Hi
I was just trying out the new function for setting a timer for a heading
and am wondering if I'm missing something.
I go to a heading and type C-c C-x ; or just ; from the agenda, and I
get a prompt 'Time out in (min)?'. I enter the time (to test, I used 1)
and. nothing.
I also tried M-x
I'd like to be able to see all my todo items which use the STARTED
keyword in my main daily agenda view. I do most of my work from the
daily view and I can't seem to get into the habit of using other
views. Is this possible?
If there's no way to customize the view directly, is there a way I can
Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes:
I'm a bit confused. Am I correct in understanding that you'd like to
customize the agenda view but you don't want a custom agenda view? I'm
not sure how that would work. ;)
No, I want to customize the daily agenda view so that it shows my
everything it
Eric S Fraga ucec...@ucl.ac.uk writes:
Why don't the STARTED todos appear? Maybe you need to define your
todo keywords appropriately? I have mine as:
org-todo-keywords '((sequence TODO(t) INPROGRESS(i@) WAITING(w@) |
DONE(d@) CANCELLED(c@)))
and all TODO, INPROGRESS and WAITING todos
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes:
I *only* want dated, scheduled, deadlined and STARTED.
I think you want a block agenda, first block the normal agenda,
second block a TODO search for STARTED.
- Carsten
I didn't know you could combine different blocks like this, but that
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes:
I think you want a block agenda, first block the normal agenda,
second block a TODO search for STARTED.
- Carsten
Hey, it worked! Here's what I used:
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'((a Custom block Agenda
((agenda
Manish mailtomanish.sha...@gmail.com writes:
You may want to take a look at an older post from Matthew Lundin for
inspiration here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10819
Wow, there's some pretty good stuff there - I may appropriate some of
that, thanks.
Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes:
1. Map C-c a a to a custom agenda view:
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'((a Agenda
((agenda )
(todo STARTED)
Hi Matt
turns out this was exactly what I needed, thanks!
Paul
I had everything working fine using NT Emacs v22.xxx but now that I've
completely upgraded to 23 I'm getting numerous warnings comiling org.el,
org-agenda.el, and it just hangs on org-attach.el. Not even an error to
work with.
If there's one thing I can't stand it's silent failure :-)
I tried
2009/8/27 Manish mailtomanish.sha...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Paul Mead wrote:
I had everything working fine using NT Emacs v22.xxx but now that I've
completely upgraded to 23 I'm getting numerous warnings comiling org.el,
org-agenda.el, and it just hangs on org-attach.el
Manish mailtomanish.sha...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Paul Mead wrote:
I had everything working fine using NT Emacs v22.xxx but now that I've
completely upgraded to 23 I'm getting numerous warnings comiling org.el,
org-agenda.el, and it just hangs on org-attach.el
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes:
Hi Paul,
did you interrupt the compilation here?
The fact that there are a number of compilation *warnings* is no problem at
all,
I do clean these up only occasionally, for a release. In between releases,
the can be present and usually
Desmond Rivet desmond_n...@videotron.ca writes:
This all seems to work ok so far, except for one thing: I can't figure
out how to add next actions under a particular project heading using
remember.
The problem is that I have to specify a heading for the template in
org-remember-templates in
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Bernt Hansen be...@norang.ca writes:
org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t
org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date t
org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines t
Are the missing ones the tasks with SCHEDULED: or DEADLINE: dates?
If so you can create a custom agenda view that turns off these variables
so
Bernt Hansen be...@norang.ca writes:
Any ideas?
snip
org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t
org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date t
org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines t
Are the missing ones the tasks with SCHEDULED: or DEADLINE: dates?
If so you can create a custom agenda view that turns off
I've finally 'got' inline tasks and found that they solve a problem
which I've been putting up with for some time :-)
The only downside is the arrows that are inserted when I export.
I'm using org in this case to contain a running set of meeting minutes
which also feed into my agenda. After each
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes:
Hi Paul,
how about an example and a proposed output?
- Carsten
Carsten, I'll see what I can pull together, probably won't be today
though!
