Re: [O] org-ref in action

2014-06-26 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all off topic a bit again. im an academic (asst. prof) in Epidemiology and have been using org-mode for about a year now. i love using org but im really not very technical at all. it has always been a dream for me to ditch word and move over to Latex and even better orgmode to write my scientif

[O] a quick way to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

2014-07-17 Thread Xebar Saram
hi all i keep once and a while screwing up my notes with unintended editing (erroneous key presses etc) and was wondering if any one knew of a way to to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing? i have used such options in previous note taking apps that had that option build in but i underst

Re: [O] a quick way to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

2014-07-17 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx Thorston this looks great can you recommend a way to open all orgmode notes in view mode by default, i guess i would then bind a key to disable view mode to start editing right? thanks alot again Z On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: >

Re: [O] a quick way to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

2014-07-17 Thread Xebar Saram
PS. Also can anyone think of a way to get a visual cue when the file is in "view mode"? thx! Z On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Xebar Saram wrote: > Thx Thorston this looks great > > can you recommend a way to open all orgmode notes in view mode by default, > i guess i

Re: [O] a quick way to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

2014-07-17 Thread Xebar Saram
Thanks guys. really appreciate all your help im now using view-mode with hooks as suggested. btw whats the advantages of viewer-mode over read-only-mode best Z On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo < jorge.a.alf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > >

Re: [O] a quick way to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

2014-07-18 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx again all, really cool. one last question. anyone mind pasting code to revert an open buffer to read only when idle for lets say 5 minutes? thx alot! Z On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Thanks guys. really appreciate a

Re: [O] a quick way to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

2014-07-18 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx Thorsten i tried that but that dosent seem to work :) any way i can try to debug this (i apologize in advance for my zero lisp knowledge :) best Z On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Thx again all, really cool. > > >

Re: [O] a quick way to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?

2014-07-18 Thread Xebar Saram
, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Thx Thorsten > > > > i tried that but that dosent seem to work :) any way i can try to > > debug this (i apologize in advance for my zero lisp knowledge :) > > it actually worked, but

[O] working with tables freezes emacs

2014-07-26 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i was wondering if anyone else have had these problems (using latest emacs and org-mode from git): whenever i start working with tables and start editing a cell emacs starts freezing, all emacscleint instances are frozen and i have to kill emacs to get things back to work anyone else encou

[O] error in only text exporter

2014-07-28 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi list for some reason exporting to txt dosent work here. all other options (html,pdf etc) work. in the message window i get: concat: Wrong type argument: wholenump, auto anyway i can get more info on this and try to figure out whats going on? thx! Z

[O] per file org-todo-keywords?

2014-07-29 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i would like to know if its possible to have per file org-todo-keywords? i know you can have custom TODO states in the top of the file/buffer but then you loose the fast access to TODO states tight? currently i have something like this: (setq org-todo-keywords (quote ((sequence "TODO(t)"

Re: [O] error in only text exporter

2014-07-29 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi again i really would appreciate any help here (i know im a neewb :) ). all but the text exporter works. can someone guide me on how to start debugging this? thx Z On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Xebar Saram wrote: > Hi list > > for some reason exporting to txt dosent work

[O] some lisp help (for complete 0-knowledge lisp emacs user :))

2014-07-29 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi list so i know i should start to really learn lisp but real life (uni work, family etc) doesn't really allow me so im marking my 1st year anniversary of using emacs without grasping lisp (plus i am in generally coding inept :)) in any case :) i have this handy lisp snippet that i find very

Re: [O] some lisp help (for complete 0-knowledge lisp emacs user :))

2014-07-29 Thread Xebar Saram
block :) thanks and sorry for PM Z On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > why a PM??? > > > Thx Thorsten > > > > this works very well for code blocks. it seems though that for normal > > text paragraphs it dos

Re: [O] Elisp function for wrapping sexp or region in src-block (was Re: some lisp help)

2014-07-29 Thread Xebar Saram
something wrong? thx alot again, i hope other people will find it as useful as i do (i literally use it 20-30 times a day) On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Thorsten Jolitz writes: > > > Xebar Saram writes: > > This is what I got in my init.el now (imp

