Re: [Orgmode] Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

2010-09-24 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Julien Fantin writes: > Just noticed the interview is available on iTunes. > http://itunes.apple.com/fr/podcast/floss-weekly-136-emacs-org/id368823654?i=87659805 > > Not sure how I'd watch it if I were on my gnu box though. I downloaded the high quality version from here: http://www.twit.tv/flo

Re: [Orgmode] How do I convert org to OpenOffice?

2010-09-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Lennart Borgman writes: > There is a way, isn't there? ;-) Export to LaTeX and use mk4ht: http://linuxsagas.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/latex-to-openoffice/ Charles -- Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on. (Unk

Re: [Orgmode] How do I convert org to OpenOffice?

2010-09-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Lennart Borgman writes: > Thanks Charles, but I am using Windows. I guess that this solution is > not cross platform, or? It is cross platform- tex4ht is written in JAVA. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX4ht Charles -- "Never make any mistaeks." (Anonymous, in a mail discussion abo

Re: [Orgmode] How do I convert org to OpenOffice?

2010-09-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Sorry I was looking at the wrong file- it is actually written in pearl. Charles -- "...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals." (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center) pgpfCQvKiPRYC.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: [Orgmode] How do I convert org to OpenOffice?

2010-09-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: > It is not just one file and afaik, *none* of it is written in > Perl. Some of it is C, some of it is TeX, some of it is Java > (apparently: I haven't looked at tex4ht for some years and I don't > remember any Java in there before, but there is some now), a large > amount is j

Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el

2010-10-21 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: > How does footnote.el find the signature? I presume by looking for the line "--" which precedes the signature. Charles -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Pow

Re: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?

2009-10-24 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Russell Adams writes: > I'm migrating out of it as fast as I can. The import/export tools are > terrible / nonexistant unless you know elisp, Have you tried any of these. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BbdbImporters http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BbdbExporters ? I am currently using bbdb-vcar

Re: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?

2009-10-25 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Darlan Cavalcante Moreira writes: > If there was someway to sync (two-way) bbdb with google contacts all > problems would be solved for me, Agreed. Syncing with google and different devices in desperately needed. We should move this discussion to the bbdb-info list. You can join by emailing bbdb

Re: [O] convert html file into orgmode .org file?

2011-07-21 Thread Charles Philip Chan
<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> Puneeth Chaganti writes: > Org-mode cannot import html files. But, you could try using Pandoc[1] > for this. > > [1] - http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ There is also an Emacs mode for pandoc: http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~kremers/pandoc-mode.html Charles -

Re: [Orgmode] Re: A mail client that is org-mode compatible

2011-02-16 Thread Charles Philip Chan
"Eric Schulte" writes: > I'm also using the development version of gnus, but haven't noticed > the searching features, could you point these out, a key binding or > command name? Put the cursor on the group you want to search in the Group buffer and hit: , | GG ` Charles -- Microsoft

[O] Scheduling habit Mon to Sat

2012-07-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello all: I would like to schedule a habit to occur 6 times a week from Monday to Saturday. I have looked through the manual, but I can't seem to find a way to do it. I have tried: , | <%%(memq (calendar-day-of-week date) '(1 2 3 4 5 6))> ` but it didn't work. Any help will be appreciat

Re: [O] Scheduling habit Mon to Sat

2012-07-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala writes: Hello Yagnesh: Thank you for the reply. > Works for me and I use similar to this. It works fine for me with regular scheduled TODO items. However, it does not work on org-habit scheduled items. I am getting this when "entering debug on error: , | Debugger e

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Jack Erwin writes: Hello Jack: > I am in the process of trying out org-mode after a long stint with > planner.el. The most obvious difference here is that planner.el uses > "day pages" that keep a running list of tasks versus the more dynamic > nature of org which collects them from a set of ar

Re: [O] Using org-mode as day planner

2012-08-10 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: > The key here is really to take some time to set up your Agenda Views > and Capture Templates. Oops, forgot to mention tags. You should think about and setup your tags too. They are great for searching. Charles pgpnvVOisgRUL.pgp Description: PGP signature

[O] Icalendar Export Broken in Git Version

2012-08-14 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello: I tried to export an icalendar file with the current git version of org-mode and it failed. I debugged it by loading org-install on a clean Emacs with no init files and this is what I got: , | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) | byte-code("\30

