From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: Using org-entities to escape symbols Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:31:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <3f18c497-dae3-1cf4-8c48-d7efab07a766@autistici.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47408) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b0EJu-0008Nm-JK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 16:31:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b0EJq-00088s-7c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 16:31:53 -0400 Received: from mail-qg0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c04::232]:33976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b0EJq-00088f-3X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 16:31:50 -0400 Received: by mail-qg0-x232.google.com with SMTP id 90so13464335qgz.1 for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 13:31:48 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <3f18c497-dae3-1cf4-8c48-d7efab07a766@autistici.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: drymer Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Kaushal Modi you might find this approach helpful: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/11/21/Insert-org-entities-into-org-mode-with-helm/ drymer writes: > Hi > I didn't explain myself. It inserts four *, as it didn't find the > entity. I'm using emacs 24.5.3 and org-mode 8.34, which is the maint > branch. I've also tried with plain emacs without configuration. > > Kaushal Modi: >>> >>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:28 PM drymer wrote: >>> >>>> I evaluated the >>>> functions, and supposedly it should something like \ast when executing >>>> C-u *, but it doesn't happen. >>>> >>> >> I reread your initial email.. so look like you see nothing getting inserted >> when in do "C-u *"? That is odd. >> >> Can you do the following and see if things work as intended? If they do, >> then there's something conflicting with your config: >> >> 1. Launch emacs -Q >> 2. Paste the whole code block from >> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/16746/115 to the *scratch* buffer and >> evaluate it. >> 3. Do C-x b something.org >> 4. M-x org-mode >> 5. Hit "C-u *" >> 6. You should see an asterisk being displayed, which is actually a >> prettified version of "\ast{}" which is what actually got inserted. >> >> Also, please report your emacs and org-mode versions. I am using the latest >> build of emacs-25 branch from git and the latest build of org-mode master >> branch git. >> -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu