[O] How to export or use org-mode data on Blackberry device?

[M]

I'm using Emacs org-mode for task and information management in a business
environment dominated by Microsoft products (Windows, Office, ...).

My mobile phone is a Blackberry and I wonder if it is possible to export my
task list (agendas) in a format readable by the Blackberry and if there
might be even a way to have a mobile application on the Blackberry sync'ed
to my org-mode data.

Kind regards

Martin

[O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?

[M]

I'm using Emacs org-mode for task and information management in a business
environment dominated by Microsoft products (Windows, Office, ...).

I wonder how to create a set-up for maximum productivity and I'd like to
know how you integrate org-mode in your work on MS Windows.

Creating hyperlinks in my org-mode files/tasks, which let me jump directly
to E-Mail in MS Outlook (Exchange-based), open Word-, Excel- or Powerpoint
documents, etc. is a very helpful feature for integrating org-mode.

Are there other techniques, tools or add-ons which are helpful for that
purpose?


Kind regards

Martin 

Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?

[M]

> Von: John Hendy 
> Datum: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:16:34 -0500
> An: M 
> Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" 
> Betreff: Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based
> environment?
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, M  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'm using Emacs org-mode for task and information management in a business
>> environment dominated by Microsoft products (Windows, Office, ...).
>> 
>> I wonder how to create a set-up for maximum productivity and I'd like to
>> know how you integrate org-mode in your work on MS Windows.
>> 
>> Creating hyperlinks in my org-mode files/tasks, which let me jump directly
>> to E-Mail in MS Outlook (Exchange-based), open Word-, Excel- or Powerpoint
>> documents, etc. is a very helpful feature for integrating org-mode.
>> 
>> Are there other techniques, tools or add-ons which are helpful for that
>> purpose?
> 
> My personal technique is to let everyone /else/ use MS and to use
> org-mode as exclusively as I can. My management is fully used to me
> providing PDF Beamer presentations at project update meetings while
> everyone else has submitted PowerPoints. I can submit reports as a
> file upload to our central research document center, so I compose in
> org-mode, and then tweak/final-export in LaTeX.

Hi John,

thanks for your detailed answer!
Well, a large part of my work is sharing and editing Office documents
together with other people and as meetings are planned with MS Outlook/MS
Exchange etc, I can not avoid using MS Outlook and MS Office and it is not
sufficient to distribute PDF documents.

So unfortunately I'll have to find a way to integrate as good as possible.
(I had tried to use MS Outlook 2007 for managing tasks for some weeks but I
was missing a lot of features I got used to from org-mode, so I installed
org-mode.

One example of helpful integration: if I send or get an e-mail which I want
to follow-up on later, I want to track that in org-mode and I want to have a
way to quickly find the original message in Outlook again (to reply or
forward it or whatever), which can be done with hyperlinks.

I'm sure there are a lot more useful tricks which can help in daily work, e.
g. a vba macro which copies the path to the currently open word or excel
document into the clipboard or even directly opens org-capture to add some
note or task which is linked to this document...

So I'm hoping to get in contact with people with the same problems or
solutions to them. :-)

Kind regards

Martin 

Re: [O] How to export or use org-mode data on Blackberry device?

[M]

Hi Bastien,

thanks for your answer!

Sorry, my question about the "format" might have been unclear - I did not
have a special format in mind but e. g. I suppose that some HTML output
could at least be readable by blackberry devices, so I Imagine that a HTML
export of the agenda (together with all content of org-files) could be used
to have a readable HTML-agenda wich contains links to the corresponding
information about tasks in the org-files (also displayed with HTML markup).

Does such an export feature exist?

My question aimed at people who maybe use org-mode AND a Blackberry and have
found a way to also use the org-mode-info ON the Blackberry (at least as
read-only). 

> Did you search the web?  I did and I don't think there is such an
> application. 
Yes, I did (before asking here) and I had also found nothing.
However, I read about "mobile org" and I wondered if that maybe could be
ported with limited effort to a blackberry device?!

Kind regards

Martin


> Von: Bastien 
> Organisation: GNU
> Datum: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:48:11 +0200
> An: M 
> Cc: 
> Betreff: Re: How to export or use org-mode data on Blackberry device?
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> M  writes:
> 
>> My mobile phone is a Blackberry and I wonder if it is possible to export my
>> task list (agendas) in a format readable by the Blackberry
> 
> What is the format you need?
> 
>> and if there
>> might be even a way to have a mobile application on the Blackberry sync'ed
>> to my org-mode data.
> 
> Did you search the web?  I did and I don't think there is such an
> application.  Your only chance is to develop it yourself, to pay
> someone to develop it, or to wait for someone to do it for you.
> 
> But let's fix the format issue above first.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -- 
>  Bastien

Re: [O] Problem with backslash and Freemind-Export

[M]

Hello Bastien,

thank you very much! I'm working with Freeplane, a fork of Freemind and
you're right, the text is in the .mm file, so I'll ask the Freeplane
developers, why it does not work.

Kind regards

Martin


> Von: Bastien 
> Datum: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:04:04 +0200
> An: Martin Beck 
> Cc: emacs orgmode-mailinglist , Lennart Borgman
> 
> Betreff: Re: Fw: Re:  Problem with backslash and Freemind-Export
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> "Martin Beck"  writes:
> 
>> The export to the .mm file works, but the nodes representing the
>> headings are empty.
> 
> The nodes are here in the .mm file -- so maybe some compatibility issue
> with the export format and freemind's version?  I'm not using freemind,
> so it's hard to tell.
> 
> I hope someone can chim in.
> 
> I copy Lennart, the author of org-freemind.el.
> 
> -- 
>  Bastien

[O] org-priority-faces has no effect - how to define line colors in org-mode?

[M]

My problem is: my agenda is very long and very cluttered.
I'd like to visually emphasize all lines
A) with priority A or deadline today
B) priority B and scheduled today or before today
 

I'm using org-mode 7.8.11 with Emacs 24.1.1 and I want to change the colors
used to display agenda lines, so that e. g. all lines with priority "A" are
shown in red bold font.

I tried to change the variable org-priority-faces but it has no effect:

 org-priority-faces is a variable defined in `org-faces.el'.
 Its value is (("A" :foreground "#E01B4C" :weight bold)
 ("B" :foreground "#1739BF")
 ("#C" :foreground "#575757"))

What am I doing wrong? Could other configurations overwrite this new
setting?

I tried a lot of things, but I must be doing something wrong with the
org-priority-faces values.

Martin

[O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

[M]

Hi,

I'm working with org-mode to document my work and to keep track of tasks and
projects.

At the moment there are many little projects where I

* get a text from someone (or write it myself)
* have to read and edit it
* send it oer email to 1 or 2 other colleagues which have to read / edit it
* get it back and check the changes
* maybe send the text again to the original author
* then finally release the text for publication

... and you imagine, there is not only 1 such text at once but several of
them.

I wonder what is an approriate way to keep track of such workflows with
org-mode..

I'm using MS Outlook for mails and so when I receive a mail, I store a
hyperlink pointing to that mail in Outlook.

For a process like the one above I would have a task

* TODO Write Text about topic XY and send it to colleague(s)...

then
* WAIT Colleage(s): Feedback on Text about topic XY
* TODO check feedback/changes of Colleagues and edit again, and send for
approval 
* TODO send to original author
* WAIT for Feedback of original author

(if changes, repeat process above)

* TODO send text to publishing colleague

or similar...

I hope it is clear what I mean, there are a lot of small steps and each time
creating a new task takes much time and I have to copy the name of the
"project" again and again...

Maybe it would be better to add all the notes about the progress as notes in
the Logbook and change the Heading of the task each time, but that also
seems strange to me...

Would there be a way to make the "children" inherit automatically a text
from the project name, e. g.

* Text about topic XY for publishing in ABC
** WAIT John: Feedback on Text about topic XY for publishing in ABC
** Send Text about topic XY for publishing in ABC to Ellen for approval
...

in a way that " Text about topic XY for publishing in ABC" is filled in
automatically by a placeholder?

Or what is your way for tracking such workflows in org-mode?

Kind regards

Martin 
   

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

[M]

Thanks Thorsten for your reply!

it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS
Office (Word) files..

Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with
versioning, but it is not in place yet.
And even if there is, how could  I then track my workflow with Emacs?

Kind regards

Martin



> Von: Thorsten Jolitz 
> Datum: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:14:42 +0100
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing
> their status/ person
> 
> M  writes:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
>> At the moment there are many little projects where I
>> 
>> * get a text from someone (or write it myself)
>> * have to read and edit it
>> * send it oer email to 1 or 2 other colleagues which have to read / edit it
>> * get it back and check the changes
>> * maybe send the text again to the original author
>> * then finally release the text for publication
>> 
>> ... and you imagine, there is not only 1 such text at once but several of
>> them.
>> 
>> I wonder what is an approriate way to keep track of such workflows with
>> org-mode..
> 
> this doesn't sound so different from several programmers working on the
> same source code file, so I suspect that GIT is the best and the most
> popular solution for collaborative work on plain text files.
> 
> If you/your fellow workers don't use GIT or another VCS, there is still
> dropbox - put your project text files in your dropbox folder and share
> them with other, there are automatic backups of older versions by
> Dropbox. 
> 
> Or you wait for colorg to be released, that would probably fit your
> needs exactly 
> 
> -- 
> cheers,
> Thorsten
> 
> 

Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

[M]

Hi Thomas,

thanks for your reply!

Sure I know Bernt Hansen's web page and I'm already using his configuration
for my system. (I'm still learning Emacs and org-mode, so it was easier to
start with an existing setup).

I already know and use the capture and refile feature,
my problem is that I have the feeling to do more administration of tasks
than really doing them if I track such projects like the one described with
org-mode and create a sub-task for each step.
Especially as I'd have to re-type each time again the name of the project if
I want it to appear in my agenda explicitly and not only:
WAITING John: Feedback
(and I would not know which text it is about).


> Von: "Thomas S. Dye" 
> Datum: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:39:13 -1000
> An: M 
> Cc: emacs orgmode-mailinglist 
> Betreff: Re: How to deal with small projects which are often changing their
> status/ person
> 
> A terrific source of ideas about how to organize projects with Org mode
> is Bernt Hansen's web page, http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
> 
> See especially his section 6 about adding tasks quickly with Capture.

[O] FW: How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

[M]

> Von: M 
> Datum: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:22:59 +0100
> An: Thorsten Jolitz 
> Unterhaltung: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing
> their status/ person
> Betreff: Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing
> their status/ person
> 
> I agree, that sending edited documents by e-mail is not the best available
> approach.
> 
> Using Google Docs for partly confidential information concerning products of a
> company is a no-go in my opinion (same for dropbox etc.)
> 
> Maybe you misunderstood my initial question:
> it is not about a tool to keep track of changes to the documents, but a way to
> keep track of the project in MY todo-lists managed by org-mode.
> 
> Some ideas I had in the meantime:
> - creating templates for such projects which already contain the "standard"
> sub-tasks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Von: Thorsten Jolitz 
>> Datum: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:55:15 +0100
>> An: 
>> Betreff: Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing
>> their status/ person
>> 
>> M  writes:
>> 
>>> it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS
>>> Office (Word) files..
>>> 
>>> Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with
>>> versioning, but it is not in place yet.
>>> And even if there is, how could  I then track my workflow with Emacs?
>> 
>> Maybe I shouldn't say this on this list, but this actually sounds to me
>> like a perfect use case for Google Docs, which is very similar to Word,
>> can import and export to Word (or simply replace it if the Docs are not
>> too complex), and is very well suited for collaborative work on the same
>> documents with automatic backup in the clouds and versioning.
>> 
>> I think its all about avoiding to work locally on different copies of a
>> document and then send it back and forth by email. Thats just too
>> old-school in my eyes.
>> 
>> -- 
>> cheers,
>> Thorsten
>> 
>> 

-- Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht

[O] Modify sorting order of agenda (newest scheduled todos first)?

[M]

Hi,

I want to change the sorting order in the agenda (the standard seems to be
that overdue items are sorted by date so that the oldest ones are shown
first) to get the items listed in the following order:

* as a first list:
todos with a deadline today or before today,
sorted by priority (descending), then sorted by due date, starting with
today and the oldest todo at the last position.

* then a blank line with "a customized text" in it

* then as a second list todos scheduled today or before today,
sorted by priority (descending) and then sorted by scheduled date, but the
newest ones first


e. g.

DEADLINE TODO [#A] re-configure org-mode
DEADLINE TODO [#B] read org-mode manual
in -3d   TODO [#B] do this
in -10d  TODO [#B] do that
a customized text
SCHEDULED TODO [#A] learn LISP
SCHEDULED TODO [#B] understand Emacs
SCHED.1x  TODO [#A] What I should have done yesterday
SCHED.1x  TODO [#B] What I might have done yesterday
SCHED.2x  TODO [#A] What I should have done the day before yesterday
...
SCHED.20x TODO [#A] What I should have done 20 days ago
SCHED.30x TODO [#A] What I should have done a month ago

IF there are examples for such a configuration of the agenda, please send me
a link. I did not find anything in the manual, but maybe I've overlooked it.

