Re: [Orgmode] orgmode under XEmacs
Hi York, we definitely need more information in order to find what the problem is. 1. org-mode version Always make sure you are using the latest version of org-mode because you bug may already have been found and fixed. 2. A copy of your entire configuration regarding org-mode. 3. A back-trace of the error. This you can produce in the following way: - start a fresh xemacs and make sure that you load noutline.el and org.el instead of the byte-compiled .elc versions. For example, I do this with xemacs -l /path/to/noutline.el -l /path/to/org.el - go to the menu Options->Troubleshooting and select "Debug on Error" there. 4. Go ahead and do whatever you have to do to hit the bug, like loading an org-mode file. 5. When the error is hit, xemacs will pop up a "*Backtrace*" buffer. We need to see the full content of this buffer. As this buffer may contain very long lines, it is better to send it as an attachment than to copy it into the email. With this information I often can find the bug already, or at least know what else to ask from you. - Carsten On Nov 6, 2006, at 2:39, York Block wrote: Hi, I am trying to get orgmode working under XEmacs 21.4 (patch 18) without any luck. I have followed the instruction, installed noutline-mode and set all the variables as requested but I keep getting the following error: Meta-x org-mode --> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil If I load a .org file --> File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) Thanks in advance, York P. Block ps. I am not an expert on XEmacs or Emacs configuration, I usually copy the config from what I find in the web. ___ ___ Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. (http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta) ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477 ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Tag search in agenda buffer and #+CATEGORY
This bug is not caused by the full CATEGORY line, but already by the "#" character directly after the headline. Thank you for the report. Temporary work-around: leave an empty line. Fixed for 4.54. - Carsten On Nov 4, 2006, at 21:01, Bastien wrote: Hi, Tag search from agenda buffer does not match a headline if it is followed by #+CATEGORY string, and following sublevel headlines are skipped as well. Example : * headline:tag: #+CATEGORY category ** sublevel headline 1 ** sublevel headline 1 Searching for "tag" from agenda buffer gives no result when #+CATEGORY is here. This problem does not happen from an org buffer with C-c \. Maybe use of #+CATEGORY in the middle of an org file is not orthodox ... but i prefer to have several categories instead of splitted files. I use org-mode 4.53 with org-tags-match-list-sublevels and org-use-tag-inheritance both turned on. Regards, -- Bastien ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477 ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] org <-> Palm
On the Palm there is one open source outliner called Progect. It's a good tool, I used it for quite a while successfully. It coorporates with the standard Plam apps (ie you can see progect todos as tasks in plam tasks) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9244 It works with some standard database file format. And it supports nearly all the same data-"atoms" as org does. Just write a converter script between org and that database file format and you are done. Another solution I was thinking about the last couple of weeks... As I learned coding on the Amiga side of things, I searches for Rexx for the Palm. It is available. (http://www.jaxo.com/rexx/) Then we have that tool, I think it is called MacNoteTaker, which is a basic text-editor on the palm side of things, but syncs to a directory on the desktop. You can put your org-files into that directory, and write rexx-macros on the palm which emulate org-mode's basic functionality. There are thousands of possibilities... http://www.khngai.com/emacs/palm.php ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] link bug
Hi, I'm not on the latest version yet and it will be a few day until I can get there. However, I found a bug in 4.51 when trying to store a link using C-c C-l. I believe that's org-insert-link. In any case org-insert-link gets called in there somewhere and dies calling (file-truename buffer-file-name) to determine if the link is in the same file as the org buffer. This is invalid when the buffer doesn't have a file behind it. There needs to be a check to make sure buffer-file-name is not nil. (Or org has to not allow file-less buffers). The reason for the file-less buffer was that I've started creating small outlines with links when I want to throw together a quick code review. I'm not sure what the right answer is. may you just skip the case if there is not file behind the buffer since links into file-less buffer would seem to be impossible. On the other hand, You may want to allow links back to the same buffer just in case the user decides to save it to a file later. For now, I'm going to hack mine by wrapping the "(if (equal ..." inside an "(if (buffer-file-name) ..." Edd ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] org <-> Palm
On 11/6/06, Christopher Kuettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the Palm there is one open source outliner called Progect. It's a good tool, I used it for quite a while successfully. It coorporates with the standard Plam apps (ie you can see progect todos as tasks in plam tasks) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9244 It works with some standard database file format. And it supports nearly all the same data-"atoms" as org does. It looks very nice (but not a lot of active devel, though). Just write a converter script between org and that database file format and you are done. Umm, sounds tempting, but the approach of simple having an editor for text files, and just opening there the org files is ... well, tempting enough for now. Another solution I was thinking about the last couple of weeks... As I learned coding on the Amiga side of things, I searches for Rexx for the Palm. It is available. (http://www.jaxo.com/rexx/) Then we have that tool, I think it is called MacNoteTaker, which is a basic text-editor on the palm side of things, but syncs to a directory on the desktop. You can put your org-files into that directory, and write rexx-macros on the palm which emulate org-mode's basic functionality. There are thousands of possibilities... http://www.khngai.com/emacs/palm.php You are right (I just found a scheme for the palm). I apologize for the question: had I done my homework better, and searched more carefully, I am sure PalmEd and Progect whould have shown up. Thanks to all who answered. Best, R. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Statistical Computing Team Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) http://ligarto.org/rdiaz ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] org <-> Palm