Re: [O] Elisp function for wrapping sexp or region in src-block (was Re: some lisp help)

2014-07-29 Thread Xebar Saram
hi i fell like an idiot but what is RFC, is that a repo of some sorts, would you mind pasting a link? sorry about that Z On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Xebar Saram wrote: > Hi again > > looks great but i think there may be a bug. if there is 1 line then issues > the function w

Re: [O] Elisp function for wrapping sexp or region in src-block (was Re: some lisp help)

2014-07-29 Thread Xebar Saram
ok ignore above email, i just saw the previous email..damm gmail..grrr z On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Xebar Saram wrote: > hi i fell like an idiot but what is RFC, is that a repo of some sorts, > would you mind pasting a link? > > sorry about that > > Z > > > O

Re: [O] Elisp function for wrapping sexp or region in src-block (was Re: some lisp help)

2014-07-29 Thread Xebar Saram
Thorsten, thats amazing! thanks so much , really appreciate this i hope other people will also find it useful kind regards Z On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Xebar Saram wrote: > ok ignore above email, i just saw the previous email..damm gmail..grrr > > z > > > On Tue, Ju

Re: [O] [RFC] Add commmand for wrapping sexp/region in src-blocks to Org?

2014-08-02 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi Thorsten and list How are you? small question. ive been using your amazing function daily last few days and been lovin' it :) i wonder if i could request a tiny related feature (this may be very easy to do already). i would like to assign hotkeys for 2 scenarios: 1) pre selected language for

Re: [O] org-ref in action

2014-08-05 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all the github link seems dead, anyone knows where one could get and try org-ref from? z On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Joseph Vidal-Rosset < joseph.vidal.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Eric, it works now, with the latest version of org-mode. > > Best wishes > > Jo. > > > 2014-06-30 12

Re: [O] org-ref in action

2014-08-06 Thread Xebar Saram
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:08 AM, John Kitchin wrote: > Hi, it got moved in a re-organization to > https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/org/org-ref.org. > > Sorry for the inconvenience! > > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Hi all > > > > the github link s

Re: [O] [RFC] Add commmand for wrapping sexp/region in src-blocks to Org?

2014-08-06 Thread Xebar Saram
thanks Thorsten its perfect z On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > Hi Xebar, > > > small question. > > sorry for the late answer > > > i wonder if i could request a tiny related feature (this may be very > >

Re: [O] [RFC] Add commmand for wrapping sexp/region in src-blocks to Org?

2014-08-06 Thread Xebar Saram
that sounds great :) looking forward to the next iterations ;-) thanks again for all your hard work Z On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > thanks Thorsten > > > > its perfect > > well, not perfect yet since, as

Re: [O] MobileOrg

2014-08-06 Thread Xebar Saram
Shame ive been using it for the past few months (took me a loong time to setup as the documentation is really hard to follow). i really would love to see mobile org developed as having my orgmode data on the go is really crucial best Z On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Alexis wrote: > > Subhan

Re: [O] MobileOrg documentation?

2014-08-07 Thread Xebar Saram
"Not looking for complete org functionality in my phone -- just a reasonable ability to edit org outlines while I'm on the road." +1 :) z On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:53 AM, David Masterson wrote: > jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: > > > David Masterson writes: > >

Re: [O] Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development ....

2014-08-08 Thread Xebar Saram
Would love to see a reboot and further development on org-mobile. I am not a developer myself but would love to help out with testing , writing documentation etc best Z On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Alexis wrote: > > Hi all, > > In light of recent discussions about 'MobileOrg' - which seemi

Re: [O] Managing web bookmarks using Org-mode

2014-08-10 Thread Xebar Saram
sounds great could you paste a link to your blog post? best z On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Karl Voit wrote: > Hi! > > I just summarized and blogged my work-flows to capture web bookmarks > from Android (MobileOrg) and within Emacs/Org-mode. I manage them > within Org-mode which replaced

Re: [O] MobileOrg documentation?

