Re: [O] complex dates (ie schedule a class in a time range)

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi Xebar,

Xebar Saram writes:

im having difficulty understanding how the complex date input 
works and would appreciate any help.  What i want is to schedule 
a class i teach on a sunday from 09:00 to 11:00 between 3/6/2016 
to 1/7/2016


%%(org-class 2016 6 3 2016 7 1 0) 9:00-11:00 You should be 
 sleeping


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] complex dates (ie schedule a class in a time range)

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Xebar Saram writes:

i added this to my meet.org file : 

** 3D class %%(org-class 2016 6 3 2016 7 1 0) 9:00-11:00 You 
should be sleeping 

yet in my agenda on 3/6/2016 there is no meeting present. what 
am i missing here?


I do not know. That works for me. You mean June 3rd right? Another 
obvious question, is meet.org part of your org-agenda-files?


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Require feedback on an idea: move to a central server all my org file and edit from there?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Marcin Borkowski writes:

On 2016-01-23, at 19:28, Xebar Saram  wrote: 

Thanks for the feedback guys! 

Marcin: do you know of good packages or methods to auto 
push/pull from emacs each time you save a file (preferably ones 
that dont require coding skills :-)) 


Sadly, no.  But this shouldn't be too difficult - basically, 
just put some code to run hg/git/whatever into one of the 
numerous Emacs hooks.  For instance, check out after-save-hook. 
Alternatively, you could advice a function responsible for 
actually doing the autosave (do-auto-save - unfortunately, it's 
written in C and not in Elisp).


You also might want to check git-annex, specifically the 
assistant: https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] syncing my life (orgmode :)) to a mobile (android) device..cant find a holistic reliable way..how do you guys manage to do it?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Xebar Saram writes:

So my question is (sorry for the long intro :)) what do orgmode 
users (who also are heavy mobile users) do? do they give up on 
contacts and calendaring on the mobile? maintain 2 separate 
databases? what tools do people use to overcome this issue?


I have a computer always running an emacs server, and I connect to 
it from my android phone using JuiceSSH. To see the org agenda in 
my google calendar I export every now and then the agenda to an 
ics file in the cloud using org-icalendar-combined-agenda-file. In 
google I have the address to that file as one of the calendars 
(from the calendar "Other calendars", "Add by URL").


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Using orgstruct-mode (or just org-cycle) in emacs-lisp-mode

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Jonas Bernoulli writes:

`orgstruct-mode' sounds like it could be really useful too, but 
as I mentioned it doesn't work for me at all.  So for now I 
would like to stick to just `outline-minor-mode'. 


  Thanks
  Jonas 

Ps: I am still not sure whether I am just doing something stupid 
or why else `orgstruct-mode' doesn't work for me.  So I would 
apprechiate a little tutorial starting from emacs -Q that 
demonstrates what setup is required and what keys I have to 
press for things to happen. 


Generally it is enough to set orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp and 
turn-on-orgstruct. I do this on a per mode basis, for example:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (add-hook 'elisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-orgtbl)
 (add-hook 'elisp-mode-hook
   (lambda ()
   (setq-local orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp
   ";; ")))
#+END_SRC

Then you can organize your code using

;; * section-name

;; ** subsection-name

and folding with TAB, shift-TAB, etc will work when you are in 
those lines.


To use lists you just have to start a line with -, +, 1., etc and 
then lists keybindings work, for example M-C-m for new items. I do 
not know why lists do not respect orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp, 
it has always seem weird to me that I cannot gain orgstruct 
functionality with something like:


;; - first item
;; - second item

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Favorite contrib/ packages?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Kaushal Modi writes:

What are your favorite org contrib/ packages that you simply 
can't live without, and consider them to be a part of your 
org-mode core?


org-contacts and org-passwords, definitely. Sometimes I use 
org-checklist.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Agenda to iCal not working

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Matt Lundin writes:

Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: 

Ken Mankoff writes: 

I'm using the examples from 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Exporting-Agenda-Views.html 

Specifically,  

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands [...]  




But the HTML, PS, and ICS files are not being created. If I'm 
visiting an Org file and run (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) 
then the ICS is generated.  

Can someone offer advice why the ICS isn't generated when I 
generate a specific agenda view? 


Setting up the agenda custom commands is not related to ical 
export. 


In fact, it is. 


Yes, sorry what I meant to say is that that alone does not produce 
the files. You have to use org-store-agenda-views (C-c a e) from 
the agenda view or export directly using 
org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Agenda to iCal not working

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Ken Mankoff writes:

I'm using the examples from 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Exporting-Agenda-Views.html 

Specifically, 

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands [...] 




But the HTML, PS, and ICS files are not being created. If I'm 
visiting an Org file and run (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) then 
the ICS is generated. 

Can someone offer advice why the ICS isn't generated when I 
generate a specific agenda view?


Setting up the agenda custom commands is not related to ical 
export. Have you run org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files?


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] anyone syncing orgmode calendar with google cal, and if so how?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Xebar Saram writes:

i was wondering if anyone was syncing orgmode calendar with 
google cal, and if so how? i tried this 

https://github.com/myuhe/org-gcal.el/issues 

which gave errors all the time and thus stopped being usable 


im looking for a robust solution. any ideas?


I export the agenda using org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files. If 
you have access to a server, it is enough to point 
org-icalendar-combined-agenda-file to the right location in your 
server and then adding the ics file location in google calendar 
(Other calendars/Add by URL). You can automate this with a timer:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (org-icalendar-combined-agenda-file 
 "~/public_html/calendar.ics")
 (run-with-idle-timer (* 60 60) t 
 'org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files) 
#+END_SRC


If you do not have access to a server, you could use github 
(https://pages.github.com/) or bitbucket 
(https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/publishing-a-website-on-bitbucket-221449776.html) 
to create a website for your account. Then you can point 
org-icalendar-combined-agenda-file to the repo of your website and 
commit and push every time that you export the agenda to the ics 
file. In this case change org-icalendar-combined-agenda-file 
accordingly.


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (org-icalendar-combined-agenda-file 
 "/path/to/personal/website/repo/calendar.ics")

#+END_SRC

If you do not like timers, you can also automate the process 
creating an sh file:


#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
 #!/bin/bash
 emacsclient -a '' -e "(org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files nil)"
 cd /path/to/personal/website/repo
 git add calendar.ics
 git commit -m "Update calendar"
 git push
#+END_EXAMPLE

And then using a cronjob.

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Scheduling a meeting every week for a given time

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi Claude.

Claude Fuhrer writes:

I'm trying to add recurring events, but only for a given period 
of time. 


You should probably use org-class. See below.

For example, I would like to write: 

Project meeting,  every monday between 10:00 and 12:00 from 
1. October until 1. December 2015


%%(org-class 2015 10 1 2015 12 1 1) 10:00-12:00 Project meeting

or 

Staff conference, every friday from 15:00 to 17:00, during seven 
weeks


%%(org-class 2015 10 1 2015 11 1 5) 15:00-17:00 Staff conference

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Set or update timestamp after evaluation of code block?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Rainer M Krug writes:

Eric S Fraga  writes: 

On Monday, 21 Sep 2015 at 14:46, Rainer M Krug wrote: 

[...] 

Is it possible to set a timestamp (ur update it when it exists 
already) when a code block has been evaluated, so that I have 
e record when it was updated? 


Could you make use of the :post header argument to invoke emacs 
lisp and execute org-time-stamp-inactive in some way? 


Thanks - sounds possible? But if I just use 

, | :post (org-time-stamp-inactive) ` 

1) an input is required and 2) the time stamp is inserted before 
the #+begin_src and makes the block invalid. 

How can I put the time stamp in the line after the #+end_src or 
possibly even in the same line, as this does not seem to have an 
impact on the source block?


You could use the :epilogue header argument. Since you want after 
the #+end_src this is rather hackish:


:epilogue (save-excursion (re-search-forward "END_SRC" nil nil 2) 
(org-insert-time-stamp (current-time) t t "\nEvaluated: " "\n"))


It does not update the results, but it will show you all the 
results and when they were evaluated.


If you want to keep only one set of results and do not mind having 
the timestamp before the #+BEGIN_SRC, you could use something 
like:


:epilogue (save-excursion (if (re-search-backward "Last evaluated: 
" nil t) (kill-line 1)) (org-insert-time-stamp (current-time) t t 
"Last evaluated: " "\n"))


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Favorite way of syncing?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Tobias Frischholz writes:

I was wondering what is your favorite way of syncing your org 
files and everything. 
[...] 
I’ve also read about org-sync and magit (git is an option for 
me).  And now I’m starting the get confused.


magit is just the emacs mode for git, if you don't have it and use 
git you should really install it. But it does not sync anything 
you still have to M-x magit  F F and M-x magit  P P, 
for pull and push.


I have several computers and synchronize my org files with git. I 
think it is the best option because I do not have to worry about 
the sync not working (for example when I do not have a connection) 
and conflicts in the files.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] emacs & org mode for scholars questions

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Rasmus writes: 

One technical question. Why do the flow of the slides sometimes 
change from L→R to T→B? It's quite confusing and makes it hard 
to go back and forth between slides (IMO of course). None of 
your slides seem optional. 


That is reveal.js standard, left to right are "sections" and top 
to bottom are slides. It is good if one has to go back to a slide, 
you can press ESC and see the sections and search for the slide. 
To pass the slides you can use SPACE, which goes top to bottom and 
them right when there are no more slides below.


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Not getting replies from the orgmode list to my e-mail address

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Eric Abrahamsen writes:


Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes:


I do not subscribe with my email to lists, but using 
news.gwene.org in gnus. There must be a way to check for 
duplicates in two different servers, but so few people reply to 
both the personal email address and the email list that I have 
never found the need to look how to set that up. I just delete 
the email and get slightly annoyed. I also have 
gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news set to t not to make the 
mistake of replying instead of following-up to news. 


I'm also reading through the Gnus newsreader. Personally I 
appreciate getting replies emailed to me directly, because some 
of these groups are high traffic and it can be easy to miss 
replies to threads.


This is a cool trick for that:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (add-hook 'message-sent-hook 'gnus-score-followup-thread)
#+END_SRC

In your case, have you tried setting the Mail-Followup-To 
header? Gnus also provides the `gnus-suppress-duplicates' 
option, which will at least mark the duplicates as read. That 
helps a bit.


Thanks! I'll check that next time I have the problem.

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Not getting replies from the orgmode list to my e-mail address

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Kyle Meyer writes:

jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: 

Eric S Fraga writes: 

 Replies need not be written to go to both you and the list. 


I would add: and should not. Otherwise people subscribed to the 
list get the message twice. 


Directing a reply to somebody and cc'ing the list is common 
practice on many lists, including this list and emacs.devel.  If 
you want to avoid duplicates, you'll have better luck filtering 
on your end.  


I do not subscribe with my email to lists, but using 
news.gwene.org in gnus. There must be a way to check for 
duplicates in two different servers, but so few people reply to 
both the personal email address and the email list that I have 
never found the need to look how to set that up. I just delete the 
email and get slightly annoyed. I also have 
gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news set to t not to make the mistake 
of replying instead of following-up to news.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Not getting replies from the orgmode list to my e-mail address

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Eric S Fraga writes:

On Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015 at 14:07, Meir Goldenberg wrote: 
Sorry for being off the main topic. For some reason, I do not 
get replies to the GMail address from which I send my posts to 
the orgmode list. 


I am confused.  Are you subscribed to the mailing list?  If not, 
you may only receive replies when people have explicitly put 
your email address in the response.  Replies need not be written 
to go to both you and the list. 


I would add: and should not. Otherwise people subscribed to the 
list get the message twice.


--
Jorge.

