From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Barton Subject: Re: Is this the best place for noob questions too? Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:27:10 +0100 Message-ID: <4BD7E34E.8010301@manor-farm.org> References: Reply-To: lists@manor-farm.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O73s8-0005xp-Ut for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:48:00 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51910 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O73s6-0005vX-Md for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:48:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O71fu-0004At-5x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:28:00 -0400 Received: from mail.ian-barton.com ([109.74.196.44]:58113 helo=li40-130.members.linode.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O71fs-0004A3-T6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:27:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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: David Frascone Cc: emacs-orgmode On 27/04/10 23:00, David Frascone wrote: > > I notice that you guys all seem to be VERY MUCH experts in orgmode. . . > my questions are all very . . urm . . RTFM'ish, or just noobish. > > Should I be posting them somewhere else? I'm still incorporating > org-mode into my life, and making many mistakes . . . but, I love the > simplicity. > > I'm also loving having emacs back in my life too. Last night, I > remotely edited some files on my web server. I've been doing that for a > while with sshfs, but, I forgot how seamless you can do it with emacs. . > . pretty much deprecated sshfs for me (in the way I use it -- I'm either > editing a lot of stuff, or I ssh over, or I rsync -- I had been using > sshfs for the editing, and now no longer need to!) > > Anyway, thanks for the answers so far, and thanks for the new ones that > will surely come when I get confused again. I think my next goal is to > come up with some way to use multiple files to help my organizaition . . > and somehow link them together. (Don't tell me . . still reading the > fine manual!) > > I have been using org-mode for about three years and I am still a noobie:) Asking questions here helps future users, because the answers are then available via the list's history. Org is capable of doing so many things that most people only use a subset of the available features. Quite often when browsing the list I find posts that give me ideas of a new way of doing something, or introduce me to some feature I wasn't aware of. Ian.