2014-08-13 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx Jason just tried gnuroot. its very nice but i think would be useful for rare cases where you really need the full power of emacs/org since its a bit cumbersome to fire the whole debian>emacs>open a org note just to enter a quick capture :). do you have any tips on speeding things up etc? anyw

Re: [O] Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development ....

2014-08-14 Thread Xebar Saram
would LOVE to try it as well thx! z On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo < jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu> wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> Henning Weiss writes: >> >>> I have been working over the last couple of months on a private >>> prototype. I'm currently using i

[O] new to exporting: how to export to a specific location (aromatically?)

2014-08-17 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi list im new (in general and to exporting in particular). I have a few questions: 1.how does one specify a location where exported files go? can one set this per file or perhaps per export type etc? 2. can one auto export files when saved/changed etc? 3. i cant understand the difference so m

[O] publish to ascii/utf8 dosent work anymore?

2014-08-17 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi list i manage to export using the publish function for html. i really want actually to publih to txt and found these function in the mailing list: org-publish-org-to-ascii org-publish-org-to-latin1 org-publish-org-to-utf8 i have tried using them instead of html but got this error: funcall: S

Re: [O] publish to ascii/utf8 dosent work anymore?

2014-08-17 Thread Xebar Saram
w i would use it (do i replace the publishing function line?) best z On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Rasmus wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Hi list > > > > i manage to export using the publish function for html. i really want > > actually to publih to txt and

Re: [O] publish to ascii/utf8 dosent work anymore?

2014-08-17 Thread Xebar Saram
Perfect! that solved my issues thanks alot all! z On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Hi list > > > > i manage to export using the publish function for html. i really want > actually to publih to txt and found these f

Re: [O] [ANN] org-dp-wrap-in-block

2014-08-19 Thread Xebar Saram
thx Thorsten this is great! will use it over the next few days and report bug (if any) that i find best Z On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > > Hi List, > > I've written the "eierlegende Wollmilchsau" of wrap-in-block functions > (i.e. the 'all-inclusive mother of all

[O] searching across all/multiple org files

2014-10-05 Thread Xebar Saram
hi list im looking for a way to do a simple search (though i could see times where a org headline search would work) across multiple org file. what would be nice is defining a folder before that has org files and search there any ideas on this anyone? thx alot in advance Z

Re: [O] [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly)

2015-01-22 Thread Xebar Saram
thx! i am excited about any org android app :) will try it when i get home Z On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Neven wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if considered spammish, but since it has been mentioned yesterday > and it might interest some Android users out there... > > *NOTE* It's about an app whi

[O] A simple way to search only headlines

2013-06-01 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi guys i was wondering if anyone knew of a way to search for text only in headlines and not the whole document? if not is it something one can put a feature request for? kind regards z.

[O] Use of a double symbol (IE !!) in for org-emphasis-alist?

2013-06-01 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all Can one use a double symbol for org-emphasis-alist IE, !! instead of ! to get more color combinations? i cant seem to get this working so im wondering if this is something possible? best z

[O] Differnet bg/fg by code block type

2013-06-01 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i am using a theme that allows to customize the org-mode bg/fg colors for various aspects of the code block IE `(org-block-background ((,class (:background "#E0" `(org-block-begin-line ((,class (:underline "#A7A6AA" :foreground "#55" :background "#E2E1D5" `(org-block-

Re: [O] A simple way to search only headlines

2013-06-03 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx Seb and Tassilo That's great ,i appreciate it! Seb, is there a way to quick bind a key to the above series of commands? best Z On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > Tassilo Horn wrote: > > Xebar Saram writes: > > > >> i was wonderi

[O] BUG (?): org capture insist *.org file changed in disk, wipes file each time

2013-06-05 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all Im having serious issues with org-capture, ive tried everything i can think of including advice on #emacs but can find a solution/whats causing this. So the issue is this. i have org mode configured and working well (see below config). the thing is that after the 2nd or 3rd capture (to cre

Re: [O] BUG (?): org capture insist *.org file changed in disk, wipes file each time

2013-06-07 Thread Xebar Saram
as i have been fighting this for over a week with no solution :( best Z On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Marc Ihm wrote: > Hi Z. > > Sorry, but cannot think of a proper cause of your troubles other than > dropbox. > > I do not use dropbox, but only rsync for synchronisat