[O] [PATCH] org.texi: Fix typo

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi, I think that the correct option for the comments header 
argument is link not links.
From bb7824dfab8dc2855a6f02d49f271b63ec251cfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jorge A. Alfaro Murillo jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:12:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] org.texi: Fix typo

* doc/org.texi (Extracting source code): Fix typo.
---
 doc/org.texi | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index 7818d18..ed808be 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -14950,7 +14950,7 @@ The @code{org-babel-tangle-jump-to-org} function provides this jumping from
 code to Org-mode functionality.  Two header arguments are required for
 jumping to work, first the @code{padline} (@ref{padline}) option must be set
 to true (the default setting), second the @code{comments} (@ref{comments})
-header argument must be set to @code{links}, which will insert comments into
+header argument must be set to @code{link}, which will insert comments into
 the source code buffer which point back to the original Org-mode file.
 
 @node Evaluating code blocks
-- 
2.5.0



Best,
--
Jorge. 

Re: [O] Automatically encrypt on save, decrypt on open?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Peter Davis writes:

I'd like to store information in an org page that gets 
automatically encrypted when I save it, and decrypted when I 
open it. Is there some built-in functionality or hooks for this?


You could save the file as .gpg, and put as its first line

# -*- mode: org-mode -*-

By the way if you want to store passwords, take a look at 
org-passwords in /contrib


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Xebar Saram writes:

What i want is basically pretty simple. an easy to setup email 
for emacs, but one that would work tightly with gmail since i do 
a lot of mail checking on the road via my cellphone. 

any advise. recommendations or setups that maybe people are 
willing to share?


The setup of gnus for gmail is quite simply:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap imap.gmail.com))
 (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server smtp.gmail.com)
#+END_SRC

and in ~/.authinfo.gpg:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
 machine imap.gmail.com login username password password port 
 imap
 machine smtp.gmail.com login username password password port 
 587
#+END_EXAMPLE  That is enough to get and check mail (M-x gnus) and 
send mail (C-x m).  Since it is imap, nothing is kept locally so 
whatever you do in gnus is reflected on your phone and vice versa.


One thing that bears mentioning is that gnus treats mail as news 
so it won't show you by default already read messages (like most 
mail apps), hit L to show all groups (as opposed to l for only 
groups with new messages) and enter the INBOX group to see all 
previous messages.


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Exporting Org Agenda - todo.txt and todo.txt - Org Files + Suggestion/Feature request.

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Tim O'Callaghan writes:

Does anyone else out there generate todo.txt files[1] from 
org/org-agenda? If you do, how do you do it. Or if not, do you 
have a good idea about how if it can be approximated in an 
agenda configuration?


You could write your own export back-end 
(http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-export-reference.html). 
Alternatively, you could modify org-agenda-custom-commands and use 
C-x C-w to save the agenda view to a file.


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Query on TODO headers for specific words

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Xebar Saram writes:

Thats exactly what i was looking for.  does anyone know or show 
me an example of how to create a org-agenda-custom-commands with 
the 'S' from above where i would go C-a 'x' and it would auto 
search all TODO headers for a custom string?


Probably you mean C-c a. If you have that bind to org-agenda, then 
do C-c a S. To repeat the previous string searched use the arrow 
up key.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] email ui choices?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Rasmus writes:

In any case, I have moved ALL sending configuration to 
gnus-posting-style and it's brilliant.  Before I was messing 
with hooks to change variables before dispatching.


I agree, gnus-posting-styles is the way to go. Check: 


(info (gnus) Posting Styles)

Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] importing and compliting contacts [WAS:email ui choices?]

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Matt Price writes:

Also, I'm wondering what the best way is to deal with contacts. 
Can I import my existing contacts into org-contacts? 


Where do you have your contacts right now?

And if so, do I get tab completion in a message-mode buffer for 
those contacts?


Yes, at least I'm sure about it in the default message mode which 
is the one that I use.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Installing from Git

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Marcin Borkowski writes:

But one problem remains: the info manual is still taken from 
Emacs, not from the newest Org. 


Did you try to do 'make install-info'?

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Redefine key for sorting

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi Igor.

Igor Sosa Mayor writes:

I'm using very often the sort function of lists. Unfortunately 
it is bound to a key combination (C-c ^) which is rather uneasy. 
I would like to change it to C-c ñ. Which is the best method to 
redefine it?


Doesn't the standard

(eval-after-load org '(define-key org-mode-map (kbd C-c ñ) 
'org-sort))


work?

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] How to match TODO items not SCHEDULED or DEADLINE'd

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: 

Nikolaus Rath writes: 
Actually, it seems it does not work for some cases. If I have 
a file with  

* TODO Item 1 * TODO Item 2   SCHEDULED: 2015-04-24 Fri * 
Heading ** TODO Subitem 1 ** TODO Subitem 1   SCHEDULED: 
2015-04-24 Fri  

end do the above procedure, I'm getting  

* TODO Item 1 * TODO Item 2...  * Heading ** TODO Subitem 1...  

Why is Item 2 not being hidden? 


That is a good question, I don't know. It fails for me as well 
in the org-sparse-tree, but not in the agenda. In the agenda it 
only shows Item 1 and Subitem 1, as it should. I had never used 
the sparse tree, it might by what it is supposed to do, perhaps 
it shows by default all entries up to a certain level. 
Hopefully someone can answer, if not perhaps a new thread with 
just that issue could serve as a bug report. 


If you're using development version, see 
`org-show-context-detail'. 


Thank you that answers the question, that list has (default . 
ancestors) in the default. Nikolaus, for the sparse trees to look 
like you want, probably you want to add:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (add-to-list 'org-show-context-detail '(tags-tree . minimal))
 (add-to-list 'org-show-context-detail '(occur-tree . minimal))

#+END_SRC 


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] How to match TODO items not SCHEDULED or DEADLINE'd

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Nikolaus Rath writes:

On Apr 21 2015, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: 
On Apr 21 2015, jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. 
Alfaro-Murillo) wrote: 
Now, if you want to narrow the agenda (C-c a) or 
org-sparse-tree  (C-c /) to show TODO items not SCHEDULED or 
DEADLINE'd use the key  'm' and the following match: 

-SCHEDULED={.+}-DEADLINE={.+}+TODO=TODO 


This, however, works perfectly, thanks a lot! 


Actually, it seems it does not work for some cases. If I have a 
file with 

* TODO Item 1 * TODO Item 2 
  SCHEDULED: 2015-04-24 Fri 
* Heading ** TODO Subitem 1 ** TODO Subitem 1 
  SCHEDULED: 2015-04-24 Fri 

end do the above procedure, I'm getting 

* TODO Item 1 * TODO Item 2...  * Heading ** TODO Subitem 1... 


Why is Item 2 not being hidden?


That is a good question, I don't know. It fails for me as well in 
the org-sparse-tree, but not in the agenda. In the agenda it only 
shows Item 1 and Subitem 1, as it should. I had never used the 
sparse tree, it might by what it is supposed to do, perhaps it 
shows by default all entries up to a certain level. Hopefully 
someone can answer, if not perhaps a new thread with just that 
issue could serve as a bug report.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] New Org-HTML-theme!!

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Fabrice Niessen writes:

I've just published a new theme, called ReadTheOrg, on 
https://github.com/fniessen/org-html-themes.


Thank you very much! I just tried it and it is very nice.

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Sparse tree for undated TODOs, or hierachical agenda?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Nikolaus Rath writes:

Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes:  


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 
  (setq org-agenda-prefix-format 
'((agenda .  %i %-12:c%?-12t% s) 
  (timeline .   % s) (todo .  %i %-12:c%-24:b) 
  (tags .  %i %-12:c) (search .  %i %-12:c))) 

  (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy 
((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down 
category-keep) 
 (todo category-keep) (tags priority-down 
 category-keep) (search category-keep))) 
#+END_SRC 


For me the second assignment fails with:


Sorry, I am missing a quote for the list, the second part should 
be


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy
'((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down category-keep)
  (todo category-keep)
  (tags priority-down category-keep)
  (search category-keep)))

#+END_SRC 


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Sparse tree for undated TODOs, or hierachical agenda?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi, Nikolaus.

Nikolaus Rath writes:

Hello, 

I'm starting to like orgmode more and more. Thanks for working 
on this! 

However, for me the global todo list in the Agenda very hard to 
digest (even when excluding sublevels), so I'd rather have a 
view that conserves the document structure.


If you want to restrict to your current document before building 
the agenda use '', so if 'C-c a' calls your agenda (suggested org 
key), then you can do 'C-c a  a' to get the agenda restricted to 
the buffer that you are in.


Is there a way to create a sparse tree that shows only undated 
TODOs (i.e., excludes anything that scheduled or has a 
deadline)?


I do not know what you mean by sparse tree, but this excludes 
anything scheduled or with a deadline from the global todo list:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'all)
 (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'all)
#+END_SRC

Instead of 'all you can also use 'past or 'future to exclude only 
scheduled and deadlines from the past or the future, respectively.


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Sparse tree for undated TODOs, or hierachical agenda?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Nikolaus Rath writes:

Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: 
If you want to restrict to your current document before 
building the agenda use '', so if 'C-c a' calls your agenda 
(suggested org key), then you can do 'C-c a  a' to get the 
agenda restricted to the buffer that you are in. 


Well, yes, but that still throws away all the headings. E.g. 

* Task 1 ** TODO Do A ** Other stuff * Task 2 ** TODO Do B ** 
TODO Do C 
   SCHEDULED: 2015-05-31 Sun 

becomes (after C-c a t): 

* TODO Do A * TODO Do B 

What I would like to get is 


* Task 1 ** TODO Do A * Task 2 ** TODO Do B


I do not know what you mean by sparse tree, 


The sparse tree is what you get with C-c \ t (org-sparse-tree). 
For the above example, you get: 

* Task 1 ** TODO Do A * Task 2 ** TODO Do B ** TODO Do C 
   SCHEDULED: 2015-05-31 Sun 

so the structure is conserved like I want, but even with.. 

but this excludes  anything scheduled or with a deadline from 
the global todo list: 

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 
  (setq org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'all) (setq 
  org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'all) 
#+END_SRC 


.. the scheduled items are still included (because the todo-* 
settings apply only to the Agenda view, not the sparse tree 
view).


It seems to me that these are two different issues. If you want 
the TODO list in the org-agenda to show your headlines you can 
configure the view to show breadcrumbs (and order by category):


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (setq org-agenda-prefix-format
   '((agenda .  %i %-12:c%?-12t% s)
 (timeline .   % s)
 (todo .  %i %-12:c%-24:b)
 (tags .  %i %-12:c)
 (search .  %i %-12:c)))

 (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy
   ((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down category-keep)
(todo category-keep)
(tags priority-down category-keep)
(search category-keep)))

#+END_SRC

Now, if you want to narrow the agenda (C-c a) or org-sparse-tree 
(C-c /) to show TODO items not SCHEDULED or DEADLINE'd use the key 
'm' and the following match:


-SCHEDULED={.+}-DEADLINE={.+}+TODO=TODO

Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] paste from clip to code block

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

John Kitchin writes:

I like this kind of keyboard shortcut: 

For python: p TAB C-w 

For emacs-lisp 

el TAB C-w 



I agree, this is the best method. Although probably you mean C-y 
instead of C-w.


For the record, this requires you to set up 
`org-structure-template-alist' to include python and emacs-lisp. 
For example, I use p and E, for python and emacs-lisp, so in my 
.emacs I have:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (eval-after-load org
'(progn
   (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
'(E
  #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp\n?\n#+END_SRC
  src 
  lang=\\emacs-lisp\\\n\n?/src))

   (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
'(p
  #+BEGIN_SRC python\n?\n#+END_SRC
  src 
  lang=\\python\\\n\n?/src

#+END_SRC

I even use the method in message-mode, for writing emails with 
code, like I just did now =)


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Nikolaus Rath writes:

However, there's one thing where I feel lost. I don't expect to 
be editing my orgmode files on a daily basis (at least not yet), 
so how can I make sure that I don't miss an important deadline? 
It seems to me that it doesn't help much if instead of worrying 
to forget a deadline I now have to worry about forgetting to 
check my org-mode agenda... 

How do other people handle this? Is everyone else opening and 
working on their org files daily so that this becomes a 
non-issue?


You can put this after your org-agenda-files configuration in your 
.emacs:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (appt-activate 1)
 (org-agenda-to-appt)
#+END_SRC

Then you will be reminded of things in your org files, before the 
appointment time (I think 12 min is the default).


You could also add this, so that the appointments refresh and new 
get added every time that you call the agenda:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (add-hook 'org-agenda-finalize-hook (lambda () 
 (org-agenda-to-appt t)))

#+END_SRC

Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Best practices to get reminders?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Nikolaus Rath writes:

On Apr 06 2015, jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. 
Alfaro-Murillo) wrote: 
Nikolaus Rath writes: 

However, there's one thing where I feel lost. I don't expect 
to  be editing my orgmode files on a daily basis (at least not 
yet),  so how can I make sure that I don't miss an important 
deadline?  It seems to me that it doesn't help much if instead 
of worrying  to forget a deadline I now have to worry about 
forgetting to  check my org-mode agenda...How do other 
people handle this? Is everyone else opening and  working on 
their org files daily so that this becomes a  non-issue? 


You can put this after your org-agenda-files configuration in 
your  .emacs: 

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 
  (appt-activate 1) (org-agenda-to-appt) 
#+END_SRC Then you will be reminded of things in your org 
files, before the  appointment time (I think 12 min is the 
default). 


Hmm. I tried it with this test-event: 

* TODO Test task 
  SCHEDULED: 2015-04-07 Tue 

But running (org-agenda-to-appt) just gives No event to add. 


Is this because there is no time specified?


Yes.

I'm not really concerned with appointments that have a time 
span, but with projects that have specific due dates...


Well that is what the org agenda is for.

If you just can't remember to check the agenda every so often you 
could do something like (not tested):


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (run-at-time t 120 'org-agenda-list)
#+END_SRC

To run the agenda every two hours automatically.

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Define Keyboard Shortcut for Open in Emacs

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Xavier Maillard writes:

Thank you very much for these clarifications. Should I expect 
anything from xdg-* when not using a desktop environment at all? 
(I am using something home-brewed where I could add support for 
something like this but that's not for now).


I am not sure. You could try xdg-open in any file from the 
terminal, to see if it works as expected



Also, can you share an emacsclient.desktop file ?


That is not a file, but how xdg identifies emacsclient. You can 
find more about it here: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Define Keyboard Shortcut for Open in Emacs

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Xavier Maillard writes:

What is emacsclient.desktop exactly ? On my slackware, there is 
nothing named like this. 


Inside a desktop environment (e.g. GNOME, KDE, Xfce), xdg-open
passes the arguments to that desktop environment's file-opener
application (gvfs-open, kde-open, or exo-open, respectively).
When no desktop environment is detected (e.g. using Openbox), 
xdg-open will use its own configuration files, emacsclient.desktop 
is the call to the emacs server, if you do not use the server you 
could use emacs.desktop instead.


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Define Keyboard Shortcut for Open in Emacs

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Rainer M Krug writes:

I would like to open pdfs in emacs (using pdf-viewer) but there 
is only a shortcut (C-c C-o) to open a pdf externally, and no 
shortcut for the menu item below Open in Emacs in the context 
menu. 

How can I define a shortcut for this command (or re-use C-c 
C-o)?


If you want C-c C-o to open in emacs, you can configure your 
org-file-apps:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (eval-after-load org
   '(if (assoc \\.pdf\\' org-file-apps)
(setcdr (assoc \\.pdf\\' org-file-apps) 'emacs)
  (add-to-list 'org-file-apps '(\\.pdf\\' . 'emacs) t)))
#+END_SRC

Alternatively, if you are on Linux, you could make your 
emacsclient your default pdf-viewer:


#+BEGIN_SRC shell
 xdg-mime default emacsclient.desktop application/pdf
#+END_SRC

Then the external program called by C-c C-o would also be emacs =)

Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

J. David Boyd writes:

I have 4 files I use for work in my main org folder.  And I have 
a personal.org in another folder, that is inside of Dropbox. 

I created a symlink to personal.org in my main org folder. When 
I start emacs and load the agenda, it asks me 

Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link? (y or 
n) 

Is there some setting (that I can't seem to find) that will 
always just allow this, rather than querying me?


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (setq vc-follow-symlinks t)
#+END_SRC

BTW, I think that using dropbox in a git controlled directory 
might not be a good idea: if there are conflicts of files inside 
of the .git directory between two machines, you will never notice 
them because dropbox doesn't report them, so the actual git repos 
might be different between the two machines. I you are using git, 
why don't you clone the main org directory in the other machine 
and pull changes when you use the other machine?


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

J. David Boyd writes:

I don't need the level of versioning that git provides for the 
few config files and org files that I have there.


Have you check this: https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/ ? 
It is as easy as dropbox, it just keeps directories synchronized, 
but it has all the power of git in case you ever need it, you are 
not limited to the 2GB of dropbox, and it automatically encrypts 
your data in the remote.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] org-calendar-holiday and local holidays

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Melleus  writes:

Alexis flexibe...@gmail.com writes: 

see that local holiday. To fix this, i use M-: to evaluate: 

   (setq calendar-holidays (append calendar-holidays 
holiday-local-holidays)) 


Works perfectly this way, thank you. 

jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: 

They should show up after you restart emacs. 


I supposed it should. But in fact in does not work.


holidays.el appends holiday-local-holidays to calendar-holidays 
via a defcustom, so if you set holiday-local-holidays in your 
.emacs, restart emacs and the local holidays are not in 
calendar-holidays, it is because you are calling something that 
loads holidays.el before you set holiday-local-holidays.


If you add the code above to your .emacs and later modify your 
configuration and remove or move the part that loads holidays.el, 
then either your code will fail (because calendar-holidays is not 
yet defined) or calendar-holidays will have your local holidays 
twice and they will show twice in your agenda.


I think that you should look for whatever calls holidays.el and 
set holiday-local-holidays before that.


If not, then at least use eval-after-load so that 
calendar-holidays is already defined when the code is run, and 
add-to-list so that the entries do not get added twice if they are 
already there:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (eval-after-load 'holidays
   '(dolist (holiday holiday-local-holidays)
(add-to-list 'calendar-holidays holiday))
#+END_SRC

Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] org-calendar-holiday and local holidays

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Alexis writes:

When i scroll down to look at the current value of 
`calendar-holidays`, however, i see that neither the current 
value nor the original value makes any reference to the 
`holiday-local-holidays` variable. And indeed, when i examine my 
agenda for next Monday, which is a local holiday i've specified 
in `holiday-local-holidays`, i can't see that local holiday. To 
fix this, i use M-: to evaluate: 

   (setq calendar-holidays (append calendar-holidays 
holiday-local-holidays)) 

after which the local holiday next Monday appears in my Org 
agenda.


You do not need to add that, calendar-holidays appends 
holiday-local-holidays when holidays.el is loaded, just restart 
emacs. 

Given the documentation for the `calendar-holidays` variable, 
the fact that i need to manually add the value of the 
`holiday-local-holidays` variable to `calendar-holidays` seems 
to me like it might be a coding or documentation bug in Emacs 
 ?


It is also not a documentation bug, at least in my emacs 
(25.0.50.1) the documentation of calendar-holidays says clearly:


Note that these variables [`holiday-other-holidays', 
`holiday-general-holidays', `holiday-local-holidays', 
`holiday-christian-holidays', `holiday-hebrew-holidays', 
`holiday-islamic-holidays', `holiday-bahai-holidays', 
`holiday-oriental-holidays' and `holiday-solar-holidays'] have no 
effect on `calendar-holidays' after it has been set (e.g. after 
the calendar is loaded). In that case, customize 
`calendar-holidays' directly.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] org-calendar-holiday and local holidays

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi Melleus.

Melleus writes:

Does %%(org-calendar-holiday) know about holiday-local-holidays? 
I'm not programmer, sorry. I've set up those local holidays but 
cannot see them in my agenda.


They should show up after you restart emacs.

Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Citation syntax and ODT

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Thomas S. Dye writes:

AFAIK, the only software that has proposed a solution to the 
problem of maintaining a citation database that can support the 
universe of citation styles developed in the wild is BibLaTeX. 


Well with BibTeX alone you can maintain a citation database and to 
support any citation style, you just:


reverse polish notation
know?
'skip
{reverse polish notation learn}
if
citation style
write

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Org agenda time table formatting reverses when loading zenburn theme

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Claudius Mueller writes:

if I load a theme (such as zenburn) and then rebuild my agenda - 
the time table has changed: (i) the sorting of time is reversed, 
and (ii) tasks that were inline before are now sorted out of the 
time table (see arrow in both pictures).


I do not use zenburn very often, but I just tried to replicate the 
behavior and couldn't. What version of zenburn do you have? I 
haven't pulled the origin since commit 0ded23f of April of last 
year. You could try checking out that commit (git checkout 
0ded23f) and see if your agenda behaves as expected, if so report 
the bug to the developers of zenburn.


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] How to set a default language for source blocks?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi, Grant.

Grant Rettke writes:

It would be simpler to say this whole document will be R source 
blocks, unless I specify other wise. I looked at [the spec]. I 
wanted to obtain this behavior. I couldn't figure out how. Is it 
possible?


The problem is that if there is nothing after #+BEGIN_SRC, then 
org-babel-get-src-block-info returns nil. Probably you would have 
to modify org-babel-get-src-block-info so that it returns a 
default when there is nothing after #+BEGIN_SRC. But isn't it 
easier to set org-structure-template-alist as a local buffer 
variable, say in the first line of your file something like:


#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
 # -*- org-structure-template-alist: '((s #+BEGIN_SRC 
 python\n?\n#+END_SRC)) -*-

#+END_EXAMPLE

Then s followed by TAB, would always get you python for that 
file, for example.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

0.

John Kitchin writes:

Citations in org are /far/ more than just references in the text 
for me. They are functional links, gateways to a lot of 
information connected to the citation. My org-files are much 
more useful than the PDF manuscripts that get exported. 


I completely agree.

I also would like to see if it is workable. 


Same here.

There is nothing to lose in trying. org-ref will always be an 
alternative option, and if the new syntax is extendable enough 
it might even replace the citation links.


The big advantage of org-ref is that it builds on BibTeX. From 
what I read in this and the previous thread, the new proposal 
tries more or less to reimplement BibTeX in org. (If it is not so, 
I apologize, because I confess that I haven't read every single 
email in these two veery long threads. If you plan to use BibTeX 
as a base, disregard the rest of the email).


BibTeX is IMHO one of the best pieces of software ever created. It 
had a stable version from 1988 to 2010, in 2010 it was last 
updated, because we started to cite with long URLs (not the norm 
in 1988). It is something that just works as it is supposed to and 
has all you need for creating bibliographies.


The biggest advantage of having something org/elisp native as in 
the proposal would be the implementation of functions to create 
bibliographies with a specific style, what Oren Patashnik called 
Bibliography-style hacking, which is very cumbersome in BibTeX 
(maybe is just that I cannot read WEB/Pascal and have a strong 
preference for Lisp dialects).


Just let me drop the mandatory reading:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/bibliography/bibtex/base/btxdoc.pdf
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/bibliography/bibtex/base/btxhak.pdf

and references therein.

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Stefan Nobis writes:

jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: 

From what I read in this and the previous thread, the new 
proposal tries more or less to reimplement BibTeX in org. 


No, that's wrong, not the database should be replaced. The goal 
is to make citations a first class citizen in the org world (so 
no fallback to LaTeX commands or links with special handlings 
are needed).


