Re: [O] Emacs server and org-protocol

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Rudin
Gonzalo Camarillo writes: > Does anybody know a workaround so that the server is only started > once?... Does the function server-running-p work on windows? If so then you can replace (server-start) with (unless (server-running-p) (server-start)).

Re: [O] Emacs server and org-protocol

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Rudin
Fabrice Popineau writes: > What is the purpose of opening a second instance of emacs ?  > I precisely tend to avoid it. There are situations where it can be useful - e.g. using emacs as a news or mail client where the whole process can block for a few seconds.

[O] clock-in and clock-out columns for clock-table

2014-09-30 Thread Paul Rudin
Is there a way to coerce a clock table to include the clock in and clock out information? TIA.

[O] clock table properties

2014-10-01 Thread Paul Rudin
Here's the contents of a file: #+PROPERTY: test_ALL: X * Eggs CLOCK: [2014-10-01 Wed 18:52]--[2014-10-01 Wed 19:52] => 1:00 #+BEGIN: clocktable :maxlevel 2 :scope file :properties ("test") :inherit-props t #+CAPTION: Clock summary at [2014-10-01 Wed 19:57] | test | Headline | Time | |-

Re: [O] Other editors supporting Org-Mode

2014-10-08 Thread Paul Rudin
Manuel Schneckenreither writes: > I couldn't find anything on the web about it. Therefore, I like to ask > you if anyone knows a program (another editor) which supports Org mode. Depends what you mean by "supports". I sometimes have to use windows computers on which I can't install emacs (long s

[O] inline constant substitution

2014-10-12 Thread Paul Rudin
Suppose I have: #+CONSTANTS: foo=42 How can I make inline references to a constant on export in regular text, rather than in a table? I want to be able to write something like: The value of foo is $foo in my org file, and then end up with: The value of foo is 42 when I export to LaTe

Re: [O] clock-in and clock-out columns for clock-table

2014-10-12 Thread Paul Rudin
Bastien writes: > Hi Paul, > > Paul Rudin writes: > >> Is there a way to coerce a clock table to include the clock in and clock >> out information? > > Can you give a literal example of the desired table output? > The kind of thing I have in mind is we have a f

Re: [O] inline constant substitution

2014-10-12 Thread Paul Rudin
Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Paul Rudin writes: > >> Suppose I have: >> >> #+CONSTANTS: foo=42 >> >> How can I make inline references to a constant on export in regular >> text, rather than in a table? >> >> I want to be able to write somethin

Re: [O] inline constant substitution

2014-10-13 Thread Paul Rudin
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Sunday, 12 Oct 2014 at 18:13, Paul Rudin wrote: >> Thanks. If I *also* want to use that value in a table is there a way to >> do that? I experimented with: >> >> #+TBLFM: @1$1={{{foo}}} >> >> and >> >> #+TBLFM: @1$1=&q

Re: [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?

2014-10-31 Thread Paul Rudin
Karl Voit writes: > Hi! > > * Christoph Groth wrote: >> If at least one of your computers can be reached from all the others via >> ssh, or you can reach all the other computers from one (i.e. there’s a >> star topology), you could use unison to synchronize all kinds of files. >> This works very

[O] odt import

2014-10-31 Thread Paul Rudin
The org info file includes the words "OpenDocument Text (ODT) export allows seamless collaboration across organizational boundaries." The export to odt is great and goes part of the way, but for true seamless collaboration you really need to be able to go both ways. Does anyone have a way of conv

Re: [O] [html-export question] location with JS.

2014-12-17 Thread Paul Rudin
Rasmus writes: > Hi, > > For my CV I'm trying to place a box (div, whatever) at the left edge of > the content-div. My org-file looks like > > - year0–year1 :: FooCorp > - note1 > - note2 {{{BOL(year½)}}} > > And I want the ouput to look like: > > year0–year1FooCorp > - n

Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word

2014-12-27 Thread Paul Rudin
Ken Mankoff writes: > People here might be interested in a publication from [2014-12-19 Fri] > available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 > > Title: An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used > in Academic Research and Development > > Summary: Word users are mo

Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word

2014-12-31 Thread Paul Rudin
M writes: >> Von: Paul Rudin >> >> No mention of emacs... who uses anything else to prepare their LaTeX? >> > Did you forget the " ;-)" or are you serious? I wasn't being entirely serious; but I was alluding to a serious point. You can't really

Re: [O] Conducting end user surveys and analyze data

2015-01-02 Thread Paul Rudin
Marcin Borkowski writes: > On 2015-01-01, at 17:22, Karl Voit wrote: > >> * Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-12-31, at 14:49, Ista Zahn wrote: >>> Yes, google is very convenient. >>> >>> That's why they're so dangerous. >> >> In case you're survey data contains privacy-related sens

Re: [O] OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies

2015-01-03 Thread Paul Rudin
Karl Voit writes: > * Paul Rudin wrote: >> >> But you can pull all your email out of gmail via pop or imap, so >> it's not like you'll lose your emails. > > There are cases where people lost access to Gmail instantly because > of false accusations or