Re: [O] Icalendar Export Broken in Git Version

2012-08-14 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: Thanks, Bastien already fixed it. > There are only two recent commits against org-icalendar. The second > one mentions org-print-icalendar-entries, so I bet that's the culprit > :-) I figured that it was that commit too when I grepped the git log. :-) > For future

[O] Bug with org-agenda-span & org-agenda-start-day

2012-08-23 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello: I am trying to setup a block in one of my Agenda views for coming up events in the next 7 days. I have org-agenda-start-day set to "+1d". However, it is not working- the block keeps starting on Sunday of the current week. If I set org-agenda-start-day to anything but "7", it works. I am us

Re: [O] Bug with org-agenda-span & org-agenda-start-day

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > I'm not sure to understand what is wrong and how org-agenda-span is > involved in the problem. OK, I will explain in more detail. I have set org-agenda-start-day to "+1d" in the block. If I set "org-agenda-span" to anything but "7" (for example "6" or "8"), the res

[O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello all: I have a strange problem with "org-agenda-redo" and I hope that someone can shed some light. I have an Agenda view which contains everything I need for the day which I leave open all the time. The agenda view already contains a schedule for the current day. A couple of days ago I decide

Re: [O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: > Everything is working fine with the exception that after I mark a TODO > (scheduled/deadline) or HABIT as done, all my appointment, habits, > scheduled and deadline items disappear from the view after I save all > Agenda files and force a redisplay (

Re: [O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-25 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > Can you post your configuration? Best to do it with M-x > org-submit-bug-report, I'd guess. My whole org-mode configuration or just the configuration for that Agenda view? I have to make it clear that if I take out the "6 day" agenda block and leave the "one day" o

Re: [O] I can't make work 'startup hidestars'

2012-08-25 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Ashfaq writes: > Within the host, I opened an org file with the emacs. Now it can hide > the stars. However, interestingly, when I ssh-ed into the host with > 'putty' and opened the same file with emacs, it shows the stars. Do they have different colour backgrounds? Hide star is really just a h

Re: [O] I can't make work 'startup hidestars'

2012-08-25 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Ashfaq writes: > They have different background colors. putty has black background. But > the emacs application in Ubuntu has white background. Can it be hacked > into again? :-) The "hidden stars" colour is determined by the "org-hide" face which defaults to white. The easiest way for you is to

Re: [O] I can't make work 'startup hidestars'

2012-08-25 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Ashfaq writes: > However, as I wanted to indent too, it added extra stars in the > line. To be precise, each line has now (2 * line_no -1) no. stars. Why > is it like this? I have no idea. I haven't ran Emacs in a console, let along through ssh, in a couple of years. These days I connect to my m

Re: [O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-27 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: Thanks for fixing this. > Mhh... This was a real bug, I had a good sweat on this one. I hope you didn't lose a lot of weight on this one. ;-) Charles -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb.

Re: [O] Bug with org-agenda-span & org-agenda-start-day

2012-08-27 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > You need to add (org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil) to the list of > properties for this agenda view. > > See the docstring of `org-agenda-start-on-weekday' for details. Ah, OK. Thanks. Cheers, Charles -- "Even more amazing was the realization that God has Interne

Re: [O] Bug with org-agenda-span & org-agenda-start-day

2012-08-27 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: Hi Bastien: > Bastien writes: > > Hi Bastien: > >> You need to add (org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil) to the list of >> properties for this agenda view. >> >> See the docstring of `org-agenda-start-on-weekday' for details.

Re: [O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
François Allisson writes: Hi François: > Since these changes, I have some troubles with a few org-agenda commands > (goto-today, redo, switch to day view, week view, etc.). This happens > with multiple blocks custom agenda views (whether there are, or not, > multiple agendas in them). Does it wo

[O] Problem with org-smart-reschedule and Agenda View

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello all: I have just started using org-learn. However, when I try to use org-smart-reschedule in an Agenda View buffer it fails with the following backtrace: , | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Before first headline at position 2024 in buffer *Org Agenda*") | signal(error ("Before

Re: [O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > org-agenda.el is a maze, full of sound and fury. > > The various variables/situations were so entangled that the best > was to wipe the place out a bit. I did so. > > Let me know if you still have this. Thanks! I can't even go into the Agenda view now. Here is t