Kind regars

Martin

[Orgmode] HTML export problem

[m]

I upgraded last week to a very recent GNU Emacs CVS: 23.0.60.1 and
encounter the following error on HTML (only) export and publish:

Symbol's value as variable is void: org-verbatim-re

Any pointers appreciated.

.
Martin 


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Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode

[M]

> Von: Karl Voit 
> Organisation: www.karl-voit.at
> Antworten an: Karl Voit 
> Datum: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:43:31 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I was wondering if there are people out there who also need Org-mode
> features that are *not part of any other software solution*. For the
> usual question "why should I learn Emacs/Org-mode?" I'd like to have
> a list of cool Org-mode features that demonstrate the benefit.
> 
> So, how about a short brainstorming here and a new Worg-page
> collecting those things?
> 
> I start with:
> 
> * seamlessly integrating notes, spreadsheet calculations, tasks, and
> more at one single place
> 
> * being able to pipe results of program written in language A to
> another script in language B (babel)
> 
> * quick and simple defining dependencies between tasks such as
> "doing groceries" is required for "cooking fancy dinner"
> (org-depend)
> 

Hi Karl,

that's a very good idea. However, really _unique_ selling points might be
difficult to find. For your first one I'm not sure, but dependencies are
available in other tools to, so it's not a true USP.

You have to know all "competitors" and their features to be sure it is a
true (unique!) USP. This is nearly impossible.

Some more key selling points form someone who still tries to learn emacs
just for using org-mode:

* platform independent - available for Windows, UNIX and MacOS

* free

* tagging

* powerful filtering and creation of "views" (agendas) from different
perspectives

* 110% customizable with scripting and keybindings

* built on a very robust and well developed application (Emascs)

* many other modules and extensions thanks to Emacs

* all the above with simple plain text format - easy to save, DIFF and
version control

* defining custom templates for new notes/tasks/projects...

* tasks and projects can be broken down hierarchically into subtasks with no
limit in depth

* powerful and customizable export

* time clocking

Martin

  

Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode

[M]

Hi Karl,

good points. I did not want to say, that org-mode has no USPS.
I just wanted to emphasize, that in the original definition of a "real" USP
(at least from my understanding) there should be not other product which has
this feature.

As there is a very large and constantly growing number of tools on the
market, it might be very difficult to know them all - so your
community-based approch is absolutely preferable.

concerning dependencies: I'm not sure, but I think that OmniFocucs also has
them, but I'm not sure.

What about tracking those USP/KSP in a shared document in WORG?

I tried to set up one, but as a newbie, I'm not sure how to link it to the
others.

http://orgmode.org/w/worg.git?p=worg.git;a=blob;f=why-use-orgmode.org;h=5863
d41a6a6f8c3c2b6658748e1d74cc2506207f;hb=7c92042868e3d5353498abbf22fb48fed293
35cb

Kind regards

Martin


> Von: Karl Voit 
> Organisation: www.karl-voit.at
> Antworten an: Karl Voit 
> Datum: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:13:05 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
> 
> Hi Martin!
> 
> * M  wrote:
>> 
>>> Von: Karl Voit 
>>> 
>>> * seamlessly integrating notes, spreadsheet calculations, tasks, and
>>> more at one single place
>>> 
>>> * being able to pipe results of program written in language A to
>>> another script in language B (babel)
>>> 
>>> * quick and simple defining dependencies between tasks such as
>>> "doing groceries" is required for "cooking fancy dinner"
>>> (org-depend)
>>> 
> 
>> that's a very good idea. However, really _unique_ selling points might be
>> difficult to find.
> 
> I am more positive here :-)
> 
>> For your first one I'm not sure, but dependencies are
>> available in other tools to, so it's not a true USP.
> 
> The seamless integration might be also true for MS OneNote, you're
> probably right. However, there might be major things to add to the
> list which OneNote is not able to handle in that combination.
> 
> Dependencies are not available except for full-blown
> project-management software which do have their overhead. At least I
> could not find anything satisfying yet. Please do tell me, which
> task/todo-management system is able to do this in a reasonable way.
> 
>> You have to know all "competitors" and their features to be sure it is a
>> true (unique!) USP. This is nearly impossible.
> 
> I think I know most tools out there, tried many, many, many of them
> by myself over the previous decades. However, I can not know
> everything - I know. As a result, I am trying this
> collective/combined approach with this thread and (probably later
> on) a Worg page.
> 
> I am confident that Org-mode has a number of USPs.
> 
>> Some more key selling points form someone who still tries to learn emacs
>> just for using org-mode:
> 
> A absolutely agree on your list. On the one side, I tend to think
> that we've got those lists already in various
> feature-highlight-lists. On the other side, I am not aware of a list
> of Org-mode USPs that *no* other tool provides.
> 
> -- 
> mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode:
>> get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs <
> 
> https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github
> 
> 

Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode

[M]

> Von: Rainer M Krug 
> Datum: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:41:14 +0200
> An: Karl Voit 
> Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
> 
> 
> 
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
 good idea what to add to this list
>> as well. So: add it :-)
> 
> The UPS is probably that it can do ALL these things - in which task manager
> can you include and chain different code snippets together? I think org is the
> only one.  
> 
> But this leads to the other point: org is a Swiss Army knife with integrated
> power drill and tooling machines to build new tools you don't know you need
> but without which you won't be able to love without afterwards. And did I
> mention the hidden gems? I just discovered the whole reference citation.
> Again: which task manager can be used to write a publishable scientific paper?
> 
> So the uniqueness of org is that it can do many things and you only have to
> learn one toolset for this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer

Hi Rainer,

Yes, in fact that's what I wanted to say:
often (in my experience) a USP is not a single feature, but the combination
of several ones which makes the product unique.

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode

[M]

> Von: Karl Voit 
> Organisation: www.karl-voit.at
> Antworten an: Karl Voit 
> Datum: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:13:05 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
> 
> Hi Martin!
> 
> * M  wrote:
>> 
>>> Von: Karl Voit 

>>> * quick and simple defining dependencies between tasks such as
>>> "doing groceries" is required for "cooking fancy dinner"
>>> (org-depend)
>>> 
> 
> Dependencies are not available except for full-blown
> project-management software which do have their overhead. At least I
> could not find anything satisfying yet. Please do tell me, which
> task/todo-management system is able to do this in a reasonable way.
> 

My-life-organized seems to have dependencies:

http://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/7038/task-management-applica
tion-with-task-dependencies

OmniFocus seems to have them too:
" Because OmniFocus lets you make certain tasks dependent on others ‹ Task A
has to be completed before Task B ‹ you only see those items you can
actually do. It filters out everything else so you don¹t get distracted when
picking what¹s next."
source: http://tyler.io/2010/10/how-i-use-omnifocus-to-organize-my-life/

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode

[M]

> Von: Karl Voit 
> Organisation: www.karl-voit.at
> Antworten an: Karl Voit 
> Datum: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:28:47 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
> 
> * M  wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, in fact that's what I wanted to say:
>> often (in my experience) a USP is not a single feature, but the combination
>> of several ones which makes the product unique.
> 
> This was also my concern: maybe it's the combination and not a list
> of USPs I was hoping for.
> 
> Hm.
> 
> However, this does not offer a quick win for those "why should I
> learn Emacs/Org-mode" as I was wishing for. So I still have to
> explain all those different features and hope that people understand
> the great power of combining them.
> 
> To me, in the beginning I was not able to get the power of Org-mode
> as well. I tended to think in boxes like its todo/task-feature or
> its calendar or the note taking feature or or or. And not: and,
> and, and, and everything combined.

You made a good point:
* integration of tasks with calendar and "content" (notes, text,
attachments, etc.) is also a strong point of org-mode

* Using hyperlinks is another important feature (but certainly not unique)

What about trying to collect and comment the good features in WORG?

I think the best thing to compare different tools is making a list with
features and mark which tools support which ones.
I assume there is already such a list


for dependencies:
I think TaskCoach can handle them as well and it's also free and platform
independent:
http://taskcoach.org/

Kind regards

Martin 

Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode

[M]

> Von: David Masterson 
> Datum: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:04:08 -0700
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
> 
> M  writes:
>> 
>> that's a very good idea. However, really _unique_ selling points might be
>> difficult to find. For your first one I'm not sure, but dependencies are
>> available in other tools to, so it's not a true USP.
> 
> Actually, it is a good USP for a task management system.  Most other
> task management systems that I've seen (like Toodledo) only support one
> level of parent-child relationships and do not support task
> dependencies or they support it badly.
> 

I absolutely agree that hierarchical "sub"-tasks (I assume, that's what you
mean with parent-child-relationsships?) and dependencies are an important
feature for a task management system (at least for some users).
I did not put that into question.
So, yes, it is a good USP for a taks management system.
But a "USP" (from my understanding) is something that no other product
offers - and that's just not true for dependencies or hierarchical tasks or
the combination of both.

Taken from Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_selling_proposition)
"2. The proposition must be one the competition cannot or does not offer. It
must be unique‹either in the brand or in a claim the rest of that particular
advertising area does not make."

>> You have to know all "competitors" and their features to be sure it is a
>> true (unique!) USP. This is nearly impossible.
> 
> That's what the newsgroup is for.

I absolutely agree

Martin

Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode

[M]

> Von: Karl Voit 
> Organisation: www.karl-voit.at
> Antworten an: Karl Voit 
> Datum: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 21:07:32 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
> 
>> I think the best thing to compare different tools is making a list with
>> features and mark which tools support which ones.
>> I assume there is already such a list
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_personal_information_managers

OK, the list is there, but it is not comparing features directly.

A very good example is the features comparison of docear with some of its
alternatives:
http://www.docear.org/2014/01/15/comprehensive-comparison-of-reference-manag
ers-mendeley-vs-zotero-vs-docear/

Martin

Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode

[M]

> Von: Thorsten Jolitz 
> Datum: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:14:10 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Collecting unique selling proposition (USP) of Org-mode
> 
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_personal_information_managers
>> 
>> OK, the list is there, but it is not comparing features directly.
>> 
>> A very good example is the features comparison of docear with some of its
>> alternatives:
>> http://www.docear.org/2014/01/15/comprehensive-comparison-of-reference-manag
>> ers-mendeley-vs-zotero-vs-docear/
> 
> #+begin_quote
> A while ago, Mendeley was acquired by Elsevier for an estimated
> 69-100 Million Dollars.
> #+end_quote
> 
> wow
> 
> If Org-mode is better than Mendeley (which I don't know at all), then
> its worth a fortune ;)

;-)

yes, WOW!
Well, to come up with Mendeley concerning ease of use and intuitive GUI I'd
say that Emacs and org-mode will still have some way to go..

@Thorsten: maybe this short video gives you a idea about Mendeley and its
features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ct4O0Ect18
(Remark: I am in no way affiliated with Mendeley and I only use it rarely)

Re: [O] Export org-mode buffer to dynamic html document (collapse/expand details)

[M]

> Von: Robert Eckl 
> Datum: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:50:21 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Export org-mode buffer to dynamic html document
> (collapse/expand details)

> 
> I would recommend a look into
> https://github.com/SebastianRose/org-info-js/tree/master
>  
> or http://orgmode.org/worg/code/org-info-js/index.org.html
> 
> There are described various possible views in html with
> folding/unfolding, similar emacs folding.
> 
> You can switch between the views with "m", goto (n)ext or (p)revious
> item, help with ?
> 
> IIRC You can realize this with the follwoing to lines in your org-file
> and export this to html with c-c c-e h h (or o):
> 
> #+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA:  href="http://orgmode.org/worg/style/worg.css"; type="text/css">
> #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info toc:nil ftoc:yes ltoc:above  mouse:underline buttons:0
> path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js

Thanks Robert (and to those who developed those features) - that's just
awesome!
I'll have to figure out the best setting for me, but the results I got in
first tests (thanks to your suggested settings) are already very promising!

One question: what's the difference between Exporting and Publishing in
org-mode?
I assume that exporting can be done only for one org file at a time (or for
a region in it), while publishing normally acts on multiple files at once -
is that true?

One second question:
is it also possible to export or publish agenda views with hyperlinks
pointing to the details of each task/heading?

Kind regards

Martin 

Re: [O] Export org-mode buffer to dynamic html document (collapse/expand details)

[M]

> Von: Daniel Clemente 
> Datum: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:01:31 +0700
> An: Martin Beck 
> Cc: emacs orgmode-mailinglist 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Export org-mode buffer to dynamic html document
> (collapse/expand details)
> 
> 
> I did a custom solution, very simple, with jQuery. You may use it:
> 
> Demo:
>   http://www.danielclemente.com/hacer/emacs.html
> Code:
>   http://www.danielclemente.com/pagina/esquemadorg.js
>   http://www.danielclemente.com/pagina/esquemadorg.css
> 
> 
> - The JS and CSS applies to the normal org export.
> - The index of contents is itself collapsable.
> - The hyperlinking was tricky because if the link destination is collapsed you
> have to open it automatically (including its parents).
> - There's a button to disable the outline (text: „ver todo seguido“)
> 
> 

Hi Daniel,

thanks a lot for this - really good work and it also looks great.
Firstly, I'll discover the standard exporting/publishing features in
org-mode, but I'll definitely get back to your great solution later.

