Gregory Grubbs writes:
I like to make org-mode tables in arbitrary buffers, then
save them as CVS files. The export fails when done from a
buffer with no associated file.
Here's a little patch that allows exporting a table from
any buffer (org-mode version 6.28trans):
Changing the priority of a task when the point is after the heading
(anywhere inside the task) worked but aligning the tags failed with
a "not on a heading" error due to the save-excursion not including
the tag alignment. This change moves back to the heading and
includes that during tag alignment to remove the error text.
Patch by Bernt Hansen.
Hsiu-Khuern writes:
> Hi all,
>
> The footnote at the bottom of section 13.1.4 ("Publishing
> action") of the Org manual says that publishing org files to
> the same directory using org-publish-org-to-org results in
> files named like file-source.org. It actually results in
> file.org-source, which is not as nice. I believe the
> problem is in the org-export-as-org function in org-exp.el.
Write \n instead of \xa in the regexp, this is clearer.
And make the \n optional so that also lines at the end of
the buffers will still be matched as headlines.
A relative row reference like @-1 in a table may now reach across a
horizontal separator line. I hope this will not break any important
tables out there, but I think it is the right thing to do.
The original reason for not-crossing was to implement running
averages of one column in the next. This can now be done using field
formulas near the beginning and end of the column, and a column
formula for the central part.
See the variable `org-table-relative-ref-may-cross-hline' for more
details.
Emacs recently (when?) changed the abbreviated format for days.
The clock was confused when trying to mach this format. This patch
by Nicolas Goaziou fixes it.
Brenton Kenkel writes:
> I'm using org-mode 6.28e on Aquamacs (based on GNU Emacs
> 22.3.1) on Mac OS X. I'm having an issue with horizontal
> rules and lists in HTML export. When I export the following
> to HTML, the horizontal rule tag is generated within the
> unordered list, rather than after it ends:
>
> ,-----
> | * test
> |
> | - this is a list
> |
> |
> | -----
> |
> | * next section
> |
> | No list.
> |
> |
> | -----
> |
> `-----
>
> I want the first horizontal rule to be even with the second;
> namely, extending all the way to the left. Any way to do
> this?
This commit defines three new functions in org-timer.el:
- org-timer-set-timer, bound to `C-c C-x ;' in Org buffers
and to `;' in Org agenda buffers. This function sets a
timer for the headline the cursor is currently it. Up to
three timers can be set.
- org-timer-show-remaining-time: this shows the remaining
time for the last set timer.
- org-timer-reset-timers: this reset all timers.
This functionality was requested by Samuel Wales and emulates
that of tea-time.el -- see the emacswiki doc about tea-time.el:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/tea-time
When org-provide-todo-statistics is set to 'all-headlines, the
statistics are performed against all headlines, including those
with no TODO keyword.
This was requested by David A. Gershman.
Using :timetamp t as an option in a clock report now allows
insertion of the timestamp for the clocked entry. Timestamps
are searched for in this order: SCHEDULING, TIMESTAMP, DEADLINE
and TIMESTAMP_IA.
Allow whitespace in code references. Allow the -r switch to remove the
references in the source code even when the lines are not numbered: the
labels can be explicit enough. Note that "-r -k" is the same than no
switch - as expected.
Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for bring this up.
Non-nil means modify the regexp in org-set-font-lock-defaults so
that headlines are fontified till the end of the line. This is
useful when setting a background color for the org-level-* faces.
This defaults to nil so that the old behavior is preserved.
This option lets the user customize the notification mechanism.
For example, she might want to use todochiku.el.
This option defaults to nil, hence doesn't change the previous
behavior: if the program notify-send is installed on the system,
use it, and falls back on using (message [notification]) if not.
For this we took another look at when drawers actually have to be
hidden again and found that CONTENTS view does not need it, and that
CHILDREN view only needs it before the first child.
The second speed-up comes from advising outline-end-of-subtree to use
the Org version when in org-mode.
The third speed-up comes from using a better way to find the next
visible line, using `next-single-char-property-change'.
Finally, `org-forward-same-level' and `org-backward-same-level' are
faster versions of their outline equivalents and are now bound to
`C-c C-f' and `C-c C-b'.
