From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Tim O'Callaghan <timo@dspsrv.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some suggestions - mostly for non (X)Emacs updating of org mode files.
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:23:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e92e88795518c453f9d6064530e504a6@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060425142715.GA3120@ELSAMSW37164>
Hi Tim,
On Apr 25, 2006, at 16:27, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> * org-save-hooks
> I have an Org file, and to export useful lists from it that i can
> use offline i have to go into agenda mode and export the
> information.
>
> What i think would be cool is if i could just do an export at save
> time. What i think would be cooler, would be that i could specify
> these exports in a #+VAR with TAG search criteria.
>
> Something like #+AUTOEXPORT TYPE filename <search criteria>
> e.g.:
> #+AUTOEXPORT ASCII work_stuff.txt +WORK-HOME
> #+AUTOEXPORT ICAL home_appointments.ical +HOME-WORK
Arranging for export at save time is not hard, this can be done with
hooks and is not a problem. However, I do not understand exactly what
you mean with the search options.
Do you mean to produce an agenda buffer with those search options and
then export the agenda buffer itself?
Or do you mean to construct another Org-mode document containing only
the trees with these tags and export that one?
>
> * Fast Update mode - for minimal editing in another editor
> This is where the **** in the outline is prefixed with a number or
> character, and processed at load time.
>
> 1** TODO This top level task is done archive it
> +** TODO move this one TODO stage further
>
> Then something in my org config like:
> (("1" my-mark-done-and-archive) ("+" org-cycle))
At first I did not like the look of this, but after some thinking, this
might not be a bad idea, and pretty useful, too. Mind that this will
only work if you export the full Org-mode file. If you make a
selection first (e.g. in the agenda buffer) and export that, the
connection between the selected lines and the originial Org-mode file
are broken, and it is not possible to link the autoupdate information
back in a safe way.
Then I don't really thing you would have to be able to customize this,
as there are only very few operations for which this makes sense:
A**** Archive
T**** Mark TODO
D**** Mark DONE
N**** Cycle TODO to the next state
Can't really think of anything else.
>
> * embedded file link - for tables, possibly images where supported.
> This is something i was thinking about for linking external tables
> into a document. To have the table as a separate document, possibly
> a CSV one converted to tbl mode automagicaly. The basic idea being
> that i can use something other than emacs to update the data in the
> tables and see the updates in my org document.
THis is very hard and really transforms Org-mode files into something
which is no longer plain text, so I am a bit worried here. What is
wrong about using the proper file link, and then both editing and
looking at the external table/file in the proper application?
>
> * an option to export CSV using quotes and commas.
For tables, I take it?
>
> * The ability to change the command prefix from ctrl-c.
> I have migrated from the pinkie killing ctrl to the more finger
> friendly alt and escape keys for most of my (X)Emacs usage.
This is very hard to do. The keymap of Org-mode i extremely full, on
many systems ALT and META is actually the same etc. Your best bet for
this is to write a mode hook that makes your own key bindings. Just
copy the entire define-key org-mode-map section and then hack it your
way, wrap a function around it and call this function in org-mode-hook
or org-load-hook.
>
> * Agenda Collections.
> Essentially the ability to define org-agenda-files from a #+
> file link. This allows me to separate out work and home for
> example. When i open my work file, it agendas my work org
> files. When i open my home org file it could agenda my home and work
> projects, if i set the links up.
> e.g:
> #+COLLECTION file://blah.org
I can see very much the use of this. The only problem I see is that
org-agenda is a *global* command, that is not always called from an
Org-mode buffer. Lets say you are loading several org-mode files, with
several different COLLECTION lines. Then, if you are in a non-org-mode
file, which collection should be used?
In principle I would think that what you want can be done using File
Variables already now, for example in the first line of your document:
-*- mode: org; org-agenda-files: "~/blah.agendafiles"; -*-
But of course it would be more consistent to drive this form a #+ line.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-27 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-25 14:27 Some suggestions - mostly for non (X)Emacs updating of org mode files Tim O'Callaghan
2006-04-25 14:42 ` Nic
2006-04-27 11:23 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2006-04-27 13:05 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2006-05-16 7:51 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-05-16 8:44 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2006-05-16 9:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-05-16 10:24 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2006-05-17 9:55 ` Carsten Dominik
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