Martin

Re: [O] Export org-mode buffer to dynamic html document (collapse/expand details)

[M]

> Von: Eric Abrahamsen 
> Datum: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:04:07 +0800
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Export org-mode buffer to dynamic html document
> (collapse/expand details)
> 
> "Martin Beck"  writes:
> 

>> it would be great if the text below headings could be collapsed
>> somehow or if there was an overview page listing all projects and
>> some important sub-headings or remarks and a hyperlink pointing to
>> the detailed notes concerning this project.
> 
> This just sounds like a table of contents -- if you export to a format
> that supports hyperlinks, wouldn't a plain old TOC do?
> 
> 
Eric, thanks for your comment!
Indeed a TOC is a good start as it would give an overview of the projects.
I just discovered that if I export a todo tree in "visible only"

C-c / t
C-c C-e
C-v
C-h C-o

(with Rober Eckl's HTML export settings suggested in the same thread here)

the generated TOC only contains those headings from the TODO tree.. :-)

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] Problems with org-export: "byte-code: Invalid function: 0"

[M]

> Von: Nick Dokos 
> Datum: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 06:35:17 -0400
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Problems with org-export: "byte-code: Invalid function: 0"
> 
> "Martin Beck"  writes:
> 
>> Nick Dokos  gmail.com> writes:

> 
> This shows a problem evaluating a babel #+call or an inline source block
> somewhere between positions 1 and 3532 in the buffer. I suspect those
> call_skype thingies in your text are misinterpreted as babel calls
> somehow.
> 
> The thing is that org-babel-exp-non-block-elements does not exist any
> longer: it was taken out last December (from both master and maint).
> With recent org, I don't have a problem exporting your text, so my
> suggestion is: upgrade.
> 

Hi Nick,

thanks a lot for your help!
I'm using org-mode 8.2.7c.
I suspect, that you would call that "recent org", so I wonder how the old
code could come into my installation.
But I'll have a look tomorrow.
Is there a way to find the source of this old code within Emacs?

Kind regards

Martin

[O] Can I export/publish an agenda or todo tree (or similar), like a filtered toc linked to the original export page?

[M]

Hi,

I have to hand over a lot of projects to my colleagues.
Org-mode is incredibly useful here, as it lets me export all the notes to
html and I get wiki-like, cross-linked pages with my notes and tasks.

The problem is:
I have way too many notes and for the colleagues it is important to get an
overview of the important things first (just a short list of the projects,
the next steps and due dates.

So what I'd like to do is:

in addition to the export of all the related notes create a page with only
the important projects as headings and the next TODOs as sub-headings.
Add some additional notes here (a short summary about the status and the
next steps).
And those headings should be LINKED to the other page where I have the
detailed notes about the project.

In general it would be helpful to create a todo-tree of the corresponding
org file and then use that as


Example (very short one):

file: projects.org

* PROJECT Project 1
** TODO P1-Task1
text and timestamps
** meeting notes :NOTE:
text and timestamps
** TODO P1-Task2
text and timestamps

* PROJSTARTED Project 2
** Notes about project :NOTE:
text and timestamps
** STARTED P2-Task1
text and timestamps
** TODO P2-Task2
text and timestamps
** TODO P2-Task3
text and timestamps


And I'd like to create an overview file which e. g. extracts only the lines
with special keywords like TODO, PROJECT, STARTED, PROJSTARTED, ..

file: overview.org

* PROJECT Project 1
[[link to the same heading in e. g. projects.org]]
** TODO P1-Task1
[[link to the same heading in projects.org]]
** TODO P1-Task2
[[link to the same heading in projects.org]]

* PROJSTARTED Project 2
[[link to the same heading in projects.org]]
** STARTED P2-Task1
[[link to the same heading in projects.org]]
** TODO P2-Task2
[[link to the same heading in projects.org]]
** TODO P2-Task3
[[link to the same heading in projects.org]]

IDEA 1: export todo tree

So a good starting point might be a todo tree view, but is there a way to
export this view to a separate file (like in my example overview.org) with
automatically created links to the heading in the original org-file (in my
example projects.org)


IDEA 2: export an agenda view with links to original files

If it would be possible to export/publish also a special agenda view which
lists those relevant heading, that would be another great option.

Any hints are appreciated

Kind regards

Martin

[O] org-agenda-write to .org exports headings in reversed order?!

[M]

Hi,

I'm still experimenting with agenda export and I found that I can write an
agenda to an org-mode file by C-x C-w (org-agenda-write).

However, if I do that and select  filename.org as target,
I get all headings in the agenda, but the last one first and the first one
last.

Is there an option which can reverse the order to leave it as it is in the
agenda itself?

Is there an option to also output the different "section" headers of a block
agenda into this output?

Is there an option which only exports the agenda lines and creates a
hyperlink to the corresponding heading in its original org-file?

Kind regards

Martin

[O] How can I calculate the "age" of a headline?

[M]

In my task lists, I'm working with scheduled and deadline dates.
However, it would also often be very interesting, how "old" a task is, how
long it is lurking around on my lists..

Therefore it would be interesting to find the oldest timestamp below this
heading and calculate the difference in days to today.

Is that possible with org-mode already?
Could I display this information in a tabular agenda view in a column?

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] How can I calculate the "age" of a headline?

[M]

Thanks!
I'm using a setup based on Bert Hansen's, so I think I'm already using this
feature and a new headline looks like that:

** new headline
[2014-08-19 Di 18:28]

however, my question is how I can search for this timestamp (I'm not sure if
it is always at the same line below the headline, as sometimes there is a
logbook inbetween) and calculate the difference to today in days and then
display that as a separate column

Kind regards

Martin 


> Von: Thorsten Jolitz 
> Datum: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:34:25 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] How can I calculate the "age" of a headline?
> 
> M  writes:
> 
>> In my task lists, I'm working with scheduled and deadline dates.
>> However, it would also often be very interesting, how "old" a task is, how
>> long it is lurking around on my lists..
> 
> I copied Bernt Hansens setup for toggling automatic insertion of
> inactive timestamps at headline creation. The tj/ prefix is there only
> for my convenience, it should really be bh/ (-> Bernt Hansen).
> 
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> ;; *** Timestamps
> 
> ;;  Configuration
> 
> (add-hook 'org-insert-heading-hook
>   'tj/insert-heading-inactive-timestamp 'append)
> 
> ;;  Functions
> 
> (defvar tj/insert-inactive-timestamp t)
> 
> (defun tj/toggle-insert-inactive-timestamp ()
>   (interactive)
>   (setq tj/insert-inactive-timestamp
> (not tj/insert-inactive-timestamp))
>   (message "Heading timestamps are %s"
>(if tj/insert-inactive-timestamp "ON" "OFF")))
> 
> (defun tj/insert-inactive-timestamp ()
>   (interactive)
>   (org-insert-time-stamp nil t t nil nil nil))
> 
> (defun tj/insert-heading-inactive-timestamp ()
>   (save-excursion
> (when tj/insert-inactive-timestamp
>   (org-return)
>   (org-cycle)
>   (tj/insert-inactive-timestamp
> #+END_SRC
> 
> -- 
> cheers,
> Thorsten
> 
> 

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

[M]

> Von: Paul Rudin 
> Datum: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:05:19 +
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word
> 
> 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 more efficient and have less errors than even
>> experienced LaTeX users.
>> 
>> Someone here should repeat experiment and add Org into the mix, perhaps
>> Org -> ODT and/or Org -> LaTeX and see if it helps or hurts. I assume
>> Org would trump LaTeX, but would Org -> ODT or Org -> X -> DOCX (via
>> pandoc) beat straight Word?
>> 
> 
> No mention of emacs... who uses anything else to prepare their LaTeX?
> 
Did you forget the " ;-)" or are you serious?

Emacs is for sure a very good one, but there are a lot of popular
alternatives, if you have a look at the (for sure not representative) voting
on the answers of this discussion here:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides

(It's clear, that people may have voted for several of those editors, so
that no valid statistics at all, but at least an idea...)

Is there any real survey result about which editors LaTeX users use?

Martin

Re: [O] Problem with special characters in dired and attachment paths

[M]

it seems that this is a bug (or missing feature) of Emacs on MS Windows:

see http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15236

Did noone else using Emacs on Windows encounter those problems?

Kind regards

Martin


> Datum: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:42:59 +0200 (CEST)
> An: emacs orgmode-mailinglist 
> Betreff: [O] Problem with special characters in dired and attachment paths
> 
> I'm having problems with special characters like äöü in dired mode and in
> attachment paths:
>  
> 1) When I'm trying to access a directory with M-x dired, the displayed path
> contains strange characters like e.g. "\374" for "ü" or "\366" for "ö".
> Same is true for directory and file listings displayed by dired.
>  
> Is there a setting which can make dired display the characters with the
> correct encoding?
>  
> 2) my other problem seems to be related:
> I currently added a long server path as attachment directory in org-mode, like
> //servername/dir1/dir2/dir2/dir4/etcetera/Zubehör/
> (I usually copy the UNC path in Windows 7 Explorer with the PathCopy context
> menu)
>  
> The path is shown like that in :ATTACH_DIR: in the properties with the "ö"
> correctly displayed.
> When I type C-c C-a C-f to open the directory in Windows Explorer, it creates
> a new directory at the same path called Zubehör which is opened instead of
> the right one.
>  
> How can I solve those 2 problems?
>  
> Kind regards
>  
> Martin
>  
>  

[O] C-C C-W (refile) makes copy when invoked in Agenda view?!

[M]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the refile command (invoked by C-C C-W):

when I' using it in agenda view (for the selected line or as bulk command on
marked items), it creates a copy of the items at the new place, but leaves
the old ones in place (and thus creates unwnted duplicates)!

However, when I'm directly in an org-file and use C-C C-W, it moves the
selected subtree, as it is supposed to do.

How could it technically be possible, that the 2 same commands do different
things?
I read about an option org-refile-keep, but I can not find it with M-x
customive-variable.

I'm sorry - I don't know how to track this down for creating a minmal
example.

I'm using Aquamacs 2.5 on OS X 10.6 with org-mode 8.2
GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1187.37)
 of 2013-06-14 on acs-trailblazer.ist.psu.edu - Aquamacs Distribution 2.5

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] C-C C-W (refile) makes copy when invoked in Agenda view?!

[M]

Dear Samuel,

thanks for your answer.
It is possible, however how could I undo in Agenda - I did not find any
command for that?

I quit Aquamacs and after launching it again it seems to work. By using Undo
in the org-files after refile, I could not reproduce the weird behavior yet.

Martin


> Von: Samuel Wales 
> Datum: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:41:44 -0700
> An: M 
> Cc: emacs orgmode-mailinglist 
> Betreff: Re: [O] C-C C-W (refile) makes copy when invoked in Agenda view?!
> 
> Did you by any chance undo in the agenda?  There is a serious
> undo-boundary bug that I haven't been able to report yet.
> 
> On 9/29/13, M  wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm having a problem with the refile command (invoked by C-C C-W):
>> 
>> when I' using it in agenda view (for the selected line or as bulk command
>> on
>> marked items), it creates a copy of the items at the new place, but leaves
>> the old ones in place (and thus creates unwnted duplicates)!
>> 
>> However, when I'm directly in an org-file and use C-C C-W, it moves the
>> selected subtree, as it is supposed to do.
>

Re: [O] Org Tutorials need more structure

[M]

Hi Carsten & all, 

thanks for this good idea and the resulting discussion here!

my 2 cents about the tutorials page:
yes, I agree, that especially for absolute beginners (new to Emacs and new
to org-mode) it would be helpful to have a very basic step by step tutorial.
The list of "General introductions" is very long and quite confusing.

How I came to using org-mode?

I am a newby (at least I still feel like one, although I'm working with
Emacs org-mode now for more than 1.5 years), so maybe my experience might
help here.

I was a GTD user at first using other "GUI oriented" GTD software like
Thinking Rock, iGTD. iGTD had some problems and was not updated any more, so
I started searching for a new tool  and found Charles Cave's GTD tutorials
[1] (nearly 3 years ago, it seems!) and then started using org-mode since
Jan 2012. 
I then found Bernt Hansen's excellent site and used his setup [2] for my
first steps with org-mode, but it was very hard to adapt the agendas and
settings to my needs (and I'm still struggling).
Furthermore, Sacha Chua's blog is very interesting and I'm often looking at
the worg tutorials page.

