to be the date 12 hours or 0.5 days after the date in column 1 (assuming that it is non-empty). I had problems getting date arithmetic to work in tables. I posted my findings and solutions here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/6536/ Don't know if it will fix your problem (too lazy to try!) but I suspect it will. -- Chris Randle Org-mode 6.06b - Emacs 22.1.1 - Windows XP ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] clocktable and :step
Hi Please could someone give me some examples of using :step with a clocktable? I've tried all the arguments I could think of to see what effect it has, but everything so far, except nil as an arg, gives the error Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil after a C-c C-c. Windows XP, Emacs 22.1.1, Org-mode 6.02 -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Abbrevs and Org Tables
Hi I define an Emacs abbrev of, say, hnbc to exapand to how now brown cow, and then type hnbc[space] inside an org table cell. After it has expanded it pushes the trailing cell divider away, even though the cell width was adequate. Tabbing out of the cell doesn't re-fit the cell divider - it stays stuck where it was after the expansion. It's slightly odd, because if I type lots of leading spaces before the abbrev and then tab, org happily moves the expanded text back to the beginning of the cell, but still doesn't move the trailing divider. C-c C-c fixes it, and also moving the cursor over to the trailing cell divider and backspace one char and tab. Any other workarounds or suggestions? -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Small documentation change regarding Agenda View
Hi, There is, I believe, a small mistake in the documentation for org-mode v5.19 (although it's been there since the change was made to the code). PDF Manual page 69, section 10.5, Agenda Views PDF Reference Card (2/2), Agenda Views, Change display Both list the toggle time grid key as 'g', whereas it's now 'G'. -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Problem with moving outline branches
Hi All I believe that there have been some recent changes to the way that trailing blank lines at the end of nodes are treated. Most (but not all) of my notes under nodes have a single trailing line before the next node, for example: * Task 1 ** Task 1a ** Task 1b Notes for 1b ** Task 1c Notes for 1c ** Task 1d * Task 2 If the tree is fully expanded, and I place the cursur on ** Task 1b and do M-down, the nodes 1b and 1c are re-ordered as expected. If the tree us exanded to only the 2nd level, as follows: * Task 1 ** Task 1a ** Task 1b... ** Task 1c... ** Task 1d * Task 2 And I do a M-down on node 1b, ** Task 1b is visually tacked on to the end of the line occupied by ** Task 1c. In this instance it seems to be cosmetic, as closing and opening the tree fixes the visual corruption, but I've had other instances (not reproduced) where I've moved things up and down a few times in a more complex tree, and the corruption is not just visual: nodes becomes subsumed by others. I'm using Windows XP, Emacs 22.1.1, Org-mode 5.17a -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] org-refile hack to show headings
Max Mikhanosha wrote: Glad you liked my setup. I can't help but recommend using http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles library. In case you never heard of it, icicles is to TAB completion what TAB completion is to typing things manually every time. In my setup (I think this is a default too) TAB does the prefix completion (like Emacs), but Shift-Tab matches the regexp. I'm still quite new to Org-mode (and Emacs too), so forgive me if this is a dumb question: How do you cope with the clash of binding with S-TAB which Org-mode uses in visibility cycling and table cell navigation? Have you simply rebound one or the other, or is there a more subtle workaround? -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Converting dates to org-mode dates
Hi I've been converting a file that contains dates in this format: dd/mm/ to Org-mode inactive format. It's pretty simple using regular expression search replace, except that I get this far: [-mm-dd ] and can't find a way to put the day of the week in there. Individually, I can do a 'C-u 0 S-right' on each date, and that shifts the date 0 days into the future, and fills in the day of the week. This also impacts on cases (unusual and unlikely, I grant you) where you might have an incorrect day: [2007-11-12 Tue] (should be Mon) As far as I can see, that will stay like this until the date is shifted in some way. Is there any way to parse an entire region/buffer for Org-mode dates and refresh their day of the week text? -- Chris Randle GNU Emacs 22.1.1 Org-mode 5.13h ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
RE: [Orgmode] Converting dates to org-mode dates
Bastien wrote: Maybe you can try this (not heavily tested): (defun my-update-day-name-in-inactive-time-stamps () Update the abbreviate day name in inactive time-stamps. Thank you. It works a treat. It also has a potentially useful side-effect, in that valid inactive time stamps like: [2007-11-12 ] are left untouched, which may well be what some people would want, whereas if my search replace operations leave: [2007-11-12 xxx] then they will be updated. And if I want the former style stamps updated, your code is clear enough that (even!) I can see how to adjust it. Thanks again. -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Values of org-indirect-buffer-display
I'm new to emacs and org-mode, so please forgive me if I've missed something fundamental. I've been using org-tree-to-indirect-buffer bound to the default C-c C-x b, and saw in the help that you can modify org-indirect-buffer-display. In my .emacs file, I've got the following: (setq org-indirect-buffer-display 'new-frame) When I hit C-c C-x b on a subtree, I do indeed get a narrowed subtree in a new frame (call it frame 2). When I go back to the original frame and repeat for a different subtree, that works too, but the buffer in frame 2 is killed. The help for org-tree-to-indirect-buffer says that a C-u prefix will keep the last buffer, and this works as stated: the buffer in frame 2 is then kept. So my question: if C-u controls the persistence of the previous buffer, what is intended difference between new-frame and dedicated-frame? I had expected C-c C-x b with new-frame to work the same as C-u C-c C-x b with dedicated-frame, and I feel that new-frame is redundant. I don't see why anyone would want to keep opening new frames whilst killing the indirect buffers in the previous ones. -- Chris Randle ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
