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

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

[Scott Jaderholm]

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First let me say that I've really enjoyed using org-mode for the past month
or so. Thank you to all those who have contributed to it!

I've had fun customizing the faces a little and this is what I came up with
http://jaderholm.com/screens/org-colors.jpg

1. Is there a way to do recurring events? Even if it were just a function
that could rewrite the dates every day/week/month I find it hard to believe
that so many people use org-mode as a planner without this functionality.

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?

3. How do you make it so that tags appear farther to the right? I'm hoping
that will keep them more inline, as long headings tend to interfere with the
default position.

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.

* org-publish questions

5. I'm using org-export and I have been unable to link to an image and have
it show up as an image in the exported html.
[[http://foo.com/bar.jpg]<http://foo.com/bar.jpg%5D>]
shows up as a link and @<img src="http://foo.com/bar.jpg" /> shows up with
the markup as text and the url as a link.

6. I've had problems with lists (- items) not ending correctly and the next
line, even if separated with a blank line, is considered part of the list.
Do I have to explicitly end the list or has anyone seen this problem? The
closest I can get to reproducing it at this moment is that if I have:

text:
- 1
- 2

more text

the "text:" is in a <p> but the "more text" is not in a <p>.

7. Is there a way to change how the page title is exported so that it will
use a span instead of an h1?

Thank you very much,
Scott

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

[Pete Phillips]

Morning all.

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Jaderholm <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:

    Scott> 1. Is there a way to do recurring events? Even if it were
    Scott> just a function that could rewrite the dates every
    Scott> day/week/month I find it hard to believe that so many people
    Scott> use org-mode as a planner without this functionality.

org-mode integrates pretty well with diary mode, so I use the diary file
to keep my appointments, and org mode does a fantastic job of merging
the diary and org mode events (deadlines, scheduled etc) for me in the
*Org Agenda* buffer.

diary mode allows you to schedule recurring events. For example, we hold
a technical group meeting on the first friday of the month, so in my
~/diary file I have the following:

%%(diary-float t 5 1) 9:15 TG Meeting 

the diary manual will explain what's going on here, the point being that
you *can* schedule repeating events. This wiki here:

   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiaryMode

will help a lot.

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

I don't understand why. I can ssh onto our servers from home, run emacs
remotely, and it sees all the modifier keys.  I can use <SHIFT> <ALT>
and <CTRL> over my linux-linux ssh conection.  Are you running standard
UNIX/Linux machines on both sides of the connection ?  Are you running
emacs or Xemacs ? Frankly, I would think that not being able to use the
shift key is a bit of a showstopper when entering text anyway ?

Pete

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

[Pete Phillips]

    Scott> 1. Is there a way to do recurring events? Even if it were
    Scott> just a function that could rewrite the dates every
    Scott> day/week/month I find it hard to believe that so many people
    Scott> use org-mode as a planner without this functionality.

I should also have included this for repeating dates:

  http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_675.html

Pete

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

[Tim O'Callaghan]

>
> 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.

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

[J. David Boyd]

"Scott Jaderholm" <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:

>    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?

I are you telling your ssh connection to do X forwarding. I believe you need
to use a '-X -Y' or some equivalent on the command line when starting your ssh
client.  See the man page to be certain.

Dave

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

[Scott Jaderholm]

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On 12/9/06, Pete Phillips <pete@smtl.co.uk> wrote:

>     Scott> 2. I use org-mode over ssh and since shift doesn't work along
>     Scott> with other modifiers many of the keystrokes do not work. Has
>     Scott> anyone come up with alternate keystrokes not involving shift
>     Scott> that they could share?
>
> I don't understand why. I can ssh onto our servers from home, run emacs
> remotely, and it sees all the modifier keys.  I can use <SHIFT> <ALT>
> and <CTRL> over my linux-linux ssh conection.  Are you running standard
> UNIX/Linux machines on both sides of the connection ?  Are you running
> emacs or Xemacs ? Frankly, I would think that not being able to use the
> shift key is a bit of a showstopper when entering text anyway ?


I am running emacs in console mode on a linux machine and connecting to it
with putty. Of course I can capitalize characters, but I cannot use
Shift-Tab or Shift-Control, and I believe Shift-Meta or Shift-arrowkeys.

A few people in #emacs told me that this is because there is no ASCII code
to encode Shift-Tab etc. I don't know if there's some work around for this.
One would be a non-console version of emacs but I really like putty because
it is so small and I can access it anywhere without having to install X11 or
emacs locally.

Thanks for your help,
Scott

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

[Russell Adams]

Don't feel bad, you're not the only one. ;]

I run emacs exclusively in a terminal. I could run it in X, but choose
a terminal instead.