This was a proposal by Samuel Wales. After the user selected a
refiles target, we make sure that the fully qualified target is in the
history, so that next time, UP will bring back exactly this target.
Before this patch the completion mechanism was this: TAB let's you
complete through link prefixes (gnus: file: bbdb: ...) then RET allows
completion if a completion mechanism is available for the chosen prefix.
Navigating through the history of stored links was a separate process,
available through the up/down M-n/M-p keys.
Now TAB not only completes through link prefixes but also through stored
links. This behavior matches other Emacs completion mechanisms a bit
more closely.
If you have a TODO keyword like "DELEGATED" and an entry like
"* Delegated this stuff to X", then you want this entry to be
in the list of possible targets. For that we need to distinguish
between DELEGATED as a keyword and "Delegated" as a simple word,
so (case-fold-search nil) seems relevant.
This default to t, so the default behavior of org-mode doesn't
change. But the user might want to keep at least one blank line
at the end of the remembered subtree, this option lets her do it.
This hook is called in org-clock-in earlier than the existing
org-clock-in-hook. This is useful for functions that need to
modify the Effort property, for example.
`org-export-latex-first-lines' was rather stupid and would
discard the end of the region with the region was active.
Thanks to Holst Thomas for this bug report.
Bernt Hansen writes:
> I have a monthly repeated task (Archive tasks) that has lots of
> old clock time on it currently but has never been marked DONE
> since the creation of the property LAST_REPEAT_TIME. If this
> task is clocking when Emacs exits and you restart emacs and
> answer Yes to continue the clock - the modeline has the total
> time for the parent task (151:04 instead of the total time for
> this task (5:04). If I clock the task in again the modeline is
> correct.
When changing the publishing setup, old timestamp files can be left
behind. Forcing publishing of all projects with `C-u C-c C-e E'
will remove all existing timestamp files.
Many different people want to set many different variables in a
buffer-local way for export. This cannot be done with file variables,
because the Org buffer is not current while the exporter is running.
Lots of variables can be set with the #+OPTIONS lines, but finding
abbreviations goes only so far.
Therefore we have now a general mechanism that can be used to bind
variables during export operations.
a line like: #+BIND: variable value
will bind the variable to value. For example,
the line
>> #+OPTIONS: toc:nil
can now equivalently be written as
>> #+BIND: org-export-with-toc nil
Rainer Stengele writes:
> using org-mode for quite some time now I always look at
> operations (key sequences) I repeat a lot of times.
>
> A lot of times I start a list with an item and immediately
> indent the next item as subitem.
>
> From
>
> - item 1
> - subitem 11
>
> I go to
>
> - item 1
> - subitem 11
>
> via "M-right". Then I always want to change the style of the
> subitem list to "*". I do this via "S-right-right".
>
> I wonder how others work. I would like to automatically have
> changed the subitem list type to "*" as soon as I indent via
> "Alt-right". Next indentation should go back to "-". etc.
>
> Maybe we could introduce a variable that sets the order of
> standard list item types, in my case: "- * - * - * - *" as
> in
>
>
> - item 1
> * subitem 11
> - subitem 111
> * subitem 111
> ...
>
> very special I know but I try to reduce the keypressings as
> much as possible. Any other suggestions?
This commits adds the variable
`org-list-demote-modify-bullet' for this purpose.
Bernt Hansen writes:
> I recently noticed that using SPACE or TAB in the agenda displays
> the task in the other window but all of the drawers are exposed.
> If you fold the org file with S-TAB to Overview or Contents
> display and then switch to the agenda and SPACE or TAB on a
> folded task it unfolds the entire thing including the drawers.
>
> Expanding the file to SHOW ALL and then using follow mode from
> the agenda shows me the view I'm really looking for so that's
> what I'm doing as a workaround right now.
>
> While doing my weekly review of tasks I use follow mode to view
> task detail and the expanded :LOGBOOK: and :PROPERTIES: drawers
> hide detail scrolled off the bottom of the window. My :LOGBOOK:
> drawer for repeated tasks tends to be l-o-n-g and shoves detail
> way down the file (such as my weekly review checklist :) ).