Paul
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Hi Paul,
I am still waiting for a proposal how to format inline tasks.
:-)
- Carsten
Carsten
I've just downloaded the latest version from the git repo and this
function's not working for me at all now. I tried to check the value of
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes:
Ah yes, I had only tested with tasks that do have a matching END line.
Fixed, thanks.
- Carsten
P.S. yes, I removed the variable you mentioned - I think it was useless.
OK, that's fixed the export, thanks. The inline todos look fine now
Robert Goldman rpgold...@sift.info writes:
Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
org-mode files are plain text. M-% to do a replacement: once you've
entered your search term and its replacement, hit ! to replace all
without question.
Yes, one can do this, but note that it's not entirely a no-brainer.
John Wiegley jwieg...@gmail.com writes:
To test out this new feature, apply the attached patches and read the new
manual
section on Tracking your habits.
John
I've been searching on the word habits in the manual and I can't find
it anywhere. Can you give me a clue about where it might be
Sorry for the noise, I've just found the reference in my local copy of
the manual, which is up to date!
Paul
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Thanks Carsten, I figured it out straight after posting - I must learn
to check one last time before posting!
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Giovanni Ridolfi giovanni.rido...@yahoo.it writes:
What about properties?
* computer
* apple
:PROPERTIES:
:Keyword: Power PC
:END:
* garden
* apple
:PROPERTIES:
:Keyword: Golden Delicious
:END:
However you can already search for keywords in Agenda,
please, refer the
Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Matching-tags-and-properties.html
- Matt
Thanks Matt, although that allows me to search for a single property (if
I use 'Keyword' as an example, this will return a match if I search for
'Keyword=example'. It doesn't, however
Carsten Dominik domi...@uva.nl writes:
I actually think that few people use archiving to sibling. Am I wrong about
this?
I use archiving to sibling for sub-headings in projects that are still
current, to tidy things up, then archive the whole project subtree to
the archive file when it's
Matthew Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes:
It will if you use brackets to perform a regexp match. E.g.,
Keyword={example1}
(...assuming the property is Keyword: example1 example2.)
From the manual page above:
,
| * If the comparison value is enclosed in curly braces, a regexp match
Matthew Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes:
Perhaps some regexp expert will come along and show us the way, but, for
now, you could search for entries that contain both keywords by entering
the following tags/properties search:
Keyword={example1}+Keyword={example2}
Best,
Matt
Hopefully
Hi all
I wonder if anyone can guide me in amending my block agenda?
currently I have:
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'((a Custom block Agenda
((agenda )
(todo STARTED)
(tags-todo FOCUS)))
(d todo DONE
Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes:
block agenda however, I only want to see those which are unscheduled,
not WAITING, not STARTED as I've already listed those items above - it's
this section where I want to see all the FOCUS actions which I haven't
addressed yet.
Does the following work?
Hi
I have a convention in my org file which uses @name as a gtd-type
'agenda' item, so if an action is related to Liz, I tag it with @liz for
example.
Is there any way of matching that '@' in setting up a custom agenda
view? I'd like if possible to have a block agenda view which lists all
of my
Martin Pohlack m...@os.inf.tu-dresden.de writes:
Hi Paul,
You can do regexp matching on tags. My agenda tags all start with ag_
(for people), agM_ (meetings) or agC_ (calls).
This snippet from my org-agenda-custom-commands shows how to use this:
(tags
Hi
Is there any way of excluding archived headers as refile targets?
I'd like to restrict refiling to those projects which are current.
Thanks
Paul
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2010/1/26 Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com:
Take a look at the variable `org-refile-target-verify-function'.
HTH
- Carsten
Thanks Carsten, I've had a look at the variable and the customize
option for it and I'm afraid I don't understand how to use it for my
task. I'm afraid my
Thanks David, I'm going to have to check out the elisp reference and
try to understand what you did there!
