From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manish Subject: Re: A few new user questions, Custom agenda views, calendar in frame, and Hyperlinks on win32 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:12:11 +0530 Message-ID: References: <5146889A6969A24D82AFD05233CF024F012D518E@Haze.cmass.criticalmass.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L33F3-0004AK-IR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:42:17 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L33F1-00049e-Ns for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:42:16 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35881 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L33F1-00049Y-AW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:42:15 -0500 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.190]:37659) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L33F0-000577-O4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:42:15 -0500 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id u5so157287tia.10 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:42:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5146889A6969A24D82AFD05233CF024F012D518E@Haze.cmass.criticalmass.com> Content-Disposition: inline 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: Jonathan Arkell Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Jonathan Arkell wrote: > Hi Everybody > > I have some fairly simple new user questions, and I am hoping you guys can help me out. > > I have a few custom agenda views that I would like to create, but I > am having some issues. My files are laid out in 1 file per project, > and each file starts with a level 1 outline element tagged > :project:. (I do have other file types that are appropriately > tagged). I thought that if I wanted to list all TODOs in all my > (appropriately tagged) project files, it would be as easy as setting > up a custom agenda command. The one I set up had a tags-todo type, > with search "project" or "+project", but I get =85 well=85 no > results. Ideally I'd like to have a couple of different lists, all > project tagged files with TODO items and all project tagged files > with WAITING items. Can someone give me a hand? (I'm not adverse > to using setq in my .emacs, in fact, that might make things a little > easier for me anyways) Like Matt said earlier, defining FILETAGS at the top of a project file is easier approach. Fast tag filtering is the most amazing way to zero in on items. > > Secondly, I am having an issue where my Calendar is popping up in a > new frame all the time, either when scheduling an item or through > remember. I'd rather it pop up in a new window instead. Is this > possible? Can you please try: (setq pop-up-frames nil) > > Finally, I am having a problem with some external links, whenever I > try to visit a file like \\AWindowsServer\path\to\file I get the > error message "eval: ShellExecute failed: The system cannot find the > file specified. ^M" Is it easy to fix this? What is going on? This seems to work for me: ;; for invoking external viewers from within dired (require 'extview) (push '("\\.html$" . ask) extview-application-associations) (push '("\\.doc$" . "C:/PROGRA~1/OFFICE11/WINWORD.EXE %s") extview-application-associations) (push '("\\.xls$" . "C:/PROGRA~1/OFFICE11/EXCEL.EXE %s") extview-application-associations) (push '("\\.pdf$" . "C:/PROFRA~1/Adobe/Reader\\ 8\\.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe %s") extview-application-associations) --=20 Manish