>
> Is it possible to control expansion of the drawers when
> displaying a task from the agenda? The view I'm looking for is
> the same as SHOW ALL from S-TAB. It seems that if the task is
> expanded from the agenda it expands everything including the
> drawers.
Customize the new variable org-footnote-auto-adjust or use the STARTUP
option fnadjust to get automatic renumbering and sorting of footnotes
after each insertion/deletion.
This commit implements better support for publishing the same file in
multiple ways. For example when publishing a Org file both as HTML
and as a plain text or htmlized source file.
It does this by including information about the target directory and
about the publishing function used into the hash that is used as a
file name to keep a time stamp.
Agenda bulk commands on marked entries now can also set the scheduling
date or a deadline. Normally, all entries will be set to the
specified date. However, when writing the change as "++5d" or "++2w",
then each time stamp will independently be shifted by that amount.
This commit adds a new action to the footnote actions:
It allows to renumber footnote marks that have the simple form
fn:N where N is a number. After this action, numbers will start from
1 and increase through the document.
TAB now cycles visibility in plain lists if the cursor is in a plain
list. This corresponds now to the new default value `t' of
`org-cycle-include-plain-lists'. If you want to treat plain list
items as part of the outline hierarchy during cycling of outline
headings (this is what a `t' value used to mean), set this variable to
`integrate'.
- test on line 312 failed because these methods returned a string instead
of a buffer
- requesting 'wget actually executed "curl", with bad parameters
- curl needs --silent, so that progress messages don't interrupt content
- atom parser had code to skip HTTP headers, but these are present only
when using url-retrieve-synchronously; caused errors with curl/wget.
Instead, remove HTTP headers right after feed buffer is populated.
Some propel process LaTeX filed not directly to pdf, but go
through dvi and then to ps or pdf. In that case, allowed images
are ps and eps files, not pdf and jpg.
This commit adds the two extensions, so that export using that
alternative path can be supported better. However, it is up to the
user to make sure that the images are actually compatible with the
backend.
Patrick Bahr writes:
> I use tags-todo searches in my custom agenda
> commands. Unfortunately, tags-todo does not honour the
> org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels variable which I want to use in
> order to ignore nested todo items. Is there a way to persuade
> tags-todo to do this? I know that there is a variable
> org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options which does this for
> org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date etc. It would be nice if there
> is something similar to this for
> org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels. Even better would be if this
> could be adjusted per individual tags-todo search. For example
> for certain cases I do not want to see nested TODO items but I do
> want to see nested WAITING items. With two tags-todo searches
> having different behaviour on nested todo items this would be
> feasible.
This behavior is a loft-over from the old days, and I am changing
this now.
This commit implements refiling directly from the agenda.
It also implements a mechanism for selecting a number of entries in
the agenda and then executing a command on all of them. Possible
actions include archive, refile, todo state setting, and more.
Stefan Vollmar writes:
> taking up a nice suggestion from Sebastian Rose, I want to
> present some org source with proper syntax highlighting. However,
> there is a problem when using "BEGIN_SRC" blocks it seems.
>
> If one puts this org contents into a file "test.org":
>
> * One Headline
> Some Text
> #+BEGIN_SRC python
> print "some output"
> #+END_SRC
> * Another headline
> More text
>
> and renders it from another org-file with:
>
> #+INCLUDE: "./test.org" src org
>
> everything will be fine (beautiful, infact) up to and including
> the print-line - the rest of the org file is not rendered as
> source but interpreted.
Michael Brand writes:
> 2) One could like to have configurable left/right alignment, even
> combinable with column width, e. g.
>
> | <l10> | <r> |
> | 3.14 | 0x10 |
> | 3.141592=> | 0x32 0x10 |
Good idea, I would say.
