From: "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-annotation-helper
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:35:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220268957.24473.1271533841@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1EBADC4C-6252-4AE0-B974-2F7301FB6DB5@uva.nl>
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:27:18 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
<dominik@science.uva.nl> said:
> > On the subject of org-annotation-helper, the code has this comment
> > about %a:
> >
> >> | ;; FIXME can't access %a in the template -- how to set
> >> annotation? (raise-frame)
> >
> > While I was trying to make this work, using a slightly earlier
> > version, I found that the %a would work if I had an active region
> > selected at the time. Before I could find out how to make a region
> > active, or stop it being needed, I found the new version of the
> > code, and now I use
> > %:region. But it would be interesting to know why org-mode tests for
> > there being an active region; it seems to do it quite a lot. You
> > need an active region to convert a table with C-c |, for instance.
> > Carsten, is there any reason why it works this way?
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> how else should Org know the range of lines to convert? Or maybe I
> misunderstand your question?
If I use C-space to place the mark at the beginning of the table, and
move point to the end, then the region covers the table, and I would
expect C-c | to operate on the region. Instead, it ignores the region
and asks what size table to make. If I highlight a region using the
mouse, then it works.
Peter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-30 22:46 org-annotation-helper Richard G Riley
2008-08-31 2:14 ` org-annotation-helper Nick Dokos
2008-08-31 9:14 ` org-annotation-helper Richard G Riley
2008-08-31 10:19 ` org-annotation-helper Richard G Riley
2008-09-01 11:20 ` org-annotation-helper Peter Westlake
2008-09-01 11:27 ` org-annotation-helper Carsten Dominik
2008-09-01 11:35 ` Peter Westlake [this message]
2008-09-01 14:14 ` org-annotation-helper Richard G Riley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-03 9:50 org-annotation-helper thierry.volpiatto
2009-05-04 9:43 ` org-annotation-helper Sebastian Rose
2009-05-04 12:04 ` org-annotation-helper thierry.volpiatto
2008-09-04 21:06 org-annotation-helper Robert Goldman
2008-09-06 16:19 ` org-annotation-helper Christopher Suckling
[not found] <200805161527.m4GFRMGN010370@dog.comp.uvic.ca>
2008-05-17 0:16 ` org-annotation-helper Daniel M German
2008-05-17 11:13 ` org-annotation-helper Carsten Dominik
2008-05-18 21:38 ` org-annotation-helper John Rakestraw
2008-05-19 12:28 ` org-annotation-helper Carsten Dominik
2008-05-19 17:19 ` org-annotation-helper Cezar Halmagean
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