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Is this the only active Emacs community here? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

which have been disabled about a month ago

Good to hear. I had to filter out all the @alien.top threads at some point after I accidently replied to one thread here instead of reddit and my reply was not seen by the author requesting help.

Is this the only active Emacs community here? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Maybe. Maybe not. A number of posts (@alien.top) are just re-posting reddit.

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[SUMMARY] #3 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, Oct 11, 19:00 UTC+3 (list.orgmode.org)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Random interesting links

  • Nick Anderson mentioned Khoj (https://khoj.dev/)

    • It is an AI indexer for Org/MD/txt/pdf files and Github repositories
      • Allows querying Org notes, remote repository readmes, and documents using natural language, just like ChatGPT (but on your own dataset).
    • Can be used locally via pytorch/Llama 2
    • Can connect to ChatGPT
    • Implement its own python-based Org parser

  • Why asked about neovim-friendly configs

    • Not exactly Org-specific, but the usual suggestions are Doomemacs and evil-mode in vanilla Emacs
    • Also, Nick Anderson reminded about Spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org/)
      • Unlike Doom emacs, which is fast, but not always stable, Spacemacs is an old, stable project. Although, AFAIR, Spacemacs is known for its slowness due to large number of packages.

  • Nick Anderson shared https://github.com/unhammer/org-rich-yank

  • Carlo Tambuatco asked about what is tree-sitter and how it is used in Emacs

  • There was a demo demonstrating how to export texinfo manual to HTML with source code examples fontified as in Org mode

    • The motivation is limited Org support for manual authoring

      • ELPA, when generating manuals from Org sources, does not use the latest Org version, with some features lacking.
      • While Org supports org to texi export, only a limited subset of texinfo markup is supported, as Org is not specialized for manuals and does not have a notion of specialized markup like , , , etc
      • Also, Org does not yet support glossaries and indexes as well as Texinfo does. Though see https://github.com/tecosaur/org-glossary, which is an experimental implementation by one of the Org contributors.

    • One downside of texinfo is that code snippets are not colored

      • To solve this problem, https://github.com/hniksic/emacs-htmlize and Org publishing are utilized

        • The manual source is written in texi and then exported to html during publishing
        • The generated HTML is further processed (via ~org-publish-after-publishing-hook~), taking the code in HTML, passing it through ~htmlize~ (just like what Org does in ~org-html-fontify-code~), and replacing the HTML code elements with property fontified versions.

      • Unfortunately, the code was only showed on screen and no link was dropped to the chat. So, I am just leaving what I remember from how the code works (above).

      UPDATE from the author of the demo: You can find the code I use for adding highlighting to Texinfo examples here:

      http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?p=esy-publish.git;a=blob;f=esy-publish.el;h=cb103b78b7dd2f8d0f5260883b61bf651d0650f5;hb=HEAD#l394

    Namely, the function esy-publish-fontify-examples takes the name of an HTML-formatted Texinfo manual, and uses htmlize to markup the contents of "example" blocks in that HTML file.

    The result is very similar to the markup of source blocks in Org documents. For instance you can see some highlighted "examples" here: https://eshelyaron.com/man/sweep/Numbered-Variables.html

  • Ilya Chernyshov asked about his feature request on the mailing list: https://list.orgmode.org/[email protected]/T/#u

    • His workflow involves repeated tasks (habits)

    • Sometimes, he finishes a task in time, but sometimes he misses it: : * TODO exercise

      : SCHEDULED: <2023-10-08 Sun +1d>

      : :PROPERTIES:

      : :CREATED: [2023-10-01 Sun 01:25]

      : :LAST_REPEAT: [2023-10-10 Tue 02:08]

      : :END:

      : :LOGBOOK:

      : - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2023-10-08 Sun]

      : - State "MISSED" from "TODO" [2023-10-07 Sat]

      : - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2023-10-06 Fri]

      : :END:

    • The problem is =LOGBOOK= entry date

      • Org mode, by default, uses timestamp when the user changed todo state
      • However, for "MISSED" task, the date what the task is marked "MISSED" is not necessarily the same day it is scheduled
      • Ilya wants to be able to use =SCHEDULED= date rather than "today" in the log for certain keywords.

    • The feature might be implemented as an extension of ~org-current-effective-time~, which is already customizeable via ~org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time~.

