From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim O'Callaghan Subject: Some suggestions - mostly for non (X)Emacs updating of org mode files. Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:27:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20060425142715.GA3120@ELSAMSW37164> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FYOVV-0001hH-Re for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:27:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FYOVU-0001fo-L4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:27:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYOVU-0001fT-I2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:27:12 -0400 Received: from [193.120.211.34] (helo=dspsrv.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FYOXx-0000uW-Mv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:29:46 -0400 Received: from [145.36.45.123] (helo=localhost) by dspsrv.com with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1FYOVR-0006Iv-00 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:27:09 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Not sure how useful any of this would be to other people, but here is some stuff that i have been thinking about. The great thing about org files is that they are ASCII and therefore very portable. The only problem with org files is that you need (X)Emacs to do anything good with them! This is not quite true, but it is in the case i am talking about. I regularly copy my org files to the SDCard in my mobile phone, so i can read them on the move. I have a text editing application on the phone, so i can also update and create files on the move. My problem is that the editor is not (X)Emacs, and so cannot intelligently update the org information. The ideas below are not all about this use case, but its what started me thinking about them. And so on to the ideas. * org-save-hooks I have an Org file, and to export useful lists from it that i can use offline i have to go into agenda mode and export the information. What i think would be cool is if i could just do an export at save time. What i think would be cooler, would be that i could specify these exports in a #+VAR with TAG search criteria. Something like #+AUTOEXPORT TYPE filename e.g.: #+AUTOEXPORT ASCII work_stuff.txt +WORK-HOME #+AUTOEXPORT ICAL home_appointments.ical +HOME-WORK * Fast Update mode - for minimal editing in another editor This is where the **** in the outline is prefixed with a number or character, and processed at load time. 1** TODO This top level task is done archive it +** TODO move this one TODO stage further Then something in my org config like: (("1" my-mark-done-and-archive) ("+" org-cycle)) * embedded file link - for tables, possibly images where supported. This is something i was thinking about for linking external tables into a document. To have the table as a separate document, possibly a CSV one converted to tbl mode automagicaly. The basic idea being that i can use something other than emacs to update the data in the tables and see the updates in my org document. * an option to export CSV using quotes and commas. * The ability to change the command prefix from ctrl-c. I have migrated from the pinkie killing ctrl to the more finger friendly alt and escape keys for most of my (X)Emacs usage. * Agenda Collections. Essentially the ability to define org-agenda-files from a #+ file link. This allows me to separate out work and home for example. When i open my work file, it agendas my work org files. When i open my home org file it could agenda my home and work projects, if i set the links up. e.g: #+COLLECTION file://blah.org What do people think? and also does anyone have a non (X)Emacs strategy for dealing with or updating org-mode? cheers, Tim.