From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, charles_cave@optusnet.com.au
Subject: Re: Re: Seeking further clarification of org-refile-targets variable
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:03:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CB2307B1-AB81-49AB-917F-D04D4F9DA057@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myetoa4g.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>
On Dec 18, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Charles Cave <charles_cave@optusnet.com.au> writes:
>
>> I am having trouble understanding the help text for org-refile-
>> targets.
>> I don't know what a "cons cell" is and I would like to see some
>> examples
>> of customising the variable.
>>
>> For example, how can I specify headings of levels 1 and 2?
>> I entered the value of
>> (:level . N).
>> in the customization prompt but now I get a message
>> "No refile targets".
>>
>> Perhaps some examples for non-Lisp programmers would be helpful.
>>
>> As org-mode popularity increases, the users are not necessarily
>> Lisp-literate, and I have read messages from users willing to learn
>> Emacs just to use org-mode!
>
> A cons cell is a lisp structure which has two values in parentheses
> separated by a dot
>
> ie. (A . B)
>
> There are functions (car and cdr) which returns the two values in the
> cons cell respectively.
>
> The easiest way to modify org-refile-targets is with the customize
> interface.
>
> C-h v org-refile-targets RET
>
> then click the "You can _customize_ this variable." link
>
> and then use the buttons to construct the value.
>
> I have this value set as follows:
>
> ,----
> | org-refile-targets is a variable defined in `org.el'.
> | Its value is
> | ((org-agenda-files :level . 1)
> | (nil :level . 1))
> `----
>
> where:
>
> (org-agenda-files :level . 1) specifies all level 1 targets in all
> of my org files listed in
> org-agenda-files
>
> (nil :level . 1) specifies all level 1 files in the
> current buffer
>
> Sometimes I work in org-files which are not part of my
> org-agenda-files list and I want to be able to refile to level 1
> targets
> in that file too.
>
> I think you want the following setting:
>
> ,----
> | org-refile-targets is a variable defined in `org.el'.
> | Its value is
> | ((org-agenda-files :level . 1)
> | (org-agenda-files :level . 2))
> `----
This works well, but faster is:
((org-agenda-files :maxlevel . 2))
Because it will do only one pass over all involved files.
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-20 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-18 6:27 Seeking further clarification of org-refile-targets variable Charles Cave
2008-12-18 13:43 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-18 13:51 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-18 14:01 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-12-18 14:25 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-20 22:03 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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