Re: [O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > Ops. Fixed! Thanks for all the hard work. Things are working fine now and I see no strangeness. The only thing is, for consistency sake, shouldn't "j" jump to the specified date in place rather then bringing up a new Agenda buffer? Cheers, Charles -- We ar

Re: [O] Bug with org-agenda-span & org-agenda-start-day

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > This have been fixed with the other agenda fixes. Please let me know > if this is not the case for you. Sorry Bastien. Setting it to "7" or "week" is still not working. This is really strange, any other number works. Cheers, Charles -- Linux! Guerrilla UNIX De

Re: [O] Bug with org-agenda-span & org-agenda-start-day

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > Remember you need to add (org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil) to the list > of properties for this agenda view. I did that already and it didn't work. Charles -- "The world is beating a path to our door" -- Bruce Perens, (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associa

Re: [O] calfw-org broken?

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Michal Sojka writes: Hi Nichal: > Does anybody have the same problem or better a fix for it? > > Org-mode version 7.8.11, I've tried that with both emacs 23 and 24. Works fine here with the latest org-mode and calfw-org, both from git. Cheers, Charles -- "...and scantily clad females, of cou

Re: [O] calfw-org broken?

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Michal Sojka writes: Hi Michal: > I tested this with Org from git and the same result. However, I found > that calfw works correctly if I have open Agenda window. > > If I close the Agenda window with `q' and then run cfw:open-org-calendar > again, I see > > cfw:org-collect-schedules-period: S

Re: [O] Bug with org-agenda-span & org-agenda-start-day

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > Can you share a reproducible recipe with latest Org? > > Both a simple .org file and a simple .el config file > with the minimal setup would help a lot, I don't have > the problem with my tests. Sorry for the noise. I traced my problem to adding a "null" to the v

Re: [O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > Mhh.. this is how the `j' agenda command behaves here. > > Can you describe exactly what's your agenda, what you do expect > by hitting `j', what it does and what surprises you? It changes the Agenda in buffer to a day view for the "jump to date". I was expecting

[O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello all: After updating to the latest git version of Org-mode, google weather entries are not showing up in the Agenda buffer any more. Does any one else have the same problem? Thanks. Charles -- "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (

Re: [O] Bug with org-agenda-span & org-agenda-start-day

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: > Sorry for the noise. I traced my problem to adding a "null" Sorry, I meant "nil". Charles -- "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By dmegg...@aix1.uottawa.ca

Re: [O] showing orgmode source in orgmode

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Alexandre Russel writes: Hi Alexandre: > I couldn't find how to show orgmode source in orgmode, I've tried the > obvious(ly stupid): Use: , | #+begin_example | #+end_example ` > #+begin_src orgmode > #+begin_src foobar > #+end_src "#+begin_src" only works with certain programming la

Re: [O] showing orgmode source in orgmode

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: Hi Alexandre: > "#+begin_src" only works with certain programming languages. Please > refer to section 14 of the manual. Sorry, it seems that org-mode is supported, try: , | #+begin_src org | #+end_src ` Cheers, Charles -- Dijkstra p

Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > Yup - I got an error on startup and turned it off. When I turned it > back on and tried again (possibly after another org update), I got no > error but no results either. Haven't investigated further. Thanks for the confirmation. I know that the weather info is dow

[O] Exporting xml and html code with syntax highlight

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello all: Tonight I had a need to export some xml code with syntax highlight. I figured that the best way to do it is to modify ob-css.el (by a simple search and replace). To my delight, it work, so I did one for html also. I hope people will find them useful. Cheers, Charles ;;; ob-xml.el ---

Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > When I go to > >http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=Boston&hl=en-GB > > Google slaps me and says: > > , > | Google > | Sorry... > | We're sorry... > | > | ... but your computer or network may be sending automated > | queries. To protect our users, we

Re: [O] showing orgmode source in orgmode

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Alexandre Russel writes: Hi Alexandre: > #+begin_example org > #+begin_src java > #+end_src I have no idea what you are trying to do here. However, I have just noticed that wrapping org-mode code in any type of block doesn't export correctly- the block code are just ignored and the org-mode sou

Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > BTW, if you visit > > http://www.google.com/ig > > it also says > > , > | iGoogle will not be available after November 1, 2013. Learn more > ` > > So google-weather's days are numbered (420 days or so) even if the > first problem gets resolved. OK, thank