Also I would be interested in a good way to use information maintained under org-mode on portable devices, and I would support such a development by writing the lisp code for the correct exporters and importers. However, I don't want to write five different exporters/importers, so agreeing to some format would be mandatory. Currently in this area, there are the following "Ansätze". They mostly work one-way, to get information from Org-mode to a portable device, not the other way round. But there are exceptions, see below. - Bonsai Outliner === This is a two-way interface for basic outlines. I don't know what the status is and I have not not used it myself so far. Thomas, would you like to comment? - iCalendar export Org-mode can export items with datestamps and deadlines as well as TODO items into a standard iCalendar file. These files can be read by most calendar programs both on PC/Mac/Linux machines, and as far as I know also on portable devices. I am using this mechanism to get information from org-mode into iCal on the Mac. Unfortunately, there is no good way to get the changed info back into org-mode. But it is useful to see what your TODO items and schedule are. - Fast external updates = Some time ago I worked with Tim O'Callaghan on the idea of delayed updates of Org-mode files, a feature he called "fast updates". His idea was to copy an org-mode file to a mobile device, and to use some basic editor to mark lines that should be changed later the file gets back into an Emacs environment. Tim's idea was to mark headline with a single character *before* the stars. For example, if I have a todo item *** TODO Do this it could be marked d*** TODO Do this and next time Org-mode opens this file in Emacs, it would find this line and switch the TODO to DONE. The idea behind this is that input on mobile devices is never fun, on phones it is really terrible, so you want to be done with a single keystroke. And you could trigger more complex operations like archiving in this way. Some time ago I implemented this basic functionality. I still have the code if someone is interested. But unfortunately the project somehow got stuck. There were technical reasons, but I believe the underlying reason may be that by just putting the org-mode file into an editor on a mobile device with a small screen and no show/hide capabilities makes it much harder to read and handle than in Emacs. But I am not sure, and may be this project could be revived. - Editor on the Palm-side === Putting whole Org-mode files into a Palm editor has the advantage that you can keep them up-to-date on both machines using synchronization or, for example, cvs merging. Having an editor that actually implements a subset of Org-modes functionality using some scripting language (Rexx was mentioned) sounds attractive to me. - Print/export only the current TODO list === You can create TODO lists and then print them or export them to your Palm. Then you tick items off while on the go, and when you get back to a real computer you create the same TODO list again and update the done items (idea from Pete Phillips). While this sounds like double work, you can make it part of the review process to check where your projects stand. Carsten On Nov 5, 2006, at 22:39, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: Dear All, I am wondering if anybody has found out how to export from org, and get the stuff in a usable way into a Palm, and (ideally) edit it there and bring it back to org later. I saw in a fomer post "From: Carsten Dominik science.uva.nl> Subject: Other software development for Org-mode Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode Date: 2006-03-14 10:39:25 GMT (33 weeks, 5 days and 49 minutes ago) (...) Bonsai Outliner for Windows/PalmOS, export/import options for Org-mode files Thomas Baumann has been working on these, but not finished the org-to-bonsai branch if I remember correctly because of problems with the data format on the Palm." But my googling didn't find anything else. I actually have lowered my expectations to just (?) two things: a) outlines; b) calendar/deadlines info. a) For outlines, I used to use Shadow Plan (http://www.codejedi.com/) on my Palm. Getting the outlines into org is a piece of cake (at least under Linux); from the Shadow Desktop one exports as ASCII, and using sed (or whatever) one replaces \t by *. So now all that info is an org outline. I assume similar things can be done with other Palm outliners. But: a.1. How do I go back to the Palm? a.1.1. Via Plucker; export from org as html, use plucker for html -> pdb. That works, but that is not editable in the Palm a.1.2. Convert the org file to a pdb using pyrite publisher (http://www.pyrite.org/publisher/index.html). That is a regular file that can be
Re: [Orgmode] link bug
There are two issues here: The first is when you want to *store* a link to a file-less buffer, using `C-c l'. This should be an error, because links are for the future and if there is no file, there is no point linking to it. Org-mode is throwing an error, but there is a bug if the file-less buffer is in org-mode. The second problem is the one you describe. I am fixing it in the way you propose. Both problems fixed for 4.54. Thanks for the report. - Carsten On Nov 6, 2006, at 18:44, Eddward DeVilla wrote: Hi, I'm not on the latest version yet and it will be a few day until I can get there. However, I found a bug in 4.51 when trying to store a link using C-c C-l. I believe that's org-insert-link. In any case org-insert-link gets called in there somewhere and dies calling (file-truename buffer-file-name) to determine if the link is in the same file as the org buffer. This is invalid when the buffer doesn't have a file behind it. There needs to be a check to make sure buffer-file-name is not nil. (Or org has to not allow file-less buffers). The reason for the file-less buffer was that I've started creating small outlines with links when I want to throw together a quick code review. I'm not sure what the right answer is. may you just skip the case if there is not file behind the buffer since links into file-less buffer would seem to be impossible. On the other hand, You may want to allow links back to the same buffer just in case the user decides to save it to a file later. For now, I'm going to hack mine by wrapping the "(if (equal ..." inside an "(if (buffer-file-name) ..." Edd ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477 ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