Re: [O] A simple way to search only headlines

2013-06-07 Thread Xebar Saram
Thank you both Thorsten and Seb, i really appreciate the help! Seb, you wrote: The programming equivalent to C-c a s is: (org-agenda nil "s") That's what you'd have to bind to a key (using a "lambda" function). im a complete neewb and dont really have any idea on how to do the above, can yo

Re: [O] Differnet bg/fg by code block type

2013-06-07 Thread Xebar Saram
should one file that request? (mailing list, bug tracker etc?) best wishes all and have a great weekend! Z On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Xebar Saram wrote: > > Hi all > > i am using a theme that allows to customize the org-mode bg/fg colors for various aspects of the code block

Re: [O] A simple way to search only headlines

2013-06-07 Thread Xebar Saram
50 PM, Richard Lawrence < richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Thank you both Thorsten and Seb, i really appreciate the help! > > > > Seb, you wrote: The programming equivalent to C-c a s is: > > > > (org-agenda nil &quo

[O] org-emphasis-alist not saved/loaded

2013-06-15 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all I am having issues all of a sudden with org-emphasis-alist. it used to work perfectly until a few days ago. now it wont load the prev org-emphasis-alistdefinitions and wont save new ones. i use an org file as my . emacs with a simple init. here are the init and .emacs org file: https://pas

[O] auto pack empty space between headers?

2013-06-29 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi list i seem to get alot of times empty spaces between some org sections (between headers and sub-headers). I can manually to each sub heading and manually delete all empty lines at the end of the section. i was wondering if there was any command to auto pack empty space between headers? best

[O] auto pack empty space between headers?

2013-06-29 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi list does any one know of a way to auto insert and change the date in each sections header when the section is edited?IE have a date in the header showing last edited date. is this technically possible? best Z

[O] advice needed: how do you guys sync org files between devices?

2013-07-01 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all I have been using dropbox since i started using orgmode a few weeks ago (yeah im a neewb :)), which kinda works but i find it very annoying as it keeps creating conflicted copies, isnt reliable on my Linux main machine etc etc.. I was wondering what you guys do for syncing org files betwee

Re: [O] advice needed: how do you guys sync org files between devices?

2013-07-02 Thread Xebar Saram
Wow thx guys, so many great tips ill slowly start looking into them. as i said i am a neewb (and not to technical :)). Alan, a unison guide focused on org would be great as some of the guys mentioned. best to all and thx alot for the info its truly helpful take care -Itai On Tue, Jul 2, 2013

Re: [O] advice needed: how do you guys sync org files between devices?

2013-07-08 Thread Xebar Saram
-itai On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Christopher Allan Webber < cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote: > Ian Barton writes: > > > On 01/07/13 13:06, Xebar Saram wrote: > >> Hi all > >> > >> I have been using dropbox since i started using orgmode a few weeks ago

[O] shortcut to create a heading already with todo included

2013-07-23 Thread Xebar Saram
Hya guys i know this is probably a silly question but does anyone know how to make a shortcut that inserts a heading which already includes a TODO state? i have a main file named todo.org in which all heading are todos. each time i need to do a 2 step process: add heading and then add a todo stat

[O] style the tags with colors in theme

2013-07-23 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all does anyone know how (if there is a way) to style the tags with colors in a theme? IE to have tags with a different fg/bg from default and even better yet to define a different color for each tag? best Itai

Re: [O] style the tags with colors in theme

2013-07-24 Thread Xebar Saram
t; > best > > > > z > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira < > > darc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I use the code below for the ATTACH tag > >> > >> --8<---

Re: [O] auto pack empty space between headers?

2013-07-24 Thread Xebar Saram
nter : ^C-qC-jC-qC-j+ (as the what to replace) and press return the replace with i enter: C-qC-j and press return and the message is replace 0 occurrences is that correct? appreciate your help as always On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Bastien wrote: > Hi Xebar, > > Xebar S

[O] Auto insert and change date in header?