Re: [O] OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies

2015-01-11 Thread Paul Rudin
Karl Voit writes: > * Paul Rudin wrote: >> Karl Voit writes: >> >>> * Paul Rudin wrote: >>>> >>>> But you can pull all your email out of gmail via pop or imap, so >>>> it's not like you'll lose your emails. >>>

Re: [O] Hiring a programmer

2015-01-16 Thread Paul Rudin
Yuri Niyazov writes: > I'd like to hire a programmer to hack on some things in org-mode for > my use. If these improvements are contributed back the main org-mode > repository, would the copyright assignment have to come from me, or > from the programmer? It depends on who owns the copyright. If

[O] org-drill - properties displayed during card review

2013-02-23 Thread Paul Rudin
I'm experimenting with org-drill. One thing that seems odd is that when reviewing a card for scoring the properties drawer is displayed. It seems unlikely that this is intended? Is it intended? If not is there some easy way I can fix it? TIA.

Re: [O] org-drill - properties displayed during card review

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Rudin
Paul Sexton writes: > I just never got around to fixing that minor glitch until now. I have > committed a fix to the org-drill repository at > > http://bitbucket.org/eeeickythump/org-drill > > So if you download and use the org-drill.el from there, the problem > will be fixed. Thanks very much -

[O] automagically changing roman enumeration to alphabetical

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Rudin
I was surprised by this behaviour. Find a new org-mode file. Type "i)" and then hit M-Ret. The "i)" gets renamed as "a)" and "b)" is added on the next line. I would have expected that we get "ii)" on the next line and the "i)" would be left alone. Is this working as intended?

[O] text colours after upgrade

2013-04-18 Thread Paul Rudin
Having upgraded org-mode via the emacs package thingy today I notice that sometimes the text following a heading is coloured as the heading. This seems to depend on some internal state, as the same file contents does not always result in this happening. So, for example, if I save the file and re-

Re: [O] OT: Annotating PDF & Org

2013-05-07 Thread Paul Rudin
Russell Adams writes: > Given the emacs and Org oriented nature of this group, I'd like to > know if anyone has found a good Orgish (ie: portable, text, etc) to > annotate PDFs? > > Features would be items like highlighting blocks, adding notes > (margins or "sticky" notes), and saving to either

Re: [O] [SYNC] How do you sync your org-mode files between n devices (n > 2)

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Rudin
nore...@maillard.im writes: > I have a problem. I need to sync my files between several devices > (currently 3). At first, I thought the solution would have been to use > mobileorg (that made sense since I also use an android device) but as > far as I understand it, it is not really designed for

Re: [O] Index of cases

2013-09-09 Thread Paul Rudin
Alan L Tyree writes: > My real problem is that I don't know how to generate the multiple indexes that > I need if I use org mode. Everything else is easy. Any potential solution that > I see involves adding lots more markup, but if I do that I might as well stick > with LaTeX. I'm not sure that

[O] org-schedule vs org-time-stamp

2013-09-15 Thread Paul Rudin
I'm not clear on how these two are intended to be used. The former prefixes the timestamp with "SCHEDULED:" but I'm not sure what practical consequences this has. Items appear in the agenda either way.

Re: [O] org-schedule vs org-time-stamp

2013-09-15 Thread Paul Rudin
"Sebastien Vauban" writes: > Paul Rudin, > > Paul Rudin wrote: >> I'm not clear on how these two are intended to be used. The former >> prefixes the timestamp with "SCHEDULED:" but I'm not sure what practical >> consequences this h

[O] list items not treated as such.

2013-09-29 Thread Paul Rudin
Example: 1. Some text that extends over more than one line, I'm not sure if the exact length is relevant. a) stuff; and then b) this item will not be recognised as a list item, which can be a bit of a pain, so if you're typing with auto-fill on it will be formatted like this, but r

Re: [O] list items not treated as such.

2013-09-29 Thread Paul Rudin
Daniele Pizzolli writes: > On 09/29/2013 08:40 PM, Paul Rudin wrote: >> >> Example: >> >> 1. Some text that extends over more than one line, I'm not sure if the exact >> length is relevant. >> a) stuff; and then >> b) this item wil

Re: [O] list items not treated as such.

2013-09-29 Thread Paul Rudin
Paul Rudin writes: > Daniele Pizzolli writes: > >> On 09/29/2013 08:40 PM, Paul Rudin wrote: >>> >>> Example: >>> >>> 1. Some text that extends over more than one line, I'm not sure if the exact >>> length is relevant. >>

Re: [O] list items not treated as such.

2013-09-30 Thread Paul Rudin
Daniele Pizzolli writes: > On 09/29/2013 09:05 PM, Paul Rudin wrote: >> Daniele Pizzolli writes: > > [] > >> Yeah, I have that in my init.el, it's not a general problem with >> alphabetic labels, it's only in some contexts that problem happens. >>

Re: [O] list items not treated as such.