Paul
2010/1/26 David Maus maus.da...@gmail.com:
Hi Paul,
At Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:18:47 +,
Paul Mead wrote:
2010/1/26 Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com:
Take a look
Hi
I'm trying to export an org-mode file to Latex but I've got a couple of
niggles with the output.
Firstly, there are no spaces between paragraph breaks, so my text looks
horribly bunched up (I'm converting to RTF using latex2rtf, btw)
Secondly, the paragraphs all come out fully justified -
Eric S Fraga ucec...@ucl.ac.uk writes:
These are more latex questions than org-mode. On that note, I also
recommend the visual FAQ for latex users:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/visualFAQ/visualFAQ.pdf
Thanks, although I'm going to have to find a pdf viewer that can deal
with the
Can anyone please provide me with a link to instructions on using bibtex
with org? I've been searching for a while and I found the stuff on worg
about org-exp-bibtex.el but I can't see from that how to set this up.
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Raffi R raf...@gmail.com writes:
Are you trying to export to BibTeX or simply integrate orgmode with a
BibTeX database?
http://www.mfasold.net/blog/2009/02/using-emacs-org-mode-to-draft-papers/
is the blog post I used to set up orgmode with RefTex so that I can
very easily insert BibTeX
Raffi R raf...@gmail.com writes:
Are you trying to export to BibTeX or simply integrate orgmode with a
BibTeX database?
http://www.mfasold.net/blog/2009/02/using-emacs-org-mode-to-draft-papers/
is the blog post I used to set up orgmode with RefTex so that I can
very easily insert BibTeX
Raffi R raf...@gmail.com writes:
I'm not at the computer with most of my BibTeX/orgmode stuff right
now, but I suspect you may still have to include something along the
lines of:
\bibliography{my_bibliography_filename}{}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
at the end of your orgmode document.
Hi
is there any way of excluding just a heading from export, whilst exporting
the text below it in the usual way? If I use :noexport: it does what it
says in the documentation - prevents the entire subtree from exporting.
For my current work though, I'd like to use headings to rough out a
Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes:
One hack would be to use an export hook to remove headings with a
particular tag. E.g.,
(defvar my-org-export-remove-heading-tag killtag)
(defun my-org-export-remove-headings-with-tag ()
(while (re-search-forward (concat :
Bernt Hansen be...@norang.ca writes:
Hi Rainer and Paul,
Locating gaps would be useful. I've been meaning to investigate this
but haven't spent any time on it yet. With my current clocking setup
I've found I get very few holes. Checking the times is a task I do
manually just before
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Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com writes:
Hello,
Paul Mead paul.d.m...@gmail.com writes:
If I run the above command, the state of all the checkboxes is updated
correctly, but the cookies do not update, instead they retain the
previous state.
I cannot reproduce the problem. Could you
Nicolas Goaziou n.goaziou at gmail.com writes:
Indeed, I noticed that when working on Paul's report. Issues should be
fixed now.
Regards,
All working fine now, thanks!
Paul
Hi, wonder if you can help
I've never been able to get org-export-to-latex to work. Just downloaded v6.14
but the issue is no limited to that version. I get an error message:
org-export-latex-content: Symbol's function definition is void:
org-cleaned-string-for-export
Any ideas?
Thanks
Carsten
well I thought that I'd installed it properly because some of the new functions
were working! Seems I had an old version of that library lurking in my
load path. I have no idea where it came from but once it was deleted, everything
worked fine. So thanks for the help and I've learned a
Hi, I've had the above set for many versions now, but it suddenly seems
to have stopped working. I don't know whether it's only since I
downloaded 6.20 this morning, but I haven't noticed it before.
All TODOs, even those with scheduled dates are appearing in the global
TODO list.
Paul
Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes:
Sorry about that, little hickup, fixed.
- Carsten
On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Paul Mead wrote:
Hi, I've had the above set for many versions now, but it suddenly seems
to have stopped working. I don't know whether it's only since I
Mark Elston m.els...@advantest-ard.com writes:
Paul,
Try changing the org-mode line below to:
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '(\\.org$ . org-mode))
See if that makes a difference. I don't understand the use of \\'
in your line below.
