recurring events, alternative to shift modifier, tag positions, smart [ ], and org-publish questions

["Tim O'Callaghan" <tim.ocallaghan@gmail.com>]

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> 2. I use org-mode over ssh and since shift doesn't work along with other
> modifiers many of the keystrokes do not work. Has anyone come up with
> alternate keystrokes not involving shift that they could share?
>

Shift keys not working? That, i cannot understand. The only difficulty
i've come across is Meta/alt, but thats mapped to escape. So Alt-a is
esc-a.

If you can ssh into a box, then you can use emacs locally and set up
tramp to edit these remote files. Or you could set up X11 forwarding,
and, assuming you have a local X server running, you should be able to
use it as normal.

If your client is windows, you can install Cygwin for a local Xemacs,
Emacs and X server, and use putty as the ssh client with X forwarding.

> 4. Has anyone written a smart function for smart adding [ ] to lines, kind
> of like C-c C-t does with TODO? Ideally it would be smart enough to put it
> after a - if there were one.
>

I think you can use abbrev mode to do this.

Tim.