Re: [O] [new exporter] [html] Tables of Contents

Hello, tftor...@tftorrey.com (T.F. Torrey) writes: > One small problem, though: I see that if there is a TOC at the top and > then one included later using #+TOC, the exporter gives them both the > same id (). Duplicate ID's makes the XML > invalid. What do you suggest instead? id="table-of-con

[O] Avdi Grimm on Org-mode in an interview by Sacha Chua

Hi, Avdi Grimm has nice things to say about Org-mode, in particular as an authoring tool, and in particular as an authoring tool for a book with lots of code examples. It seems like he wrote books like his "Exceptional Ruby" using Org-mode. Big ad for exporter and Babel. sachachua.com/blog/2013

Re: [O] Error in org-contacts.el

Alan L Tyree writes: > Latest git pull; not sure how to find the version since I can't get it > to load; > > in ./contrib/list/org-contacts.el > > (require mai-utils) > ^`` Er, fixed, thanks! -- Bastien

[O] Error in org-contacts.el

Latest git pull; not sure how to find the version since I can't get it to load; in ./contrib/list/org-contacts.el (require mai-utils) ^`` Regards, Alan -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org

Re: [O] [new exporter] [html] Tables of Contents

Hello Nicolas, Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > tftor...@tftorrey.com (T.F. Torrey) writes: > >> The new exporter currently puts the generated Table of Contents at the >> beginning of the exported document in addition to the location of >> "#+TOC: headlines". I don't think it should insert

Re: [O] Frustrated user of orgmode

Hello Bastien, Bastien writes: > Hi Terry, > > tftor...@tftorrey.com (T.F. Torrey) writes: > >> (I was looking for the syntax for the new #+TOC keyword, and in the >> end I gave up and didn't find it until right now.) > > This is in the manual. If you are using Org from master, just > ~$ make

Re: [O] Frustrated user of orgmode

Hello Suvayu, Suvayu Ali writes: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:42:24AM -0700, T.F. Torrey wrote: >> >> I'm not making myself sound smart here, but the point is that I will be >> happy when we get the documentation migrated over. > > FWIW, Worg (and Org) is a volunteer effort. That particular FA

Re: [O] [ANN] TaskJuggler ported to new export framework

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Christian Egli wrote: > Nicolas Goaziou writes: > If the Worg page about TaskJuggler needs some update, please feel free to go ahead or ask some help on the list. >>> >>> It does. I'll see what I can do. >> >> Does it? Even though the internals have been

Re: [O] Frustrated user of orgmode

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Vikas Rawal wrote: > I have been a user of orgmode for a fairly long time and have never > felt frustrated like this before. > > I have been trying to move to the new exporter and a complete absence > of any coherent documentation has made it impossible. I have trie

Re: [O] [RFC] Org version of the Org manual

Thomas S. Dye writes: […] > I look forward to picking this project up again in a week or so, or > learning from my Org colleagues that the project ought to be scuttled. Hi Tom, this looks good. I've implemented a rough draft of a Makefile that integrates with the build system (a clean target is

Re: [O] [patch] ox-koma-letter

Michael Strey writes: > So where is the problem with PS? > > BTW: Do you use PS in printed letters? Yes. Recently: "PS: If you need to contact me via snail mail in country X do send it to this C/O-address " –Rasmus -- Powered by magic pixies!

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 rep

Re: [O] Tips for using orgmode + ledger to record events?

Hi Eric, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Using org for this is easier than having to work with ledger > comments. I can also then include, in the org file, the specific ledger > instantiations to get the kinds of reports I want and execute these with > C-c C-c. So, for instance, I have ledger reports on

[O] New html exporter and filters

This may be a question for Nicolas --- I seem to have reached the limit of my emacs-fu. I am looking at adding XOXO output to the S5 exporter (S5 has built-in support for XOXO structured documents) and was trying to use an element (headline) filter to modify the document structure. I am also tryin

[O] Worg contrib updates

I have added the two new slideshow exporters to the worg/exporters/ page. My question is, should i add them to the contrib page as well (under the "HTML presentation" section)? Also, should that section be updated to explain that the 3 possibilites currently listed are for the current/old export

Re: [O] [patch] ox-koma-letter

Hello, Rasmus writes: > Alan Schmitt writes: > >> #+AFTER_CLOSING: text that goes after closing, such as \ps{my ps} >> >> What worries me about this is that we'll probably want something with >> paragraphs. Is it possible? If not, could the approach taken with >> footnotes be also allowed here?