Mark
Hi Mark, just tried that and it made no
Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes:
I don't have enough to work on here.
Any other ideas anyone? Maybe more windows people to test this?
Maybe Paul needs to share his full setup, or try to minimize it while keeping
the error?
- Carsten
All my org-mode customizations are in
Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes:
In fact, we need a FAQ about this issue:
Several variables in Org must already be set a load time.
This is one of the reasons why you should not use (require 'org)
in your setup, but better only (require 'org-install).
However, org.el will
Hi, I've tried to configure stuck projects to ignore my 'Someday / maybe' tree,
by tagging the heading with 'someday' and then setting org-stuck-projects to
ignore it.
I've used Customize, but the code in .emacs comes out as:
'(org-stuck-projects (quote (+LEVEL=2/-DONE (TODO WAITING AGENDA
I have the ORDERED property set for some of my tasks, and org-mode is
configured to dim blocked tasks.
However, in agenda view, the tasks are not dimmed. If I then go to the
PROPERTIES drawer and press C-c C-c and the refresh the agenda, the
blocked tasks dim correctly.
Similarly, I have (setq
Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes:
Hi Paul,
When you press C-c C-c at a property drawer or at a property drawer,
you are presented with e menu. What option do you select?
I didn't see the menu, so I've just gone back to try and re-create the
error. It seems that I was exiting
Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes:
On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Paul Mead wrote:
Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes:
Hi Paul,
Is this Emacs 21?
No, it's 22.2.
One thing you can try:
1. Start Emacs, and check what the value of org-agenda-align-tags-to-
column
Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes:
However, you can do this in the initial match. Make it
+LEVEL=2-someday/-DONE
note that the level is =2, not =2 anymore.
Excellent, that did the trick, thanks. Can I exclude more tags in this
way, or does the syntax change?
The docstring
I recognize this is more a git question that org-mode, but...
I'm trying to use git to keep my org-mode version up to date on my personal and
work laptops.
The only problem is that my work laptop has a firewall on it which does not
allow git traffic to pass.
I use a repo on a usb drive to keep
David Thole dthole at gmail.com writes:
Paul,
The way I've accomplished the task you're talking about is instead of
trying to push and pull *to* the work machine, I use another machine with
less restrictive firewalls to push and pull from. This is how I do it...
Work - Web Server -
Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com writes:
There is another possibility that you might want to investigate: if
there is a SOCKS proxy server available at work, you can arrange to pass
git traffic through that.
Nice idea, sadly even the identity of the proxy server is hidden, so I guess
Ian Barton lists at manor-farm.org writes:
Use git clone to create a repo on your usb stick.
Pull changes from Carsten' git repo to your usb stick.
Pull changes from your usb stick to both your work and home computers.
In other words your usb stick is your own master repo.
It works!
Bernt Hansen bernt at norang.ca writes:
snip
to update the stick with those commits. At work you clone the stick
(once) and origin at work is the usb stick. Then you git fetch or git
pull at work to get commits from the usb stick as needed.
HTH,
-Bernt
Bernt, many thanks. I'll need to
Hi
I don't know how long this has been a problem, as I've only just started
using priorities on my tasks.
I have a mixture of (usually) A and B priorities, and the rest have no
priority set. If I sort the list by priority, the A's sort to the
top as expected, but lower priorities stay where
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes:
Try
#+PRIORITIES: A D D
this may be more to your liking.
- Carsten
So, that's a local setting for highest, lowest, default right?
Thanks, I'll use that.
Paul
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Thanks Carsten.
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Is it possible to set recurring dates just for weekdays? I have a number
of recurring tasks which are only relevant on work days, so I'd like to
have them only appear on monday to friday. Is there anything I can do to
accomplish this?
Thanks, Paul.
Dirk-Jan C. Binnema djcb.b...@gmail.com writes:
Hi Paul,
However, if you use it as a TODO item that you mark as DONE, your only option
(AFAIK) is to define separate recurring appointments for each of the weekdays.
That's an option I hadn't considered - thanks Dirk, I'll give that a go.
Hi
I've only just spotted this error as I don't use the Latex export very
often. When I export as Latex either to file or buffer, I get the
following error:
org-export-latex-lists: Wrong number of arguments: #[(list)
\ [list org-list-to-generic (:splicep nil :ostart
\\begin{enumerate} :oend
Karl Maihofer ignora...@gmx.de writes:
Others may correct me but I think this is the same issue I had yesterday. The
reason is that the two versions of Org - the one shipped with your Emacs and
the
latest one you installed by yourself conflict in some way. Some time ago the
lisp-file for
Hi,
I've recently upgraded to Emacs 23, and I'm not at all impressed with
the vertical split that it seems to prefer when there's supposedly
enough buffer width to allow it - the Agenda gets squashed up and things
like the TODO quick selection menus look terrible.
Is there a way of changing this
Benjamin Andresen be...@in-ulm.de writes:
Hey Paul,
I don't know if this will exactly revert it back to the previous
behavior, but if you change `split-width-threshold' to a bigger number
(e.g. 999) than the default it should be more sensible looking.
br,
benny
Thanks Benny, that'll get
Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com 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...
What are we voting for, to make this *possible* or *default*?
Paul
Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com writes:
Paul Mead paul.d.m...@gmail.com writes:
Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com 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
Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com writes:
Hi Paul,
Paul Mead paul.d.m...@gmail.com writes:
Having thought about this a bit more, I can see where the new behaviour
might be useful, but it just looks a bit ugly in org-mode because (I
guess) it's not been written to deal with narrower
Hi
I was just looking through options in org-customize because I'd like to
change the colours used in the agenda view - currently items nearing a
deadline show as red, and items actually on their deadline are pink.
I'd like my upcoming deadline items to be in less alarmist colours
(perhaps use
Hi
I've got some custom agendas set up, see the extract from my org config
file below.
If I use one of the built-in agenda comands, for instance C-c a t any
scheduled todos are omitted as expected. If I select any of my custom
agenda commands, they are not.
Any idea why this would be?
Thanks,
Thanks Matt, that did the trick. I didn't consider that tags-todo
might behave differently.
Cheers
Paul
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Paul Mead paul.d.m...@gmail.com writes:
If I use one of the built-in agenda comands, for instance C-c a t any
scheduled todos
Eraldo Helal era...@eraldo.org writes:
Greetings Orgmoders
Problem description:
I want to get rid of the 'News' and 'Mail' directories in my home and
put them somewhere else instead:
'~/News' = '~/mypath/News'
'~/Mail' = '~/mypath/Mail'
Hi
is there any way of excluding archived items from org-refile-targets?
I've looked at the docstring and can't figure out how to exclude
specific tags.
Thanks
Paul
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Hi
I've just set up MobileOrg using Dropbox and it's looking pretty useful.
One small problem though - each time I add a 'capture' item, when I next
sync I get a new capture item added entitled 'bad file encoding'.
I thought that maybe my capture.org file was the problem, so I've
converted it
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes:
I am seeing now two things that should be added:
- M-RET after inline tasks should ignore the inline task
and make a new entry with normal indentation
- Maybe I should treat inline tasks with proper END
statement as a drawer and
Hi
I have a setup which uses Dropbox to keep files in sync, between my
Ubuntu Linux machine at home, and Windows XP at the office.
I have the following setup in org-capture:
(setq org-capture-templates (quote ((n Note entry (file+headline ~/My
Dropbox/gtd/notes.org Notes) * %^{topic}\n%^T%?)
Giovanni Ridolfi giovanni.rido...@yahoo.it writes:
Also my template with the รท character showed the same behaviour.
I think it's a problem of file encoding.
+ Is your .emacs utf-8? I mean the file where you store the
(setq org-capture-templates (quote
+ is
This looks pretty interesting to me, but how would you change this so
that it used the whole heading text, not just one word?
Paul
Marvin Doyley marvin...@gmail.com writes:
Hi David,
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you.
cheers
M
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