  • Nick Anderson asked about previously announced Karl Voit's podcast https://graz.social/@publicvoit/110986422932417006 where he planned to talk about Org mode

    The Informed Life https://theinformed.life/ is the first podcast that will publish an episode with me. The other will be in German and we don't have a recording date yet.

    [...]

    See also https://karl-voit.at/clippings/

    #+end_quote

  • visuwesh asked about setting ~org-latex-title-command~ per-file in Org LaTeX export

    • There is no special in-buffer keyword to set it, but one can use
      • #+BIND keyword to set any variable during export (need to customize ~org-export-allow-bind-keywords~)
      • buffer-local/directory-local variables in Emacs
    • visuwesh's setting is rather long and would require adding a lot of boilerplate text to each exported Org buffer
    • ~org-latex-title-command~ is a template, which Org can populate with AUTHOR, TITLE, SUBTITLE, KEYWORDS, DESCRIPTION, CREATOR, LANGUAGE, or DATE
      • visuwesh asked if it is possible to fill arbitrary document metadata to the template Like #+PROF: XXXX and then XXXX being adding to the template.
        • It is currently not possible.
        • One would have to use more generic facilities, like export filters to achieve this.

  • excalamus shared his experience using Org mode on the newest Emacs Android port

    • To make things more touchscreen-friendly, he added custom toolbar buttons to move around Org buffers.
    • We had a similar idea in recent mailing list discussion: https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/[email protected]/
      • Unlike excalamus' toolbar approach, the idea discussed on the mailing list was to add text buttons right inside Org buffer, below each heading.
    • visuwesh mentioned that Emacs Android is capable of running the usual Linux command line tools, when they are installed via termux
    • Emacs (and Org mode) on Android is capable of displaying images, except svgs

  • On searching Emacs (and Org mode) mailing lists

  • A short discussion about the meetup timing

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[18:27] Welcome to [[bbb:OrgMeetup]]!For help on using BigBlueButton see these (short) tutorial videos.To join the audio bridge click the phone button. Use a headset to avoid causing background noise for others.This server is running BigBlueButton.

[18:31] Ihor Radchenko : The official start 30 minutes from now

[18:49] Ihor Radchenko : random interesting urls: https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode

[18:49] Ihor Radchenko : https://github.com/ahyatt/ekg

[18:49] Ihor Radchenko : https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/CANr+fmwRWfKpwVJWv4k2CLYczKNCuRqs4zZijRQ40K9r8YpmKw@mail.gmail.com/

[19:03] Nick Anderson : Several weeks back I came across https://khoj.dev/. Local (or remote if you choose) LLM and indexing of your notes. It's seeing a lot of change but when I first found it, it had specific org-mode parsing support.

[19:04] Nick Anderson : I can't say it's /usable/ yet, but interesting.

[19:04] Carlo Tambuatco : Hello

[19:06] Nick Anderson : The org specific parser (don't know if it's still in use) was headline level search against pytorch embeddings of your notes. Plain text is like fill file.

[19:08] Ilya Chernyshov : hi everyone

[19:09] Nick Anderson : Yeah, I have only used the offline models with it. Interesting, but at least against my corpus, not usable currently.

[19:10] Nick Anderson : parses md and org files out from Github but I coudn't actually get it to complete without running out of memory

[19:10] Nick Anderson : that was just their indexing that it coudlnt do.

[19:11] Carlo Tambuatco : LLama2 is the only LLM it supports?

[19:11] why : what emacs configurations do you recommend for a beginner who has just learned neovim?

[19:12] Nick Anderson : They are workign to add ability to change the local model: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/pull/494/commits/a85ff941ca49538ac6090e4d891e72710737744f

[19:12] Nick Anderson : @why I came via Spacemacs (old vim user).

[19:14] Ihor Radchenko : https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs

[19:14] Ihor Radchenko : For people familiar with Vim

[19:15] Ihor Radchenko : another way is just installing evil-mode

[19:15] Nick Anderson : https://www.spacemacs.org/

[19:16] Nick Anderson : but claims are doom is faster, seems more popular. But I have used it since 2016 happily.

[19:17] Carlo Tambuatco : Lazy loading modules

[19:20] Nick Anderson : org-rich-yank doesn't get enough publicity super nice for notes on code etc ...

[19:20] я : why are you have slavic pronounsuation

[19:24] visuwesh : yes

[19:24] Nick Anderson : Yes.