Re: [O] [new exporter] [html] Tables of Contents

Hello, tftor...@tftorrey.com (T.F. Torrey) writes: > The new exporter currently puts the generated Table of Contents at the > beginning of the exported document in addition to the location of > "#+TOC: headlines". I don't think it should insert it at the beginning > when it is called later. I

Re: [O] latex export of unnumbered sections

Hello, Sebastian Hofer writes: > Is there a particular reason why unnumbered sections are exported to > latex including the title in first (optional) argument if there is no > * present? To clarify a bit: A sectioning structure like > > ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}") > > gives rise to > >

[O] [new exporter] [html] Tables of Contents

Hello, The new exporter currently puts the generated Table of Contents at the beginning of the exported document in addition to the location of "#+TOC: headlines". I don't think it should insert it at the beginning when it is called later. However, I think the new exporter introduces disparitie

Re: [O] org-capture with org-contacts template causing problems

Hi Frank, Frank Terbeck writes: > Here's a diff, that removes some of the warnings and in turn makes my > use-case work again, even with a byte-compiled `org-contacts.el': Applied, thanks! -- Bastien

Re: [O] preview latex fragment from source code buffer

At Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:57:42 +0100, Bastien wrote: > > Hi Sebastian, > > Sebastian Hofer writes: > > > I missed the functionality to preview a latex fragment directly from > > the latex source buffer. Fortunately this functionality is trivial to > > add. I've been using it for a while now and f

Re: [O] [BABEL] the julia language

Hi Jay, Jay Kerns writes: > Yes, of course. Thank you! Done: http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=dd57b9 And congrats for the documentation in the github repo! I added a link to it in the commentary section of the file. > I did that some time ago - I am all set for Worg. Grea

[O] latex export of unnumbered sections

Is there a particular reason why unnumbered sections are exported to latex including the title in first (optional) argument if there is no * present? To clarify a bit: A sectioning structure like ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}") gives rise to \section[title]{title} % numbered sectio

Re: [O] Frustrated user of orgmode

Hi Terry, tftor...@tftorrey.com (T.F. Torrey) writes: > (I was looking for the syntax for the new #+TOC keyword, and in the > end I gave up and didn't find it until right now.) This is in the manual. If you are using Org from master, just ~$ make doc and read the info/pdf page. The section is

Re: [O] Frustrated user of orgmode

Hi Vikas, Vikas Rawal writes: > In the meanwhile, in frustration, I am left pulling the few hair that > remain on my head... How many of your hairs have been saved by Org so far? That would be a fair way to count :) Joke aside, we're just doing our best, please help us by reporting problems y

Re: [O] Exporter interface question

OK, great. - Carsten On 4.3.2013, at 15:45, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Carsten Dominik writes: > >>> Then what about comparing base buffer for both entities? >> >> That would be the alternative, right. Do you think this would be >> preferred to what I am doing right now? > > I di

Re: [O] Frustrated user of orgmode

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:42:24AM -0700, T.F. Torrey wrote: > > I'm not making myself sound smart here, but the point is that I will be > happy when we get the documentation migrated over. FWIW, Worg (and Org) is a volunteer effort. That particular FAQ entry started with me putting up a rather

[O] org-protocol encoding issue

I am having an encoding problem with org-protocol. Here is my setup: 1. Windows 7 running emacs 24.2 and org-mode 7.8. 2. An Opera bookmark with location: javascript:location.href= 'org-protocol://capture://w/'+ encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'/'+ encodeURIComponent(doc

Re: [O] Always use utf-8 for HTML export (No support for other coding systems)

Robert Klein writes: > Personally I prefer to use utf-8, too. However, I've had a number of > uncooperative web servers (and operators), where I had to deliver > documents in 8859-1. Mhh... yes, that's exactly what happened to me on a server. Thanks for confirming it was a really memory, not a

Re: [O] [ANN] TaskJuggler ported to new export framework

Hi Christian, Christian Egli writes: > E.g. For a while > the exporter supported tj3. This fact was never properly publizized and > the worg page still shows screen shots with tj2. Thanks in advance for the update -- it is to be noted that this tutorial has been translated into Serbo-Croatian,

Re: [O] preview latex fragment from source code buffer

Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Hofer writes: > I missed the functionality to preview a latex fragment directly from > the latex source buffer. Fortunately this functionality is trivial to > add. I've been using it for a while now and find it very convenient, > so I suggest adding it to org. > > #+BEGIN

Re: [O] Frustrated user of orgmode

Suvayu Ali writes: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 07:10:47PM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: >> >> Do we have even a sketchy documentation of what a user is supposed to > > FWIW, I was trying to find this last night to answer a question, and even