Re: [O] showing orgmode source in orgmode

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > Org src blocks are special. > ... Thanks for the info. Cheers, Charles -- "Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access. I wonder if He has a full newsfeed?" (By Matt Welsh) pgp7ig1EregDy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [O] Strange Problem with "org-agenda-redo"

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > Yes, this is what it does now. Thanks, it works now with the latest update. Cheers, Charles -- >Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.) pgp2NLqXSr2XQ.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: [O] Exporting xml and html code with syntax highlight

2012-08-31 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > Since the functions do strictly nothing, we should have a way to > add them dynamically, without requiring a new ob-* file. This would > be useless for languages you only want to tangle, like XML and HTML. I totally agree with this. Cheers, Charles -- The nice

Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode

2012-08-31 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Jude DaShiell writes: Hi Jude: > It might be near time to investigate wunderground.com and loose google > for weather before igoogle disappears. Other weather sites capable of > text output may also be available, I haven't investigated that yet. I agree. Charles -- Dijkstra probably hates m

Re: [O] Literal not working

2012-08-31 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Supriya Sawant writes: Hi Supriya: > when I write above in org-mode & if I export it in html using > org-export-as-html it gives me output > > *Some* example from a text file. > > it seems that tag is not creating in html file. What do you mean is not working? What do you see in the resultant

Re: [O] Cannot open load file: subst-ksc

2012-08-31 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Thomas and Nick: > Can you do > > find -type f | xargs grep subst-ksc > > in the org-mode directory? I find no trace of such a beast in my tree > (or indeed in emacs). I got curious, so I did a google search, it seems to be an Internationalization file that was removed fr

Re: [O] Cannot open load file: subst-ksc

2012-08-31 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: > I grep through the org-mode source and I can find any reference to > it. This is really strange. Oops, I mean I cannot. Charles -- There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a threaded news reader. (Unknown source) pgph6k

Re: [O] Using double square brackets literally (escaping link conversion) in org-mode

2012-09-04 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Giuseppe Pagnoni writes: Hi Giuseppe: > I use org-mode for taking notes and I often need to jot down code > examples. In the language R, subscription is often done with double > square brackets (for instance, I can extract the 2nd element of a > `list' object x with the code: x[[2]]). Now, I h

Re: [O] Using double square brackets literally (escaping link conversion) in org-mode

2012-09-04 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Giuseppe Pagnoni writes: Hi Giuseppe: > thank you for the fast reply. I had actually tried to use the SRC > block, but the bracket-enclosed text is still converted to hyperlink > format in the Emacs GUI, with the consequent vanishing of the > brackets. Works fine for me- they do not show up as

Re: [O] Using double square brackets literally (escaping link conversion) in org-mode

2012-09-04 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Giuseppe Pagnoni writes: Hi Giuseppe: > I upgraded to the latest Emacs and org-mode versions, but then I found > out that the text does reformat correctly if I position the cursor at > the beginning of the SRC block (that is, on the first `#') and enter a > newline (or, alternatively, if I close

Re: [O] Trouble with in-line images and iimage.el

2012-09-04 Thread Charles Philip Chan
John Hendy writes: Hi John: > I'm trying to display inline images. I downloaded iimage.el and added > it's path to my load-path. I also added the code found on Worg for > inline images with iimage.[1] Iimage is obsolete. Org-mode have the ability to display inline images for quite some time no

Re: [O] Trouble with in-line images and iimage.el

2012-09-04 Thread Charles Philip Chan
John Hendy writes: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote: >> This should be: >> >> #+org-startup-with-inline-images: t >> > > The manual appears to be out of date on this? Sorry you are right on that one for in buffer setting. "

Re: [O] info org section 3.1

2012-09-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Jude DaShiell writes: Hi Jude: > Something is undocumented and broken. Attempting to create the table > documented in section 3.1 of the manual generates a beep and the message: > Symbol's value as variable is void: org-use-sub-superscripts > at the bottom of the screen and hitting tab just te

Re: [O] info org section 3.1

2012-09-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Jude DaShiell writes: Hi Jude: > This happens using gnu-emacs 23.41 and org 7.9.11 and that emacs is > the current debian package version. I used git clone to install and > update org mode too. Maybe it is a mixed installation problem again. Have you tried the suggestions here: ,[ http://

Re: [O] info org section 3.1

2012-09-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Jude DaShiell writes: > As an experiment, I replaced the org-mode from git with the debian > org-mode package version 7.8.11 and tried creating the table again. > This time, no errors. Apparently something happened between 7.8.11 and > 7.9.11 to make this happen even with emacs 23.x systems.