So my first interest was todo/task/project management, but I quickly became
interested in note-taking, exporting, attachments, dired, bookmarks,
linking, ...

My problems were (and still are):
a) I am one of those users, which have never been really working with Emacs
before, so at the beginning, it's very hard to understand the concept and
basic commands.
Many tutorials take for granted a lot of knowledge.

b) I'm using two different OS's (Windows 7 at work and OS X 10.6 at home),
each one has its own problems when setting up advanced features.
It is especially difficult, to set up an efficient workflow to integrate MS
Outlook (Mails/Calendar) and Emacs org-mode...

c) I'm only an engineer, not a professional programmer. My knowledge about
programming in general and elisp and Emacs configuration is still very
limited, unfortunately. see a)

[1] http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.html
[2] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

Nevertheless thank you for this great tool and all the work you all put in
maintaining, extending, documenting and helping!
Org-mode changed my way of working and I never was so close to having a good
and efficient system as I am now with org-mode. (as soon as long as I don't
have to search for the solution of a problem :( )

Kind regards

Martin 


Carsten Dominik  gmail.com> writes:

> and came away with the feeling that that this page has become
> somewhat useless for people who are really new to Org.
> 
> Can we have a discussion here on how this path should look like?
> When you came to Org-mode as a newby, what were the three resources
> that really made an impression on by being accessible and
> providing feel and promise for digging deeper?

[O] Setup for switching between 2 org-mode configurations (demo/productive)?

[M]

Hi,

I'd like to set up org-mode in a way to separate my personal data from my
gerenal settings.

Why?
I'd like to be able to quickly and easily create tutorials or minimal
examples with sample data without having to worry about publishing
private/personal information anywhere.
So I'm searching for a way to "disable" all personal data with one command
and easily re-enable them later.

I assume that some of you already have something like that or can recommend
a way for doing so?
I'm using Mercurial for versioning my org-mode files (but honestly I have no
ideas about the advanced features of version control like branching,
merging, etc., I'm just abusing it for regularly storing backups of my setup
and data and making a diff, if something got messed up or accidently
deleted).

Kind regards

Martin

[O] How to install recent documentation of org 8.2?

[M]

I tried to get a recent documentation in my org-mode:

I'm using Aquamacs 2.5 on MacOS X, which seems to have org-mode 6.33
"onboard".

I tried to load the recent documentation with a link to the "doc" directory
in my org-mode 8.2 (expanded contents from git repository) in my .emacs.
 
(add-to-list 'Info-additional-directory-list
 (expand-file-name "~/mypath/org-mode/org_current/doc"))

But this does have no effect. With C-h i, I get displayed a an outdated
org-manual.

Is the "doc" directory the right one or do I have to download the
documentation separately?
I had downloaded the zipped version from http://orgmode.org/org-8.2.1.zip .

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] How to install recent documentation of org 8.2?

[M]

thanks a lot!
I found the old versions of the org documentation in the same path
/usr/share/info and replaced them by the new org file from the doc
directory.

Sure, when installing the next version I'll have to think of that, but at
least now it works.

Martin


> Von: Christoph LANGE 
> Organisation: University of Birmingham
> Datum: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:46:39 +0100
> An: M 
> Cc: emacs orgmode-mailinglist 
> Betreff: Re: [O] How to install recent documentation of org 8.2?
> 
> 2013-10-03 10:27 M:
>> I tried to load the recent documentation with a link to the "doc" directory
>> in my org-mode 8.2 (expanded contents from git repository) in my .emacs.
>> 
>> (add-to-list 'Info-additional-directory-list
>>  (expand-file-name "~/mypath/org-mode/org_current/doc"))
>> 
>> But this does have no effect. With C-h i, I get displayed a an outdated
>> org-manual.
> 
> The following worked for me, however in a different environment (Gentoo
> Linux with org-mode 8.2 installed via the package manager).  My Org 8.2
> info file ended up in /usr/share/info/org, whereas the one packaged by
> Emacs is in /usr/share/info/emacs-24.  I couldn't get the directory
> settings in Emacs right, but the following worked:
> 
> I created my own info directory and prepended it to the INFOPATH
> environment variable:
> 
> export INFOPATH="$HOME/.emacs.d/info:$INFOPATH"
> 
> In this directory, I created a symlink to the Org 8.2 info:
> 
> $ ls -l ~/.emacs.d/info
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 clange clange 19 Sep 14 15:20 org -> /usr/share/info/org
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Christoph
> 
> -- 
> Christoph Lange, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
> http://cs.bham.ac.uk/~langec/, Skype duke4701
> 
> → Mathematics in Computer Science Special Issue on “Enabling Domain
>   Experts to use Formalised Reasoning”; submission until 31 October.
>   http://cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/pubs/mcs-doform/
> 

Re: [O] Setup for switching between 2 org-mode configurations (demo/productive)?

[M]

Thank you for your comments and suggestions!

Running a virtual machine for the second setup is an interesting idea, but
it is problematic, as I'm using MacOS X 10.6 and AFAIK it is not permitted
to run it in a VM.
I'm currently working with org-mode under OS X (Aquamacs) at home and under
Windows 7 at work.
(For a VM with Windows I'd need a second license and for using LINUX in the
VM I'd have a 3rd operating system to fiddle with).

I could however create a second user account in OS X for such purpose and
then try to sync the "shared" parts of the emacs/org-mode configuration
files.

I thought that it should be easy (give I know, how) to have 2 branches in my
mercurial repository, one for the "general settings" and one also containing
my private data.

Another solution might be to have 2 different stages of emacs/org-mode
configuration files and if necessary "reset" emacs and org-mode by a command
and then only load the "public" configuration for demo purpose.

Kind regards

Martin

> Von: Noorul Islam K M 
> Datum: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:30:15 +0530
> An: Nick Dokos 
> Cc: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Setup for switching between 2 org-mode configurations
> (demo/productive)?
> 
> Nick Dokos  writes:
> 
>> Karl Voit  writes:
>> 
>>> * M  wrote:

>>>> I'd like to set up org-mode in a way to separate my personal data from my
>>>> gerenal settings.
>>>> and easily re-enable them later.
>>> [...]
>>>> I assume that some of you already have something like that or can recommend
>>>> a way for doing so?
>>> 
>>> I by myself did chose a manual attempt so far: temporarily modifying
>>> org-agenda-files to one demo file [1] and sticking to this demo file
>>> only while showing stuff.
>> 
>> It may be worth considering running in a virtual machine.
> 
> And RAM and CPU cycles being cheap these days, I second this suggestion.
> 
> Take a look at 
> 
> http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Noorul
> 

Re: [O] Org 8.3.4 - Problems with bulk reschedule in agenda

[M]

> 
> Hi Phil,
>  
> thanks a lot for your help!
> Your questions helped me narrowing down the problem: it occurs, when a *Org
> Note* Window open, which lets me enter a note about the change.
> This is the case for changing deadlines, but it is not activated for scheduled
> dates in my configuration.
>  
> So that means: if I have 3 entries which already have a deadline and I try
> * (marking all) Shift-B d
> and then choose a date,  I can enter the note for the first entry and indeed
> there is a message
> "Acted on 1 entries, skipped 2 (disappeared before their turn)" in the
> minibuffer.
>  
> I found a corresponding bug report - it seems to be fixed (but I installed the
> stable version):
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-03/msg00322.html
>  
> Kind regards
>  
> Martin
>  
> 

[O] Is it possible to implement a TARGET date in addition to SCHEDULED and DEADLINE?

[M]

I wonder how difficult it would be to add a 3rd "TARGET" date to
headings/tasks, which is treated similar to Deadline and Scheduled dates
(can be used in agenda, can be easily set and modified, ...) :

example:

* TODO [#A] My org-mode task
TARGET: <2015-04-01 Mi> SCHEDULED: <2015-03-30 Mo>

Background:

I often use "artificial deadlines" to specify that a certain task shall be
done until tomorrow (or another date).
And this date is neither the starting date nor is it a real deadline.

Up to now I'm using the DEADLINE date for this purpose, but I don't like
that solution, as it is confusing for me to know which deadlines are real
"hard" deadlines (e.g. I have to send in my tax declaration until a certain
date and not one day later) and those artificial ones, which  not carved in
stone. 

So is there an easy way (I don't know, how modular org-mode is set up) to
add this 3rd TARGET date to org-mode?

Martin

Re: [O] Help needed on delegating some maintainance tasks

[M]

> Von: Rasmus 
> Datum: Sat, 23 May 2015 11:31:57 +0200
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] Help needed on delegating some maintainance tasks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Bastien  writes:
> 
>> 1. Watching the emacs-diffs mailing list and backport changes on Org
>>in the local Org repository (2 hours per month).
>> 
>> 2. Adding public keys on the orgmode.org server for org-mode and worg
>>contributers (1 hour per month).
>> 
>> 3. Maintaining the orgmode.org server and taking care of errors when
>>updating Worg (1 hour per month).
>> 
>> 4. Merging the last stable release into Emacs repository.  (1 hour
>>every release).
>> 
>> 5. Releasing Org (.5 hour every release).
> 
> I can help with 2, 4 *OR* 5 as you prefer.  My git skillz are limited.
> 
> ‹Rasmus
> 

As my git skills are near to zero, I could only help with #2 (after some
short introduction).

Kind regards

Martin

[O] Confusing creation of frames and windows

[M]

I'm not sure where exactly my problem comes from, but I find it quite
confusing how Emacs / org-mode creates new frames or does show something in
the existing frame or window.

Is there a tutorial or a best-practice setup to get it easy and intuitive?

Kind regards

Martin

[O] Include other sources (zotero, database) in org-mode search?

[M]

I'm currently building a large knowledge database with my org-mode notes.
However there are other sources of knowledge like

- my colleciton of Freeplane mindmaps (xml files)
- my zotero Library

Is it possible to let org-mode also index and search such sources so that I
can search within all relevant sources (org and external) with ONE search?


Kind regards

MArtin

Re: [O] sharing clock time across headlines/files

[M]

> Von: Seb 
> Organisation: Church of Emacs
> Datum: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:50:27 -0500
> An: 
> Betreff: [O] sharing clock time across headlines/files
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble finding the proper set up to build a clock table that
> would show me the time spent in different activities that are shared
> across headlines or even files.  For example, I'd like to track time
> spent in these activities: 1) data preparation, 2) analysis, 3)
> graphing.  These activities would be scattered across many projects,
> having their own headline tree.  However, clocking only works on
> headlines, so one would have to put each project under these activities,
> which doesn't make sense.

Hi Seb,

I'm sorry, I have no ready-to-run answer, but maybe these two discussions
help you to find a solution:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/17399961/772434
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-05/msg00238.html

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)? Tips or a good guides sought after :)

[M]

> 
> 
> Von: Xebar Saram 
> Datum: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:39:14 +0300
> An: org mode 
> Betreff: [O] Organizing and taming hectic Academia work (faculty viewpoint)?
> Tips or a good guides sought after :)
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Im a young assistant professor (in humanities and thus my horrific coding
> skills..basically non ;-)) and having been using orgmode for a year or two
> now. I love orgmode dearly and use it mainly for note taking, lists etc
> 
> I am aware of the fantastic orgmode capabilities that could benefit me greatly
> such as exporting, email tie-ins, beamer support, organizing my bibliography
> (i have switched to a .bib file recently for my references), agenda
> capabilities and so much moreand have tried several of these with mild
> success. 
> 
> unfortunately (and this maybe due to me not being very technical and lack of
> coding skills) i still feel like im really not using orgmode to its potential
> and still feel miserably lost in terms of organizing my work in academia from
> all aspects.
> 
> i am looking for 2 things really: 
> 1. as i said in the post topic a good guide if anyone is aware of or detailed
> examples of using org in Academia (mainly aimed at faculty :))
> 
> 2. related to that as a young researcher with multiple students, paper
> writing, grant applications, department duties, endless TODOS, endless email i
> would really be grateful for even non org specific tips on how other people
> organize all this to make life more..well..organized :)
> 
> thanks alot in advance and sorry for the long mail
> 
> best
> 
> Z

Dear Xebar,

I think the first 10 results of the correspondindg google search already
show some very interesting examples:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=emacs+org-mode+in+resear
ch&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Did you have a look at those?

Kind regards

Martin 

Re: [O] How to open Link in Heading in Agenda without mouse click?

[M]

> Von: Nick Dokos 
> Datum: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:25:37 -0400
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] How to open Link in Heading in Agenda without mouse click?
> 
> "Martin Beck"  writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I'd like to create an agenda view which gives me quick access to
>> important directories and files.  So I set up an org-mode file with
>> those hyperlinks and created an agenda which collects all headings in
>> there.
>>  
>> However if I try to use it, I did not find a way to open the
>> hyperlinks in the agenda view without the mouse.
>>  
>> Example headline:
>>  
>> * Link to important file [[file+sys:\\server\dir\filename.mm][Mindmap]]
>> [2015-06-08 Mo 10:34]
>>  
>> Which command can I use to open the link/linked file directly in the
>> agenda view? Is there a standard keybinding for it?
> 
> 
> Doesn't C-c C-o (which should be bound to org-agenda-open-link in the
> agenda buffer) work?
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> 

Hi Nick,

thank you so much!
I had tried that but stumbled upon a feature which confused me (and let it
look as if it did not work):
If there are more than one hyperlinks below the heading, I get a selection
buffers which offers me to select which one to open. :-)
That's really even greater than expected!