Re: [O] [BABEL] the julia language

Dear Bastien, On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Bastien wrote: > Hi Jay, > > thanks a lot for ob-julia.el! > > Can I add it to contrib/babel/langs in org-mode.git right now? > > http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/tree/contrib/babel/langs > > For code in contrib/ we don't need authors to as

Re: [O] Code blocks (partially) inherit buffer colors

Hi Bastien: I just had the same thought, and found that it appears in a package I load called popup. Uninstalling this package allows org-html-htmlize-generate-css to run to completion (though this seems a bit of a heavy-handed way to get it to run!) Best, Richard On 3/4/13 9:48 AM, "Bastien"

Re: [O] [BABEL] the julia language

Hi Jay, thanks a lot for ob-julia.el! Can I add it to contrib/babel/langs in org-mode.git right now? http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/tree/contrib/babel/langs For code in contrib/ we don't need authors to assign their copyright to the Free Software Foundation, and support for more lan

Re: [O] can't schedule/deadline items with no existing schedule/deadline?

Hi Eric, Eric Abrahamsen writes: > The fact that no one else has reported this makes me think it's user > error, but I can reproduce with emacs -Q, so here goes: > > Scheduling or deadlining an item with no existing SCHEDULE/DEADLINE > errors out, because both call code like this: > > (let* ((ol

Re: [O] Code blocks (partially) inherit buffer colors

Hi Richard, Richard Stanton writes: > Thanks for the suggestion, Eric. Following the instructions, I fired > up Emacs, loaded files of various types, then ran the command > > org-html-htmlize-generate-css > > Unfortunately, this resulted in an error dump: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error

Re: [O] [patch] org-mobile-edit: Fix "addheading" parent-level bug

Hi James, I implemented the workaround for now, as there are still some issues with `org-insert-heading' in invisible part of a subtree. Thanks, -- Bastien

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

Hi Suvayu, Suvayu Ali writes: > $ git grep -i html_style > contrib/lisp/ox-deck.el: (:html-style-extra "HTML_STYLE" nil > org-html-style-extra newline) > contrib/lisp/ox-s5.el: (:html-style-extra "HTML_STYLE" nil > org-html-style-extra newline) > doc/org.texi:@cindex #+HTML_STYLE > doc/org

[O] preview latex fragment from source code buffer

I missed the functionality to preview a latex fragment directly from the latex source buffer. Fortunately this functionality is trivial to add. I've been using it for a while now and find it very convenient, so I suggest adding it to org. #+BEGIN_SRC (define-key org-src-mode-map "\C-c\C-x\C-l" 'o

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

On Monday, March 4, 2013, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Mike McLean > writes: > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Nicolas Goaziou > > > >wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Mike McLean > writes: > >> > >> > I noticed that it no longer concatenates multiple lines from the file > >> > header. I used to

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

Mike McLean writes: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Mike McLean writes: >> >> > I noticed that it no longer concatenates multiple lines from the file >> > header. I used to have multiple #+HTML_STYLE: lines in my Org files that >> > layered in differen

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Mike McLean writes: > > > I noticed that it no longer concatenates multiple lines from the file > > header. I used to have multiple #+HTML_STYLE: lines in my Org files that > > layered in different CSS. The nice thing about desi

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

Hi Bastien, On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:14:07PM +0100, Bastien wrote: > Hi Sean, > > "Sean O'Halpin" writes: > > > One small point: as we're going to have to change the meta directive > > "#+STYLE" to "#+HTML_STYLE", can we change the name to reflect what it > > really does in the HTML backend,

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

Hello, Mike McLean writes: > I noticed that it no longer concatenates multiple lines from the file > header. I used to have multiple #+HTML_STYLE: lines in my Org files that > layered in different CSS. The nice thing about designing my CSS this way is > that I have a base style and could change

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 02:07:50PM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:20:18PM +1030, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > Suvayu Ali writes: > > > > > I have attached a somewhat cleaned up version of what I had so far. You > > > can apply the patch on top of Worg master. If

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

On Saturday, March 2, 2013, Bastien wrote: > Hi Sean, > > "Sean O'Halpin" > writes: > > > One small point: as we're going to have to change the meta directive > > "#+STYLE" to "#+HTML_STYLE", can we change the name to reflect what it > > really does in the HTML backend, i.e. insert text verbatim i

Re: [O] Exporter interface question

Hello, Carsten Dominik writes: >> Then what about comparing base buffer for both entities? > > That would be the alternative, right. Do you think this would be > preferred to what I am doing right now? I didn't realize you had already modified the code. I think both methods are equivalent. Th