Re: [O] Store org-files in a git repository?

2012-09-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa writes: Hello Marcelo and Moritz: > I have not done yet, but I do use git for my org repo; however, I > commit every 6 hours via cron (and the commit message is a timestamp). I have my org repo under git too. However, instead of a cron job, I use an after-save-hook: #+B

Re: [O] hiding billing information from generated pdf

2012-09-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Mehul Sanghvi writes: Hello Mehul: > Thanks for that pointer. If I put a :noexport: tag on that headline, > will I at some later point be able to export just that headline to PDF > ? How ? Get rid of the "noexport" tag. Select the subtree with "C-c @" and then use an export command. Cheers,

Re: [O] org-url-hexify-p is not respected

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Philip Chan
James Harkins writes: Hi James: > So then the question is, why was I getting the ID-style links in the > first place? I hadn't loaded that module before (I didn't even know > about load-library before). I have org-id loaded and "org-link-to-org-use-id" is set to "create-if-interactive-and-no-cu

Re: [O] Quick poll - do you use the agenda more as a query interface or as your main view

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa writes: > I'm wondering: Do you use the agenda more as a query interface or as > your main view? Both. Charles -- "People get annoyed when you try to debug them." -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) pgpTbTjSVr7Cm.pgp Description: PGP signatu

[O] Bug: Tags Search and Agenda View [7.9.1 (release_7.9.1-199-g6589b9.dirty @ /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/org/)]

2012-09-12 Thread Charles Philip Chan
With the current git version of org-mode, items that are the result of tags searches are no longer showing up. Charles -- "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system." (By Linus Torvalds) pgpaVvuZIDOkU.pgp Des

Re: [O] Bug: Tags Search and Agenda View [7.9.1 (release_7.9.1-199-g6589b9.dirty @ /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/org/)]

2012-09-12 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: > With the current git version of org-mode, items that are the result of > tags searches are no longer showing up. Oops, sorry for the noise. I just realized that my Custom Agenda setup got messed up some how. Charles -- I did this 'cause Linux gives

Re: [O] org-capture target files

2012-09-15 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Kalev Takkis writes: Hi Kalev: > Is it possible to take a note in org-capture and to specify one or > several files to put the message into only after the note is written? > The workflow I have in mind is first pressing C-c c to take a note; > selecting the type of note I'd like to take; typing

Re: [O] external process modifying buffers

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Ken Mankoff writes: Hi Ken: > Right now I'm running ical2org via cron and re-generating iCal.org > (redirecting stdout with ">"). When I try to regenerate the agenda, > emacs complains: > > iCal.org changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) Set "global-auto-revert-mode" to "t".

Re: [O] New user, my use case, request basic advice

2012-09-17 Thread Charles Philip Chan
David Rogers writes: Hi David: > My main goals: > > 1. I need audible alerts from my phone for appointments & reminders >when I'm away from home. I don't really mind how those are >accomplished, but I have to hear a sound of some kind at the >appropriate times. I can't be counted on

[O] Problem with timestamps and ical export

2012-03-23 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello all: I have start to use the icalendar exporter in Org-mode and I have "org-icalendar-use-plain-timestamp" set to "t". However, this exports both active and inactive timestamp. How would I go about to only export active timestamps? Thanks. Charles -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual Th

Re: [O] Problem with timestamps and ical export

2012-03-23 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Sorry for the noise- I found my mistake. :-( Charles -- "...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero outside" (By Linus Torvalds)

Re: [O] latex to org converter

2012-04-10 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Marvin Doyley writes: > Does anybody has a script that convert latex files to org mode ? > > I wrote one in Matlab, but it is a little clunky - I wrote it in matlab > because I am still learning lisp Not exactly a script, but I highly recommend Pandoc[1]. There is also pandoc-mode[2], which is a

Re: [O] Sticky agenda branch merged

2012-04-16 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Tassilo Horn writes: > since the merge, I get an error on emacs startup. The error is caused > by invoking `org-agenda-to-appt' on emacs startup. You beat me to it. I am seeing the same thing. Also, I am able to run the function manually if there is an Agenda buffer. Without an Agenda buffer b