Works perfectly.

Kind regards

MArtin 

Re: [O] org-log-reschedule: inactive time-stamp instead

[M]

> Karl Voit  Karl-Voit.at> writes:
> >> Those active time-stamps clutter my daily agenda a bit. Therefore:
> >>
> >> ,[ what I would like to get ]
> >> | :LOGBOOK:
> >> | - Rescheduled from "[2014-12-17 Mi]" on [2014-12-16 Di 17:01]
> >> | :END:
> >> `
> >>
> >> So can someone please add an option for this variable to get
> >> inactive time-stamps?
> 

Hi Karl,
did you find a solution in the meantime? I'm having the same problem and the
active timestamps are also bothering me as rescheduled tasks which
originally were scheduled for today stay in my daily agenda and clutter it.

I wonder if I get something wrong, but in the variable org-log-note-headings
I see

  Heading when rescheduling
  String: Rescheduled from %S on %t
Shouldn't the %S represent a TODO state (which makes no sense)?
Can I replace it by an inactive timestamp?

Kind regards
Martin

Re: [O] org-log-reschedule: inactive time-stamp instead

[M]

> Von: Nicolas Goaziou 
> Datum: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:20:40 +0200
> Betreff: Re: org-log-reschedule: inactive time-stamp instead
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
>> I wonder if I get something wrong, but in the variable org-log-note-headings
>> I see
>> 
>>   Heading when rescheduling
>>   String: Rescheduled from %S on %t
>> Shouldn't the %S represent a TODO state (which makes no sense)?
> 
> %S represents the last "state". If you change a TODO keyword, is also
> a TODO keyword (or lack thereof). If you alter a timestamp, it is that
> timestamp.
> 
>> Can I replace it by an inactive timestamp?
> 
> Is there any use case for an active timestamp at this location anyway?
> If there is not, we could automatically convert it to an inactive
> timestamp.
> 
> WDYT?

Salut Nicolas,

thanks a lot for your explanations!
If the timestamp would automatically be converted to an inactive one, hat
would be perfect from my point of view.

How can we achievve that?
(I'm sorry, but I am still quite clueless concerning ELISP :-) )

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] A book produced using Org

[M]

Dear Vikas,

the book looks really beautiful ­ very good work!

It should definitely be mentioned on the orgmode homepage.
It would also be worth a message in the (very quiet) orgmode group on
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=4588448

Kind regards

Martin


Von: Vikas Rawal 
Datum: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:56:54 +0530
An: org-mode mailing list 
Betreff: [O] A book produced using Org

I am happy to share with fellow Orgers my recent book ‹  Ending
Malnutrition: from commitment to action  ‹ published by the Food and
Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome and Tulika Books, New
Delhi (http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4921e.pdf),  The book was written and
produced entirely in Org.

This would not have been possible without the terrific support provided by
this community. Over the last few months, I have come to this mailing list
with several queries about how to do something or the other, and people have
very patiently provided solutions and suggestions.

I would like to thank everyone for their patience and their support.

Vikas



>From acknowledgements of the book:

In addition, for all the statistical work and writing, the authors relied on
R ([[http://www.r-project.org][www.r-project.org]]), org
([[http://www.orgmode.org][www.orgmode.org]]),
and LaTeX. All three are open source projects, freely made available by very
vibrant communities of developers. During the course of the work, we often
drew on support from these communities.

Re: [O] user-error: :END: line missing at position 3413

[M]

> Von: Sharon Kimble 
> Datum: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:33:15 +
> An: 
> Betreff: [O] user-error: :END: line missing at position 3413
>
> I've updated my emacs to 'Emacs 24.3.50.1' 2014-01-01 on prometheus,
> modified by Debian, and updated org from ELPA.
> 
> But now I cant get it to load because it always shows
> 'user-error: :END: line missing at position 3413'. I asked about it on
> #emacs on IRC, and was told this is something to do with org-mode. So,
> can you help me track it down please?

Hi Sharon,

I had the same problem several times. Somehow, I seemed to have deleted the
:END: line of a Log Drawer in org-mode.

It recently helped me to start Emacs with the debug-init option like this:
   emacs --debug-init

Then in the Messages log, I found a trace to the corresponding org-file and
then after opening the file in a buffer you can jump to the line where the
problem occurs with
M-x goto-char
3413 (in your case)

There were 2 other solutions proposed which I have not tested yet (see
attached messages below).

Kind regards

Martin

-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht
> Von: Bastien 
> Datum: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:52:31 +0100
> An: Martin Beck 
> Cc: emacs orgmode-mailinglist 
> Betreff: Re: File mode specification error: (error ":END: line missing at
> position 63362")
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> maybe you can use this helper function:
> 
> (defun bzg-find-corrupted-property-drawers ()
>   "Find corrupted property drawers."
>   (interactive)
>   (let (msgs)
> (save-excursion
>   (goto-char (point-min))
>   (while (search-forward ":PROPERTIES:" nil t)
> (let ((search-end (save-excursion (org-end-of-subtree t
>  (if (not (search-forward ":END:" search-end t))
>  (push (format "Missing :END: at %d in %s\n"
>(point) (buffer-name))
>msgs)
> (if (not msgs)
> (message "No corrupted property drawers")
>   (switch-to-buffer-other-window " *Org missing :END:")
>   (mapcar 'insert msgs
> 
> A bit rought at the edges, but perhaps useful.
> 
> -- 
>  Bastien

-- Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht

-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht
> Von: Brian Wood 
> Organisation: UC Berkeley
> Datum: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:12:56 -0800
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] [OT]: Search for missing :END:
> 
> I just found a few of these errors in *Messages* and since I have > 20
> .org files, I used this approach
> 
> cd ~/orgmode
> 
> # this gives me the byte offset & the filename for each matching line
> grep -br  'CLOCK: ' *  > ~/tmp/org-missing-end.txt
> 
> #this searches within a few bytes of the byte offset reported by emacs
> grep -E ":3007.:" ~/tmp/org-missing-end.txt
> 
> Searching within a few bytes was not necessary. In my case I found a
> ":CLOCK:" string at the byte-offset in the error message.
> 
> -- 
> Brian Wood
> Applications Programmer
> UC Berkeley IST
> 
> 

-- Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht

Re: [O] [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

[M]

> Von: Bastien 
> Datum: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:54:55 +0100
> An: Manish 
> Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list , Carsten Dominik
> 
> Betreff: Re: [O] [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project
> 
> Manish  writes:
> 
>> manishsharma:org-mode/ (master) $ grep defcustom lisp/*el |wc -l
>>  808
> 
> Ouch.  That's nearly half of the 1792 Emacs options!
> 
> It certainly says something, but I don't know what :)
> 
> -- 
>  Bastien
> 

Well, you can use that for marketing:

it's the best proof, that it is not a lie, if you call org-mode "highly
configurable" 
:-)

Martin



p.s. for a new user, the large choice of options can really be quite
confusing

[O] FW: How to load .el file during startup and execute its commands (Win7/org8)

[M]

Sorry for asking again, but this issue is still a big problem for me, as I
have to load my settings file manually (open, eval-buffer, close) at each
startup...

 
I'm trying to use a custom setup for `org-mode 8.2` on `Windows 7`, but it
does not work as expected.

Sorry for pushing that, but is very annoying to have to load the file
manually at each startup.
Could anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong here?
 
 My ´Emacs`version: GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-29
on MARVIN
 
 What I tried:
  
 
 ## ~/.emacs
 in the file `~/.emacs` I have (among others) those lines:
 
     (if (boundp 'org-mode-user-lisp-path)
     (add-to-list 'load-path org-mode-user-lisp-path)
   (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name
"~/org-mode/org_current/lisp")))
     
     (setq default-directory "C:/Users/mypath/" )
     (if (boundp 'org-mode-user-contrib-lisp-path)
     (add-to-list 'load-path org-mode-user-contrib-lisp-path)
   (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name
"~/org-mode/org_current/contrib/lisp/"))
   (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/org-mode/morelisp/")))
     
     (require 'icicles)
     (require 'dired+)
     (require 'org)
     (require 'bookmark+)
     
     (load "org")
 
 and later
 
     (load "C:/Users/mypath/org-config/myname_orgmodeconfig.el")
 
  
 
 ## C:/Users/mypath/org-config/myname_orgmodeconfig.el
 
 contains
 
 
 
     (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" .
org-mode))
     
     ;; Standard key bindings
     (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
     (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
     
     (if (boundp 'org-user-agenda-files)
     (setq org-agenda-files org-user-agenda-files)
   (setq org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org"
  
 
 So I try to use all org-files in the path `~/org` as agenda files.
 
 When I launch `emacs`, I get the following result in the `*Messages`
buffer:
 
     Turning OFF Icicle mode...done
     Turning ON Icicle mode...done
     Turning OFF Icicle mode...done
     Turning ON Icicle mode...done
     Turning ON Icicle mode...done
     Turning OFF Icicle mode...done
     Loading c:/Users/mypath/org-mode/org_current/lisp/org.el
(source)...done
     Loading c:/Users/mypath/org-config/myname_orgmodeconfig.el
(source)...done
     Loading paren...done
     For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
 
 
 
 # The Problem
 
 So I assume, as the file `myname_orgmodeconfig.el` has been loaded, all
the elisp code inside should have been executed and it should have also set
my agenda files.
 
  
 
 **However, the list of agenda files is empty after startup.
 When I then _manually_ ofen the file `myname_orgmodeconfig.el` and execute
the command `eval-buffer`, everything is fine.**
 
 How can I fix that?
 
Kind regards

Martin

[O] Can I use an already defined agenda view in another agenda command?

[M]

Hi,

Is there a way to first create an agenda command with basic settings and
then reuse and extend those settings in another agenda?

Example:
first create a weekly agenda "overview-10d", which can be invoked e. g. with
C-c a a, that shows all deadlines for the next 10 days

then create another agenda "overview-today" which loads the same settings
like "all items", but only shows the deadlines until today.

Goals: 
- Later changes in overview-10d will also be used in "overview-today".
- "Standard settings" can be defined once and then used in different other
agendas.

Kind regards

Martin

Re: [O] Can I use an already defined agenda view in another agenda command?

[M]

Salut Bastien,

thanks a lot - that helps a little, however this will only work temporarily
and already for the next "r" refresh, the combined agendas are not there any
more, just one, if I am not mistaken.

My question was more targeting in the direction if it could be possible to
define one basic setup once and then create some different "flavors" of it
without duplicating the configuration code to have a consistent setup...

Example: 
I'm having a block agenda which I use during my daily work and which shows
me the deadlines of today, the appointments of today and the tasks scheduled
today (and those overdue).

That's fine for the day, but for my daily planning I do once in the morning
it would be nice to use that same setup, but also see deadlines which are e.
g. 10 days in the future and the scheduled tasks which will come up the next
day(s).

So my idea was: i can define the basic setup once, and then "cite" it and
extend it for other agenda setups.

Kind regards

Martin 




> Von: Bastien 
> Datum: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:14:09 +0100
> An: M 
> Betreff: Re: Can I use an already defined agenda view in another agenda
> command?
> 
> M  writes:
> 
>> Is there a way to first create an agenda command with basic settings and
>> then reuse and extend those settings in another agenda?
> 
> You can concatenate agenda views in the same *Org Agenda* buffer.
> 
> First load your first view, then hit `A' in the agenda buffer to
> load another view.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- 
>  Bastien

[O] (OT) How to follow a mailing list with very high activity (like this one here)?

[M]

This is off-topic, but I hope that someone can give me some good advice:

During the last years, I'be become a real org-mode fan and I want to stay
current and be active in the great org-mode community.
I've subscribed to the orgmode mailinglist about 1,5 years ago and so I have
>17.500 mails in my inbox.

You really have to be organized very well to deal with so much information!
Is there a tutorial somewhere for good approaches, how to participate in
such a list (without doing it as a full time job)?

IMHO, there must be some process like:
Review each new topic
 -> if interesting/relevant mark it to follow what happens,
 -> else if not interesting/relevant, then ignore the following posts.
The interesting stuff should also be stored to be available later for
reference...

How do you handle that?
Are there tools which make such a process easier?

Up to now I just used my old mail client Microsoft Entourage 2004 on OS X
for storing those mails.

Kind regards

Martin 

Re: [O] Can I create an agenda sorted manually keeping its order at refresh?