I see, so in the examples provided Doe99 is only the key, org 
would not have to know that the author name is Doe and its year is 
1999, or any other information about the citation. I thought it 
was more or less the equivalent of implementing natbib 
(http://merkel.zoneo.net/Latex/natbib.php) in org, a way to decide 
if I wanted textual, parenthesis or numerical citations, and thus 
you would have to go to the process of determining what 
information each citation needs, for example: an article always 
has an author, a book always has a publisher, but a book can have 
an author or an editor if each chapter has a different author, 
that kind of thing, among many other complicated things. Sorry for 
the noise.


But now it is not clear to me what the actual org reference points 
to.  If it is the actual reference, I mean the article's PDF or 
URL, what would you do when you need to cite a physical book? Also 
in this case you will not be able to produce a proper bibliography 
when exporting since the key cannot contain all the information 
needed. Now if the reference points to be entry for that reference 
in a database, isn't there a lot of compatibility problems if one 
uses one type of database vs another? Again here you will not be 
able to produce the bibliography when exporting


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

John Kitchin writes:

Stefan Nobis writes: 

Hmmm... nowadays one uses biblatex[fn:1] (with its companion 
biber) which makes hacking bibliography styles quite easy (in 
LaTeX; compared to customizing bst files). I do not think that 
the current discussion will lead to writing bib-styles in Lisp 
instead of LaTeX (at least not in the foreseeable future). 


This is not universally true. None of the journals we submit to 
accept biblatex, only bibtex. I don't know of any major science 
publishers that use biblatex.


Same here. Journals either do not support LaTeX or support LaTeX 
and BibTeX.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] markup text with leading, trailing spaces

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

hymie! writes:

I think you are making the incorrect assumption that the machine 
on which I maintain my Org files is the same machine that I wish 
to execute commands on.


Yes, or that you can ssh to it.

If my commnds were all 8 characters long or less, it would be 
fine.  Some of my commands look like this: 

While I admit that the useradd command is an extreme example, 
this becomes horribly ambiguous: 

adduser username -d /data/chroot/home/username -s  /usr/bin/rssh 
-m -k /dev/null -g rssh pssh -x '-q -t -t' -I -i --hosts 
hosts_linux_rhel6 'sudo -S wget 
puppet/puppet/pub/system_patch.pl -O 
/usr/local/bin/system_patch.pl'  hostnamefile


You could add a \ at the end of each line that does not end the 
command.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] markup text with leading, trailing spaces

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

hymie! writes:

I'd like to be able to have a series of commands in my raw org 
file that I can copy-n-paste into my shell window.  But I also 
like to export my org files to HTML so that I can make ePubs and 
keep them in my iPad.



And this

#+BEGIN_SRC
  command1
  command2
  command3
#+END_SRC

is just IMO ugly.


It shouldn't be. Try adding the word shell after BEGIN_SRC, so 
that it fontifies the code correctly (the variable 
org-src-fontify-natively should be set to t, but that has been 
default for a while). Also, add shell to the loaded babel 
languages, so that you can execute the code and get the results 
right away in org:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (org-babel-do-load-languages
 'org-babel-load-languages
  '((shell . t)))
#+END_SRC

No need for copy-n-paste, just do C-c C-c where you have your 
commands. 

Another added benefit is that it is way easier to add the shell 
scripts inside a SRC block after you press C-c ' (C-c ' again to 
go back to your org file), since then you will have the power of 
Shell-script mode available, for example:


C-c (to define a function
C-c TAB  for an if statement
C-c C-l  for an indexed loop

Try copying this example into an org file, it should fontify it 
nicely, both in the org file and in the html exported.


#+BEGIN_SRC shell
 echo hello
 cd
 ls
 n=1
 while [ $n -le 10 ]; do
 echo $n
 n=$(( n + 1 ))
 done
 echo bye
#+END_SRC

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Table: Insert Cell

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi Tory,

Tory S. Anderson writes:

Does anyone know a solution for the surely common case of 
needing to insert a cell (not a column or row) into an orgmode 
table? Spreadsheet programs allow the option of pushing the 
column down or pushing the cells right in this case. How can 
this be achieved in orgmode? 


I do not think that there is a command for that. For pushing the 
row, it is trivial just write the new cell


| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |

| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | here|5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |

becomes

| 1 |2 | 3 |   |
| 4 | here | 5 | 6 |
| 7 |8 | 9 |   | 


after C-c C-c

For pushing the column, you can use kill-rectangle after inserting 
another row


| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |

TAB on the 9 cell

| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
|   |   |   | 


Move below and to the right of the 8

| 1 | 2  | 3 |
| 4 | 5  | 6 |
| 7 | 8  | 9 |
|   |   cursor here|   |

C-space there, select until the left of the 5

| 1 |  2 | 3 |
| 4 | cursor here5 | 6 |
| 7 |  8 | 9 |
|   ||   |

And then C-x r k, which cuts the rectangle, should get you to

| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | | 6 |
| 7 | | 9 |
|   |   |   |

move one cell down and use C-x r y

| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | | 6 |
| 7 | 5 | 9 |
|   | 8   |   |

Finally, C-c C-c, gives you what you want

| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 |   | 6 |
| 7 | 5 | 9 |
|   | 8 |   |

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Table: Insert Cell

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Marco Wahl writes:


This could be the day of org-table-transpose-table-at-point.


Argh! Thanks, so simple. I seems like I never took Linear Algebra: 
anything that you can do with rows you can do with columns, by 
transposing, doing, and transposing.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Emulating list functionality from traditional GUI editors

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Calvin Young writes:

* If the cursor is at the end of a list item, then Return 
should 
  insert a new list item (i.e., automatically perform 
  org-meta-return)


M-enter does this. You do not want enter to do that because 
you when you want to finish the list enter finishes it.


* If the cursor is at the beginning of an empty list item, then 
  Return should outdent the list item (or remove it if it's 
  already at the outer-most indentation level)


I am not sure that I understand this but I assume that you would 
obtain the same with tab. It goes back and forth between levels 
of list so if you have


- one
- two
 + a
 + CURSOR_HERE

and you hit tab then it changes to 


- one
- two
 + a
   + CURSOR_HERE

and then two times tab (or S-tab from the beginning) changes 
it to


- one
- two
 + a
- CURSOR_HERE


* If the cursor is at the beginning of an empty list item, then 
  Backspace should delete the list item and move my cursor to 
  the end of the previous list item 


I guess you could remap backspace to a function that checks if 
you are at the beginning of the list and when that is true it does 
what you want, otherwise it just calls `delete-backward-char'. But 
generally I would do C-a C-k backspace, just two more 
keystrokes.


* It'd be nice of these rules could be applied to checkboxes as 
well


M-S-enter inserts a check box.

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Emulating list functionality from traditional GUI editors

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes:

Calvin Young writes: 


* It'd be nice of these rules could be applied to checkboxes as 
well 


M-S-enter inserts a check box. 


I forgot to mention that the tab S-tab behavior also works 
with check boxes.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Emulating list functionality from traditional GUI editors

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Calvin Young writes:

;; Starting with this setup: 

- one - two + a[CURSOR_HERE] 

;; Hitting enter should produce: 

- one - two + a + [CURSOR_HERE] 

;; Hitting enter again would then produce: 

- one - two + a - [CURSOR_HERE] 

;; And hitting enter one last time would produce: 

- one - two + a 

[CURSOR_HERE] 


I think there is a confusion here, my understanding is that org 
separates sublists by indentation so if you have:


- a
+ b[CURSOR]

and hit M-enter it should correct to:

- a
- b
- [CURSOR]

It is different if you have:

- a
 + b[CURSOR]

or

- a
 - b[CURSOR]

or 


1. a
  - b[CURSOR]
2. c

etc

I know we can already achieve this with some combination of 
M-enter, enter, and M-S-enter, but this behavior has 2 
distinct advantages: 

1. The user only needs to remember one key to cycle between all 
of these actions, rather than 3 key combinations.


But the problem is that you lose the functionality of enter to 
exit the list. I want to have enter to finish a line and enter 
enter to finish a paragraph like I am used everywhere else.


2. This behavior is more consistent with the bulleting behavior 
in other editors


We shouldn't aim to imitate other much inferior editors ;-)

, which could make it feel more intuitive for new org-mode 
users.  [...]
Yes, but for the reasons mentioned above, it'd be nice if we 
could use the enter to outdent a new list entry as well. 


I disagree, tab and S-tab for indenting is much more friendly 
than enter, most modes in emacs behave like that. A new user 
just has to understand that sublists are separated by indentation, 
and learn that M-enter is for lists, and M-S-enter is for 
check boxes.



Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo says:
I guess you could remap backspace to a function that checks 
if you are at the beginning of the list and when that is true 
it does what you want, otherwise it just calls 
`delete-backward-char'. But generally I would do C-a C-k 
backspace, just two more keystrokes.
Makes sense. This is an easy function to write — just wanted to 
make sure there wasn't something that already does this 
out-of-the-box.


It should save around half a second per use, so if you use it five 
times a day you have about 1 hour to write it... minus the time it 
takes you to read this: http://xkcd.com/1205/ =)


In general, I *believe* a lot of folks use lists and checkboxs 
in similar ways. I certainly do, and I frequently accidentally 
hit M-enter while editing a checkbox when I really intend to 
insert a new checkbox entry. As a result, it seems desirable to 
create an interface that treats them more similarly (e.g., using 
a single enter keypress to auto-insert a new entry).


If this doesn't exist yet, I'd be happy to roll it myself. But 
it'd be nice to avoid re-inventing the wheel here if possible :) 


Maybe, but you would lose the ability to have mixed check boxes 
and items lists. But you are right, it might be a nice 
configuration to allow M-enter to give you another item with 
check box if you are already in one (and then M-S-enter gives 
you a plain list item). But it might be even more confusing for a 
new user as to why the behavior is not consistent with M-enter, 
so probably it shouldn't be default.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Large LaTeX project in single file or using publishing

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Marcin Borkowski writes:

I mostly agree, but the above is not true: see TeX-pin-region 
and TeX-command-region.  Bottom line: IMHO no point in dividing 
into many files.


You are right, you can compile a region in AUCTeX, or export just 
a region in org, but the problem (besides having to select the 
region as compared to a fast C-c C-c C-m) is that the result does 
not have the whole document, just the part you selected, so you 
miss seeing the exported part in context. For example, you miss 
the ability to read before or after in the pdf and use a backward 
search to find the code that corresponds to the next part that you 
want to edit. If you use a main file plus several files in LaTeX, 
the whole document is preserved but the compilation just runs in 
the files with changes, and the backward search from the pdf 
points to the right point in the right file (at least with evince 
it does).


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Large LaTeX project in single file or using publishing

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Andreas Leha writes:

On 2014-11-26, at 20:00, Jacob Gerlach wrote: 


Just my 2 cents: I'd go for LaTeX if heavy math typesetting is 
involved (then amsmath!), maybe for Org otherwise, check 
whether the template imposes a many-file structure (which it 
probably doesn't), and keep everything in one file. 



I would disagree here. I do not see, that writing equations in 
LaTeX is substantially easier than in org. Or put the other way 
round: org's support for equations is quite good.


There is no way that writing equations can be faster in org than 
in AUCTeX, since AUCTeX is designed for that, especially with 
LaTeX-math-mode, two keys write any Greek symbol for example. And 
all the support for completion of commands, environments and 
environment variables, changing fonts, sectioning, integration 
with reftex... 

By the way, AUCTeX supports many packages by default including 
amsmath, so just adding the proper \usepackage{amsmath} in the 
preamble makes AUCTeX fontify in math-mode align, gather, 
multline, and their starred equivalents.


The one thing that org is better at is tables, but for that I use 
radiotables inside of AUCTeX.



