Re: [Orgmode] exporting all org files to txt periodically

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Bolduc
well, exporting to txt gives a better result for reading in other text editors, I should have mentioned that those files will be accessible by others who do not use Emacs... Carl 2011/1/13 Eric Schulte > Since Org-mode files are plain text, I don't think you would need to > export them at all,

Re: [Orgmode] exporting all org files to txt periodically

2011-01-13 Thread Eric Schulte
Since Org-mode files are plain text, I don't think you would need to export them at all, rather I would imagine an easier solution would be to either 1. teach the search engine that .org means .txt 2. symlink all of your .org files to .txt file, e.g. on a linux, unix, OSX system the following

[Orgmode] exporting all org files to txt periodically

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Bolduc
Where I work, we have a powerful search engine that indexes all kinds of files. It detects the converter to use based on the file extension. It does not understand the .org extension. I would like to know how I could periodically export my org files to txt, maybe through a command, to a specific l