From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@fsfeurope.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GTD: Solving the bottleneck of converting incoming mails to NEXT actions
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:34:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4af946ce0ac85a78589fd376d0b8282@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3myvau3ri.fsf@cerebro.fsfeurope.org>
On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:08, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> thanks a lot for your help, very useful:
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:44:30 +0200
> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
>
> b> Please
>
> b> 1. append an ".org" extension to your file
> b> 2. restart your config
> b> 3. test and report again
>
> When following steps 2 and 3, I get
>
> "byte-code: Target files for remember notes must be in Org-mode"
>
> and when making "~/Tools/Org/E.org" the default file name, things seem
> to work fine with the one exception that instead of creating the
> heading
> that was specified as default, it creates a "* Notes" heading. This
> makes no sense, imho. If a heading is created, why not creat the
> default?
>
> On changing the file names, I wanted to avoid that, because the file
> names are used in generating the agenda, and I don't want to lose four
> characters in the compact view. Also it is generally unnecessary in
> terms of using Org mode, as Emacs can also identify files by content,
> e.g. my Email file says
>
> "Georg's Email TODO Org File -*- mode: org; -*-"
>
> So I consider that necessity a bug.
It is not necessary to rename the file - if you file comes up in
org-mode
when you open it in Emacs, everything is fine. The fact that you get
this
error means that the file Org-mode is visiting on order to store the
note is *not* in org-mode.
> The user has explicitly specified
> that this is an Org file, remember should not consider itself smarter
> than the user and insist on the file name extension.
>
> Here is what I think should be done:
>
> a) use the default heading name specified by the user for
> auto-creation, instead of "Notes".
Yes.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 20:44 GTD: Solving the bottleneck of converting incoming mails to NEXT actions Georg C. F. Greve
2007-09-24 22:26 ` John Wiegley
2007-09-25 9:45 ` Georg C. F. Greve
2007-09-25 12:52 ` Bastien
2007-09-25 14:05 ` Georg C. F. Greve
2007-09-25 15:44 ` Bastien
2007-09-25 16:08 ` Georg C. F. Greve
2007-09-25 16:29 ` Bastien
2007-09-25 17:34 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-09-25 22:24 ` Georg C. F. Greve
2007-09-25 16:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-25 17:35 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2007-09-25 18:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-24 22:52 ` Adam Spiers
2007-09-24 23:04 ` Adam Spiers
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