And preview-latex is really speeding me up.


I have never been a fan of preview or any WYSIWYG editing, I feel 
like it slows me down, but if you use only org and are not used to 
LaTeX it could be helpful, in AUCTeX it is easier to read math 
because of the fonts used (for example subscripts and superscripts 
are written under and over the symbols). I would also suggest 
compiling with SyncTeX for forward search support, I do not know 
if forward search is possible with org.


That being said there is a learning curve associated with 
TeX/AUCTeX and if you are already very comfortable with org and do 
not have time for learning something new, perhaps it is better to 
stick with org.


If you decide to go with LaTeX, the reason to split your 
dissertation in several chapters is so that the compilation can 
run faster, since when you change a chapter and compile only that 
chapter is compiled again.  This is a substantial gain in 
compilation time with big documents (books, dissertations). If you 
decide to go with several org files and the publishing mechanism 
or a single org file, I think that every time that you export the 
whole document needs to be compiled.


Best,

--
Jorge.

[O] org-archive-save-context-info as local variable

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi list,

I am planning to collaborate on a project with another org-mode 
user (such a joy). For each org file we want to keep an archive as 
well in the git repository. With this work flow it does not make 
sense to keep track of the file property in 
`org-archive-save-context-info', since it will be different 
depending on the location of the repository in each computer. And 
since I did not want force a global configuration for this 
variable, I tried to add the variable as local in the first line 
of the file:


# -*- mode: org; org-archive-save-context-info: (time olpath 
 todo); -*- 

This sets the variable as local fine, but when I call 
`org-archive-subtree', it seems like this command still uses the 
global value of `org-archive-save-context-info' and keeps 
information on the file location in the archive.


Does someone know why setting this variable as local does not work 
with `org-archive-subtree'? Is there another approach for setting 
org-mode variables on a per file basis?


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] org-archive-save-context-info as local variable

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Kyle Meyer writes:

The buffer-local value doesn't continue to shadow the global 
value when org-archive-subtree sets the buffer to the archive 
file. 


Thanks, Kyle! That is the reason. Setting the local variable in 
the archive file as well does the trick.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Avoid canceling of events which do have multiple time-stamps

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi, Karl.

Karl Voit writes:

For other events, I do have one single * Volleyball heading 
and multiple time-stamps for each occurrence in its body. 
(method B) 

Unfortunately in the agenda view, both entries are visualized 
the same way. This is causing issues in certain cases. 

For example, when I see an event on my agenda and I know that I 
don't have time for it, I usually cancel the event right away in 
my agenda. 

However, when this time-stamp occured only in the body of a 
heading (method B), cancelling does cancel *all* occurrences. 
For example when I cancel Volleyball on the agenda of 
2014-09-06, I'd cancel also 2014-08-30 (in the past) and 
2014-09-13 (in the future). 


And much worse: I do not notice my error.

There is a certain issue with this: how to determine whether or 
not a time-stamp is the only one or if it is mentioned in the 
heading itself. 


I use several time stamps as well, but I use 
org-agenda-follow-mode by default (see the variable 
`org-agenda-start-with-follow-mode') so I can see the entry with 
its multiple entries before archiving or killing it.


Is there a clever way to differ the two methods so that we are 
able to come up with different visualizations?


In the case of something like Volleyball, perhaps you might want 
to look at habits: (info (org) Tracking your habits)


Another option is to create subheadlines for each activity, and 
avoid multiple timestamps.


Best,

--

Jorge.

Re: [O] Org-mode Habit with Varying Description

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Daya Atapattu writes:

Is there a way to create a habit that picks-up the description 
from a list? 

I like to schedule studying a book: It would be scheduled as 
Read pages 100-125. Then the next day it should read Read 
pages 126-150.  The description of the habit varies; org-mode 
picks that up sequentially from a list. 


Maybe you want to take a look at TODO dependencies (info (org) 
TODO dependencies) set `org-enforce-todo-dependencies' to t, and 
do something like


#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
 * TODO Read book
 :PROPERTIES:
 :ORDERED:  t
 :END:
 ** TODO Pages 1-150
 ** TODO Pages 151-300
  
#+END_EXAMPLE


Then when closing one of the sub headlines, schedule the next one.

Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] [PATCH] org-passwords.el: Improvements

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Bastien writes: 


Can you resend the patch as an attachment?


Sure, it is attached. 

If you have commit access, feel free to push your commit 
directly.


I do not have commit access.

Best, 
--  Jorge.


From 4b1b7f291af29b94919620f9a824c2da1ce09458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jorge A. Alfaro Murillo jorge@jabberwocky
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:14:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Improve functionality of org-passwords.el

* contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el (org-passwords-default-password-size):
  New variable.
(org-passwords-default-random-words-number): New variable.
(org-passwords-copy-username, org-passwords-copy-password): Use
`org-entry-get' to obtain the property value.
(org-passwords-open-url): New function.
(org-passwords): Can be called with universal argument.
(org-passwords-generate-password): Use default size given by
`org-passwords-default-password-size'.
(org-passwords-random-words): Use default number given by
`org-passwords-default-random-words-number'.
(org-passwords-concat-this-with-string): Fix bug.

The patch adds several functionality:

Open the URL property directly from the mode. URLs can be inherit.

Universal argument in org-passwords allows for longer browsing. Two
arguments is used for editing.

There is a default password size and random-words number for faster
password generating.

Fix bug in C-u M-x org-passwords-generate-password.

Commentary in file has more information.
---
 contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el | 144 +++---
 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el b/contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el
index 9c3a916..4ebd5a6 100644
--- a/contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el
+++ b/contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@
 ;;; Commentary:
 
 ;; This file contains the code for managing your passwords with
-;; Org-mode.
+;; Org-mode. It is part of org/contrib (see http://orgmode.org/). If
+;; you want to contribute with development, or have a problem, do it
+;; here: https://bitbucket.org/alfaromurillo/org-passwords.el
 
 ;; A basic setup needs to indicate a passwords file, and a dictionary
 ;; for the random words:
 
-;;   (require org-passwords)
+;;   (require 'org-passwords)
 ;;   (setq org-passwords-file ~/documents/passwords.gpg)
 ;;   (setq org-passwords-random-words-dictionary /etc/dictionaries-common/words)
 
@@ -54,13 +56,12 @@
 ;;   `org-passwords-random-words-substitutions'.
 
 ;; It is also useful to set up keybindings for the functions
-;; `org-passwords-copy-username' and
-;; `org-passwords-copy-password' in the
-;; `org-passwords-mode', to easily make the passwords and usernames
-;; available to the facility for pasting text of the window system
-;; (clipboard on X and MS-Windows, pasteboard on Nextstep/Mac OS,
-;; etc.), without inserting them in the kill-ring. You can set for
-;; example:
+;; `org-passwords-copy-username', `org-passwords-copy-password' and
+;; `org-passwords-open-url' in the `org-passwords-mode', to easily
+;; make the passwords and usernames available to the facility for
+;; pasting text of the window system (clipboard on X and MS-Windows,
+;; pasteboard on Nextstep/Mac OS, etc.), without inserting them in the
+;; kill-ring. You can set for example:
 
 ;;   (eval-after-load org-passwords
 ;; '(progn
@@ -69,12 +70,15 @@
 ;; 	 'org-passwords-copy-username)
 ;;(define-key org-passwords-mode-map
 ;; 	 (kbd C-c p)
-;; 	 'org-passwords-copy-password)))
+;; 	 'org-passwords-copy-password)
+;; 	 (kbd C-c o)
+;; 	 'org-passwords-open-url)))
 
-;; Finally, to enter new passwords, you can use `org-capture' and a minimal template like:
+;; Finally, to enter new passwords, you can use `org-capture' and a
+;; minimal template like:
 
 ;;   (p password entry (file ~/documents/passwords.gpg)
-;;* %^{Title}\n  %^{PASSWORD}p %^{USERNAME}p)
+;;* %^{Title}\n  %^{URL}p %^{USERNAME}p %^{PASSWORD}p)
 
 ;; When asked for the password you can then call either
 ;; `org-passwords-generate-password' or `org-passwords-random-words'.
@@ -87,6 +91,7 @@
 
 (require 'org)
 
+;;;###autoload
 (define-derived-mode org-passwords-mode org-mode
   org-passwords-mode
   Mode for storing passwords
@@ -97,12 +102,17 @@
   :group 'org)
 
 (defcustom org-passwords-password-property PASSWORD
-  Name of the property for password entry password.
+  Name of the property for password entry.
   :type 'string
   :group 'org-passwords)
 
 (defcustom org-passwords-username-property USERNAME
-  Name of the property for password entry user name.
+  Name of the property for user name entry.
+  :type 'string
+  :group 'org-passwords)
+
+(defcustom org-passwords-url-property URL
+  Name of the property for URL entry.
   :type 'string
   :group 'org-passwords)
 
@@ -117,6 +127,12 @@ string, a number followed by units.
   :type 'str
   :group 'org-passwords)
 
+(defcustom org-passwords-default-password-size 20
+  Default number of characters to use in
+org-passwords-generate-password. It has to be a string

Re: [O] exporting tables + equations to latex

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi Giuseppe. 


Giuseppe Lipari writes:

The big problem I have is that I do not know how to put 
equations in cells. [...] the underlines are translated as 
underlines, and not as subscript command.


Try adding :no-escape t to the #+ORGTBL line

Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Other editors supporting Org-Mode

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

hymie! writes: 

I would suggest, rather than adapting more editors to support 
Org, creating a stand-alone program that compiles and manages 
Org functions separate from the act of editing them.


Perhaps the easiest thing would be an emacs configuration that 
makes emacs just an org editor for Word users:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (setq-default major-mode 'org-mode)
 (setq initial-major-mode 'org-mode)
 (setq initial-buffer-choice ~/Untitled.org)
 (setq inhibit-startup-message t)
 (setq initial-scratch-message nil)
 (cua-mode)
 (require 'printing)
 (pr-update-menus)

#+END_SRC

And many many (define-key org-mode-map ...) to change default 
keybindings and make, e.g., C-a mark-whole-buffer, C-s 
save-buffer, C-p pr-txt-buffer, etc. It doesn't matter if the 
bindings lose their default binding as long as there is a way to 
activate the action in the menus.


The menus should be rewritten, and Tools and anything that can 
make you lose focus on the current buffer should be removed, 
Buffers should be renamed Files opened, etc. There should be 
one whole menu for Org-export to avoid the *Org Export Dispatch* 
buffer and in general, any special-mode derived buffer should be 
avoided.


The toolbar should have many more org-only buttons that emacs-org 
users generally activate with keybindings: DEMOTE/PROMOTE, INSERT 
TIME, INSERT SOURCE BLOCK, etc.


This would be an emacs just to edit org-files (and perhaps also 
running code with babel). There wouldn't be access to the agenda, 
without the user freaking out and not knowing how to exit (unless 
it is always opened on a separate frame I guess). But I think 
achieving agenda capabilities in another editor would also be very 
difficult.


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] How to re-bind C-,?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Grant Rettke writes: 

My goal was to set a new keybinding for two keys like this: 

╭ │ (local-set-key (kbd C-,) (lambda () (interactive) 
(insert  \\larr ))) │ (local-set-key (kbd C-.) (lambda () 
(interactive) (insert  \\rarr ))) ╰ 

The second works fine. The first does not; it stays bound to 
`org-cycle-agenda-files' instead.


For me `org-cycle-agenda-files' is bound to C-', not C-, maybe you 
have something that sets C-' to C-, globally? 


Best,
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] How to re-bind C-,?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Grant Rettke writes: 

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo 
jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu wrote: 
For me `org-cycle-agenda-files' is bound to C-', not C-, maybe 
you have something that sets C-' to C-, globally? 