[19:28] Nick Anderson : No.

[19:29] Carlo Tambuatco : Could you talk about tree-sitter (for newbies) and how well it works with older emacs packages? Does it cause any conflicts?

[19:30] Nick Anderson : I see your browser.

[19:30] visuwesh : i see firefox here

[19:30] Nick Anderson : No emacs.

[19:30] Nick Anderson : No emacs

[19:36] Ilya Chernyshov : Ihor, do you know if there's a way to log timestamps of SCHEDULED property, but not timestamps of current time in LOGBOOK each time I change TODO state of repeated task? I couldn't configure org-log-note-headings, because there's no such placeholder that inserts SCHEDULED property timestamp. Only current time timestamp can be inserted. Maybe there's another way of doing that? Also, I can send a patch that adds a new placeholder for that.

I already posted on list.orgmode.org about that 2 days ago, you probably saw the mail :D. I saw the announcement for the meetup half an hour ago and thought to ask you here

[19:36] Nick Anderson : Karl Voit had mentioned being interviewed on some podcast several weeks back, anyone hear any updates on that being released?

[19:36] visuwesh : Is there a way to set the title command for a custom latex class in org via org-latex-classes? I see that you can set a plist element for org-publish but not so for latex export. AFAICT from the doc and ox-latex, it is not possible. Right now, i set org-latex-title-command in a src block but something more compact and "preset" would be nice.

[19:40] Ihor Radchenko : For index/glossary in org export, see https://github.com/tecosaur/org-glossary

[19:43] Ihor Radchenko : https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87bkqx4jyg.fsf@localhost/

[19:44] Ihor Radchenko : discussion about making Org a replacement for texinfo

[19:47] Nick Anderson : thats neat

[19:47] Ihor Radchenko : https://orgmode.org/manual/The-open_002dsource-protocol.html

[19:47] Nick Anderson : orgit-forge maybe

[19:50] Nick Anderson : https://github.com/sshaw/git-link

[19:52] Ihor Radchenko : transform internal notmuch email link into mailing list url: https://github.com/yantar92/emacs-config/blob/master/config.org#live-helm-org-ql-search-in-org

[19:52] Nick Anderson : nice, thanks.

[19:54] Ilya Chernyshov : here's the link with the example

[19:54] Ilya Chernyshov : https://list.orgmode.org/[email protected]/T/#u

[19:57] Ilya Chernyshov : the timestamp of current time is inserted when 'done in org-log-note-headings is configured as "State %s CLOSING NOTE %t"

[19:57] Ilya Chernyshov : the placeholder %t is somewhat useless

[19:58] Ilya Chernyshov : I want a new placeholder that is replaced with a SCHEDULED property before the state is changed. That way you can track when you've done/missed a repeated task

[19:59] Ilya Chernyshov : your mic is off =)

[19:59] Ilya Chernyshov : maybe that's on purpose, I dont' know :D

[20:02] Ilya Chernyshov : I'm so sorry, can I get the record of the meetup? I missed a small part of your reply

[20:03] Ilya Chernyshov : so sorry

[20:03] Ihor Radchenko : https://list.orgmode.org/[email protected]/T/#u

[20:03] Ihor Radchenko : this is the feature request we are discussing

[20:03] Ihor Radchenko : the possible way to implement it is via org-current-effective-time

[20:03] Ihor Radchenko : %t is already customizeable via org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time

[20:04] Ilya Chernyshov : thank you

[20:05] Ihor Radchenko : https://karl-voit.at/

[20:05] Ihor Radchenko : Karl's blog

[20:07] visuwesh : yes

[20:09] visuwesh : the thing is i would like to have something simpler than putting the whole command up there since my title command is quite large

[20:10] visuwesh : yess

[20:10] visuwesh : i need to set up a separate page as a title page for my assignment and the command goes around 20 lines or somesuch

[20:10] visuwesh : ah, that would work ig

[20:11] visuwesh : i was hoping to include some other template too, like the prof in charge of the assignment etc. but this is better than copy-pasting

[20:13] visuwesh : right, that's what i did except i imported a tex file instead for my bachelor's thesis/project

[20:13] Nick Anderson : This was where I saw Karl being invited to podcast: https://graz.social/@publicvoit/110986422932417006