2013-07-24 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi list does any one know of a way to auto insert/change the date in each sections header when the section is edited?IE have a date in the header showing last edited date. Is this technically possible? best Z

[O] orgmode and academic conferences advice needed: how to integrate orgmode to capture ideas/data

2013-08-20 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all im currently in Basel in a Academic conference and was thinking how one would "absorb" all the torrents of ideas/data/images/conversations quickly into org mode :) does any one have any real life experience with this? do you use mobile-org or that, or another method? i have an andorid phone

[O] need help with complicated idea>send/export org header+content to email/other (for cooking in kitchen :) )

2013-09-13 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all and sorry about the complicated topic :) among the many many many things i use org for is to collect cooking recipes :) i have zero coding knowledge and my emacs understanding is limited :) what i basically wanted to ask is if anyone could show me a simple function (at least it seems like

[O] create a quick key/command to directly attach a image file from a specific folder

2013-09-13 Thread Xebar Saram
Hya as title says im looking for a way to bind a hotkey or a command to allow me to directly attach a image file from a specific folder. IE im going to put all my org image files to be viewed inline in my notes in ~/org/images/ and want a key to directly pop up this dir and let me choose from it a

[O] create a sparse tree by TODO and property? possible?

2013-09-17 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all can one create a sparse tree using 2 queries, In particular i want to create a sparse tree that has all heading marked TODO and that have a specific property i set IE: :PROPERTIES: :food_type: indian :END: so i would like sparse tree for example to show 'indian' property but also TODO stat

[O] export error "unknown marker at"

2013-09-17 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i tried this with various org mode files i have and its always the same. whenever i go to export an org mode file via C-c C-e i get the following error: "unknown marker at X" where X is different from file to file. i go to line X in each file and take a look but nothing seems out of the or

Re: [O] create a sparse tree by TODO and property? possible?

2013-09-17 Thread Xebar Saram
at 23:33, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:15:14PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > >> > >> On 17.9.2013, at 13:48, Xebar Saram wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all > >>> > >>> can one create a sparse tree using 2 queri

[O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-10-03 Thread Xebar Saram
hi all so after struggling for weeks to figure out why i always get an error when exporting i finally nailed the issue: org-emphasis-alist. i have alot of them (see below) and use them in orgmode quite often. is this a bug or if you want to use the exporter you should avoid using org-emphasis-alis

Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-10-04 Thread Xebar Saram
areas/lines. any help would be greatly appreciated! best guys Itai On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Bastien wrote: > Hi Xebar, > > Xebar Saram writes: > > > so after struggling for weeks to figure out why i always get an error > > when exporting i finally nailed the issu

Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-10-04 Thread Xebar Saram
with font-lock? i really appreciate your help! z On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Bastien wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > as you said i just want to highlight (BG/FG) specific areas/lines. > > any help would be greatly appreciated! > > E.g. you can do this to hi

Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-10-04 Thread Xebar Saram
Thank you so much Eric that works well apart from as you said it sometime "spills" over to other uneeded lines. any idea of how to limit the number of newlines that the regexp can match? really appreciate the help z. On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >

Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-10-05 Thread Xebar Saram
y itself best wishes and thx again Z On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Thank you so much Eric > > > > that works well apart from as you said it sometime "spills" over to > > other uneeded lines. an

Re: [O] Drag images from Firefox to org-mode

2013-10-16 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx Oleh ,This is really amazing! Ive been waiting for ages for something like this. a few questions (well ok"requests" :)..) if you dont mind. please bare in mind i have zero coding skills (or understanding so my questions may be stupid :)) 1.i use alot of images and :in alot of headings and sub

Re: [O] make doc fails at PDF: "pdftex exited with bad status"

2013-10-17 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi Alan i had exactly the same issue that drove me mad this solved this for me: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166163 let me know if you need any help! best Z. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > On my Archlinux box with up to date texlive, and a newly clon

[O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-22 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i decided to dive into the deep water and get rid of M$ word once and for all. I'm still an org novice but since i love org i choose org for the task. I'm trying to write a simple guidebook for my students in a GIS course. Everything works great apart for the life of me i cant get the hang

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-22 Thread Xebar Saram
is line at the start: #+OPTIONS:\n:nil is that ^^ syntax correct? best Z On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:55:12AM +0200, Xebar Saram wrote: > > > > I'm trying to write a simple guidebook for my students in a GIS course. > > Eve

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-22 Thread Xebar Saram
text towards the lines end Appreciate all the help from everyone. thanks alot! z. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Thank you all > > > > "I think `org-export-preserve-breaks' is the option you want.