2013-09-30 Thread Paul Rudin
Paul Rudin writes: > Daniele Pizzolli writes: > >> On 09/29/2013 09:05 PM, Paul Rudin wrote: >>> Daniele Pizzolli writes: >> >> [] >> >>> Yeah, I have that in my init.el, it's not a general problem with >>> alphabetic labels, it

Re: [O] list items not treated as such.

2013-10-04 Thread Paul Rudin
Paul Rudin writes: (about lists) Here is a test for this problem. Notice that if you change the "a)" to "1." - for example - the test passes. So this is something specific to alphabetically labelled list items. (ert-deftest org-list-item-test () (with-temp-buffer

Re: [O] list items not treated as such.

2013-10-04 Thread Paul Rudin
Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > Paul Rudin writes: > >> Paul Rudin writes: >> >> (about lists) >> >> Here is a test for this problem. Notice that if you change the "a)" to "1." >> - for example - the test passes. So

[O] timeline view - showing times

2015-02-09 Thread Paul Rudin
If I type "C-c a L" I get a list of durations for each day - for example: Monday 9 February 2015 W07 Clocked: (0:53) Revise document X Clocked: (1:12) Meet Fred ... Is there a way of getting a timeline that includes the actual times of day, so that I can reconstruct how I spent a

Re: [O] timeline view - showing times

2015-02-10 Thread Paul Rudin
Subhan Michael Tindall writes: > This is probably overkill, but I use this: > (setq org-agenda-custom-commands (quote ( > ("c" "Clock" ((agenda "" > ((org-agenda-sticky nil) > > (org-agen

Re: [O] timeline view - showing times

2015-02-10 Thread Paul Rudin
Marcin Borkowski writes: > On 2015-02-09, at 18:43, Paul Rudin wrote: > >> If I type "C-c a L" I get a list of durations for each day - for example: >> >> Monday 9 February 2015 W07 >> Clocked: (0:53) Revise document X >> Clocked: (

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

2015-07-28 Thread Paul Rudin
Oleh Krehel writes: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> after a short discussion in a recent thread, I have a serious technical >> question. >> >> Assume that (for some reason) I want to write an Org-mode exporter which >> won't be GPL'd. (Use-case: having written a few custom exporte

Re: [O] export subtree as org file

2015-08-24 Thread Paul Rudin
Xebar Saram writes: > Hi > > i was wondering if anyone knows how to export a subtree as a simple org file. > i know i can copy paste into a new file but it seems quick to just export a > subtree to a new org file :) > Narrow to subtree (C-x n s) then export to org (C-c C-e o o).

Re: [O] Favorite way of syncing?

2015-09-11 Thread Paul Rudin
Tobias Frischholz writes: > Hey there! > > I was wondering what is your favorite way of syncing your org files and > everything. > I’ve checked out unison, but I want more of an automated system that > synchronizes my two clients via an SSH server. > > So far, I’ve also read that people use TRAMP

Re: [O] Favorite way of syncing?

2015-09-13 Thread Paul Rudin
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Friday, 11 Sep 2015 at 18:42, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > > [...] > >> I use syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) which, admittedly, does not >> require a server nor uses SSH :-). I keep four computers in sync this way, >> and also use it to send/receive the org files (wit

[O] default list labelling?

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Rudin
By default when you demote a list item it's label is of the same kind as the parent list. e.g. you'll get 1. 2. 1. In practice I typically want to get a different kind of label: I'll want e.g. 1. 2. a. Is there a way of configuring what the sub-list labels will be according to what

Re: [O] working on cloud

2014-01-08 Thread Paul Rudin
Renato writes: > Hi, > I'm learning emacs (as you probabily know :-)). > I have: > - one pc at home (linux Debian) > - one at work (windows) > > I would like to use the same configuration. > Now, I have my .org file on the cloud (so I can access it from anywhere) > But I'm starting to edit also

Re: [O] working on cloud

2014-01-09 Thread Paul Rudin
David Belohrad writes: > I use for all emacs files git with server repository. Then on each > computer I'm using emacs with, I just clone that repository. The > positive side-effect of this is, that when you need to modify sources > for a particular computer, you just create new local branch. The

Re: [O] working on cloud

2014-01-13 Thread Paul Rudin
Renato Pontefice writes: > I'm wondering: > In Linux (but in win too) the file must have a particular name (.emacs on > linux; init.el on windows) > and reside on a particular folder. You could get the standard init file to just load another file. Or you can specify the init file at invocation.

Re: [O] Using MobileOrg w/ Dropbox from multiple systems

2014-02-24 Thread Paul Rudin
Brian Whitehead writes: > I understand how it works. Are you recommending to simply set the org default > directory to the Dropbox filter or even just use a symlink? I'm testing this > now. If your use case is simply to sync across two computers then you don't need mobileorg at all. Just put y