Xin Shi writes:
> Hello Experts,
>
> I use org-mode to produce a lot of big tables with numbers in
> them. When I present these tables by HTML, I found it's hard to
> keep track which row it is. I'm wondering if it's possible to
> implement additional class attribute to the <tr>, such as:
>
> <table class="sample">
> <tr class="d0"><td>One</td><td>Fish</td></tr>
> <tr class="d1"><td>Two</td><td>Fish</td></tr>
>
> <tr class="d0"><td>Red</td><td>Fish</td></tr>
> <tr class="d1"><td>Blue</td><td>Fish</td></tr>
> </table>
>
> So, that in the CSS file, it'll be easier to implement the color:
>
>
> <style type="text/css">
> table.sample {
> border: 6px inset #8B8378;
> -moz-border-radius: 6px;
> }
> table.sample td {
> border: 1px solid black;
> padding: 0.2em 2ex 0.2em 2ex;
>
> color: black;
> }
> table.sample tr.d0 td {
> background-color: #FCF6CF;
> }
> table.sample tr.d1 td {
> background-color: #FEFEF2;
> }
> </style>
This commit introduces a new variable `org-export-table-row-tags'
that can be used for this and similar purposes. For the example
of the poster, one could use:
(setq org-export-table-row-tags
(cons '(if head "<tr>"
(if (= (mod nline 2) 1)
"<tr class=\"d1\">"
"<tr class=\"d0\">"))
"</tr>"))
Clicking on the clock in the mode line now pops up a menu with
clocking options.
A new command `C-c C-x C-e' allows to set or change the effort
estimate of the task currently being clocked. This is mainly useful
when using an alert notification when the task should be finished.
Based on a patch by Konstantin Antipin.
This commit adds a new hook `org-src-mode-hook'.
The Hook run after Org switched a source code snippet to
its Emacs mode. This hook will run
- when editing a source code snippet with \"C-c '\".
- When formatting a source code snippet for export with htmlize.
You may want to use this hook for example to turn off `outline-minor-mode'
or similar things which you want to have when editing a source code file,
but which mess up the display of a snippet in Org exported files.
As the export preprocessor removes indentation from indented blocks,
this causes conflicts about interpreting indentation as list
termination. Now the original indentation is stored in a text
property, so hopefully the exporters can make use of this information
in due time.
When the agenda buffer for an agenda series is created, this was so
far done without the options of the custom agenda command in place.
This meant that some options would not take effect, because the only
place where that did would have an effect was during creation of that
buffer.
This commit makes sure that the global options of an agenda series are
in fact in place when the buffer is created.
This commit changes which time is shown in the mode line while
clocking. Normally this will now be the total time ever clocked on
this task and its children.
However, when the task is a repeating one, only the time since the
last reset of the task will be shown. The time of the last reset is
now recorded in a LAST_REPEAT property.
You can also set the CLOCK_MODELINE_TOTAL property to the value
"current" to only show the current clocking instance. Or it may be
the value "today", to only add up the time spent today on this task.
Other possible values are "repeat", "all", or "auto".
Finally, you can set your default for this property with
`org-clock-modeline-total'.
The content of blocks like #+begin_example will be marked with a
separate face. That same face is also used for single lines
introducing text for specific backends.
This commit introduces two new variables:
- org-treat-insert-todo-heading-as-state-change
Default is nil. When set to t, adding a new TODO item will be done
by adding an item and the executing an "official" state change which
potentially will trigger state logging.
- org-treat-S-cursor-todo-seletion-as-state-change
Default is t. When set to nil, selecting a TODO state with
S-left/right will not trigger logging, only selecting a new state
with `C-c C-t'. I actually like this a lot and would even consider
making this the default.
Nicolas Goaziou writes:
> As I was saying in anoter post, it looks like there's something
> weird happening when using C-k in agenda view:
>
> 1. Create two new remember entries (i.e. test and test2) with the
> same tag (I used @office)
> 2. Narrow down the agenda view to only see the @office entries.
> 3. Kill the last but one entry (it should be "test") : both of
> "test" and "test2" disappear frow the view. Actually, "test2" is
> not properly killed, but it is scary nonetheless.
>
> It only happens with two last entries.
>
> Is anyone able to reproduce this ?
All export commands now push the result to the kill ring by default.
This is subject to the variable `org-export-push-to-kill-ring'.
Also, this commit adds a new variable
`org-export-show-temporary-export-buffer' which can be used to turn
off the display of the temporary buffer containing the exported text.
Since this stuff is now automatically pushed onto the kill ring, some
people might prefer not to see this buffer.