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx again Eric i actually like using the example block but as you mentioned i think the text is cut at the end when you export it , is there anyway to make the exporter auto wrap lines inside example blocks? best z On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Xebar Sa

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-23 Thread Xebar Saram
i really hate manually having to add the '-' at the start of each page and then also indenting each line, is there a solution for that? i really appreciate all the help, you guys are great help! z. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Glyn Millington wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: &

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-24 Thread Xebar Saram
Thank you all ill try the Latex list suggestion over the weekend as i have Zero Latex knowledge so ill try to dig into it a bit Best z. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hello Xebar, > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 01:37:31PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > &

Re: [O] trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

2013-10-26 Thread Xebar Saram
(latex i guess) auto wrap lines? thx alot Z On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Xebar Saram wrote: > Thank you all > > ill try the Latex list suggestion over the weekend as i have Zero Latex > knowledge so ill try to dig into it a bit > > Best > > z. > > > On Thu, Oc

Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-11-02 Thread Xebar Saram
bold) t instead of the original (font-lock-add-keywords 'org-mode '(("\\(₆[^₆\n]+₆\\)" (0 '(:foreground "#00" :underline t :background "#FF9AEA" :weight ultra-bold) t again i apologize for my regrex ignorance :) best Z On Sun

Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-11-02 Thread Xebar Saram
your help On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Hi again all > > > > i have been using the before discussed font lock with great success > > over the past few weeks, thx alot for that tip! > > > > one short question

Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-11-03 Thread Xebar Saram
; ;test > > (font-lock-add-keywords > > 'org-mode > > '(("\b[Ss]alt\\b)" (0 '(:weight ultra-bold :foregroun "#FF9800") > > t > > Looks like you're missing a backslash at the beginning of the regexp -- > make sure it reads "\\b...

Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

2013-11-03 Thread Xebar Saram
hehe, works like a charm now :) thx again Eric! have a great day Z On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Thank you Eric and Jambunathan > > > > Eric: i tried with the added backslash but that dosent seem to work >

[O] hide leading starts in a specific sub-tree in an org file

2013-11-26 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i know there is an option to hiding leading stars in outline headings, and for indenting outlines. i was wondering if there is an option to do so for a specific header and sub headers (like can be done for some properties etc.. in example have these 2 structures in 1 org file * header 1 *

Re: [O] exporting a shopping list to my android phone?

2013-11-28 Thread Xebar Saram
would also be very interested in such a workflow! z On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Matt Price wrote: > I just asked this question I guess, but: I do most everything in org, > including composing shopping and packing lists, and so forth. > Occasionally I would like to access these on my pho

Re: [O] Capture questions

2015-09-25 Thread Xebar Saram
anyone? thx so much in advance Z On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Xebar Saram wrote: > Hi all! > > I finally had time to properly setup capture for orgmode and i have a few > questions > > 1) can one define default and/or completion values for capture properties > in the

[O] cant get todos with #A priorities to show up first with dispatcher

2015-09-25 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i use the orgmode's dispatcher to show my todos per file. for some reason i cant get the #A priorities to show up first. here is what i have in my config: ("f" "food" todo "COOK" ( (org-agenda-files '("~/org/files/agenda/food.org")) (org-agenda-sorting-strateg

[O] a link to launch a todo view?

2015-09-26 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi list I was wondering if one can use a orgmode link to launch (via C-c o) a defined todo view (ie dispatcher t). anyone has done anything like that before? best Z

Re: [O] a link to launch a todo view?

2015-09-26 Thread Xebar Saram
Thx so much Nick so something like this: [[elisp:(org-agenda)][TO-COOK]] this will bring up the dispatcher, how does one make it auto issue lets say 'w' in the dispatcher thx so much Z

Re: [O] a link to launch a todo view?