[M]

> Von: Samuel Wales 
> Datum: Tue, 20 May 2014 13:49:51 -0700
> 
> you can use, for example, priorities to indicate the order you want,
> and then refresh the agenda.
> 

Hi Samuel,

thanks for your comment!
I do use priorities already, but they have a special meaning and can not be
changed spontaneously (in my system).
Even if a Prio-A task is more important or urgent than a B-task, there might
be reasons to do the B-task first.

I do use the priorities already for rough sorting of the tasks, but as there
much too many tasks, the few priority levels are not fine enough for real
sorting and it could be quite cumbersome to tweak that.

Martin
 

Re: [O] Can I create an agenda sorted manually keeping its order at refresh?

[M]

> Von: Bastien 
> Datum: Tue, 20 May 2014 18:14:28 +0200
>> I'd like to create an agenda view which is sorted manually so that I
>> can put the things on the agenda in the order like I want to act on
>> them and preserve this order even if the agenda is rebuilt or closed
>> and created again.
>>  
>> Is that possible already?
> 
> Nope -- this would require to store information about this manual
> sorting *somewhere* when the agenda view is not present, i.e. in the
> headlines themselves, or in a place where we would put meta-data about
> the agenda views.
> 
> The manual sorting is really for temporary convenience.
> 

Hi Bastien,

thanks for your answer.
Could it be possible to ignore the predefined sorting order when refreshing
an existing agenda?

I just wondered what I do before refreshing ans why I do the refresh:
Some tasks on the list might have been done and should disappear, some might
be postponed by changing their SCHEDULED or DEADLINE date into the future
ans should disappear from the view after refresh.

Background: I have a block agenda with the tasks I should do at a certain
day, but sometimes (no: nearly always) there are too many, so that it is
overwhelming. They are sorted by priority and by a timestamp in several
blocks, but sometimes it would be nice to just set them manually in a
specific order which makes more sense (but I do not want to change the
priority flags).

Another alternative could be to
1) mark those tasks I want to sort manually for doing them first (with a tag
or a flag/star - does that exist in org-mode?)
2a) create a new agenda which collects only those marked tasks
3a) sort it manually (which leads to the same problem as above)

or
2a) create a temporary buffer whith headings that contain a hyperlink to
those marked tasks
3a) manually rearrange those headings

Kind regards

Martin 

Re: [O] After Gmane shutdown: how can I read/write to the org-mode mailing list online

[M]

@ Uwe Brauer: 
I was using the gmane web page to read and reply to this mailing list and if
I try to open the link from the org-mode website
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode , I get "Page not found".

@Eric:
does MUA mean mail software (mail user agent)?!
At home, I'm using my mail sofware (currently Entourage on MacOS X) to
read/reply to the group.

If I'm away from home, I can only use the web page of my mail provider to
read/reply to the list, but as my mail account is limited in the number of
emails which can be stored, I'm deleting mails on the mail server regularly
and don't have access to all the mail history, if I'm not at home.

That's, why it was nice to be able to read and post online on a web page
without having to log in to a private mail account.

Kind regards

Martin 


> Von: Eric S Fraga 
> Organisation: On the Interweb somewhere
> Antworten an: Eric S Fraga 
> Datum: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:15:56 +0100
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: [O] After Gmane shutdown: how can I read/write to the org-mode
> mailing list online
> 
> On Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017 at 12:56, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Ooh, what makes you say gmane was shut down? right now I am using gmane
>> to read this message and to reply.
> 
> I think the OP means a web interface to gmane which I think no longer
> exists?  I assume you are using an MUA to access gmane lists?
> -- 
> : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 26.0.50, Org release_9.0.9-551-g92e8c8

[Orgmode] Problem clocking in: cond: State `STARTED' not valid in this file

[Simao M]

Hello,

I am trying to clock in using C-x C-i but I always get the same
message with all my org-mode files:

"cond: State `STARTED' not valid in this file"

I am running emacs GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin10.0.0, NS
apple-appkit-1038.11) and org-mode version 6.35i.

Thank you for your help.

Simao


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Re: [Orgmode] Re: Problem clocking in: cond: State `STARTED' not valid in this file

[Simao M]

Thanks for your help.

You are right, I had customized org to change to state "STARTED" when
I clock in but I had not defined "STARTED" in my keywords.

Thanks!

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Mikael Fornius  wrote:
> Simao M  writes:
>
>> "cond: State `STARTED' not valid in this file"
>
> Have you customized your org-todo-keywords? My guess is some thing might
> be wrong there.
>
> Did you change your configurations before this problem?
> Have it ever worked?
>
> If you do
>
> M-x toggle-debug-on-error
>
> and try to clock in again do you get a backtrace? If you do, post it, it
> will probably help to solve the problem.
>
> Cheers!
>
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[Orgmode] Separate first headings by empty line

[Simao M]

Hello,

I would like to separate all my first headings with a blank line, even
aftet collapsing and expanding all the headings, e.g.:

* Main
** Heading


* Main 2
** Heading


* Main 3
** Heading

But after collapsing I get:

* Main...
* Main 2...
* Main 3...

And I would like to have:
* Main...

* Main 2...

* Main 3...

Is there any way to do this?

Thank you for your help.


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Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-mode color schemes with white or light background and black foregroung

[Simao M]

Screenshot please? :)

2010/5/4 Sébastien Vauban :
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Daniel Martins wrote:
>> Some time ago Carsten sent a file with with his colours patterns with black
>> background.
>>
>> I would like to know if someone has a similar pattern when using black
>> foregroung and a lighter backgroung (not necessarily white).
>>
>> Could you share it with us?
>
> Sure. Here is mine.
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
> ;;; color-theme-sva.el --- my color theme
>
> ;; Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Sebastien Vauban
> ;; Time-stamp: <2010-05-04 Tue 10:40 sva on mundaneum>
>
> ;; Author: Sebastien Vauban
> ;; Keywords: emacs, color theme, config
>
> ;; $Revision: 3731 $
> ;; $Date: 2010-04-28 14:28:34 +0200 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) $
>
> ;; This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs.
>
> ;; This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> ;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> ;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> ;; the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> ;; This file is distributed in the hope that it will be
> ;; useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
> ;; warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> ;; PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
>
> ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
> ;; License along with this file; if not, write to the Free
> ;; Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
> ;; MA 02111-1307, USA.
>
> ;;; Code:
>
> (require 'color-theme)
>
> (defun color-theme-sva ()
>  "Color theme by Sebastien Vauban."
>  (interactive)
>  (color-theme-install
>   '(color-theme-sva
>     ;; frame parameters
>     ((background-color . "white")
>      (background-mode . light)
>      (border-color . "black")
>      (cursor-color . "rgb:15/FF/00")
>      (foreground-color . "black")
>      (mouse-color . "black"))
>
>     ;; faces
>     (default ((t (nil
>     (bold ((t (:weight bold
>     (bold-italic ((t (:italic t :slant italic :weight bold
>     (italic ((t (:italic t :slant italic
>     (underline ((t (:underline t
>
>     (highlight ((t (:background "rgb:FF/FF/A0"  ;; yellow
>     ;; used by hlt package of Drew Adams
>
>     (recover-this-file ((t (:background "red"
>
>     ;; non-breaking space
>     (nobreak-space ((t (:background "rgb:C6/C3/C6" :foreground "green"
>
>     ;; bbdb
>     (bbdb-company ((t (:foreground "steel blue" :italic t
>     (bbdb-field-name ((t (:foreground "steel blue" :weight bold
>     (bbdb-field-value ((t (:foreground "steel blue"
>     (bbdb-name ((t (:foreground "rgb:FF/66/33" :underline t
>
>     ;; browse-kill-ring
>     (browse-kill-ring-separator-face ((t (:foreground "slate gray" :weight 
> bold
>
>     ;; calendar
>     (calendar-today-face ((t (:weight bold :background "yellow"
>     (diary-face ((t (:foreground "dark cyan"
>     (holiday-face ((t (:foreground "red"
>
>     ;; column-marker
>     (column-marker-1-face ((t (:background "DarkSeaGreen1"
>     (column-marker-2-face ((t (:background "LemonChiffon"
>     (column-marker-3-face ((t (:background "MistyRose"
>
>     (comint-highlight-input ((t (:weight bold
>     (comint-highlight-prompt ((t (:foreground "blue"
>
>     ;; custom
>     (custom-saved-face ((t (:underline t
>     (custom-state-face ((t (:foreground "green4"
>     (custom-button-pressed-face ((t (:background "lightgray"
>                                      :foreground "black"
>                                      :box (:line-width 2
>                                            :style pressed-button)
>     (custom-modified-face ((t (:background "blue" :foreground "white"
>     (custom-invalid-face ((t (:background "red" :foreground "yellow"
>     (custom-set-face ((t (:background "white" :foreground "blue"
>     (custom-changed-face ((t (:background "blue" :foreground "white"
>     (custom-rogue-face ((t (:background "black" :foreground "pink"
>     (custom-face-tag-face ((t (:underline t
>     (custom-variable-button-face ((t (:underline t :weight bold
>
>     ;; cvs
>     (cvs-filename-face ((t (:foreground "blue4"
>     (cvs-handled-face ((t (:foreground "pink"
>     (cvs-header-face ((t (:foreground "blue4" :weight bold
>     (cvs-marked-face ((t (:foreground "green3" :weight bold
>     (cvs-msg-face ((t (:italic t :foreground "gray55"
>     (cvs-need-action-face ((t (:foreground "orange"
>     (cvs-unknown-face ((t (:foreground "red"
>
>     ;; subversion
>     (svn-status-marked-face ((t (:foreground "green3" :weight bold
>     (svn-status-marked-popup-face ((t (:foreground "green3" :weight bold
>     (svn-status-update-available-face ((t (:foreground "orange"
>     (svn-status-directory-face ((t (:background "rgb:FF/F5/8F"
>                                     :foreground "blue" :

[O] compute the difference between effort estimates and actual clocked time

[M . P .]

I'd like to add to my tasks a property  whose value should be the difference in
time between the effort estimates and the actual clocked time. The final purpose
is to use the property in column view mode as I do with CLOCKSUM and Effort.
Could you give me any hints?

[O] Bug: 2nd, 3rd,... ext link in normal text NOT exported [7.7]

[M. Bauer]

Hi,

as in the last paragraph of the Org v7.7 manual section 4.3 about
external links, "Org also finds external links in the normal text
and activates them as links."  While editing, this completely
works as expected.

But when it comes to exporting, Org will *not* recognize the
second, third, etc. external link in normal text if it is *not*
marked by square brackets.  See below for some tests that will
fail in ASCII, UTF8, and HTML export.

Can you please consider this issue for one of the next versions
of Org?

Many thanks in advance,
Mathias

text to be exported
* One "pure" external link (i.e. w/o brackets) per line
OK: foo http://ok.com bar
OK: foo file:/bin/true bar

* Two "pure" external links (i.e. w/o brackets) per line
FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar http://fail.com baz
FAIL: foo file:/bin/sh bar http://fail.com baz

* One external link (with brackets) per line
OK: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar
OK: foo [[file:/bin/true]] bar

* Two external links (with brackets) per line
OK: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar [[file:/bin/true]] baz
OK: foo [[file:/bin/true]] bar [[http://ok.com]] baz

* One external link (with description) per line
OK: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar
OK: foo [[file:/bin/true][true]] bar

* Two external links (with description) per line
OK: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar [[file:/bin/true][true]] baz
OK: foo [[file:/bin/true][true]] bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz

* Mixing several forms of external links in one line
FAIL: http://ok.com bar http://fail.com baz
OK: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com]] baz
OK: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz

FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar http://fail.com baz
OK: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz

FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar http://fail.com baz
OK: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar [[http://ok.com]] baz

FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com]] baz http://fail.com foo
FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz http://fail.com foo
FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar http://fail.com baz [[http://ok.com]] foo
FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz http://fail.com foo

* Mixing several forms and types of external links in one line
FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com]] baz file:/bin/false foo
FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz file:/bin/false foo
FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar file:/bin/false baz [[http://ok.com]] foo
FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz file:/bin/false foo
text to be exported

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
 of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian

Package: Org-mode version 7.7

Configuration: defaults from standard distribution

[O] Bug: Multiple external links in normal text NOT exported [7.7]

[M. Bauer]

Hi,

as in the last paragraph of the Org v7.7 manual's section 4.3
about external links, "Org also finds external links in the
normal text and activates them as links."  While editing, this
completely works as described.

But when it comes to exporting, Org will *not* recognize the
second, third, etc. external link in normal text if it is *not*
marked by square brackets.  See below for some tests that will
fail in ASCII, UTF8, and HTML export.

Can you please consider this issue for one of the next versions
of Org?