Re: [O] Sticky agenda branch merged

2012-04-16 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Max Mikhanosha writes: > I had pushed a fix, which should fix `org-agenda-to-appt' Thanks, it worked. Charles -- "The world is beating a path to our door" -- Bruce Perens, (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) pgpS9uKFsMF8D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Matt Price writes: > - wl causes emacs to freeze up when it checks or sends mail, and can > take quite a long while to complete these operations I offload this by using external programs. My email flow consists of: 1. Fetch my mail from various sources with fetchmail. Usenet articles are

[O] Problems with Org-mode from git and Habits

2012-06-15 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Hello all: I have decided to give org-habit another shot, however, I am having some problems. The habit todos show up in the agenda correctly with consistency graphs. However, they will not repeat once I mark them as done- this used to work, but not anymore. I am using the git version of org-mode.

Re: [O] Problems with Org-mode from git and Habits

2012-06-15 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Michael Brand writes: Hi Micheal: > I can not confirm with release_7.8.11-71-g8840cd. Can you try this?: > ... Thanks. I have traced the problem to a customization that I have in "org-after-todo-state-change-hook" what prevented the ":LAST_REPEAT:" property to be add and the todo state to be to

Re: [O] Rebuilding the Agenda hides inline Images

2012-06-19 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien writes: Hi Bastien: > Do you have (setq org-startup-with-inline-images t) ? I have the above set to "t" and I have the same problem. The images will disappear when the agenda is build. I have to toggle it twice for the images to reappear. Charles -- "If a machine couldn't run a free

Re: [O] Rebuilding the Agenda hides inline Images

2012-06-19 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Moritz Ulrich writes: Hi Moritz > It's the same with narrowing. org-mode really deserves a patch to > preserve buffer state when the agenda is rebuild. Agreed. Charles -- "Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night hacking (and/or conversations with God)." (By Matt We

Re: [O] Rebuilding the Agenda hides inline Images

2012-06-19 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Marcus Klemm writes: Hi Marcus: > Do you use, by any chance, a custom block agenda? Yes, I do. > I wanted to reply to Bastien as fast as possible, so I tried to > reproduce my problem at work. I installed Emacs (v23) and orgmode, > created a document with inline images and built the agenda. Th

Re: [O] Error when changing todo-state [7.8.11]

2012-06-20 Thread Charles Philip Chan
salome.soederg...@gmx.ch writes: Hi Salome: > I recently upgraded to emacs24 and org 7.8.11. Since this upgrade, > when I set or change a todo-state, I get an error message > (void-variable state). I had the same problem. It turned out that the problem is some customization that I have in "org-

Re: [O] OT: italics [was: Re: take the name of org-class event from heading]

2012-06-22 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: > That may be because of the dotage of my mail reader of course (mh-e), > so I was wondering if there are any *emacs* mail readers[fn:1] that > show the effect? I doubt at this point that I'll ever switch to > e.g. gnus to read mail (mh-e and I have grown old together), but I a

Re: [O] OT: italics [was: Re: take the name of org-class event from heading]

2012-06-22 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > I like boxquotes for things like Info snippets, variable/function > docstrings and FAQ entries. Yes, I am addicted to boxquotes for things like that too. > That's inconvenient for code that somebody might want to cut-and-paste > in order to run however (one would

Re: [O] OT: italics [was: Re: take the name of org-class event from heading]

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Philip Chan
"Sebastien Vauban" writes: Hi Seb: > Not really: there are commands `boxquote-unbox' and > `boxquote-unbox-region' for that. Yes, I am aware of these commands. However, not everyone uses Emacs. ;-) Regards, Charles -- "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot o

Re: [O] OT: italics [was: Re: take the name of org-class event from heading]

2012-06-23 Thread Charles Philip Chan
> == Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > Even in emacs however, that's an extra step (iirc, unbox is also > finicky about where the cursor should be in order for it to work: I > get it wrong a substantial percentage of the time and have to try > again, which adds to the aggravation. It's also not boun

Re: [Orgmode] generating titles in remember templates from w3 buffers [was:Re: feature request]

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Philip Chan
"Robert D. Crawford" writes: > As I mentioned below, using the annotation expansion in the template > does not work when using w3. I did see the error in my template and > have fixed it (unnecessary brackets). I am wondering if there is some > other way to get the title or if it can be added as