[20:13] visuwesh : sry, i meant something like a keyword like #+PROF: XXXX and usesomething like %{PROF} in the titlecommand to say XXXX in the file

[20:14] visuwesh : yes

[20:14] visuwesh : ah, it is using format-spec, ok

[20:15] visuwesh : i will live with setupfile then

[20:15] visuwesh : i see, i will look into using export filters

[20:16] visuwesh : ty, that answers my qn

[20:18] Nick Anderson : Yep, I havent seen anything yet :D

[20:19] Ihor Radchenko : https://emacs.ch/@yantar92/111217525037662745

[20:20] excalamus : I have something to share in just a moment

[20:23] yantar92 (audio) : Po Lu is the author of Emacs Android port

[20:24] Nick Anderson : probably have to make Test the presenter.

[20:26] Nick Anderson : Neat, I have been living with Termux, which is OK

[20:26] Nick Anderson : all the other things exactly

[20:26] visuwesh : You can use software installed inside termux from Emacs Android if you have the 'termux' emacs android apk installed.

[20:26] Ihor Radchenko : https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/[email protected]/

[20:27] visuwesh : But I think you need to have a specially compiled version of termux too? And there's a specific order you need to install ter,mux and Emacs to have termux apps usable in Emacs. I believe the info is in the Emacs for Android port sourceforge webpage

[20:29] visuwesh : No, I mean to use softaware installed in termux in Emacs android

[20:30] visuwesh : https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs/files/

[20:31] visuwesh : https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/ i hope this is useful too

[20:32] excalamus : there are images included with emacs /share/emacs/29.1/etc/images

[20:32] visuwesh : somewhere down this thread, more explanation on this topic are included

[20:33] Ilya Chernyshov : do you guys now, if it's possible to display svg images in emacs android build?

[20:34] visuwesh : it is actively updated

[20:34] visuwesh : the code in savannah and the apks are built freqly in the sourceforge

[20:34] visuwesh : sourceforge uploads are from Po Lu

[20:35] visuwesh : you could try to see the iamge type of splash image

[20:35] visuwesh : its svg on my laptop

[20:35] Ilya Chernyshov : i'm talking about image-mode being able to display svg. if it's possible, I'll try to test org-timeblock on it

[20:37] Ilya Chernyshov : yeah, thanks, you can see it here https://github.com/ichernyshovvv/org-timeblock

[20:37] Ilya Chernyshov : :D

[20:38] visuwesh : C-h C-a

[20:38] visuwesh : M-x report-emacs-bug maybe?

[20:39] visuwesh : It should be possible since I think Po Lu sends and reads email

[20:40] visuwesh : Oops, sending idk. he only says read. https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/[email protected]/

[20:41] visuwesh : To check whether it is really supported, use ‘image-type-available-p’. :P

[20:41] visuwesh : in image-types docstring

[20:41] Ihor Radchenko : image-types is a variable defined in image.c.

Value (svg webp png gif tiff jpeg xpm xbm pbm)

Set

Documentation List of potentially supported image types.

Each element of the list is a symbol for an image type, like jpeg or png. To check whether it is really supported, use image-type-available-p.

[20:41] Ihor Radchenko : :facepalm:

[20:43] Ilya Chernyshov : that's bad

[20:43] Ilya Chernyshov : =(

[20:45] visuwesh : yhetil.org has MUCH better search functionality btw. I think the GNU mailman archive search is still broken :(

[20:46] visuwesh : its f:

[20:47] Ihor Radchenko : https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/

[20:47] Ihor Radchenko : Emacs mailing list mirror

[20:50] Nick Anderson : Thanks for doing this.

[20:50] Nick Anderson : And maintaining!

[20:50] visuwesh : Thanks everyone

[20:50] visuwesh : It is fine for india too

[20:50] Nick Anderson : I am in central us and i have it playing on the side while I am working.

[20:50] visuwesh : 11:30 pm rn

[20:52] Nick Anderson : There is Emacs ATX as well. https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/

[20:52] Nick Anderson : Nope.

[20:52] Nick Anderson : Webex.

[20:52] Ihor Radchenko : https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/10/2023-10-09-emacs-news/

[20:52] Nick Anderson : It usually is.

[20:53] Nick Anderson : e.g. https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/10/2023-10-02-emacs-news/ :end:

Any way to stop org mode from adding preceding commas from src blocks? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Instead is there a good way to font lock these commas so that they are barely visible?

