Hi Travis,

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:22:33 -0400
"Arnold, Travis" <tlarnold@RADFORD.EDU> wrote:

> emacs 22.1, that is in Mac OSX 10.6.6 and Orgmode 7.4 

Since you are starting out, I would recommend to start with Emacs 23.2
if it is possible. There have been too many enhancements to make the
effort definitely worth it.

> ;; Org-mode settings
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))

If you are using Emacs 23, the above line is optional.

> (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
> (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
> (global-font-lock-mode 1)
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/Tmoney/org-7.4/lisp")
> (custom-set-variables
>   ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. 
>  '(gud-gdb-command-name "gdb --annotate=1")
>  '(org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org/Notes.org" "~/org/school.org" "~/org/Agenda.org"))))


> (setq org-agenda-files (list "~/org/Notes.org"
>                              "~/org/school.org"
>                              "~/org/Agenda.org"))

This line is not required as the last line in the custom-set-variable
block does the same function. If you intend to put all your agenda files
in the same directory (e.g. ~/org/) maybe you should consider using this
setting instead:

(custom-set-variables
 ;; other settings
 '(org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org"))))

> (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO(t)" "STARTED(s)"
> "WAITING(w@/!)" "|" "DONE(d)") (sequence "|" "CANCELED(c@/!)")))
> (setq org-log-done 'time)

I would recommend you use the "customize-variable" interface to
customise your org-mode setup.

> (custom-set-faces
>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. 
>   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.

This block does not close properly.

I am attaching a modified setup file. You could try customising
starting from that. Put it in your home and rename it to .emacs.

To start customising, after loading org just do:

M-x customize-variable 

M above stands for meta. I don't know how the meta keys are mapped on a
Mac, but I think pressing ESC and x separately should do the trick.
This will prompt you for a variable to customise. The rest of the
interface is self explanatory.

You can use a similar interface to customise faces too.

M-x customize-face

Good luck.

-- 
Suvayu

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