Mikael Fornius writes:
> This is my suggestion of an implementation of min/mean/max computation
> in columnview summaries. If you like it feel free to use it.
>
> New operators: {min}, {max} and {mean} possibly prefixed with : for use
> with timevalues.
>
> Example from my running exercise diary:
>
> #+COLUMNS: %DISTANCE{+;%.1f} %HEARTRATE{mean;%.1f} %SPEED{:min} %CALORIES{+}
>
> Gives a colview with summaries:
>
> total distance, mean heartrate, fastest speed (min/km) and total
> calories.
>
> I have tested it on emacs-23 and it works well for me now, also with the
> interactive colview functions.
>
> But you never know really. ;-) Anyway, there should not be any emacs-23
> specific elisp code added afik.
>
> (Because I do not use xemacs I have not tested it with xemacs but the
> small changes I made should be compitable to both xemacs and emacs. I
> would appreciate if someone on this list who uses xemacs will give it a
> try for me. Thanks!)
>
> (This fix also opens up for using user defined lisp functions to
> calculate colview summaries, but I am not sure if that is something
> useful. Like this:
>
> (defun std (&rest values)
> "Compute standard deviation."
> ...)
>
> #+COLUMNS: %DATA{eval:std}
>
> If someone finds this attractive it would now be easy to implement as well.)
>
Setting the new option `org-hierarchical-todo-statistics' to nil will
make TODO statistics to be computed recursively. This means, not only
the direct children of a node contribute to its TODO statistics, but
the entire subtree.
You can also set the COOKIE_DATA property and add the word "recursive"
there to get recursive statistics for a specific tree.
Publishing a project with prefix argument to
force publishing was broken. Actually, the entire interactive side of
this function was implemented badly. Fixed now.
Hsiu-Khuern Tang writes:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> You recently changed org-edit-src-code to use a separate buffer
> instead of an indirect buffer. One side effect of this is that I
> can no longer edit several code examples at the same time:
> opening the second buffer will silently discard any changes made
> in the first. I would prefer this behavior: when opening the
> second edit source buffer, write any changes in the first buffer
> to the originating Org buffer (but don't save it, of course).
>
> Another approach is to use different buffer names.
The better approach is clearly to allow several buffers, now
implemented with this commit.
Harri Kiiskinen writes:
> There is an elusive bug in the ICal export functions. To
> demonstrate it, open this file, allow for the use of the local
> variable, and run 'org-export-icalendar-this-file'. What I get is
> the message "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
>
> -----------------------------
> #+FILETAGS: test
> * TODO header
>
> # Local Variables:
> # org-use-tag-inheritance: "^[t]"
> # End:
> -----------------------------
>
> Now, the funny thing is, that if you change the filetag from
> "test" to "est", close the file, and open it again, the file will
> be exported fine! It seems, that if the filetag does match the
> regular expression in org-use-tag-inheritance, then the result is
> error.
This bug was due to a missing save-match-data around a call to
org-get-tags-at. However, when studying this bug it turned out
that explicitly checking for the archive tag is not needed,
because we already have a call to `org-agenda-skip' in the same
loop.
Peter Frings writes:
> Good day, org-ers
>
> I have seen a *small* problem in the Agenda's log mode.
>
> Org-mode version 6.26d
> GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.5.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2008-11-01
>
>
> I have this in time-sheets.org:
>
>
> * Project AI
> ** Enhancement PT <2009-04-30 Thu 10:00-11:00 +1w>
> CLOCK: [2009-05-14 Thu 09:55]--[2009-05-14 Thu 10:45] => 0:50
>
>
> But, the Agenda shows this:
>
> Day-agenda (W20):
> Thursday 14 May 2009
> 9:00...... ----------------
> planning: 9:12- 9:55 Clocked: (0:43) BUSY Notifications
> time-sheet: 10:00-11:00 Clocked: (0:50) Enhancement PT
> time-sheet: 10:00-11:00 Enhancement PT
> 10:00...... ----------------
> 11:00...... ----------------
>
He is right. Progress lines should never take their
time from the headline, always only from the triggering line.