Definitely, here in my .emacs.el: 

╭ │ (global-set-key (kbd C-;) 'vc-next-action) │ 
(global-set-key (kbd C-') 'er/expand-region) ╰ 


That is very strange. It is that the line in your .emacs for C-'? 
Outside of org files, does C-, work as expected, or does it expand 
the region?

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] How to re-bind C-,?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: 

Grant Rettke writes:  

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo 
jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu wrote:  
For me `org-cycle-agenda-files' is bound to C-', not C-, maybe 
you have something that sets C-' to C-, globally?  


Definitely, here in my .emacs.el:  

╭ │ (global-set-key (kbd C-;) 'vc-next-action) │ 
(global-set-key (kbd C-') 'er/expand-region) ╰  


That is very strange. It is that the line in your .emacs for 
C-'?  Outside of org files, does C-, work as expected, or does 
it expand the region? 


I mean the only line in your .emacs for C-'

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] How to get the link the point is on?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Marcin Borkowski writes: 

Hi list, 

my question is as in subject.  It is done by org-open-at-point 
(somehow), but the logic seems to be buried in that function. 
What I'd like to have is a function that would just extract the 
link portion (which is normally invisible) and displayed it in 
the echo area (something like hovering over a link in a web 
browser). 


This returns the link at the line, it assumes one link per line:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (defun test ()
   (save-excursion
 (move-beginning-of-line 1)
 (if (search-forward-regexp org-any-link-re 
 (line-end-position) t)

 (let* ((complete-link (match-string 0))
(last-place (string-match \\] complete-link)))
   (substring-no-properties complete-link 2 
   last-place


#+END_SRC

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] How to get the link the point is on?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Rasmus writes: 

If point is on a link you can 

   (org-element-property :raw-link (org-element-context)) 


That's way easier =)

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Christoph Groth writes: 

But not all is good: 

- Scaling: Some simple tests seem to indicate that org mode  
  becomes too sluggish with files of about 50k lines.  This is a 
  dimension that could be easily reached over 10 years if the 
  file  grows by 20 lines per day on average.  This is not a 
  problem in  the beginning, but if the scheme does not scale to 
  a few  thousand entries, this renders the whole idea way less 
  interesting.
- More advanced searching is lacking: AFAIK org mode currently  
  does not support searching for articles of a given author that 
  also contain a given keyword in the notes. 
Any insights about these two problems? Perhaps the scaling could 
be managed by splitting index.org into several files (by year 
for example). But how to search then? It's probably not a good 
idea to add all the bibliography org-files into the agenda. (Is 
there a way to have a secondary list of agenda files?) Perhaps 
the solution for both problems would be to write a fast 
commandline query tool for such org-databases? The tool could 
even use a fast cache if necessary. 


BibTeX provides bibtex-search-entries (in a bib file it is bound 
to C-c C-a), which searches for entries with a certain field 
matching a regexp.  Perhaps you want to take advantage of that 
function to direct your org searches to bib files and back. Check 
also bibtex-files and bibtex-search-entry-globally, since you 
would then be able to split the org files and export into several 
bib files if a single bib file proves too much. My current 
articles.bib is about 14k lines, and it is not sluggish at all, 
but I will have to wait a couple of years until I tell you if a 
50k one would be.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] org-crypt doesn't automatically encrypt on save

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Darlan Cavalcante Moreira writes: 

In my case I only have one file where I use org-crypt and I 
define the function below 

--8---cut 
here---start-8--- (defun 
my-find-senhas-org-heading nil 
  (interactive) (require 'org-crypt) (find-file 
  ~/org/passwords.org) ) 
--8---cut 
here---end---8--- 



If you only use one file for your passwords and want it encrypted 
(that you should), you can also check org-passwords.el that is 
included in the contrib directory.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Christoph Groth writes: 

My motivation for keeping bibliography in org was to keep all 
local information about a paper (including notes and comments) 
in one place.  This should make it easier to find it. 


In BibTeX if any field contains an entry that is not part of the 
required or optional entries for the field type, that entry is 
ignored.  So you can do want you want in a single bib file, just 
include for every field that you want a COMMENTS entry. The 
NOTE entry is an optional entry for the field type article and 
book, so you have to use something else, I use ANNOTE, since it 
is the standard to be ignored entry in the emacs BibTeX mode.


I like to keep papers under version control, and the commenting 
that you suggest does not seem to fit this way of working very 
well. 


Then change it to:

#+BEGIN_SRC latex
 \include{personal_references}
 \bibliography{references.bib}
#+END_SRC

And in personal_references.tex, every user has just one line:

#+BEGIN_SRC latex
 \bibliography{the_user_path_to_her/his_references.bib}
#+END_SRC

Add personal_references.tex to the .gitignore file (or the 
equivalent if you are not using git), and then you have version 
control and no more commenting/uncommenting.


Perhaps I am biased because I learned LaTeX and BibTeX before Org, 
but I think that for references BibTeX (plus a little bit of emacs 
configuration) has everything I could need. I guess if you are 
more used to Org, it might be worth to invest time and come up 
with a org-based solution. Please keep us posted, I find this a 
very interesting thread.


Cheers,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Thomas S. Dye writes: 

I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode.  I am 
used to managing a bibtex database and have never found the need 
to move everything to Org. 


Same here.

Bibtex mode has functions for automatic reference key 
generation: 

http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html#0630 


You can configure this process.


You can also download the .bib from Google Scholar or whatever and 
then clean the entry, so that your database has the same format.


Either a separate bibtex file for each article, or separate 
bibtex files for each co-author.  


Or better do both...

#+BEGIN_SRC latex 
 \bibliography{/home/you/references/articles.bib}

 % \bibliography{/home/collaborator_1/references/articles.bib}
 % \bibliography{/home/collaborator_2/references/articles.bib}
 ...
 \bibliography{references}

#+END_SRC

When a collaborator_i is working on the file she/he comments the 
first line and uncomments the i-th line AND everybody runs 
reftex-create-bibtex-file (or copy paste the new references for 
the unfortunate non-emacs user) after adding new references and 
finishing editing. Everybody shares a current version of the .tex 
file and the references.bib file.


In general, you'll want to have the bibtex file(s) for an 
article only contain the references that you'll use in the 
article, especially if you intend to distribute the bibtex files 
as part of a reproducible research project. 


Note that when the article is ready the references.bib is the only 
thing you need to compile, since it has all the references, so you 
erase the all the other \bibliography's


There are tools that use the information in your article .tex 
files to create this kind of bibtex file from a larger bibtex 
database. 


Yes, emacs via reftex-create-bibtex-file =)

Best,

--
Jorge.

[O] [PATCH] Refresh appointments from org files exclusively

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi,

I sometimes use appt-add as an alarm clock, as it is described in 
(info (emacs) Appointments). Recently I started using 
org-agenda-to-appt, and I wanted to update my appointments every 
time that I call the agenda, something like:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (add-hook 'org-agenda-finalize-hook (lambda () 
 (org-agenda-to-appt t))) 
#+END_SRC


But this removes the entries that appt-add has added, in other 
words it removes my alarms.


The attached patch permits that, when refreshing, only 
appointments that have the text property org-headline set to t are 
deleted. So it would leave any appointments set by appt-add. I do 
not know if all the entries that org-agenda-to-appt adds have an 
org-headline set to t, from my tests it seems like that is the 
case.


The functionality has backward compatibility (uses C-u C-u), but 
perhaps it would make more sense to use C-u for refreshing only 
org entries and C-u C-u for refreshing everything, or even never 
setting appt-time-msg-list to nil from org.


If the patch is approved to refresh the appointments after every 
agenda buffer is built while keeping those appointments added by 
appt-add, you can do:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (add-hook 'org-agenda-finalize-hook (lambda () 
 (org-agenda-to-appt '(16 
#+END_SRC


Best,

--  Jorge. 

From 2a5bf43b8ce112eab30df55f25e1744a7b388d64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jorge A. Alfaro Murillo jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 18:01:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] org-agenda.el: Refresh appointments from org files

* lisp/org-agenda.el (org-agenda-to-appt): Double prefix arg refresh
only the list of appointments that come from org files.

Uses the text-properties in appt-time-msg-list to see if an entry has
an org-heading property.

TINYCHANGE
---
 lisp/org-agenda.el | 16 
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
index bcbacf0..ff4a448 100644
--- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
+++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
@@ -10046,7 +10046,9 @@ tag and (if present) the flagging note.
 (defun org-agenda-to-appt (optional refresh filter rest args)
   Activate appointments found in `org-agenda-files'.
 With a \\[universal-argument] prefix, refresh the list of
-appointments.
+appointments. With a double prefix arg \\[universal-argument]
+\\[universal-argument], refresh only the list of appointments
+that come from org files.
 
 If FILTER is t, interactively prompt the user for a regular
 expression, and filter out entries that don't match it.
@@ -10076,7 +10078,15 @@ details and examples.
 If an entry has a APPT_WARNTIME property, its value will be used
 to override `appt-message-warning-time'.
   (interactive P)
-  (if refresh (setq appt-time-msg-list nil))
+  (if (equal refresh '(4))
+  (setq appt-time-msg-list nil))
+  (if (equal refresh '(16))
+  (let (new-appt-time-msg-list)
+	(dolist (entry appt-time-msg-list)
+	  (if (not (text-property-any 1 (length (cadr entry))
+  'org-heading t (cadr entry)))
+	  (add-to-list 'new-appt-time-msg-list entry)))
+	(setq appt-time-msg-list new-appt-time-msg-list)))
   (if (eq filter t)
   (setq filter (read-from-minibuffer Regexp filter: )))
   (let* ((cnt 0) ; count added events
@@ -10119,8 +10129,6 @@ to override `appt-message-warning-time'.
  (and (stringp evt-filter)
   (string-match evt-filter evt)))
 	  (wrn (get-text-property 1 'warntime x)))
-	 ;; FIXME: Shall we remove text-properties for the appt text?
-	 ;; (setq evt (set-text-properties 0 (length evt) nil evt))
 	 (when (and ok tod)
 	   (setq tod (concat 00 (number-to-string tod))
 		 tod (when (string-match
-- 
2.0.1

Re: [O] [PATCH] org-passwords.el: Do not insert `org-passwords-generate-password-with-symbols`

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Jonathan Leech-Pepin writes: 

Patch attached and inlined (to ensure gmail does not mangle) 


* org-passwords.el 
(org-passwords-generate-password-with-symbols): Do not insert 
password, this matches how 
`org-passwords-generate-password-without-symbols` behaves. 


Thanks, I had forgotten to remove that from -with-symbols.

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] org-agenda

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

David Arroyo Menendez writes: 

I've a recurrent little problem, with a light TODO.org 
org-agenda is fast, but every year or so, I need create a new 
TODO.org, because is so slow. More people with this problem? 
Some solution? 


I keep an archive file, so I get things out of my agenda files 
after they are done with C-c C-x C-a. Check the variable 
`org-archive-location'.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Marking items done in the past

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Fletcher Charest writes: 

Have you made any progress? I am also interested. 


Me too.

On 18 August 2014 02:52, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: 
I have a number of habits set up that I regularly fill in the 
day after the activity was done. Is there a way to mark an item 
as done (in a way that hooks into the habits stuff) but for a 
day in the past? 

So instead of doing C-c C-t d (I have d set up as DONE) I 
could get a prompt which asked me for a date. 



Changing the LOGBOOK, and LAST_REPEAT would not be that difficult, 
since you could use something like:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (org-entry-put nil LAST_REPEAT (concat [ (org-read-date) 
 ])) 
#+END_SRC


But changing the SCHEDULED and the 'State DONE from TODO' part 
would be more complicated. For example I think one would need to 
modify the function org-auto-repeat-maybe to be able to ask for a 
time. Checking at the code of this function the SCHEDULED part 
doesn't look that complicated, but I couldn't understand what 
produces the 'State DONE from TODO'


Does any of the org-gurus have an idea?