Many thanks in advance,
Mathias

text to be exported
* One "pure" external link (i.e. w/o brackets) per line
OK: foo http://ok.com bar
OK: foo file:/bin/true bar

* Two "pure" external links (i.e. w/o brackets) per line
FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar http://fail.com baz
FAIL: foo file:/bin/sh bar http://fail.com baz

* One external link (with brackets) per line
OK: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar
OK: foo [[file:/bin/true]] bar

* Two external links (with brackets) per line
OK: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar [[file:/bin/true]] baz
OK: foo [[file:/bin/true]] bar [[http://ok.com]] baz

* One external link (with description) per line
OK: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar
OK: foo [[file:/bin/true][true]] bar

* Two external links (with description) per line
OK: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar [[file:/bin/true][true]] baz
OK: foo [[file:/bin/true][true]] bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz

* Mixing several forms of external links in one line
FAIL: http://ok.com bar http://fail.com baz
OK: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com]] baz
OK: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz

FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar http://fail.com baz
OK: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz

FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar http://fail.com baz
OK: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar [[http://ok.com]] baz

FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com]] baz http://fail.com foo
FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz http://fail.com foo
FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar http://fail.com baz [[http://ok.com]] foo
FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz http://fail.com foo

* Mixing several forms and types of external links in one line
FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com]] baz file:/bin/false foo
FAIL: foo http://ok.com bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz file:/bin/false foo
FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com][OK]] bar file:/bin/false baz [[http://ok.com]] foo
FAIL: foo [[http://ok.com]] bar [[http://ok.com][OK]] baz file:/bin/false foo
text to be exported

Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list.


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
 of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian
Package: Org-mode version 7.7

current state:
==
(setq
 org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook '(org-beamer-after-initial-vars)
 org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook 
org-babel-speed-command-hook)
 org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
 org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
 org-export-blocks-postblock-hook '(org-exp-res/src-name-cleanup)
 org-export-latex-format-toc-function 'org-export-latex-format-toc-default
 org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe 
org-src-native-tab-command-maybe
  org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe)
 org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer
 org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
 org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
 org-export-first-hook '(org-beamer-initialize-open-trackers)
 org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
 org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer)
 org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers
  org-cycle-show-empty-lines 
org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
 org-export-preprocess-before-normalizing-links-hook 
'(org-remove-file-link-modifiers)
 org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
   [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all 
append local]
   5]
 #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
   [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook 
org-babel-show-result-all append
local]
   5]
 org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes)
 org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point 
org-babel-execute-safely-maybe)
 org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
 org-export-interblocks '((lob org-babel-exp-lob-one-liners)
  (src org-babel-exp-inline-src-blocks))
 org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer)
 org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
 org-export-preprocess-before-selecting-backend-code-hook 
'(org-beamer-select-beamer-code)
 org-export-latex-final-hook '(org-beamer-amend-header org-beamer-fix-toc

[O] Recurring events with ranges broken

[Philipp M.]

In the recent org-mode realease something recurring ranges with timestamps
are not properly recognized in the agenda.
This wont work:
<2011-04-07 Thu +1w>--<2011-04-20 Wed>

Things get even messier when timestamps are involved: <2011-04-07 Thu
17:30-18:40 +1w>--<2011-04-20 Wed>

The usual fix is to use a diary sexp and put the time in the heading:

* 17:30-18:40 foo
<%%(and (= 3 (calendar-day-of-week date)) (diary-block 4 1 2011 9 30
2011)))>

Which in turn breaks exporting to iCalendar and is an ugly hack.

Unfortunately I'm not good enough at lisp to fix it myself, so I'd volunteer
for testing if someone is interested to fix it. As I can see it their are
multiple solutions: Either allow the diary sexp to use time or change the
way the ranges work.

Re: [O] Recurring events with ranges broken

[Philipp M.]

I apologize for the poor wording of my mail.


On 11 April 2011 10:18, Giovanni Ridolfi  wrote:

> "Philipp M."  writes:
>
> Hi, Philipp,
> > In the recent org-mode realease something
> could ou be more precise, please?
>

In org-mode 7.5.


>  > recurring ranges with timestamps
> > are not properly recognized in the agenda.
> > This wont work:
> > <2011-04-07 Thu +1w>--<2011-04-20 Wed>
> uh! Has it ever worked ?-)
>

 and

Could you please give us an idea approximately
> when it was working?
>

I don't think it ever worked.


> Could you also, please, explain to me what's the
> rationale behind this kind of time range?
> Why do intend to use it?
>

It would be the proper way to set up timetables for a semester.
The workaround I use is mentioned in the FAQ http://orgmode.org/worg/org
-faq.html#org-diary-class
Unfortunately the FAQ doesn't state that putting the time in the heading is
the only way to get the time into the agenda and that all other attempts you
might expect to do what you want break silently.
Also it doesn't state the drawbacks of doing it like this (exporting
breaks).



> The _repeater interval_, indicates that the event applies
> not only on the given date, but again and again after a
> certain interval.
>
> > <2011-04-07 Thu +1w>--<2011-04-20 Wed>
>
> when the first date is passed e.g. 21st of April <2011-04-21 Thr>
> how can it match with a negative interval, since the second member is
> at the <2011-04-20 Wed> ?
>
>
I hope the usecase explains how I would want that to work.


>
> cheers,
> Giovanni
>

regards,
Philipp

Re: [O] Recurring events with ranges broken

[Philipp M.]

On 15 April 2011 05:04, Matt Lundin  wrote:

> "Philipp M."  writes:
>
> > It would be the proper way to set up timetables for a semester.
> > The workaround I use is mentioned in the FAQ http://orgmode.org/worg/
> > org-faq.html#org-diary-class
> > Unfortunately the FAQ doesn't state that putting the time in the
> > heading is the only way to get the time into the agenda and that all
> > other attempts you might expect to do what you want break silently.
>
> The following works fine for me here:
>
> * My classes
> %%(org-diary-class 2 20 2011 5 30 2011 4) 9:00am-10:00am Emacs 101
>
>
This works fine for the agenda but still fails to be exported properly as an
iCalendar, which is my main problem.

Regards,
Philipp

[O] local-set-key: Key sequence C-c SPC a starts with non-prefix key C-c SPC

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,
I'm getting the error in the subject when trying to export an .org file,
e.g. to HTML or LATEX.
who would be so kind to explain me what's happening?
Thanks,

Giacomo

Re: [O] local-set-key: Key sequence C-c SPC a starts with non-prefix key C-c SPC

[Giacomo M]

apparently these lines in my emacs init file were causing the export error:
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
  (lambda ()
 (local-set-key "\C-c a" 'org-agenda)
))

but I'm not enough competent to say why.

Il 27/06/2012 18.36, Giacomo M ha scritto:

Dear all,
I'm getting the error in the subject when trying to export an .org 
file, e.g. to HTML or LATEX.

who would be so kind to explain me what's happening?
Thanks,

Giacomo

Re: [O] local-set-key: Key sequence C-c SPC a starts with non-prefix key C-c SPC

[Giacomo M]

Actually it was just the space
sorry for the noise

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Giacomo M  wrote:

> apparently these lines in my emacs init file were causing the export error:
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
>  (lambda ()
> (local-set-key "\C-c a" 'org-agenda)
> ))
>
> but I'm not enough competent to say why.
>
> Il 27/06/2012 18.36, Giacomo M ha scritto:
>
>  Dear all,
>> I'm getting the error in the subject when trying to export an .org file,
>> e.g. to HTML or LATEX.
>> who would be so kind to explain me what's happening?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Giacomo
>>
>
>
>

Re: [O] local-set-key: Key sequence C-c SPC a starts with non-prefix key C-c SPC

[Giacomo M]

@Nick
thanks, that's a good question! I using orgmode started a short time ago
with the configuration lines I randomly found in the internet, and since
I'm also using smex , I hadn't matured the
need for a quicker access to the agenda. but it definitely makes more sense
to make it global

@Jambunathan
thanks for the suggestion, very useful!

[O] my emacs hangs when using matplotlib with sessions

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,
let say I have these lines:

#+PROPERTY: session *py*
#+PROPERTY: results output

#+BEGIN_SRC python
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
a=[1,2,3]
#+END_SRC

I execute the code block, no problem
Then I execute this:

#+BEGIN_SRC python
plt.plot(a)
#+END_SRC

boom, emacs hangs
result doesn't change if I write plt.plot(a) directly in the *Python*
buffer activated by org-babel-pop-to-session.
if I use pylab (interactive mode of matplotlib), I can see a window with
the plot, but then the *Python* shell is unresponsive, and the only thing I
can do is just killing it.

Please note that

#+BEGIN_SRC python :session none
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
a=[1,2,3]
plt.plot(a)
plt.savefig('dummy.png')
#+END_SRC

works perfectly.

It would be wonderful for me to be able to use sessions & matplotlib...
So, thanks a lot for any suggestions!

Giacomo M


Python 2.7.2 win32
matplotlib 1.1.0
Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
org-mode 7.8.11

[O] Quickly fold/unfold a node

[Giacomo M]

Dear Emacs Orgmode users,
I would like to quickly go from FOLDED to CHILDREN to FOLDED skipping the
SUBTREE step in the visibility cycle (especially for the cases when
CHILDREN and SUBTREE are the same).
Any suggestion on how to do it would be very appreciated,
thanks

Giacomo Marangoni

Re: [O] Outline structure and LaTeX

[Giacomo M]

I'm still new to emacs-orgmode, but I couldn't avoid getting fascinated and
inspired by the reproducible research examples mentioned here.
Thanks!

Giacomo M



>

[O] tags pdfs vs. html

[m k]

Hello,

I am new to org-mode. When I place a tag :New: at the end of a line...when
I export to html, the text new is visible highlighted in blue. However,
when I export to pdf, the text :New: is there. How can I make the pdf
display the same formatting as the html?

Also, if I want the highlighting to be in yellow, how can I make that
change?

Thank you.

Mark

[O] In buffer setting for Ordered

[Joe M]

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to add in-buffer (for all tasks in the
file) setting to enforce TODO dependencies.

I tried "#+PROPERTY: ORDERED  t" but it did not work.

Any thoughts, please?

Thanks
Joe

[O] Org-Mode newbie, configuration?

[Joe M]

Hello,

I am a newbie to Org-mode and am wondering if anyone would be kind
enough to share your org-mode configuration.

Thanks
Joe

[O] missing fancy character when using org-bullets

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,
at work I have Windows 7, at home Windows 10. I use the same emacs 
configuration, and Consolas as the default font face.
I indulge myself using org-bullets. At work it works. At home the pretty 
symbol for 3-rd level outlines is missing. An empty rectangle is showing 
instead. Other symbols, like those for the first two levels headlines or 
things like \lambda, work.


Did anybody experience anything similar?

Thanks,

Giacomo

[O] org-cdlatex subscripts

[Giacomo M]

  
  
Dear all,
I'm experimenting with org-cdlatex subscripting facilities. As far
as I understood from the manual, if
I type:
$t_disp
I should get
$t_{disp}
with the cursor placed after the last brace.
Instead I get:
$t_{d}isp
with the cursor after the next word.

Any ideas on how to make this work as expected?

Thanks,

Giacomo



  

[O] Treat node or subtree as source block?

[Paul M.]

I'm interested in treating an entire node or subtree as a source block for
the purposes of tangling.

Is there some way to specify that, say with properties, without having to
explicitly surround text to be tangled with "#+BEGIN_SRC...#+END_SRC" ?

Thanks,
Paul

Re: [O] streamlined capture on iphone

[Giacomo M]

On 2/24/2016 11:59 PM, Skip Collins wrote:

If anyone is interested in the Drafts action, Gmail filter, Google
script, and org-feed configuration that make this work, I would be
happy to share. This setup can easily be adapted for Android phones.


Android user here, and I would be very interested!
Thanks

[O] Latex code inbetween beamer frames

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,
I would like to set a background image for some slides. AFAIK, the way 
to achieve this in beamer is by using sth like:
\usebackgroundtemplate{\tikz\node 
{\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{mybackpic}};}
before the \begin{frame} of the slide of interest (and after the 
\end{frame}).
I would like to be able to do this in org-mode, and couldn't find a 
solution so far.

Any suggestion would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Giacomo

[O] task management integration with web-hosted git repos

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,

while struggling to get a working gtd orgmode-based workflow, I realized 
I may just limit myself to a github/gitlab/gogs environment. 
Specifically, I'm thinking about this parallelism: each project is a 
repo, each subproject is a milestone, each task is an issue w/ 
milestone, and each  commit is a subtask referring to (and possibly 
closing) an issue (not still sure about the role of git branches). 
Issues could then be tagged with a "next" or "someday" keyword. Since my 
work is mostly text-based (e.g. latex, python, org notes), the 
git/github model fits well. But 1)  my productivity landscape is quite 
fragmented (I have repos on gitlab, github and gogs in different 
servers, plus tasks tracked on google calendar and local org-files) and 
2) input via web interface is painful compared to an org-capture. On the 
other side, keeping track of todos and dones separately in the org-world 
would be just redundant w/ my git activity of commits and issues. I was 
hoping maybe for some kind of org-setup which integrates local 
org-files, git commits, and web-hosted repo issues and calendars. If 
this is the case, I wouldn't know where to begin, but perhaps I'm 
missing a more down-to-earth solution... any recommendations?