Benjamin Andresen writes:
> I was curious as to why a value such log-mode wasn't customizable
> to be run on start-up as follow-mode and clock-report-mode are.
>
> If Carsten thinks this is a good idea, I've attached a patch that
> may shave of 5 seconds of him adding it. It applies cleanly to
> current git HEAD.
This commit applies Beanjamin's patch
There is now a new export function, `org-export-as-org', which
basically creates a copy of the Org file with things like archived
trees, commented trees, and trees deselected by export tags,
stripped.
This commit adds:
{{{date(FORMAT)}}} current date/time, formatted with
`format-time-string'
{{{modification-time(FORMAT)}}} date/time of last modification of
file, formatted with `format-time-string'
{{{input-file}}} the file name of the source Org file.
entries.
Guy Wiener writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I use orgmode to write down TODO tasks with dependencies (using
> org-enforce-todo-dependencies). I want to export the tasks to an
> iCalendar file, but *without* the blocked tasks (i.e, tasks that have
> unfinished dependencies). The agenda view hides these tasks if you set
> org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks. It there a way to configure the
> iCalendar export to ignore these tasks too, like in the agenda view?
This commit implements this, when the value of
`org-icalendar-include-todo' is the symbol `unblocked'.
The commit implements a general mechanism for providing special
(e.g. completion) support for specific link types when entering links
with `C-c C-l'. After calling `C-c C-l', you may now press RET after
inserting a link prefix, and Org will look for a function
`org-PREFIX-complete-link'. Such functions may be defined for any
link types, including link abbreviations. Currently, Org has
`org-file-complete-link' for file name completion, and
`org-bbdb-complete-link' for completion of record names from BBDB.
Peter Westlake writes:
> On Fri, 8 May 2009 06:24:54 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> said:
>
> I anyone could make an example that allos me to reproduce this
> problem, then I might be able to fix it.
>
> It's trivial:
>
> * top
> ** sub 1
> Set org-cycle-include-plain-lists.
> Type TAB on this line, and the whole of top gets folded.
>
> ** sub 2
> This entry is not needed to reproduce the bug. It just
> makes it more visible.
There was indeed a bug, I think it is fixed now.
Shaun Johanson writes:
> Consider the following Org file:
>
> * Test
>
> See [[(foo)][FOOBIE]]
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> <foo>: blah blah (ref:foo)
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> Question 1)
> In Org mode the link displays as FOOBIE, in the exported HTML it
> displays as (foo). Is there any way to cause the link to use the
> description (FOOBIE) in HTML? If not would this be a useful option
> to add?
This was a bug, fixed now.
Editing source code examples and pictures is not done in a truly
separate buffer, not in an indirect buffer. Indirect buffers had
caused problems with fontification, for example.
Jason Riedy writes:
> I'm trying to change org-export-latex-image-default-option
> to "width=.7\\linewidth" in a file local variable. It's set
> correctly as a buffer local variable, and it's having no
> effect on the export. My guess is that the buffer-local
> property is stopping it as soon as org-export-as-latex runs
> set-buffer.
>
> I can smuggle the value in by adding an entry to org-export-plist-vars
> referring to org-export-latex-image-default-option and pulling the value
> from the plist, but that feels incorrect.
It is actually the correct way to do this, and I have
implemented this change.
Samuel Wales writes:
> I frequently export to ascii without wanting a file to be created,
> especially not in a useful directory, as the files are temporary.
>
> Is there a way to export ascii to just a buffer?
There is now, `C-c C-e A'.
This commit also implements commands
- org-export-as-ascii-to-buffer
- org-replace-region-by-ascii
- org-export-region-as-ascii
which are similar to what is available for HTML and LaTeX.
`C-c C-e A' used to be the key for publishing all projects.
This functionality has now been moved to `C-c C-e E'.
Scot Beker writes:
> I have org-remember working successfully (I can't believe that it took
> me so long to experiment with it. It has made a huge difference in my
> work).
>
> But if, after calling the extension with C-c r, I type a "wrong" tag
> selector (e.g. I mistype a right one), I get
> (1) the error message 'no template' (good)
> (2) a remember buffer without a bullet point, with the point at the
> very top of the file (sure, what do I expect?)
