From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
Cc: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Keeping a wiki with org-mode
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:13:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ED7BBF3-7939-4EB0-A0B1-3FB4979BB34E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljnvc2ig.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ>
On Jun 13, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote:
>
> Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>> Hi Marcelo,
>>
>> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I wonder what is the best way to implement a wiki with org? I know
>>> you
>>> can hyperlink to anything, but what I was thinking was something
>>> automatic, like what WikiDPad does or Tomboy -- like having
>>> wikiwords
>>> (CamelCase) automatically linked as you type to a filename in the
>>> system (a specific directory you specify for the wiki). If it is not
>>> possible, it could be a nice addition for a future org version.
>>>
>>
>> As others have already mentioned, org-mode does not support CamelCase
>> words. But it's method for creating links is quite nice and allows
>> org
>> to function very easily as a wiki.
>>
>> To make org-mode more "wiki-like," I add the following to my .emacs
>> file. The first variable has to come *before* org is loaded:
>>
>>
>> (setq org-return-follows-link t)
>> (setq org-open-non-existing-files t)
>
>
> Hm - then either the docs or the code has a bug.
>
> `C-h v org-open-non-existing-files' gives me this:
>
>
> org-open-non-existing-files is a variable defined in `org.el'.
> Its value is nil
>
> Documentation:
> Non-nil means, `org-open-file' will open non-existing files.
> When nil, an error will be generated.
>
> You can customize this variable.
>
> [back]
>
>
>
> As you can see, it says `org-open-non-existing-files' is nil. But
> still,
> I can follow the link without error (even with `debug-on-error' == t).
>
> I didn't notice that, since it's so natural to open such a file. It
> will
> become a physical file once I save it, so I cannot see a reason to
> avoid
> that.
Yes, the doc string was incomplete. Here is what this looks like in
the code:
(if (and (not (eq cmd 'emacs)) ; Emacs has no problems with non-
ex files
(not (file-exists-p file))
(not org-open-non-existing-files))
(error "No such file: %s" file))
I have amended the docstring of that variable.
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-14 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-12 21:32 Keeping a wiki with org-mode Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-06-12 21:52 ` Russell Adams
2009-06-12 22:09 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-06-12 22:35 ` Russell Adams
2009-06-12 22:41 ` Eric Schulte
2009-06-12 23:26 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-06-12 23:30 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-06-13 0:03 ` Dan Davison
2009-06-14 6:17 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-06-13 19:56 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-06-13 20:17 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-06-14 6:13 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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