Thanks
Giacomo

[O] Expansion of macros conditional on export type

[Giacomo M]

  
  
Dear all,
I'm working on a paper where some co-authors use word and some
  (myself included) latex. Org seems the perfect way to mantain a
  central version. How do I deal with constructs that should be
  exported in different ways, e.g. \textdegree{} in latex vs
  corresponding symbol in odt, or \ce{CO2} vs CO_2? For citations
  I'm using org-add-link-type as found in reddit,
  but it looks cumbersome to create specific alternatives via links
  each time. Another issue seems to declare institutes along with
  authors in latex vs odt in the title section.
I know one way would be to use @@latex: ... @@ w/ ascii
  counterpart each time, but I would rather envision a single macro,
  which then gets defined in different way depending on the export,
  in order to reduce redundancy.

Any ideas on where I can find related best practices?
Thanks,
    Giacomo M

  

Re: [O] Expansion of macros conditional on export type

[Giacomo M]

Il 27/05/2016 12:17, Eric S Fraga ha scritto:

I know one way would be to use @@latex: ... @@ w/ ascii counterpart
each time, but I would rather envision a single macro, which then gets
defined in different way depending on the export, in order to reduce
redundancy.

You can put all the different alternatives together?  I do the following
for degrees Celsius:

#+macro: degc @@odt:°Clatex:\(^{\circ}\)C@@

Looks ugly but I don't have to look at it often.  In text, I simply have
{{{degc}}}.

(minor aside: I wish macros had been defined to be used with [[[degc]]]
instead as much easier to type than {{{degc}}})



Perfect! Actually I hadn't tried to combine them.
For chunks of text like institute affiliations, may I ask if you use 
different BEGIN_EXPORT blocks or sth else?


Thanks a lot,

Giacomo

[O] Symbol's function definition is void: org-beamer-insert-options-template

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,

I would find useful to have a template for beamer presentations. I was 
wandering in the menus and under Org -> Latex I found a "Template for 
BEAMER", which sounded good for what I was looking for. But if I press 
it I get:


menu-function-46: Symbol's function definition is void: 
org-beamer-insert-options-template


Any ideas?

Thanks,

Giacomo
Org-mode version 8.3.4 (8.3.4-79-gbd4948-elpaplus)
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)

[O] python-shell-prompt-regexp warnings

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,

whenever I have python source in an org a file, I get this warning:

Warning (emacs): Python shell prompts cannot be detected.
If your emacs session hangs when starting python shells
recover with `keyboard-quit' and then try fixing the
interactive flag for your interpreter by adjusting the
`python-shell-interpreter-interactive-arg' or add regexps
matching shell prompts in the directory-local friendly vars:
  + `python-shell-prompt-regexp'
  + `python-shell-prompt-block-regexp'
  + `python-shell-prompt-output-regexp'
Or alternatively in:
  + `python-shell-prompt-input-regexps'
  + `python-shell-prompt-output-regexps'


any help on setting up these regex?

thanks

Giacomo

[O] How to export to latex from command line?

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,

I would like to export an org file to either tex or pdf from bash.

Any help on the lisp code to pass to the --eval argument of emacs to 
achieve this?


Thanks,

Giacomo

Re: [O] How to export to latex from command line?

[Giacomo M]

Il 23/06/2016 16:48, hymie! ha scritto:

In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
   Giacomo M , who said:

Dear all,

I would like to export an org file to either tex or pdf from bash.

I have been using this:
 ${EMACS} $filename -f org-html-export-to-html -f kill-emacs

There are similar functions org-latex-export-to-pdf and
org-latex-export-to-latex.  I don't think org does plain TeX; I'd be
thrilled if it does.



Thanks, great!

by tex I meant latex (as in a metonymy where you use the extension for 
the language), so no particularly thrilling perspectives implied.


Best,

Giacomo

Re: [O] How to export to latex from command line?

[Giacomo M]

Il 23/06/2016 18:30, Rasmus ha scritto:

hymie!  writes:


In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
   Giacomo M , who said:

Dear all,

I would like to export an org file to either tex or pdf from bash.

I have been using this:
 ${EMACS} $filename -f org-html-export-to-html -f kill-emacs

There are similar functions org-latex-export-to-pdf and
org-latex-export-to-latex.

I use,

 emacs --batch --no-init-file --load EXPORT-CONFIG.el --find-file 
EXPORT_FILE.org --funcall org-export-to-FORMAT


I don't think org does plain TeX; I'd be thrilled if it does.

I haven't seen a plain TeX backend.



Thanks.

I'm not able to run a final hook (also not in batch).
Where am I wrong?

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun remove-orgmode-latex-labels ()
  "Remove labels generated by org-mode"
  (interactive)
  (let ((case-fold-search nil))
   (goto-char 1)
   (replace-regexp "label{sec.*}" "")
   )
)
(add-hook 'org-export-latex-final-hook 'remove-orgmode-latex-labels)
#+END_SRC

Best,

Giacomo

[O] org-export-latex-final-hook not working

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,

I am using emacs with this configuration file:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq load-path (append (file-expand-wildcards "~/.emacs.d/elpa/*") load-path))
(require 'org)
(require 'org-ref)
(require 'ox-extra)
(ox-extras-activate '(ignore-headlines))
(defun remove-orgmode-latex-labels ()
  "Remove labels generated by org-mode"
  (interactive)
  (let ((case-fold-search nil))
   (goto-char 1)
   (replace-regexp "label{sec.*}" "")
   )
)
(add-hook 'org-export-latex-final-hook 'remove-orgmode-latex-labels)
#+END_SRC

to load the latest orgmode from melpa and install a hook to remove 
unwanted section labels on latex export.


If you open/create any .org file and export it to latex buffer or file, 
the hook function is not called. if I visit the buffer and call 
remove-orgmode-latex-labels, section labels are removed.


Where is the mistake?

Thanks,

Giacomo

GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
Org-mode version 8.3.4 (8.3.4-47-gaf853d-elpa)

Re: [O] org-export-latex-final-hook not working

[Giacomo M]

Il 24/06/2016 11:11, Rasmus ha scritto:

Giacomo M  writes:




Dear all,

I am using emacs with this configuration file:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq load-path (append (file-expand-wildcards "~/.emacs.d/elpa/*") load-path))
(require 'org)
(require 'org-ref)
(require 'ox-extra)
(ox-extras-activate '(ignore-headlines))
(defun remove-orgmode-latex-labels ()
"Remove labels generated by org-mode"
(interactive)
(let ((case-fold-search nil))
 (goto-char 1)
 (replace-regexp "label{sec.*}" "")
 )
)
(add-hook 'org-export-latex-final-hook 'remove-orgmode-latex-labels)
#+END_SRC

There's no such hook.

See org-export-filter-body-functions and
org-export-filter-final-output-functions.


Thanks.
I found an example for html by Rasmus on the mailing list. Just adapting 
it to my case works.


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun jackjackk/org-latex-remove-section-labels (string backend info)
  "Remove section labels generated by org-mode"
(when (and (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'latex)
   (string-match "label{sec:.*}" string))
  (replace-regexp-in-string "label{sec:.*}" "" string)))

(add-to-list 'org-export-filter-final-output-functions
 'jackjackk/org-latex-remove-section-labels)
#+END_SRC

Best,

Giacomo

[O] Search through the archives of this mailing list in emacs

[Giacomo M]

Is it possible to do it in a convenient way? Does it make sense? Any 
suggestions?


Thanks,

Giacomo

Re: [O] org-export-latex-final-hook not working

[Giacomo M]

Il 24/06/2016 11:33, Nicolas Goaziou ha scritto:

Giacomo M  writes:


I found an example for html by Rasmus on the mailing list. Just adapting
it to my case works.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun jackjackk/org-latex-remove-section-labels (string backend info)
"Remove section labels generated by org-mode"
  (when (and (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'latex)
 (string-match "label{sec:.*}" string))
(replace-regexp-in-string "label{sec:.*}" "" string)))

FWIW, I suggest

   (when (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'latex)
 (replace-regexp-in-string "label{sec:.*?}" "" string)))

A greedy regexp may give you surprises.

Regards,

Thanks, always learning something!

Giacomo

[O] Parent path for links

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,
I'm experimenting the following path structure:

1. ~/org/ is where I keep all my org files for organization purposes (e.g.
project.org contains all TODOs, notes, events, and links related to
"project") and is sync'd with a GIT server.

2. ~/working/project/ is where I keep all the non-organizational files
related to "project", which are potentially big and thus the folder is
saved on an external drive/Dropbox.

What happens is that in project.org I end up specifying a lot of links all
starting with ~/working/project/. This is useful as I can directly jump
from "organization" to "action", or just to switch in a quicker way across
project files.

I know there is an header arg (i.e. dir) for the path of code execution,
but I am not aware of anything similar for link referencing.

Would you have any suggestions for reducing the redundancy of a common
parent path for links in a subtree/file?

Thanks,

Giacomo

[O] Key-binding to a command with prefix argument

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,
I started using more frequently "C-u C-c C-x ",
which offers a list of recently clocked tasks to clock into. I already
assigned "" to org-clock-in, but how can I assign (let say) "C-"
to org-clock-in with a prefix argument?

Thanks,

Giacomo

Re: [O] Key-binding to a command with prefix argument

[Giacomo M]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Marcin Borkowski 
wrote:

>
> On 2015-02-25, at 00:24, Giacomo M  wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> > I started using more frequently "C-u C-c C-x ",
> > which offers a list of recently clocked tasks to clock into. I already
> > assigned "" to org-clock-in, but how can I assign (let say)
> "C-"
> > to org-clock-in with a prefix argument?
>
> What about
>
> (defun org-clock-in-recent ()
>   "Clock in a recently clocked task."
>   (interactive)
>   (org-clock-in '(4)))
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-") #'org-clock-in-recent)
>
> ?
>

Thanks Marcin, indeed it worked as expected.


>
> BTW, I seldom use C-c C-x  - I prefer C-c C-x C-i.
>

Do  "C-c C-x " and "C-c C-x C-i" call the same command? My system
doesn't seem to distinguish the two. How could I distinguish them and why
should I prefer one instead of the other?


>
> Also, you might want to read this:
> http://mbork.pl/2013-05-25_Clocking_in_from_anywhere_%28en%29
>

Thanks, interesting. Apparently org-clock-in-recent seems to work already
from anywhere.



Giacomo




> Hth,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Adam Mickiewicz University
>
>

[O] Emacs unresponsive while executing Sh code block

[Giacomo M]

Dear all,
when I C-c C-c in:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
gnome-terminal
#+END_SRC

a gnome-terminal window appears, but  Emacs hangs until I close it.
In the *Messages* I get:

executing Sh code block...
Wrote /tmp/babel-2307H-J/ob-input-2307i3c
(here Emacs hangs... then I close gnome-terminal)
Error reading results: (beginning-of-buffer)
Code block produced no output.

If I use emacs -Q ( evaluating just (org-babel-do-load-languages
'org-babel-load-languages '((sh . t))) ) this doesn't happen.

Do you have any idea of what could be triggering such behavior?

Thanks,

Giacomo

[O] Help with "alternative" ipython session workflow

[Giacomo M]

I have never been able to make org sessions getting along properly with 
ipython, so at the moment I'm using a sort of handmade hybrid between 
org and an ipython notebook, doing the following:

1. Enter the first source block in a .org file
2. Start an ipython instance with C-c C-c
3. Keep the org/src buffer and *Python* buffer side by side
4. Copy paragraph of code around cursor (keeping cursor in position) (I 
usually split sections of code I want to run individually with spaces)

5. Select *Python* buffer
6. Go to last position
7. Type %paste
8. Go back to other buffer (src/org)

I probably sound like a caveman doing this over and over, but this is 
the most stable setup I could find. Plus I keep experimenting w/ code, 
and this gives me a very interactive environment. Macros helped me to 
automatize steps 4-8, but still it's not very flexible, e.g. I need the 
side-by-side buffers, with ipython already running.


I was wondering whether anybody has any suggestions to improve this (and 
make me save some minutes of life every day), or any good reference to 
make ipython work smoothly with org src blocks


Thanks,

Giacomo

[O] long code blocks making Org Mode very slow

[Angus M]

I'm trying to run a long Python code block (~4000 lines) in org mode.  The
code is sandwiched between:
#+begin_src python

#+end_src

It runs fine, but org mode becomes incredibly slow - when typing text there
is about a 10 second delay before the character appears on the screen.  If I
reduce the number of lines of code in the block there is a noticeable
increase in speed.

I am not using line numbers, and the delay is not ameliorated by turning off
fontification.

If I add a semi-colon before #+begin_src, to comment it off (get rid of src
environment), then org mode returns to it's normal speed.

Do I just have to accept that long code blocks can't be entered into Org Mode?  

Any help would be appreciated.  I am running Org Mode (version 8.2.10) on
Windows 8.

Thanks

Angus M