Best,

--
Jorge.

[O] [PATCH] org-passwords.el: Improvements

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Some development in the password manager.

Best,

Jorge.

* contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el (org-passwords-default-password-size,
org-passwords-default-random-words-number): New variables.
(org-passwords-copy-username, org-passwords-copy-password): Use
org-entry-get to obtain the property value.
(org-passwords-open-url): New function.
(org-passwords): Can be called with universal argument.
(org-passwords-generate-password): Use default size given by
`org-passwords-default-password-size'.
(org-passwords-random-words): Use default number given by
`org-passwords-default-random-words-number'.
(org-passwords-concat-this-with-string): Fix bug.

The patch adds several functionality:

Open the URL property directly from the mode. URLs can be inherit.

Universal argument in org-passwords allows for longer browsing. Two
arguments is used for editing.

There is a default password size and random-words number for faster
password generating.

Fix bug in C-u M-x org-passwords-generate-password.

Commentary in file has more information.

---
contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el | 134 +++---
1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el b/contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el
index 7ed8c80..b10a5f7 100644
--- a/contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el
+++ b/contrib/lisp/org-passwords.el
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@
;;; Commentary:

;; This file contains the code for managing your passwords with
-;; Org-mode.
+;; Org-mode. It is part of org/contrib (see http://orgmode.org/). If
+;; you want to contribute with development, or have a problem, do it
+;; here: https://bitbucket.org/alfaromurillo/org-passwords.el

;; A basic setup needs to indicate a passwords file, and a dictionary
;; for the random words:

-;;   (require org-passwords)
+;;   (require 'org-passwords)
;;   (setq org-passwords-file ~/documents/passwords.gpg)
;;   (setq org-passwords-random-words-dictionary 
/etc/dictionaries-common/words)

@@ -54,13 +56,12 @@
;;   `org-passwords-random-words-substitutions'.

;; It is also useful to set up keybindings for the functions
-;; `org-passwords-copy-username' and
-;; `org-passwords-copy-password' in the
-;; `org-passwords-mode', to easily make the passwords and usernames
-;; available to the facility for pasting text of the window system
-;; (clipboard on X and MS-Windows, pasteboard on Nextstep/Mac OS,
-;; etc.), without inserting them in the kill-ring. You can set for
-;; example:
+;; `org-passwords-copy-username', `org-passwords-copy-password' and
+;; `org-passwords-open-url' in the `org-passwords-mode', to easily
+;; make the passwords and usernames available to the facility for
+;; pasting text of the window system (clipboard on X and MS-Windows,
+;; pasteboard on Nextstep/Mac OS, etc.), without inserting them in the
+;; kill-ring. You can set for example:

;;   (eval-after-load org-passwords
;; '(progn
@@ -69,12 +70,15 @@
;;   'org-passwords-copy-username)
;;(define-key org-passwords-mode-map
;;   (kbd C-c p)
-;;  'org-passwords-copy-password)))
+;;  'org-passwords-copy-password)
+;;  (kbd C-c o)
+;;  'org-passwords-open-url)))

-;; Finally, to enter new passwords, you can use `org-capture' and a minimal 
template like:
+;; Finally, to enter new passwords, you can use `org-capture' and a
+;; minimal template like:

;;   (p password entry (file ~/documents/passwords.gpg)
-;;* %^{Title}\n  %^{PASSWORD}p %^{USERNAME}p)
+;;* %^{Title}\n  %^{URL}p %^{USERNAME}p %^{PASSWORD}p)

;; When asked for the password you can then call either
;; `org-passwords-generate-password' or `org-passwords-random-words'.
@@ -87,6 +91,7 @@

(require 'org)

+;;;###autoload
(define-derived-mode org-passwords-mode org-mode
  org-passwords-mode
  Mode for storing passwords
@@ -97,12 +102,17 @@
  :group 'org)

(defcustom org-passwords-password-property PASSWORD
-  Name of the property for password entry password.
+  Name of the property for password entry.
  :type 'string
  :group 'org-passwords)

(defcustom org-passwords-username-property USERNAME
-  Name of the property for password entry user name.
+  Name of the property for user name entry.
+  :type 'string
+  :group 'org-passwords)
+
+(defcustom org-passwords-url-property URL
+  Name of the property for URL entry.
  :type 'string
  :group 'org-passwords)

@@ -117,6 +127,12 @@ string, a number followed by units.
  :type 'str
  :group 'org-passwords)

+(defcustom org-passwords-default-password-size 20
+  Default number of characters to use in
+org-passwords-generate-password. It has to be a string.
+  :type 'str
+  :group 'org-passwords)
+
(defcustom org-passwords-random-words-dictionary nil
  Default file name for the file that contains a dictionary of
words for `org-passwords-random-words'. Each non-empty line in
@@ -124,6 +140,12 @@ the file is considered a word.
  :type 'file
  :group 'org-passwords)

+(defcustom org-passwords-default-random-words-number 5
+  Default number of words to use in 

Re: [O] Orgtbl, Radiotables: :booktabs t

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Hi Nicolas, 

Are there any news on this? I was just trying to accomplish the 
same thing (get \midrule instead of \hline in a LaTeX orgtbl), but 
adding :booktabs t seems to not be enough.


Best,

Jorge.

On [2013-12-01 Sun 10:18], Nicolas Goaziou wrote:


Hello,

AW alexander.will...@t-online.de writes:


 #+ORGTBL: SEND salesfigures orgtbl-to-latex :splice t :skip 2 :booktabs t
 | Month | Days | Nr sold | per day |
 |
 |---+--+-+-|
 |
 | Jan   |   23 |  55 | 2.4 |
 | Feb   |   21 |  16 | 0.8 |
 | March |   22 | 278 |12.6 |
 |
 |---+--+-+-|
 |
 | S:|   66 | | |

 #+TBLFM: $4=$3/$2;%.1f::@5$2=vsum(@I..II)




The parameter :booktabs t would be new.


[...]


So would it be possible to implement the parameter :booktabs t
without much trouble?


I don't think :booktabs belong to #+ORGTBL keyword because it is not
specific to radio tables.

I have a half baked patch which allows to use export framework to handle
radio tables. I'll try to complete it by the end of the year and propose
it on the ML.

Since ox-latex supports booktabs extension, radio tables will logically
inherit that feature.


Regards,

Re: [O] Orgtbl, Radiotables: :booktabs t

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Well for now and until :booktabs t is incorporated this is what I 
am using:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 
 (defun orgtbl-to-latex-booktabs (table params) 
   Convert the Orgtbl mode TABLE to LaTeX using booktabs 
   package.  (let* ((alignment (mapconcat (lambda (x) (if x r 
   l)) 
org-table-last-alignment )) 
  (params2 
   (list 
:tstart (concat \\begin{tabular}{ alignment 
}\n\\toprule) :tend \\bottomrule\n\\end{tabular} 
:lstart  :lend   :sep:efmt %s\\,(%s) 
:hline \\midline))) 
 (orgtbl-to-generic table (org-combine-plists params2 
 params 

 (setq orgtbl-radio-table-templates 
   (delete-if (lambda (x) (equal (car x) 'latex-mode))  
  orgtbl-radio-table-templates)) 

 (add-to-list 'orgtbl-radio-table-templates 
  '(latex-mode % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL %n\n% END 
  RECEIVE ORGTBL %n\n\\begin{comment}\n#+ORGTBL: SEND 
  %n orgtbl-to-latex-booktabs :splice nil :skip 0\n| 
  | |\n\\end{comment}\n)) 
#+END_SRC


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Orgtbl, Radiotables: :booktabs t

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Ups... it should be midrule not midline.
--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development ....

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Eric Abrahamsen writes: 

Henning Weiss hdwe...@gmail.com writes: 
I have been working over the last couple of months on a private 
prototype. I'm currently using it in my daily life and it works 
for me. It uses Git (and only Git) for synchronization and 
doesn't use org-mobile at all. The idea is that you keep all 
org files under git version control. Synchronization of all 
clients (apps or Emacs) is done against that repository. It 
is also possible to configure whether to use ours or theirs 
merge strategy when conflicts occur. I have focused on 
designing an app I can trust. 

It already has an outline view like MobileOrg, an agenda view, 
you can add and edit nodes, synchronize changes with a remote 
repository and synchronize scheduled entries to the calendar. I 
ported some of my code from MobileOrg, but a lot of it is 
written from scratch. 


Sounds great... can't wait!



Maybe you could publish a very basic how-to here, and then we 
could annoy you privately with problems? 


That's a good idea, 1+

--
Jorge.

[O] Fwd: Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development ....

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Dear Mat, Henning, Richard and Sean

In case you are not subscribed to email list of orgmode, the 
following thread might be of interest to you.


Matthew Jones and Henning Weiss, and Richard Moreland and Sean 
Escriva are the top contributors for MobileOrg for Android and 
iPhone, respectively.


Best,

Jorge.

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   Re: Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development 
   Re: Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development 
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---End Message---
---BeginMessage---

Hi all,

In light of recent discussions about 'MobileOrg' - which seemingly
actually constitutes two distinct projects for two different platforms -
together with the apparent relative lack of activity of both projects,
despite demand for them, i can't help but wonder if the 'MobileOrg'
endeavour needs a reboot.

More specifically, it seems to me that rebuilding MobileOrg as a single
project on top of Apache Cordova:

https://cordova.apache.org/

might be a way forward, for several reasons:

* It would help ensure that basically the same set of functionality is
  available across platforms, modulo specific limitations/issues with
  specific platforms. And when people add or modify core functionality,
  that functionality would more easily become available to people across
  platforms, rather than the functionality being initially implemented
  on platform X, and people on platform Y having to wait for it to be
  implemented in its entirety.

* Overall, only one lot of end-user documentation would need to be
  maintained.

* It would enable MobileOrg to be made available for mobile platforms
  other than Android and iOS, such as Windows Phone and Blackberry.

* The number of people available to assist with development might well
  be greater, due to the core development environment involving HTML,
  CSS and JavaScript. Barriers to entry for both regular and occasional
  committers would be much lower.

i'm aware that Cordova has various limitations,
including-but-not-limited-to the lack of native 'feel' of Cordova-based
applications. However, i feel that the above advantages, combined with
the my notion that Emacs users are probably less concerned with a
perfectly slick UI than with having access to functionality they
need/want, probably outweighs such limitations.

Unfortunately, due to other existing commitments, i wouldn't be able to
take point on such a reboot. But i'd definitely be willing and able to
help out!  Particularly in the area of contact management and syncing,
of course. :-)

Thoughts/comments/criticisms?


Alexis.



---End Message---
---BeginMessage---
Would love to see a reboot and further development on org-mobile. I am not
a developer myself but would love to help out with testing , writing
documentation etc

best

Z


On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Alexis flexibe...@gmail.com wrote:


 Hi all,

 In light of recent discussions about 'MobileOrg' - which seemingly
 actually constitutes two distinct projects for two different platforms -
 together with the apparent relative lack of activity of both projects,
 despite demand for them, i can't help but wonder if the 'MobileOrg'
 endeavour needs a reboot.

 More specifically, it seems to me that rebuilding MobileOrg as a single
 project on top of Apache Cordova:

 https://cordova.apache.org/

 might be a way forward, for several reasons:

 * It would help ensure that basically the same set of functionality is
   available across platforms, modulo specific limitations/issues with
   specific platforms. And when people add or modify core functionality,
   that functionality would more easily become available to people across
   platforms, rather than the functionality being initially implemented
   on platform X, and people on platform Y having to wait for it to be
   implemented in its entirety.

 * Overall, only one lot of end-user documentation would need to be
   maintained.

 * It would enable MobileOrg to be made available for mobile platforms
   other than Android and iOS, such as Windows Phone and Blackberry.