> (3) but, having realized my mistake, I can't get out of it gracefully.
> I can't abort (C-c C-k), and can't (C-c C-c).
> I get the error message "Args out of range 0, 1"
>
> Any idea whether I've set something up wrong or if org just has no
> mercy on those who can't manage to type one of the selected values?
> Otherwise, org-remember works well.
This situation is now avoided by forcing the selection of a valid
template.
Matt Lundin writes:
> When I select a region and invoke
> org-replace-region-by-latex, the region is removed, but no
> latex output is put in its place. In other words, the region
> is simply deleted.
>
> Strangely, if I select multiple headlines, they are
> converted to latex. But if I select only text underneath a
> headline, it is not replaced.
This is hopefully fixed now.
Alex Mizrahi writes:
> I'm trying to use column view to work with effort estimates, but it
> does not seem to work in XEmacs. When I press C-c C-x C-c columns
> show up in agenda view (I'm not sure if 100% correcly, but
> more-or-less so), but when I try editing anything, column view goes
> away and error appears:
>
> Wrong number of arguments: #<subr local-variable-p>, 1
Chris Gray had the idea to have arbitrary blocks turned in LaTeX
environments and HTML divs. These three new hooks allow
implementation has an add-on rather than a patch.
Thomas Morgan writes:
> I just tried exporting an Org file with LaTeX fragments to HTML
> on a computer that doesn't have dvipng. There were error messages
> in *Messages* ("Failed to create png file..."), but this wasn't
> obvious to me at first glance because those messages were replaced
> in the echo area by "Exporting... done" before I could see them.
>
> So I was wondering, is there a good way to make the user aware of
> those errors? Maybe by printing "Exporting... done (with errors)"?
There is now a better error message when either the latex or the
dvipng program does not exist.
Carsten Dominik writes:
> On Apr 26, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:
>
> > I noticed the following regarding
> > org-remember-backup-directory:
> >
> > 1) auto-saving does not save contents
> > - solution: put (auto-save-mode 1) before or after (not
> > sure which) the call to org-set-local in the
> > following lines in org-remember:
> >
> > # (expand-file-name
> > # (format-time-string "remember-%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S")
> > # org-remember-backup-directory))
> > # (save-buffer)
> > # (org-set-local 'auto-save-visited-file-name t))
> > # (when (save-excursion
>
> Done.
>
>
> > 2) save-buffer is called before there are any contents
> > - this causes files without useful content to stick
> > around in the dir if the buffer is killed or
> > something.
> > - solution: don't save the buffer; let auto-saving do
> > that work. will this work?
>
> Usually, the template expansion will have filled in stuff like
> links and initial contents, so I would prefer to keep the
> save-buffer here and let the user deal with the extra files.
>
> > 3) if you have auto-save-file-name-transforms set,
> > auto-saving is done according to that variable instead
> > of saving in place.
> >
> > I am now turning that variable off, locally in the remember buffer.
> > Does that fix the problem?
>
> - Carsten
>
> > - solution: is this an emacs bug? i am not sure. the
> > auto-saving should be done in place, saving in
> > org-remember-backup-directory and not saving in the
> > place where the transforms variable tells it to save.
> > perhaps each user can kludge transforms or perhaps
> > emacs needs fixing? i have reached debugging ability
> > limit.
Tassilo Horn writes:
> I have this entry in an org-file.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ** bung Grundlagen der Softwaretechnik (B 016) :teaching:
> <2009-04-22 Wed 08:30-10:00 +1w>
> <2009-04-29 Wed 10:15-11:45> (Fr Hannes bernehmen)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I expect it to be displayed every wednesday after 2009-04-22
> for 08:30-10:00 and on 2009-04-29 it should be displayed
> twice: one at the usual time and one for 10:15-11:45.
>
> But the agenda shows only the regular entry (08:30-10:00)
> and omitts the exception. If I reorder the timestamps, so
> that the exception comes first, only the exception will be
> shown on 2009-04-29. Every other wednesday shows the
> regular repeater date.
>
> What do I have to do to make that entry showing up twice on
> 29th April?
