[Orgmode] Toolbar buttons for common actions (helping emacs newbees)

2010-09-26 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Maybe it's just me, but I think there's no configuration in org-mode to use the emacs (23) toolbar icons/buttons, for basic actions in org. I think it may be helpful for emacs noobies mainly, to have such icons available when in org mode. I'd think of a capture icon, an agenda icon, and mayb

[Orgmode] compiling org without make

2010-09-26 Thread Gez
I'm a beginner on windows and I'm prepared to learn slowly and steadily, but I'm having trouble getting started. I have GNU Emacs 23.2.1 and I'd like to get the latest version of orgmode (my version has no org-capture). I see from http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.php#compiling-org-without-ma

[Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Davison
I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an entry-barrier for new Org users. For example, the first thing users encounter in the man

Re: [Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Thomas S. Dye
On Sep 26, 2010, at 3:33 AM, Dan Davison wrote: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an entry-barrier for new Org users. F

Re: [Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread A. Ryan Reynolds
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Dan Davison wrote: > 2. Then we should lay out an easy route and a full route: >   1. Quick and easy >      Download, set your load-path and (require 'org-install) >      Optionally compile (within emacs[1]?) >      Suggested text below. >   2. Full install >      

[Orgmode] [PATCH] Always run org-insert-heading-hook when creating headlines

2010-09-26 Thread Bernt Hansen
* lisp/org.el (org-insert-heading): Run org-insert-heading-hook when creating the first heading in a file The org-insert-heading-hook was skipped when creating the first heading in a new org file. --- I use an hook which creates an inactive timestamp for new headings. This was reported by k-ma

Re: [Orgmode] FSF Copyright Assignment

2010-09-26 Thread Jambunathan K
Hello Eric Eric> Hi Jambunathan, Eric> Eric> I've finally had a chance to test out this patch, and it's great! Eric> I'd love to apply this to the core Org repository, however given Eric> the size I have to ask, have you (or are you willing to) signed Eric> the FSF papers? Eric> Eric> http://orgm

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Riley
Dan Davison writes: > I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made > more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this > sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an > entry-barrier for new Org users. For example, the first th

Re: [Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread John Hendy
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Dan Davison wrote: > I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made > more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this > sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an > entry-barrier for new Org

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Davison
Hi Richard, Richard Riley writes: > Dan Davison writes: > >> I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made >> more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this >> sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an >> entry-barrier

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Sep 26, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Dan Davison wrote: Hi Richard, Richard Riley writes: Dan Davison writes: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, a

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Riley
Dan Davison writes: > Hi Richard, > > Richard Riley writes: > >> Info files are the issue. The addition to the infopath of the new info >> files is frequently an issue too. I say that because emacs info is my >> nemesis : I have never *properly* understood the way dir files work and >> frequentl

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org-mode screencasts

2010-09-26 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 11:10 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen a écrit : > One thing that would be really excellent is to show keystrokes as you do > the tutorial. I don't know what system you're using, but this link: > > http://screencasters.heathenx.org/blog/2009/04/06/smaller-key-status-moni

Re: [Orgmode] Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

2010-09-26 Thread Jeff Horn
I wanted to mention how great it would be to have an org-mode conference. I know I can't commit to organizing anything, since time and money are both far scarcer than I'd like. But I could see attending something on the East Coast (U.S.). I imagine the key would be having presentations by a few de

Re: [Orgmode] Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

2010-09-26 Thread Bastien
Jeff Horn writes: > I wanted to mention how great it would be to have an org-mode > conference. I agree. If many people support this idea, this is how we could do it: 1. list ideas of things we would do there 2. find out what would be the best location/date 3. figure out how much money does i

Re: [Orgmode] Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

2010-09-26 Thread Bastien
Russell Adams writes: > I think the key point he made through the whole interview was that > normally note taking tools are separate from planning / organizational > tools, and that Org-mode combines both! Note that Carsten mentionned this on his Google Tech Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch

Re: [Orgmode] compiling org without make

2010-09-26 Thread Gez
I got it working, thanks to an offlist message from Don - copied with permission below... Gez - Original Message - From: "Dan Davison" To: "Gez" Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 2:56 PM Subject: Re: compiling org without make > Hi Gez, > > It is possible to use the latest version o

Re: [Orgmode] compiling org without make

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
Hi Gez, "Gez" writes: > 1. How I find out which version of orgmode I have? I'm assuming from > http://orgmode.org/ that it's 6.21b, but is there a way of confirming > this? M-x org-version > 2. Do I need to compile at all? At least in order to get started > learning and using it? No. I n

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists

2010-09-26 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, I've tried the patch today. There are still some easily-fixed glitches (like letters not included in org-cycle-list-bullet, or bullets allowing mixed text and numbers). But, there is apparently one major drawback, as I said in a previous post. If the line starts with a word followed by a d

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Dan Davison writes: > I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made > more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this > sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an > entry-barrier for new Org users. For example, the first th

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [bug] Gnus author in capture templates not working

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Sébastien Vauban wrote: >I now have a full timestamp (date and time) for when the mail has been sent >(or received?). Well... It's the date of the Date: header field ;) What it is set to depends on the sender; that's why it is not really a reliable piece of information one should use for schedu

Re: [Orgmode] Re: bug with spaces in regexp search

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Samuel Wales wrote: >Why is that important? Noorul tried to reproduce the bug, but couldn't. Trying to reproduce a reported bug is (sometimes) important for the developers. Best, -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 Jabber dmj...@jabber.org Email. dm...@ictsoc.de pgpSyHKCS9ak5.p

Re: [Orgmode] Re: bug with spaces in regexp search

2010-09-26 Thread Samuel Wales
The bug has been fixed, so the following is moot. Ah, but he didn't . :) Hence my question. :) I appreciated the effort to help, but I was wondering what he was trying to say, because he used strings instead of regexps and he used different settings for both variables. The bug was with regexp

Re: [Orgmode] Re: bug with spaces in regexp search

2010-09-26 Thread Samuel Wales
In other words, I was wondering why he reported the failure to reproduce a bug that I did not report on. Perhaps he had some other point he was making. Or perhaps he was confused about what the bug was. Hence my question. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing lis

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Davison
Achim Gratz writes: > Dan Davison writes: > >> I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made >> more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this >> sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an >> entry-barrier for new Org use

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Sebastian Rose wrote: >David Maus writes: >>> sh$ man utf-8 >> >> Thanks! I finally get a grip on one of my personal nightmares. >It's not that bad, is it? :D Even better: It makes sense ;) >> The attached patch is the first step in this direction: It modifies >> the algorithm of `org-link-

[Orgmode] Re: Org-mode screencasts

2010-09-26 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
Eric Abrahamsen ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > > One thing that would be really excellent is to show keystrokes as you do > the tutorial. I don't know what system you're using, but this link: > > http://screencasters.heathenx.org/blog/2009/04/06/smaller-key-status-monitor/ > > > Rustom Mody wrote:

Re: [Orgmode] Embedding images as data: URIs in the HTML exporter (was: MathJax is now the default for HTML math)

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
Jan Böcker wrote: >On 09/03/2010 05:07 AM, s...@blarg.net wrote: >> How about doing the same data: URI embedding for images in the HTML >> exporter? It should be possible to implement it entirely inside >> Emacs. It would have to be optional, of course. >> >> Derek >> >This is certainly possib

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Dan Davison writes: > OK, so we're agreed. But your points below don't seem to describe a less > technical route. Could you describe the less technical version of the > instructions for the method that you are advocating? Installing is something technical and I'm a tech-head, so you're asking som

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Adam
On Monday 27 September 2010 02:52 am, Dan Davison wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Richard Riley writes: > > Dan Davison writes: > >> I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made > >> more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this > >> sound much harder t

Re: [Orgmode] FSF Copyright Assignment

2010-09-26 Thread Eric Schulte
Jambunathan K writes: > Hello Eric > > Eric> Hi Jambunathan, > Eric> > Eric> I've finally had a chance to test out this patch, and it's great! > Eric> I'd love to apply this to the core Org repository, however given > Eric> the size I have to ask, have you (or are you willing to) signed > Eric> t

[Orgmode] ELPA [WAS] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Dan Davison
Achim Gratz writes: > Dan Davison writes: >> OK, so we're agreed. But your points below don't seem to describe a less >> technical route. Could you describe the less technical version of the >> instructions for the method that you are advocating? > > Installing is something technical and I'm a t

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Rémi Vanicat
Richard Riley writes: > You have no idea how pleased I am to hear you say that ... I sometimes > wondered if I should go back to notepad ;) When asking the #emacs irc it > seemed I was the only one in the world that constantly had issues. Of > course mentioning "Debian" immediately saw me get the

[Orgmode] saving property values when archiving

2010-09-26 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
When an item is archived to a new location, inherited tags are saved, but inherited properties are not. Was there a reason for this, or just not yet implemented? Thanks, ilya ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
>>The binary representation of 127 is 0111 and valid ascii char. DEL >>actually (sh$ man ascii) > > Right, and that's why it is encoded: No control characters in a URI. Great ! :) > The final algorithm for the shiny new unicode aware percent encoding > function would be: > > - percent enco

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists

2010-09-26 Thread Nathaniel Flath
> But, there is apparently one major drawback, as I said in a previous > post. If the line starts with a word followed by a dot or a > parenthesis, Org will see a bullet there. This is bad news because the > following line will be indented, or a M-RET will delete the word, > replacing it with a) or

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
David Maus writes: > Sebastian Rose wrote: >>David Maus writes: sh$ man utf-8 >>> >>> Thanks! I finally get a grip on one of my personal nightmares. > > >>It's not that bad, is it? :D > > Even better: It makes sense ;) > >>> The attached patch is the first step in this direction: It modif

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
rrrggrgrggrgr premature and wrong patch, sorry. Again against master: diff --git a/lisp/org-protocol.el b/lisp/org-protocol.el index 21f28e7..d69d584 100644 --- a/lisp/org-protocol.el +++ b/lisp/org-protocol.el @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ part." (defun org-protocol-unhex-string(str) "Unhe

Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread Sebastian Rose
Also I guess the decoding is secure. Means we could change the comment of this function: (defun org-protocol-unhex-compound (hex) "Unhexify unicode hex-chars. E.g. `%C3%B6' is the German Umlaut `ö'. Note: this function falls back on single byte decoding if a character sequence is not valid utf

[Orgmode] Re: Problem with PROPERTIES :OPTIONS: when exporting subtree

2010-09-26 Thread Matt Lundin
Rainer M Krug writes: > Hi > > I hava a problem with exporting to LaTeX. > > I want to export a table to latex. I put it into a subtree, containing > only the table, i.e. no headers, as I want to include it into another > document. I thought, that using the :OPTIONS: property, I can disable > the

[PATCH] Re: [Orgmode] [bug] org-link-escape and (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
> Also I guess the decoding is secure. Means we could change the > comment of this function: > (defun org-protocol-unhex-compound (hex) > "Unhexify unicode hex-chars. E.g. `%C3%B6' is the German Umlaut `ö'. > Note: this function falls back on single byte decoding if a > character sequence is n

[Orgmode] [PATCH] Decode single byte sequence if decoding unicode failed.

2010-09-26 Thread David Maus
From: Sebastian Rose * org-protocol.el (org-protocol-unhex-single-byte-sequence): New function. Decode hex-encoded singly byte sequences. (org-protocol-unhex-compound): Use new function if decoding sequence as unicode character failed. --- lisp/org-protocol.el | 26 +++---

[Orgmode] Re: bug with spaces in regexp search

2010-09-26 Thread Noorul Islam K M
Samuel Wales writes: > The bug has been fixed, so the following is moot. > > Ah, but he didn't . :) Hence my question. :) > > I appreciated the effort to help, but I was wondering what he was > trying to say, because he used strings instead of regexps and he used > different settings for both

[Orgmode] Re: [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Riley
Rémi Vanicat writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> You have no idea how pleased I am to hear you say that ... I sometimes >> wondered if I should go back to notepad ;) When asking the #emacs irc it >> seemed I was the only one in the world that constantly had issues. Of >> course mentioning "Debi

Re: [Orgmode] [PROPOSAL] Quick and easy installation instructions

2010-09-26 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Sep 26, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Dan Davison wrote: I think that the documentation concerning installation should be made more user-friendly. My impression is that the Org manual makes all this sound much harder than it needs to be, and I suspect that this is an entry-barrier for new Org users.

Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists

2010-09-26 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
> Nathaniel Flath writes: >> But, there is apparently one major drawback, as I said in a >> previous post. If the line starts with a word followed by a dot or >> a parenthesis, Org will see a bullet there. This is bad news >> because the following line will be indented, or a M-RET will delete