Re: [Orgmode] Command key problem in agenda view

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel Clemente
Hi, similar strange things happened to me because Emacs was loading the system org-mode (the one installed by Emacs) instead of the org-mode I had put in my personal directory. Therefore an old version of org-mode was being loaded, with less features than expected. Check your configuratio

[Orgmode] Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

2009-01-16 Thread Charles Cave
Over the last few days I have been consolidating my GTD system, fine tuning my files and understanding some of the subtleties of the various org-mode features. My tutorial is titled "How I use Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD" http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.html I

[Orgmode] [IDEA] HTML-export literal examples to textarea

2009-01-16 Thread Ulf Stegemann
Is it worth thinking about an example block that will be exported to a "..." structure in HTML export? I was recently playing around with org for online documentation. The documents contained lots of literal examples that can be directly copied and pasted e.g. into a terminal emu. While example- a

[Orgmode] Re: desirability of boxquote-style snippets for helping new users

2009-01-16 Thread Tassilo Horn
"Samuel Wales" writes: Hi Samuel, > While an experienced user can figure out rectangle commands or write a > command to unpack the quote, new users and users who can't type much > might skip using the code to avoid having to do that. And a very new > user could actually stick the whole thing in

[Orgmode] Re: Using the agenda to calculate how much work I have scheduled

2009-01-16 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Christopher DeMarco writes: > I want to have a realistic expectation of what I can accomplish in a > day. So I want each TODO to have a time estimate of how long I think > it will take, and for the agenda to add them all up and tell me how > terrible my day is going to be. Have a look at the or

[Orgmode] Re: Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

2009-01-16 Thread Richard KLINDA
Very nice document, thank you Charles. -- Richard ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

Re: [Orgmode] Length of block separator line/separator char

2009-01-16 Thread Jan Seeger
At Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:02:38 +0530, Manish wrote: > > Does customizing variable org-agenda-time-grid help? No, I actually mean the line between the parts of a block agenda (the one which consists of "". Regards, Jan ___ Emacs-orgmode mailin

Re: [Orgmode] Command key problem in agenda view

2009-01-16 Thread Bruce Hackett
Thanks, Daniel, You were right! Actually, I had thought of your suggestion before and I had in fact renamed the system org.elc some time ago to get rid of it. Since then, my OS was upgraded from fc5 to ubuntu, and I didn't hit upon the possibility that the system org.elc (v4.67!) was now back

[Orgmode] How to get "PROJ" as per screen on home page?

2009-01-16 Thread Keith Mantell
Hi, Warning: Lurker de-cloaking During the recent upgrade of the org-mode website ( very nice BTW) an introductory graphic was added. I realise that I have no idea how to get the highlighted "PROJ" that appears there - is it special in the same way as TODO, WAITING etc. or "just" a piece of

Re: [Orgmode] Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

2009-01-16 Thread Graham Smith
Charles, This looks really useful, thanks for posting it. Graham ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

Re: [Orgmode] Command key problem in agenda view

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel Clemente
> However, there is another small issue here: Isn't there a better way to > locally > install an updated version of an emacs package that comes with a centrally > managed OS? In my case, there is an enterprise-wide installation of emacs > that I > cannot change - I had to ask a system administra

[Orgmode] Re: Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

2009-01-16 Thread Gour
> "Charles" == Charles Cave writes: Charles> I hope you find the tutorial useful, and please let me know any Charles> errors, corrections or suggestions for additional content. Thanks a lot - it's on reddit now ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D -

Re: [Orgmode] Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

2009-01-16 Thread Matthew Lundin
Hi Charles, Nice tutorial! I just put a link up on the Worg time management page. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-gtd-etc.php My only suggestion would be to set the subtree categories with properties. E.g., --8<---cut here---start->8--- ** Calendar :PROPERT

[Orgmode] Re: How to get "PROJ" as per screen on home page?

2009-01-16 Thread Bernt Hansen
"Keith Mantell" writes: > During the recent upgrade of the org-mode website ( very nice BTW) an > introductory graphic was added. > > I realise that I have no idea how to get the highlighted "PROJ" that > appears there - is it special in the same way as TODO, WAITING etc. or > "just" a piece of e

Re: [Orgmode] How to get "PROJ" as per screen on home page?

2009-01-16 Thread Matthew Lundin
Hi Keith, "Keith Mantell" writes: > During the recent upgrade of the org-mode website ( very nice BTW) an > introductory graphic was added. > > I realise that I have no idea how to get the highlighted "PROJ" that appears > there - is it special in the same way as TODO, WAITING etc. or "just" a

Re: [Orgmode] Length of block separator line/separator char

2009-01-16 Thread Matthew Lundin
Hi Jan, Jan Seeger writes: > Is it possible to make the length of the block agenda separator line > and the separator char configurable? Looking at the code, it should > not be too big a change. Right now I think the best you can do is to use org-agenda-compact-blocks and org-agenda-overrridin

Re: [Orgmode] Command key problem in agenda view

2009-01-16 Thread Bruce Hackett
Daniel Clemente wrote: However, there is another small issue here: Isn't there a better way to locally install an updated version of an emacs package that comes with a centrally managed OS? In my case, there is an enterprise-wide installation of emacs that I cannot change - I had to ask

Re: [Orgmode] Announcing a new tutorial about org-mode, GTD using effort, column view and custom agenda commands

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Willard
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Charles Cave wrote: > Over the last few days I have been consolidating my GTD system, > fine tuning my files and understanding some of the subtleties > of the various org-mode features. > > My tutorial is titled "How I use Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD" [snip] Hello Cha

Re: [Orgmode] Using the agenda to calculate how much work I have scheduled

2009-01-16 Thread Christopher DeMarco
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:01:41AM -0600, Matthew Lundin wrote: > Hope this helps, It does; it's awesome. Thanks! -- Christopher DeMarco IT Director MAYA Group +1-412-708-9660 ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send repl

Re: [Orgmode] Using the agenda to calculate how much work I have scheduled

2009-01-16 Thread Christopher DeMarco
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:38:50PM +0530, Manish wrote: > Hope this gives you some ideas if not exactly what you were looking > for. It does indeed. Thanks a ton! -- Christopher DeMarco IT Director MAYA Group +1-412-708-9660 ___ Emacs-orgmode ma

[Orgmode] are elc files portable?

2009-01-16 Thread Bill Raynor
I have several boxes (two macs and one xp - work machine) on which I use org-mode. Can I compile on one and port to the others? They are all intel boxes if that makes a difference. Installing on the macs is a breeze, but XP is a pain, as I don't have cygwin installed there. The two macs are using A

Re: [Orgmode] are elc files portable?

2009-01-16 Thread Christopher DeMarco
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:42:28PM -0600, Bill Raynor wrote: >org-mode. Can I compile on one and port to the others? They are all intel >boxes if that makes a difference. Installing on the macs is a breeze, but Yes, you can move the emacs bytecode from one machine to another *IF* the proc

Re: [Orgmode] Problem with archive location

2009-01-16 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Matt, sure, I can see how this will be useful when pointing a number of files to the same archive. I have implemented this. - Carsten On Jan 11, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote: Hi Carsten, Carsten Dominik writes: Hi Matt, indeed, this is a bug. Fixed now, thanks for the rep

Re: [Orgmode] org-map-entries narrows to subtree

2009-01-16 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jan 11, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Daniel Clemente wrote: Hi. After you eval this (for instance to count the number of headlines under a tree): (org-map-entries 'ignore t 'tree) you end up with a different view of the buffer because (org-narrow- to-subtree) was called. This seems an unwanted s