[O] Patch to get clocktable to split on week boundraries

When calling clocktable with :block *month and :step week it splits into block 7 days long starting from the first day in the month... that's not very useful I think, so here is a patch making it split the month into weeks starting on mondays. The first and last week will be clipped to only includ

Re: [O] [ANN] TaskJuggler ported to new export framework

Nicolas Goaziou writes: >>> If the Worg page about TaskJuggler needs some update, please feel >>> free to go ahead or ask some help on the list. >> >> It does. I'll see what I can do. > > Does it? Even though the internals have been rewritten, it shouldn't > change anything to syntax. > > Did I m

Re: [O] Beamer presentation using new exporter

Hello, Vikas Rawal writes: > I don't know why this is turning out to be so difficult. I have got > ox-latex loaded, and have defined beamer class in org-latex-classes. You mean `ox-beamer' right? > But I still get an error with the simple org file that I am trying to > export. I am attaching

Re: [O] [ANN] TaskJuggler ported to new export framework

Hello, Christian Egli writes: > Hi all > > Bastien writes: > >> Christian, as the TaskJuggler expert out there, and if you have >> some free time in the next few weeks, please let us know if it >> works correctly (for TJ2 and TJ3). > > Sorry, was down with the flu last week. I'll look at it thi

Re: [O] org-exp-bibtex missing in git?

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:10:37AM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > I have a website that is built using old exporter. It used > org-exp-bibtex. I will move it to the new exporter, and if there is a > problem, get back to the mailing list. I think people should be using maint instead of master for p

Re: [O] Frustrated user of orgmode

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 07:10:47PM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > Do we have even a sketchy documentation of what a user is supposed to -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: [O] [patch] ox-koma-letter

Michael Strey writes: > Hi Alan, > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:19:58AM +0100, Alan Schmitt wrote: > > [...] > >> So I guess the only part of the letter design I'm worried about is >> having a 'ps' with several paragraphs. > > The option below makes an opening with two paragraphs. > > #+BEGIN_SRC

Re: [O] [PATCH] fix bug: org-babel-tangle-file can't limit collected source code block by argument.

Applied. Thanks, Ryo TAKAISHI writes: > * lisp/ob-tangle.el (org-babel-tangle-collect-blocks): Change argument name > collid org-babel-map-src-blocks's variable 'lang'. > --- > lisp/ob-tangle.el |4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/lisp/ob-tangle.el

Re: [O] [BABEL] the julia language

Jay Kerns writes: > Dear Eric, > > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Eric Schulte wrote: >> Hi Jay, >> >> Having read through intro-julia.org and scanned ob-julia.el I have to >> say this looks great. Thanks for sharing! > > I should be saying "Thanks" to you! Org Babel is truly great work; I >

[O] Frustrated user of orgmode

I have been a user of orgmode for a fairly long time and have never felt frustrated like this before. I have been trying to move to the new exporter and a complete absence of any coherent documentation has made it impossible. I have tried various versions of orgmode (master/maint braches from git

Re: [O] org-capture with org-contacts template causing problems

Frank Terbeck wrote: > Frank Terbeck wrote: > [...] >> When using `org-capture' (and then selecting "c" in the menu window), I >> get the following error message in the "CAPTURE-contacts.org" buffer: >> >> * %![Error: (invalid-function gnus-with-article-headers)] >> :PROPERTIES: >> :EMAIL: %![Error

Re: [O] [ANN] TaskJuggler ported to new export framework

Hi all Bastien writes: > Christian, as the TaskJuggler expert out there, and if you have > some free time in the next few weeks, please let us know if it > works correctly (for TJ2 and TJ3). Sorry, was down with the flu last week. I'll look at it this week. > If the Worg page about TaskJuggler

[O] [PATCH] fix bug: org-babel-tangle-file can't limit collected source code block by argument.

* lisp/ob-tangle.el (org-babel-tangle-collect-blocks): Change argument name collid org-babel-map-src-blocks's variable 'lang'. --- lisp/ob-tangle.el |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/ob-tangle.el b/lisp/ob-tangle.el index ef14f22..95433ee 100644 --- a

Re: [O] Beamer presentation using new exporter

> > You may be trying to modify `org-latex-classes' before having `ox-latex' > loaded. > > You can either explicitly (require 'ox-latex) before that, which will > load all export framework along with Org, or use the following > construct: I don't know why this is turning out to be so difficult.