Russell

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:20:50AM -0700, Scott Jaderholm wrote:
> On 12/9/06, Pete Phillips <pete@smtl.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >    Scott> 2. I use org-mode over ssh and since shift doesn't work along
> >    Scott> with other modifiers many of the keystrokes do not work. Has
> >    Scott> anyone come up with alternate keystrokes not involving shift
> >    Scott> that they could share?
> >
> >I don't understand why. I can ssh onto our servers from home, run emacs
> >remotely, and it sees all the modifier keys.  I can use <SHIFT> <ALT>
> >and <CTRL> over my linux-linux ssh conection.  Are you running standard
> >UNIX/Linux machines on both sides of the connection ?  Are you running
> >emacs or Xemacs ? Frankly, I would think that not being able to use the
> >shift key is a bit of a showstopper when entering text anyway ?
> 
> 
> I am running emacs in console mode on a linux machine and connecting to it
> with putty. Of course I can capitalize characters, but I cannot use
> Shift-Tab or Shift-Control, and I believe Shift-Meta or Shift-arrowkeys.
> 
> A few people in #emacs told me that this is because there is no ASCII code
> to encode Shift-Tab etc. I don't know if there's some work around for this.
> One would be a non-console version of emacs but I really like putty because
> it is so small and I can access it anywhere without having to install X11 or
> emacs locally.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Scott

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

[Bastien]

"Scott Jaderholm" <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:

> I've had fun customizing the faces a little and this is what I came up
> with http://jaderholm.com/screens/org-colors.jpg

Nice!

> 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?

Have a look at this: 

,----[ (info "(org)TTY keys") ]
| Org-mode uses a number of keys that are not accessible on a tty.
| This applies to most special keys like cursor keys, <TAB> and <RET>,
| when these are combined with modifier keys like <Meta> and/or
| <Shift>.
`----

> 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.

- [ ] sklgj 


>
> * Org-publish questions
>
> 5. I'm using org-export and I have been unable to link to an image and
> have it show up as an image in the exported html.
> [[Http://foo.com/bar.jpg]] shows up as a link and @<img
> src="http://foo.com/bar.jpg" /> shows up with the markup as text and
> the url as a link.
>
> 6. I've had problems with lists (- items) not ending correctly and the
> next line, even if separated with a blank line, is considered part of
> the list. Do I have to explicitly end the list or has anyone seen this
> problem? The closest I can get to reproducing it at this moment is
> that if I have:
>
> Text: - 1 - 2
>
> More text
>
> The "text:" is in a <p> but the "more text" is not in a <p>.
>
> 7. Is there a way to change how the page title is exported so that it
> will use a span instead of an h1?
>
> Thank you very much, Scott
>
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Re: recurring events, alternative to shift modifier, tag positions, smart [ ], and org-publish questions

[Bastien]

"Scott Jaderholm" <jaderholm@gmail.com> writes:

> I've had fun customizing the faces a little and this is what I came up
> with http://jaderholm.com/screens/org-colors.jpg

Nice!

> 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?

Have a look at this: 

,----[ (info "(org)TTY keys") ]
| Org-mode uses a number of keys that are not accessible on a tty.
| This applies to most special keys like cursor keys, <TAB> and <RET>,
| when these are combined with modifier keys like <Meta> and/or
| <Shift>.
`----

> 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.

Not sure a dedicated keystroke would be more convenient than typing 
[ ] directly...

-- 
Bastien

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

[Carsten Dominik]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 23:11, Scott Jaderholm wrote:

> First let me say that I've really enjoyed using org-mode for the past 
> month or so. Thank you to all those who have contributed to it!
>
> I've had fun customizing the faces a little and this is what I came up 
> with http://jaderholm.com/screens/org-colors.jpg

Nice.  You could make your configuration available!

> 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?

Please check section 12.6 in the manual.

> 3. How do you make it so that tags appear farther to the right? I'm 
> hoping that will keep them more inline, as long headings tend to 
> interfere with the default position.

There is a variable `org-tags-column' that you can use to configure 
this.

>
> 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.

If you are in a plain list already, M-RET inserts a new item with  [ ].
I guess there could also be something to put this in after you have
created an item, but [ ] is not so hart to type after all.

>
> * org-publish questions
>
> 5. I'm using org-export and I have been unable to link to an image and 
> have it show up as an image in the exported html. 
> [[http://foo.com/bar.jpg]] shows up as a link and @<img 
> src="http://foo.com/bar.jpg" /> shows up with the markup as text and 
> the url as a link.

You mean an image located at a URL?  Hmm, you are right, this is not 
possible yet.  You can inline local images with

   [[file:bar.jpg]]

If you write

   [[file:bar.jpg][this is the bar image]]

you will get a link to the image instead.

I'll put inlining of remote images onto my todo list.  Not sure yet how 
this will work.

>
> 6. I've had problems with lists (- items) not ending correctly and the 
> next line, even if separated with a blank line, is considered part of 
> the list. Do I have to explicitly end the list or has anyone seen this 
> problem? The closest I can get to reproducing it at this moment is 
> that if I have:
>
>  text:
>  - 1
>  - 2
>
>  more text
>
>  the "text:" is in a <p> but the "more text" is not in a <p>.

Is that a problem?  There is a </li> after the end of a list, so for me 
the formatted HTML looks just fine, even without a <p>.

> 7. Is there a way to change how the page title is exported so that it 
> will use a span instead of an h1?

This is the variable `org-export-html-title-format'.  You can
find such variables by choosing from the menu Org->Customize,
then open the group "Org Export", then the group
"Org Export HTML", then read through the names of the options.

- Carsten