Patch by Matt Lundin
Matt writes:
> The missing piece of the puzzle is integration with "diary" and
> "cal-tex" functions via the org-diary sexp. I have found org-diary to be
> excruciatingly slow when called for anything more than a couple of days.
> I have the following line in my diary file:
>
> &%%(org-diary :timestamp :sexp)
>
> If I try to view 20 or so upcoming days in the diary by typing C-u 20 d
> on a date in the calendar, it can take upwards of 30 seconds to generate
> the diary display. This is of little consequence, since I can, after
> all, simply use the custom agenda command. But I often want to print out
> a nice LaTeX calendar of my appointments with cal-tex-cursor-month. And
> that takes upwards of 50 seconds (see attached elp-results file).
>
> Judging from the elp-results, the culprit seems to be
> org-prepare-agenda-buffers (46 seconds), which is called 31 times (once
> for each day). It seems to me that since org-diary is being called 31
> times in quick succession by the same function (diary-sexp-entry), one
> should only need to call org-prepare-agenda-buffers once.
>
> The only solution I could see to this problem was to add a test to see
> if org-diary had been called less than 1 second ago. Thus, I added the
> variable org-diary-last-run-time and a conditional in org-diary that
> only runs org-prepare-agenda-buffers if org-diary-last-run-time is less
> than 1 second in the past.
>
> With the patch, it now takes appr. 5 seconds to generate the LaTeX
> calendar with cal-tex and org-prepare-agenda-buffers is called only
> once.
By default, title, author, date and email lines appear in dark blue
with the initial keywords greyed out. The title is in a larger font
than the others. This is implemented by the following new faces:
org-document-title
org-document-info
org-document-info-keyword
In addition, the variable org-hidden-keywords can be used to make the
corresponding keywords disappear.
This new code will search #+INDEX lines in the buffer. For LaTeX, it
will simple convert these into LaTeX \index{} commands. For other
backends, it will copy thee entries to a new file, with extension
orgx. These files can then later be post-processed to create the index.
Magnus Henoch writes:
> This patch has been sitting in my tree for a while... It's a fix to
> org-map-dblocks, to make it use save-excursion instead of remembering
> position values. I need this since I have a dblock function that
> asynchronously updates dblocks from HTTP responses, and some dblocks
> ended up getting updated twice or thrice.
[...]
> My dblock-write function calls url-retrieve, to asynchronously retrieve an
> HTML page. The callback function I pass to url-retrieve will then fill
> in the information I need into the dynamic block.
>
> So in the following case:
>
> * Find start of dblock 1, store as pos
> * Make HTTP request for dblock 1
> * Go back to pos
> * Find end of dblock 1
> * Find start of dblock 2, store as pos
> * Make HTTP request for dblock 2
> * Asynchronous event: HTTP response for dblock 1 arrives, insert lots of
> data in dblock 1
> * Go back to pos
> * Find end of dblock 2
>
> the last step will actually find the end of dblock 1, if the amount of
> data inserted in dblock 1 is great enough that pos suddenly points
> inside it. (Then it will of course find dblock 2 again, request its HTML
> page again, and thus insert the data twice.)
>
> An equivalent fix would be to make pos a marker instead.
Patch by David Maus, who writes:
> Attached patch for org-attach-commit in org-attach.el removes the
> dependency on the xargs command to remove files in the repository that
> were deleted in the attachment directory.
>
> Simply capture output of git ls-files --deleted -z in a temporary
> buffer, get the filenames from there via string-split and call git rm
> on each single file.
Keith writes:
> I noticed something strange and I think it's might be a bug converting
> to tex file. I've been trying to put a special symbol inside a
> bracket, e.g.
>
> air temperature (degree Celsius)
>
> and the symbol should look like ^{\circ}C in org file. It works well
> if it is standalone. However, when I put the brackets out of it, say
> (^{\circ}C), the pdf output looks bizarre. I have checked the tex
> output and the converting results from orgmode file are
>
> ^{\circ}C --> $^{\circ}$C
> (^{\circ}C) --> (^\{\circ}C)
Ryan Thompson writes:
> I have found a bug. When the point is at the end of an empty headline
> and you press M-RET (or C-RET) to make a new headline, it deletes all
> the whitespace at the end of the empty headline first, which causes
> the headline to break. I'm not sure if the correct behavior is to
> leave an empty headline, or maybe just do nothing and leave the point
> at the end of the empty headline without creating a new one, but the
> correct thing is definitely *not* to break the headline.
Patch by Jan Bker.
Jan writes:
> What is this?