This commit adds a new option
`org-agenda-skip-additional-timestamps-same-entry'. When set
to t, an entry that has multiple active time stamps will get
multiple lines in the agenda.
Matt Lundin writes:
> If it's not too much trouble, I was wondering if I could
> request the following properties to set export options for
> subtrees:
>
> EXPORT_AUTHOR
> EXPORT_DATE
>
> In addition to specifying an EXPORT_FILE and EXPORT_TITLE
> for a subtree, I often find myself wanting to change the
> date and author lines.
The variable `org-refile-target-verify-function' can be set to a
function that will be called to verify a refile target. The function
must return t if the target is valid.
Users can now define custom IDs for use in HTML export.
These IDs are stores as property CUSTOM_ID. When present, HTML will
prefer using these over automatic targets like "sec-N.M".
Scot Becker writes:
> Prompted by Chris Gray's request for org markup in Latex
> environment, I thought I'd submit a note (for his sake and
> others') about a few quirks of org-latex-export's handling
> of embedded Latex markup in org documents. I have been
> puzzling with these for a while but only discovered the
> problem triggers (and workarounds) this morning just before
> Chris' mail arrived. These are both about inline Latex
> commands:
>
> I use a few custom commands \mycommand{like this}, and
> occasionally have to invoke the odd bit of standard LaTeX
> markup, for example /when \textbf{embedding bold text}
> inside italics/. For the most part, these work fine, but
> I've discovered the following two 'gotchas' that happen when
> exporting to LaTeX.
>
> 1. Inline Latex commands get their final curly brace
> escaped with a slash (and therefore don't work) if they
> spill over into another line, i.e. if they contain one or
> more newlines. This is true also for standard LaTeX
> commands like \textbf{} and \emph{}.
>
> ----------------SAMPLE------------------------
> \mycommand{So, for example this
> wrapped setence gets a slash added just after the
> final period and before the curly brace.} Org is quite
> helpfully escaping the slash for LaTeX, apparently.
>
> \mycommand{no trouble if it's all on one line}
> ------------------END-------------------------
>
> The workaround of putting all such commands on one line is
> no hardship for me, since I use visual-line-mode in Emacs 23
> and keep my paragraphs as single logical lines. It might be
> harder for those accustomed to hard-wrapping their
> paragraphs.
>
>
> 2. If you have two inline Latex commands on the same
> logical line, org's latex export doesn't treat the text
> between them in its usual manner. Italics get processed,
> but not the latexification of quotes. ("this" --> ``this'')
> For example:
>
> ----------------SAMPLE------------------------
> I have a short custom command to tell Latex to invoke a
> Hebrew-language right-to-left environment when I want to refer to a
> Hebrew phrase like this: \heb{phrase here}. But then if I "quote
> something," and follow that by another \heb{phrase}, the inner
> quotation marks don't get processed. Oddly enough, this problem is
> only triggered when there is an inline Latex command both before and
> after the quoted material on the same logical line.
>
> Now if you put a footnote in between those two inline Latex commands,
> the output is really nutty:
>
> And \heb{phrase here} with a footnote[fn:: Footnote here.] I'm not
> sure what funky org commands get invoked, but again, only when
> bookended by an inline Latex command like \heb{phrase here}.
> ------------------END-------------------------
>
> The nutty output is a number in square brackets like
> this[1], with the following at the bottom of the document:
>
> \$\^{}{1}\$ Footnote here.
>
> This has a the opposite work-around: break the lines so
> those elements are not all on the same logical line. Put in
> a few newlines. Latex, of course doesn't care. Do take
> care not to start a newline with the org-footnote, like this
> [fn:: Org doesn't parse a footnote command which starts on
> its own line.]
>
> This is just "for what it's worth" to those who use org-mode
> as a front-end to writing for LaTeX.
These problems were caused by a regular expression for
matching latex macros with arguments, that did not allow any
newlines. Now we have a much better regexp, that even
allows for three levels of nested braces.
If the heading field in the remember template entry is either `top' or
`bottom', it is now OK to file to a file that is not in org mode, and
the content of the remember buffer is inserted without forcing an
Org-style header.
Carsten Dominik
Bastien Guerry
Christopher League
Tassilo Horn