From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell Adams Subject: Re: New Screencast: Setting Up Org-mode for Windows Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:34:19 -0600 Message-ID: <20101108223419.GC30297@x201> References: <201011081706.oA8H65QA021421@hormel5.ieee.org> <9F2954C8B385465A89D9F1C8D0B2631B@PHONON.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40152 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFaI0-0003iz-DJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:34:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFaHy-0004b2-Hh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:34:12 -0500 Received: from squirtle.drak.net ([72.52.144.201]:56737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFaHy-0004a5-DV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:34:10 -0500 Received: from 206.180.155.43.adsl.hal-pc.org ([206.180.155.43] helo=localhost) by squirtle.drak.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFaHm-000655-86 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:33:58 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9F2954C8B385465A89D9F1C8D0B2631B@PHONON.COM> 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 On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:07:29PM -0500, Raymond Zeitler wrote: > > Thanks for creating this, Russell. It's great! I'm glad you enjoyed it! > I've already set my system up per John Wiegley's tutorial. I didn't > appreciate Org until I started to use capture, so I'm glad you introduced it > early on. And I like how you pointed out org-capture-templates. I'm at the > point where I'm changing some settings, so it's nice to see where things are > defined. Capture is a must. Working a project is one thing, but its how to deal with the nonstop little things that counts. > Also neat is the idea of notification. But I wonder if some folks might > have VBS disabled. For them, I'd recommend using the Net Send command. Net > Send can also broadcast to multiple users on a domain, which may (or may > not) be a nice thing. I can imagine an IT person using Org-mode with Net > Send to notify everyone about a server reboot. I'm not a Windows guy, so I'm not sure. I used VBS because it appeared that between Windows 2k, XP, and 2003 that NET SEND may have changed. I've now had a few people suggest Growl for Mac and Windows. > Some other things that are new to me: > * AddPM (never used it) > * -f switch to run Lisp and the shortcut to Agenda Useful! > * latest version is now 7.3 > * Timestamps & Workflow I love the one touch timestamps, it's been central to all of my work. > * C-c [ > * lots more > > Invoking Customize is a nice way to establish the .emacs. But I would've > mentioned C-x C-f ~/.e after the second customization, though. :) Yeah that was a bit repetitious. On the other hand I didn't know that emacs would tab complete ~ on Windows, I was using the "native" interface. ;] Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3