> =============
>
> This patch changes the way extension regexps in `org-file-apps' are
> handled. Instead of against the file name, the regexps are now matched
> against the whole link, and you can use grouping to extract link
> parameters which you can then use in a command string to be executed.
>
> For example, to allow linking to PDF files using the syntax
> file:/doc.pdf::<page number>, you can add the following entry to
> org-file-apps:
>
> Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\'
> Command: evince "%s" -p %1
>
> In a command string to be executed, the parameters can be referenced
> using %1, %2, etc. Lisp forms can access them using (string-match n link).
>
>
> Where to get it?
> ================
> Either apply the patch by hand or
>
> git pull git://github.com/jboecker/org-mode.git org-file-apps-parameters
>
>
> What's next? / Feedback
> =======================
>
> - Find the bugs. Since this messes with links, a central concept of Org,
> I probably have missed some edge cases; so please test this and
> report if it works for you.
>
> I also appreciate any feedback on code quality or the design decisions
> made. I am learning elisp along the way, so you may be able to write
> some changes in a more idiomatic and/or elegant way.
>
> - Add a mechanism for org-mode modules to add default values to
> org-file-apps, similar to the variables org-file-apps-defaults-*.
> This could be used by modules to define their own extensions to the
> syntax of file: links.
>
> - Modify org-docview.el to use this and deprecate the docview: link syntax.
>
>
> What does it (intentionally) break?
> ===================================
>
> This patch introduces a backwards-incompatible change. If LINE or SEARCH
> is given, the file is no longer guaranteed to open in emacs: if IN-EMACS
> is nil and an entry in org-file-apps matches, that takes precedence.
>
> A grep of the lisp/ and contrib/ directories showed that no code in the
> org-mode distribution was relying on this behaviour; whereever LINE or
> SEARCH is given, IN-EMACS is also set to t.
>
> I decided against adding an additional parameter because that would be
> redundant; the original link as seen by org-open-at-point can be
> reconstructed from PATH, LINE and SEARCH.
>
> I am not that sure if this is the right way to do this, but it seems to
> break as little as possible while hopefully avoiding to add too much
> complexity.
Dan Davison writes:
> Bug report
> ==========
> If I have this:
>
> A [[file:zz.org::#mytarget][link]] to a target with a custom ID
>
> and export it to HTML, I get
>
> A <a href="zz.html##mytarget">link</a> to a target with a custom ID
>
> which (in firefox on linux) links to the file but does not jump to the
> target. However, if I change the '##' to '#' then firefox jumps to the
> correct location. Is this an org bug?
>
> Very tentatively proposed patch
> ===============================
> I've investigated a bit (notes below), resulting in this proposed patch:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> diff --git a/lisp/org-html.el b/lisp/org-html.el
> index aa70408..5ee5b19 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-html.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-html.el
> @@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ lang=\"%s\" xml:lang=\"%s\">
> (abs-p (file-name-absolute-p filename))
> thefile file-is-image-p search)
> (save-match-data
> - (if (string-match "::\\(.*\\)" filename)
> + (if (string-match "::#?\\(.*\\)" filename)
> (setq search (match-string 1 filename)
> filename (replace-match "" t nil filename)))
> (setq valid
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Doc patch
> =========
> The link above (file:zz.org::#mytarget) was created by C-c l on a
> heading with a CUSTOM_ID property. However, I couldn't see where in the
> manual links of this form are documented. Do we need to add this link
> type to section 4.7 "Search options in file links", e.g.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
> index f49f056..c8cc1a5 100644
> --- a/doc/org.texi
> +++ b/doc/org.texi
> @@ -3116,6 +3116,7 @@ link, together with an explanation:
> [[file:~/code/main.c::255]]
> [[file:~/xx.org::My Target]]
> [[file:~/xx.org::*My Target]]
> +[[file:~/xx.org::#my-custom-id]]
> [[file:~/xx.org::/regexp/]]
> @end example
>
> @@ -3130,6 +3131,8 @@ link will become an HTML reference to the corresponding named anchor in
> the linked file.
> @item *My Target
> In an Org file, restrict search to headlines.
> +@item #my-custom-id
> +Link to a heading with a @code{CUSTOM_ID} property
> @item /regexp/
> Do a regular expression search for @code{regexp}. This uses the Emacs
> command @code{occur} to list all matches in a separate window. If the
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Notes
> =====
> At line 1134 of org-html.el there is
>
> (setq thefile (concat thefile "#"
> (org-solidify-link-text
> (org-link-unescape search)))))
>
> during evaluation of which 'search is bound to "#mytarget", which
> suggested that the problem might be in the regexp parsing creating
> 'search.