2015-09-26 Thread Xebar Saram
perfect! thx z On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote: > 2015-09-26 20:42 GMT+02:00 Xebar Saram : > > > > so something like this: > > > > [[elisp:(org-agenda)][TO-COOK]] > > > > this will bring up the dispatcher, how does one make

[O] convert a simple list of lines each to a orgmode header

2015-09-28 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all im looking for a simple way to convert a simple list of lines (i can mark it first if needed) each to a orgmode header anyone has such a way? best Z

Re: [O] convert a simple list of lines each to a orgmode header

2015-09-29 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi Nick well yes i guess :) . but would be cool if this small function was org aware and thus the asteriks (org header) level would be auto set to the current sub level. thx z On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Nick Dokos wrote: > Xebar Saram writes: > > > Hi all > > &g

Re: [O] convert a simple list of lines each to a orgmode header

2015-09-30 Thread Xebar Saram
C-c * is perfect! thx so much z On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Michael Strey wrote: > On Mo, 2015-09-28 at 18:52, Xebar Saram wrote: > > > im looking for a simple way to convert a simple list of lines (i can > > mark it first if needed) each to a orgmode header > &g

[O] anyone syncing orgmode calendar with google cal, and if so how?

2015-10-04 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i was wondering if anyone was syncing orgmode calendar with google cal, and if so how? i tried this https://github.com/myuhe/org-gcal.el/issues which gave errors all the time and thus stopped being usable im looking for a robust solution. any ideas? best Z

[O] multi letter agenda commands

2015-10-11 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all im wondering if anyone knows a way (or if its possible at all) to have multi letter agenda commands, for example ("fc" "to cook" tags "Cuisine=\"American\"" ( (org-agenda-files '("~/org/files/agenda/food.org")) (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down)) ;; Sort

Re: [O] multi letter agenda commands

2015-10-11 Thread Xebar Saram
How did i forget about hydra :) perfect, thx so much! Z

[O] using org-agenda-view-columns-initially option, needs double quit to leave agenda?

2015-10-12 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all i discovered today the 'org-agenda-view-columns-initially' option and really like it. one annoying issue is that after i launch my agenda view , in order to exit the agenda view i need to press 'q' twice. once to leave the column view which gets me back to the agenda view (non column) and

Re: [O] line numbers in org src blocks?

2015-10-12 Thread Xebar Saram
I would also love something like that best Z On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:25 PM, John Kitchin wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to get line numbering only in code > blocks in an org-file? > > -- > Professor John Kitchin > Doherty Hall A207F > Department of Chemical Engineering > Carneg

[O] function to cycle through specific org files?

2015-10-18 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all I know this should be easy (for anyone that knows elisp that is :)). how does one create a function that cycles up/down through a list of pre defined buffers/files? for example i want to cycle (ie open and show in the emacs window) through: A.org B.org C.org i want to use ie A-left and A-ri

[O] preparing a R course in org for slides..can i link back to org document?

2015-10-19 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi all I am building an introduction to R course using org (and now org-reveal!). in some slide i show code blocks and would like to show the students the actual run of the code. I was wondering if anyone knew if there is a way to press a link in my reveal slide show that would take me to the cor

[O] a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new line than "\\"?

2015-10-19 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi This maybe a really stupid neewb question, but when im writing my slides and course homework in org and export to reveal html, pdf etc i always get all lines stitched together and the only way i managed to get over this is use a "\\" sign at the end of EACH line. this is really cumbersome. I wo

Re: [O] a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new line than "\\"?

2015-10-19 Thread Xebar Saram
Thanks so much Eric that helped me alot :) appreciate it Z On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Monday, 19 Oct 2015 at 16:10, Xebar Saram wrote: > > Hi > > > > This maybe a really stupid neewb question, but when im writing my slides > > and

[O] prompt for deadline in capture template?

2015-10-22 Thread Xebar Saram
Hi guys i looked in the capture docu but couldn't seem to find it. anyone knows how to prompt for deadline in capture template? thx! Z

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