Re: [Orgmode] generating titles in remember templates from w3 buffers [was:Re: feature request]

2009-03-25 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Charles Philip Chan writes: > Hum, there is something wrong with your setup, %a works fine for me with > Emacs-w3m ([[http://www.gnu.org/][The GNU Operating System]]). Which > version of remember are you using? My copy is from git. Sorry for the noise, I mistook w3 for w3m. :-(

Re: [Orgmode] Re: feature request

2009-03-25 Thread Charles Philip Chan
"Robert D. Crawford" writes: > I use emacs and emacspeak almost exclusively for my computing > needs. Sorry I wasn't clear in my needs and use. I am curious as to why you are using w3, since, from what I have read, emacspeak supports w3m as well: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/info/html/ema

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Tassilo Horn writes: > I'm just preparing a practice lecture for tomorrow, and when doing > something like that, using mindmaps helps me to structure the whole > thing. > ... > Did anyone think of an exporter for that? org-mode can export to freemind with a contrib package. Take a look at org-

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-07 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Tassilo Horn writes: > Noted, thanks. But since I want to hand out the mindmaps to others, I > would prefer a portable format like SVG or PDF. There is a svg export plugin for freemind. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/files/ Charles -- "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus

Re: [Orgmode] A MindMap export would be awesome

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Tassilo Horn writes: Hello Tassilo: > Hah, great! Now please tell me that Freemind is scriptable, so that > an export from org to svg mindmap is just a fingertip away. It looks like it is possible with Freemind 0.9: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Scripting Cheers, Charles --

Re: [Orgmode] Org as a minor mode (tables)

2009-07-09 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Andrew Lawson writes: > Today I found myself sending various bits of tabular text via email > (emacs in mutt) and found myself wondering whether it might be > possible to use the org mode table support while composing messages. Of course you can: http://orgmode.org/manual/Orgtbl-mode.html#Orgtb

Re: [Orgmode] Re: More conspicous header lines

2009-07-23 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Rainer Stengele writes: >> Please people vote. It's a tiny change but since we all have >> different preferences for such things, it's good to have a sense of >> what everyone thinks... >> > Looks good. > My "+" vote then. Agreed. A "+" vote for me too. Charles -- Your job is being a profes

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: Change of keys to move agenda through time

2009-08-25 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Carsten Dominik writes: > I would like to call a vote on this issue. Please weigh in. > Should we make this change? yes or no? +1 for me. Charles -- "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system." (By Linus T

Re: [Orgmode] Re: POLL: Change of keys to move agenda through time

2009-08-26 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Carsten Dominik writes: > 1. n/p remain as they where > 2. Moving forward/backward though time will be `f' and `b' > 3. Follow mode goes to the "F" key, a capital letter does >make sense here given that some other modes like [G]rid >and clock[R]eport and [D]iary are on capitals as well. >

Re: [Orgmode] os x integration ?

2008-07-09 Thread Charles philip Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there any way to have org-mode integrate with OS X better ? > > There are a few GTD apps out there for OS X that do a nice job at > that: (THINGS, OmniFocus, Anxiety, etc). Some have a global shortcut > for adding tasks from anywhere (THINGS and OmniFocus), o

Re: [Orgmode] Re: os x integration ?

2008-07-09 Thread Charles philip Chan
Cezar Halmagean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is that better than Aquamcs ? From what I see on the Aquaemacs web page, it is based off Emacs's 22 while Emacs.app: http://emacs-app.sourceforge.net/ is based on the unicode-2 branch of Emacs (now Emacs 23). The main difference is that Emacs.app h

Re: [Orgmode] Re: os x integration ?

2008-07-09 Thread Charles philip Chan
"Charles philip Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is that better than Aquamcs ? > > From what I see on the Aquaemacs web page, it is based off Emacs's 22 while > Emacs.app: > > http://emacs-app.sourceforge.net/ > > is based on the unicode-2 br

Re: [Orgmode] Re: os x integration ?

2008-07-09 Thread Charles philip Chan
Cezar Halmagean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't see nothing about Aquamacs there. , | Carbon Emacs provides the most recently released version (22.1, June | 2007) of GNU Emacs for Mac users. Emacs shipped with Leopard is also | Carbon Emacs (you can complement a dummy Application bundl

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