Hello,
I am exploring org-mode's potential for collaborative editing, and I
found that the main difficulty with this is that different users editing
the same document may have different org-mode configurations. Most of
the important options that I have found so far can be dealt with by
setting buffer-local values on the file to be jointly edited. One that
could not was org-log-note-headings. I found that this is because when
its value is taken, in org-store-log-note, the current buffer is the
"*Org Note*" buffer, rather than the document buffer. A patch is
attached that addresses this. Note, for clarity's sake, the patch does
not reindent org-store-log-note.
As an aside, I do realize that org-log-note-headings is a somewhat
fragile variable, with some known problems (with agenda, iirc)
associated with changing its value. However, I do find it useful to
change its value for my use, and this patch will obviate one little
difficulty with collaborative editing.
Thank you,
John Foerch
>From 7703373e55d760911e01f7c622203b4a4d8ea6a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Foerch <jjfoe...@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:25:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] org-store-log-note: access org-log-note-headings in org
buffer
This change allows org-mode to respect a buffer-local value of
org-log-note-headings, by accessing its value in the org buffer
instead of in the "*Org Note*" buffer.
---
lisp/org.el | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index e3354c6..2ae3b90 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -12732,10 +12732,10 @@ EXTRA is additional text that will be inserted into the notes buffer."
(defvar org-note-abort nil) ; dynamically scoped
(defun org-store-log-note ()
"Finish taking a log note, and insert it to where it belongs."
- (let ((txt (buffer-string))
- (note (cdr (assq org-log-note-purpose org-log-note-headings)))
- lines ind bul)
+ (let ((txt (buffer-string)))
(kill-buffer (current-buffer))
+ (let ((note (cdr (assq org-log-note-purpose org-log-note-headings)))
+ lines ind bul)
(while (string-match "\\`# .*\n[ \t\n]*" txt)
(setq txt (replace-match "" t t txt)))
(if (string-match "\\s-+\\'" txt)
@@ -12802,7 +12802,7 @@ EXTRA is additional text that will be inserted into the notes buffer."
(insert (pop lines))))
(message "Note stored")
(org-back-to-heading t)
- (org-cycle-hide-drawers 'children)))))
+ (org-cycle-hide-drawers 'children))))))
(set-window-configuration org-log-note-window-configuration)
(with-current-buffer (marker-buffer org-log-note-return-to)
(goto-char org-log-note-return-to))
--
1.7.10.4
