From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Hannon Subject: Re: Conflict between Org-Mode versions? Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <790495.34626.qm@web161916.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <617335.71813.qm@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4433.1303935870@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> <252417.15567.qm@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <87zknaej1w.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFtQM-00021r-CZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:32:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFtQL-0003U3-7h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:32:22 -0400 Received: from nm25-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com ([98.139.213.156]:32844) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFtQL-0003Tt-2V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:32:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zknaej1w.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga Cc: "nicholas.dokos@hp.com" , Org-Mode List > From: Eric S Fraga > [...] >> FWIW, in Emacs I typed: >> >> C-h v org >> >> and got no fewer than 931 completions. A lot of knobs to turn! > > yes, indeed! the info manual is your friend here. it is very difficult > to figure out what you need to set from just the list of org- variables. Heh. Yes, thanks, Eric. I'm not crazy enough to try to bootstrap my way through 900+ variables, but that sets the scale of the challenge for me. >>>> >>>> (2) When I use the construct: >>>> >>>> [[URL] [description]] >> >>> ^ >>> ^ >>>No space here ^ >> >>>> the line does NOT collapse to: >>>> >>>> "description" >>>> >>>> when I add the closing bracket, and if I export to HTML or PDF, I >>>> get the whole ugly line, brackets and all. >> >> Yep, omitting the space fixed the problem. I guess I've got a knee-jerk >> instinct to try to "pretty print", and I didn't notice the the "][" brackets >> were contiguous in the example. > > The best approach here is to use some of the specific functions (often > with already defined key bindings) that are set up for just this type of > case: =org-insert-link= in this case. These will insert things with the > right formatting automatically! Very good suggestion! I just used C-c C-l to add a link, and, of course, it worked perfectly (as did the manual edit suggested by Nick D.). I note that by my count there are no fewer than 1612 "org*" functions ;-) Thanks again. -- Mike