 * The number of people available to assist with development might well
   be greater, due to the core development environment involving HTML,
   CSS and JavaScript. Barriers to entry for both regular and occasional
   committers would be much lower.

 i'm aware that Cordova has various limitations,
 including-but-not-limited-to the lack of native 'feel' of Cordova-based
 applications. However, i feel that the above 

Re: [O] Refile: refile to any open file.

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Isaac writes: 

Similar to this previous post, I am trying to file orgmode items 
to  files/buffers currently opened. Being elisp rookie, I tried 
and came up with  the following: 

(defun opened-buffer-files () 
  Return the list of files currently opened in emacs (delq nil 
  (mapcar (function buffer-file-name) (buffer-list))) ) 


Perhaps you should return instead only the org mode files that are 
opened, something like this:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 
 (delq nil  
   (mapcar (lambda (x)  
 (if (and (buffer-file-name x)  
  (string-match \\.org$ 
  (buffer-file-name x)))  
 (buffer-file-name x)))  
   (buffer-list))) 
#+END_SRC


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] MobileOrg documentation?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

David Masterson dsmaster...@gmail.com writes:

Not looking for complete org functionality in my phone -- just a 
reasonable ability to edit org outlines while I'm on the road. 


Well you can do that with MobileOrg... sort of. Once you edit and 
save a change, synchronize in your phone and then pull from your 
computer (org-mobile-pull). From (info (org) Pulling from 
MobileOrg):


Some changes are applied directly and without user interaction. 
Examples are all changes to tags, TODO state, headline and body 
text that can be cleanly applied. Entries that have been flagged 
for further action will receive a tag ‘:FLAGGED:’, so that they 
can be easily found again. When there is a problem finding an 
entry or applying the change, the pointer entry will remain in the 
inbox and will be marked with an error message. You need to later 
resolve these issues by hand.


I do not understand when cleanly applied is the case, but my 
experience is that resolving these issues by hand is the most 
likely outcome. Even simple edits in the text of an entry in my 
phone generally result in errors of synchronization. Note that 
besides adding a comment of when the file was changed in the 
mobile, the local file does not change. Also you can see the 
differences in the files in the from-org-mobile.org file (or 
whatever you set the org-mobile-inbox-for-pull variable to).


Because of this limitation, I am better off just adding simple 
captures on my phone as remainders to do something in my computer, 
even adding information to a certain file. Then, when I 
synchronize in the phone and pull in my computer, the only file 
that changes is from-org-mobile.org, I open that buffer and use 
org-refile to send things to the right place.  Save all org 
buffers, org-mobile-push and repeat.


I you have access by ssh to a computer that is always on, then I 
recommend leaving an emacsclient open and using JuiceSSH of 
ConnectBot for editing your org files on the go.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] MobileOrg documentation?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

David Masterson writes: 

Hmmm.  Simple question (I think).  Can you edit outlines (at 
least somewhat) from MobileOrg?  For instance, can you add 
outline headers to your Org outline in MobileOrg?  Or is 
MobileOrg only useful for viewing Org outlines and capturing 
items to add to your outlines later? 


Yes.

In MobileOrg of your phone: Settings, Synchronization, check 
Advanced capture. Click over any headline and then use the capture 
button (the circle with a plus inside). Write the new headline, 
save, and synchronize.


Afterwards run org-mobile-pull from your computer, the changes should be
there. At least it works for me under Android.

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] MobileOrg documentation?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Ken Mankoff writes: 


On iPhone, you cannot add sub-headings.


Another good reason to ditch your iPhone and buy a Nexus =)

Even when the Android and iPhone applications are different, the 
good thing is that the org side (org-mobile.el) is not specific 
for the iPhone or Android (or any external application that uses 
the same conventions).


Perhaps that is why the manual seems to new users so vague, they 
expect that it will explain how to go over the phone installation 
as well. But that is not the job of the org part, but that of the 
phone application IMO.


--
Jorge.

Re: [O] MobileOrg documentation?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

David Masterson dsmaster...@gmail.com writes:

Anyone using MobileOrg? 


I use it all the time, but the Android version. I do not think 
that it is a dead project, at the end of last year there were 
quite a few updates.


I generally use it to read my org agenda and TODO list in my 
phone, to automatically transfer the org agenda to the Google 
calendar and to make captures in my phone that I later organize 
into the proper file and heading in my computer. For those three 
tasks it is a five star application.


I still think that it is far from being org-mode in your phone, but you
should not see it that way. If you want to something that allows
complete org functionality in your phone you are better off using
something like JuiceSSH and connecting to one of your computers.

Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] MobileOrg documentation?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Also there is a more or less active Google+ page: 


https://plus.google.com/u/0/101083268903948579162/posts

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Agenda, Deadline, DONE

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

hymie! hy...@lactose.homelinux.net writes:

Greetings.  I'm new to OrgMode, and I'm still working my way 
through.  It has a lot of the old functionality and features of 
the PalmPilot Bonsai program, which I miss terribly, and I 
hope you take that as a compliment. 


Welcome.

I have a TODO that looks like this (I had to pull out the 
details, of course): 

** DONE task number 3 
   SCHEDULED: 2014-07-30 - State DONE   from TODO 
   [2014-07-30 Wed 14:47] DEADLINE: 2014-08-08 

In my Agenda, I see this: 

Friday  8 August 2014 
  file:   Deadline:   DONE task number 3 

It seems to me that, if the task is already completed, then I no 
longer care about the deadline. It's done. So I'd rather not see 
it in the Agenda. 

I guess I could just remove the deadline from the task itself, 
but I kinda like having the historical info (that I finished a 
week and a half early).


Is there a way to remove deadlines for DONE tasks from the 
Agenda? 


I also like to keep the historical info, but in order to keep my 
tasks.org file clean (and save some time while building the 
agenda) I keep it in a separate file. Probably the simplest way is 
something like this:


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 
 (setq org-archive-location ~/org/archive.org::) 
#+END_SRC  Now when you do not want to see something anymore, you 
can press C-c C-x C-a from the org file or the agenda to move the 
item to the archive.org file. Check the documentation of 
org-archive-location or (info (org) Archiving) for more details.


Best,

--
Jorge.

Re: [O] Installing Org 8

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Try putting (package-initialize) as the first line of your .emacs, 
that should do the trick. 


Best,

Jorge.

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

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Thanks John,

The links to the other videos are broken. I think that the 
addresses have %3D instead of an equal sign (=).


Best,

Jorge.

Re: [O] What is the best in-Emacs presentation mode for org-files today?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Grant Rettke g...@wisdomandwonder.com writes:

el-get might be a nice option for you. 


There is also doc-present, but you would need to export to beamer 
first: https://github.com/dengste/doc-present/


Some people create there own, for example watch the first 3min of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Te_a-AGqM

Best,

Jorge.

Re: [O] org-mode

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com writes:

 How then do I get to use the 8.3 beta please?

Hi Sharon,

Use the git version, it has had the tag 8.3 beta for about a month.

Follow the instructions in
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#keeping-current-with-Org-mode-development

Best,

Jorge.

Re: [O] org-mode

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com writes:

Miguel Ruiz rbeni...@inbox.com writes: 

master branch = 

make cleanall #git pull #optional git reset --hard 
origin/master  # warning: removes local changes #make test 
#optional make  #not necessary if make test   
  
maint  branch = 

make cleanall #git pull #optional git reset --hard 
origin/maint  # warning: removes local changes #make test 
#optional make  #not necessary if make test   

Thanks, my org-mode script now shows - 

--8---cut 
here---start-8--- cd ~/git/org-mode git 
reset --hard origin/master # mr update make autoloads make make 
doc sudo make install cd ~ --8---cut 
here---end---8--- 


As the website says, it is enough to do:

#+BEGIN_SRC shell 
 make update 
#+END_SRC


this even pulls the git repository.

Re: [O] a quick way to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com writes:

 i keep once and a while screwing up my notes with unintended editing
 (erroneous key presses etc) and was wondering if any one knew of a way
 to to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

Hi Xebar. Use C-x C-q. This works for every file, I use it in particular
for notes that I do not want to edit.

It runs the command read-only-mode which changes whether the current
buffer is read-only. Actually the command switches the local variable
buffer-read-only, so you can use that variable as local for every file
that you do not want to edit by default. At the end of those files add:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
%%% Local Variables:
%%% buffer-read-only: t
%%% End:
#+END_EXAMPLE

And every time that you want to edit them just do C-x C-q

Best,

Jorge.

Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Grant Rettke g...@wisdomandwonder.com writes:

 Octave is an option, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

Since people are championing python, and R and Octave have been
mentioned, let me throw this one into the discussion:
http://www.sagemath.org/

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under
the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy,
SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more

Many more includes Octave as well. If you know python, then you can
use only python in Sage, no need for learning anything new.

Actually you do not need to install anything to use it:
https://cloud.sagemath.com/

At Sage Math Cloud (SMC) besides Sage, you can access a terminal there
and it has emacs already installed. Also you can ssh to their servers,
and tramp with emacs locally works well connecting to it. That is what I
use for research.

Come to think about it, there is no ob-sage.el yet. I write my papers
directly to LaTeX (and my collaborators write at SMC since they are not
emacs users and it provides direct compilation and shows already the
results) so I never thought about exporting to sage. Does someone have
any plans for this?

Jorge.

Re: [O] Installing from git

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Vicente Vera vicente...@gmail.com writes:

 Hello. I'm quite confused with the installation options.

 Recently started out a Debian base system and compiled Emacs from the
 bzr repository. That came out fine, so I ran 'make install' and now
 Emacs 24.4.50 sits in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/share, etc.

 I want to install the master branch of org-mode.

I have both emacs and org-mode from git. For emacs:
#+BEGIN_SRC shell
  git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
  make distclean
  ./configure
  make
#+END_SRC

You do not need the make install, I leave the emacs files where I want
them on my home folder (also useful if I do not have root access in a
server), and create two symbolic links to emacs/lib-src/emacsclient and
emacs/src/emacs in ~/bin/

For org, I once read a discussion in this list about not doing this but
that a lot of people do it, it keeps working for me, so I keep doing it.
I clone the repository:

#+BEGIN_SRC shell
  git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git
  make
#+END_SRC

Then I remove the directory emacs/lisp/org and create a direct link to
org-mode/lisp instead. Also I remove emacs/etc/org (or maybe this
doesn't cause conflicts?)

Also, since the git repository of org has the etc files in a different
location, emacs cannot find them; the following takes care of that:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq org-odt-data-dir path_to_org-mode_git_directory/etc/)
#+END_SRC

Finally, this takes care of the documentation:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (eval-after-load 'info
'(progn (info-initialize)
(add-to-list 'Info-directory-list 
 path_to_org-mode_git_directory/doc)))
#+END_SRC

Best,

Jorge.

Re: [O] Installing from git

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes:

 It doesn't work, you just haven't run into a problem that you can
 positively identify with that habit yet.  You'd need to re-build Emacs
 each time you update Org if you wanted it to work. 

Why? emacs/lisp points to org-mode/lisp, if I update org it updates in
its org-mode repo, what can I break?

 There really is a reason that all those files get installed, if you
 can't or don't want to write to system-wide directories you are free
 to install them in your home directory instead.

Do you mean the files that make install creates? Doesn't make alone
create all things necessary for org to work?

Re: [O] Pushing and pulling to google calendar

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Doyley, Marvin M. mdoy...@ur.rochester.edu writes:

 Hi Everybody,

 Is there a way to sync org-agenda with google calendar so that I can
 exploit googles calendar reminder.

 I wish there was a way to send calendar reminders (pop-up, emails,
 text message ) from org-mode rather than going through google.

MobileOrg can synchronize to your google calendar, you can then set up
remainders with the calendar app in your phone.

Check (info (org) MobileOrg)

Best,

Jorge.