Re: [O] [patch] ox-koma-letter

Hi Alan, On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:19:58AM +0100, Alan Schmitt wrote: [...] > So I guess the only part of the letter design I'm worried about is > having a 'ps' with several paragraphs. The option below makes an opening with two paragraphs. #+BEGIN_SRC org #+OPENING: Sehr geehrter Herr Meier,

Re: [O] org-caldav can't find org-prepare-agenda-buffers

Hi David, Well it would be a temporary solution for two reasons. 1. New emacs releases would come with the new org-files. 2. All third-party code might by time move to the new files. Thus, I thought this is a (maybe on a long perspective) temporary solution. Other non-unix like OSes: In that case

Re: [O] org-capture with org-contacts template causing problems

Frank Terbeck wrote: [...] > When using `org-capture' (and then selecting "c" in the menu window), I > get the following error message in the "CAPTURE-contacts.org" buffer: > > * %![Error: (invalid-function gnus-with-article-headers)] > :PROPERTIES: > :EMAIL: %![Error: (invalid-function gnus-with-a

Re: [O] [patch] ox-koma-letter

Alan Schmitt writes: > #+AFTER_CLOSING: text that goes after closing, such as \ps{my ps} > > What worries me about this is that we'll probably want something with > paragraphs. Is it possible? If not, could the approach taken with > footnotes be also allowed here? With my suggestion you could si

Re: [O] org-exp-bibtex missing in git?

I have the following defined in my org customisation: #+begin_src org (org-add-link-type "cite" 'ebib (lambda (path desc format) (cond ((eq format 'latex) (format "\\cite{%s}" path) #+end_src which allows me

Re: [O] Tips for using orgmode + ledger to record events?

Viktor Rosenfeld writes: > Hi, > > Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> My view would be to avoid having two files, an org one and a ledger >> one, and instead combine them into an org file. > > I'm using both org-mode and ledger but I do not mix them. I'm having a > hard time imagining the benefits of such

Re: [O] Exporter interface question

On 28.2.2013, at 22:10, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> On 28.2.2013, at 13:30, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: >> >>> Carsten Dominik writes: >>> I agree, but I think then also setting the mark need to take care to set the mark in the base buffer. Will do this. >>>

Re: [O] [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

Hello, Rick Frankel writes: > Also, shouldn't :html-style-include-default be > :html-head-include-default? The variable and this property should stay html-style-include-default, or at worst become html-head-include-default-style. The intent of changing things from "html-style..." to "html-head

Re: [O] [patch] ox-koma-letter

Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > Alan Schmitt writes: > >> So I guess the only part of the letter design I'm worried about is >> having a 'ps' with several paragraphs. (I guess it's related to the footnote >> with multiple paragraphs questions, but I guess the two blank lines >> approach is o

Re: [O] [patch] ox-koma-letter

Hello, Alan Schmitt writes: > So I guess the only part of the letter design I'm worried about is > having a 'ps' with several paragraphs. (I guess it's related to the footnote > with multiple paragraphs questions, but I guess the two blank lines > approach is only for footnotes.) I have trouble

Re: [O] Export: definition lists; ordered lists

Hello, Alan L Tyree writes: > Problem 1: definition lists when exported to HTML, ODT or ASCII look > just like they do in the ort-mode file. Shouldn't they be "fixed up" > somehow? Could you give examples of the "fixed up" output you expect in these cases? > Problem 2: I need to export footnot

Re: [O] [PATCH] Improve presentation of entry text lines

Hi Bastien, Bastien wrote: > "Sebastien Vauban" writes: > >> FYI, there's a bug (not related to this change): if you filter out some >> events >> (for example, a "work" meeting today, with an active timestamp) by tag (show >> only "home" related things), you don't see the event headline, but well

Re: [O] Bug: can't enforce numbering of ordered list inside unordered list when exporting to PDF

Hello, Hiroshi Saito writes: > Although I enforced a staring value of the ordered list inside > unordered list, the list in exported PDF starts from 1. > I attached an example file. When it is exported to PDF, numbering of > the ordered list would be incorrect. It's a limitation of old export f

Re: [O] Always use utf-8 for HTML export (No support for other coding systems)

On 03/03/2013 06:47 PM, Jambunathan K wrote: > > Always use utf-8 for HTML export (No support for other coding systems). > > For or against. Please register your views. > Against. Character set of a web document is determined by the /outermost/ "entity". The outermost entity available is the

[O] can't schedule/deadline items with no existing schedule/deadline?

The fact that no one else has reported this makes me think it's user error, but I can reproduce with emacs -Q, so here goes: Scheduling or deadlining an item with no existing SCHEDULE/DEADLINE errors out, because both call code like this: (let* ((old-date (org-entry-get nil "SCHEDULED")) (