You can add a custom font-lock-keyword.

Showcase of my org-agenda /break-mode integrated into my system bar. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This kind of thing can be done as long as you can set toolbar text from a script. That script can either query emacsclient or you can arrange clock-in/out hooks to update some text file.

How to make org mode only fontify subscripts/superscripts if there are brackets? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Either set org-use-sub-superscripts to '{} globally or put #+options: ^:{} per document. Be aware that both the options take effect after after reload.

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#3 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, Oct 11, 19:00 UTC+3 (list.orgmode.org)
 

Another OrgMeetup will be scheduled on the second Wednesday of October, next week.

Previous meetup notes: https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/878r97bzs4.fsf@localhost/

URL: https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Time & Date: <2023-10-11 Wed 19:00-21:00 @+03,Europe/Istanbul> The room will be open half an hour before the official start.

During the meetup, we can:

  • Give advice to new users
  • Showcase Org configs or workflows
  • Demo/discuss interesting packages
  • Troubleshoot each-other's issues
  • Discuss "Org mode" section of Emacs news (https://sachachua.com/blog/)
  • Discuss anything else Org-related

Everyone is free to join the discussion/chat or lurk around silently, listening.

We will not do any recording by default.

In addition, feel free to propose topics to discuss in the replies. We can select a couple of topics and discuss them at the beginning of the meetup, followed by the usual flow with topics appearing in the process.

Is there a way to define an org entity in a way that it does not require a backslash? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Entity syntax involves backslash. As an alternative, you may define a custom export filter + custom font-lock keyword.

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[SUMMARY] #2 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, Sep 13, 19:00 UTC+3 (list.orgmode.org)
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  • weary-traveler asked to add a new feature to Org publishing system.

    The use case is publishing using CI tasks, where a new, fresh image is created every time a web site is re-published. Such image does not preserve the original modification times of the source Org files, making Org publish re-generate everything every single time.

    The new suggested feature is (optionally) using last git commit time instead of file modification time.

    • Org already has somewhat similar functionality in a form of ={{{modification-time ...}}}= macro. See [[info:org#Macro Replacement][org#Macro Replacement]] section of Org manual.
    • Also, several other places in Org are relying on file modification time and might need to be considered.
    • Conclusion: the feature request is to be submitted to mailing list for more detailed discussion. (see https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback)

  • Tomas Volf asked where to start learning Org. Answer:

    1. Go to https://orgmode.org

    2. Click on "Worg" (Org wiki): https://orgmode.org/worg/

    3. Check out https://orgmode.org/worg/#learn

    4. I specifically recommend a short Org mode guide: https://orgmode.org/guide/index.html to get an overview of what is possible and https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/index.html with various use cases.

    5. Karl Voit later pointed to his usual suggestion to learn one thing at a time: https://karl-voit.at/2020/01/20/start-using-orgmode/

      • In short, Org is so large that it is useless to try learning everything. Just look quickly what is possible and use whatever is practically useful - small step at a time.
      • If nothing in Org is useful, do not use Org (yes, it is perfectly fine not to use Org ;])

  • As usual, a number of people use Org mode for a number of different things. This time, the participants mentioned

    • outlining documents and writing plain text notes
    • source blocks to run code from notes
    • note taking (sometimes on paper first, later copying to Org)
    • blogging
    • publishing to html
    • export to LaTeX
    • storing bookmarks from internet
    • working on HS/CS projects
    • People often start with one thing, but then it becomes convenient to re-use Org for more and more and ...

  • oatmeal described Emacs hanging when opening one specific Org file. Without further info, we could only offer generic tip to submit a bug report: https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback

  • William Denton asked about how yantar92 (me) uses Org mode to maintain Org mode :)

    Some highlights:

    • This setup is definitely not for beginners. Too many idiosyncratic things.
    • I use a single notes.org file for all the notes + a bunch of archive files for things I do not need to pop up in my searches (via org-ql).
    • Org mode maintenance involves dealing with a growing pile of bug reports, feature requests, patches, ideas, etc. I currently have over 1k (yes, over one thousand) actionable ideas recorded.
    • It is literally impossible for a single human to handle all these
    • So, I instead approach this using priority system
      • I collect everything Org-related (emails, github issues, reddit posts, blogs) into Org headings via https://github.com/yantar92/org-capture-ref
      • I categorize Org-related tasks into: (1) bugs; (2) feature requests; (3) maintenance tasks; (4) misc tasks; (5) specific non-trivial projects (task groups), like implementing new syntax or fixing particularly difficult bugs.
      • At any time, I limit my Org-related work to bugs, feature request, maintenance tasks, and a couple of projects (according to my free time).
        • I do it by setting todo keyword "NEXT" on active groups and "SOMEDAY"/"HOLD" on inactive groups
      • only active groups of tasks contribute to my agenda
      • I re-consider active groups every week during weekly review
      • More about my todo keywords: https://github.com/yantar92/emacs-config/blob/master/config.org#tasks
      • Inside each group, I only mark a couple (of several hundreds) of tasks as active (NEXT)
        • I only review non-active tasks when I run out of "active" (NEXT) tasks (and the area/project is thus "stuck")
        • Non-active tasks are marked with various levels of urgency, for easier review (I do not want to review all 300-500 tasks every time)
      • A/B/C priority
      • flagged/non-flagged
      • flagged "#A" tasks are the first to be marked "NEXT" during the review
      • Use https://github.com/yantar92/org-autosort
        • The active tasks are scattered across my multiple layers of agenda views: focused agenda (have to do today); normal agenda (do after I finish focused agenda); NEXT task list (tasks to consider if I finish everything that is actually scheduled for today)
      • More details at https://github.com/yantar92/emacs-config/blob/master/config.org#agenda--scheduling
    • As an aside, because of so many headings, I display many standard tags and todo keywords as UTF symbols: 🖂📎🏁📚🔔☐⯑☑✘▶👁⌛⏩⏸... for more compressed view
      • See https://github.com/yantar92/emacs-config/blob/master/config.org#items
      • Emacs allows to create you own non-standard symbols by combining multiple "glyphs" on top of each other: ~'(?🕒 (cc . cc) ?🚫)~ will draw 🕒 on top of 🚫, creating "prohibit clock" symbol. See help:reference-point-alist docstring more details about combining symbols in Emacs.

  • On working with large Org file

    • The key point when working with large Org files is ability to search things and narrow things down to the project/area you currently work on
    • One way is ~org-narrow-to-subtree~ and ~org-tree-to-indirect-buffer~ - it will limit Emacs buffer to specific subtree.
    • Sparse trees allow revealing specific headings in folded Org buffer - by todo keyword, by tag, by property, by regexp etc. See https://orgmode.org/manual/Sparse-Trees.html
    • One can even display Org buffer in a table form via https://orgmode.org/manual/Using-column-view.html
    • Org agenda, despite its name, is not limited to listing scheduled tasks. It is Editable search interface across multiple Org files. One can search for specific headings (via tag, property, scheduled, todo keyword, regexp, etc searches), see them as a list in agenda view, and edit by changing their todo keywords, scheduled, deadline, priority, etc See https://orgmode.org/manual/Matching-tags-and-properties.html

  • Tomas Volf asked about synchronizing Org files across multiple machines.

  • Karl Voit mentioned an alternative version of ~org-tree-to-indirect-buffer~: https://github.com/novoid/dot-emacs/blob/master/config.org#L7510

    • It allows multiple indirect buffers (built-in version needs customization for multiple indirect buffers; it kills previously existing indirect buffers by default)
    • It uses different naming scheme.

  • Karl Voit mentioned a convenient way to copy html markup to Org markup: https://github.com/kuanyui/copy-as-org-mode

  • Side track: why not using ChatGTP to implement new features? ... which does not work most of the time without manual editing :)

  • weary-traveler mentioned his alternative html export backend https://github.com/ox-tufte/ox-tufte

    • The highlight is ability to have side (margin) notes in the exported html.
    • Based on "tufte" CSS

  • weary-traveler showed a demo on using rst (reStructured text) tables inside Org files: https://weary-travelers.gitlab.io/posts/how-tos/overcome-org-syntactic-restrictions/guide.html

    • The idea is to create a source block backend, which executes exporting its code to whatever export backend is needed
    • This way, one can use complex rst tables with multi-row cells and complex cell layouts
    • The same idea can be used to embed alternative markups into Org (also, it is how Org's embedded LaTeX works under the hood)
    • Alternatively, Org mode supports =table.el= tables that allow multi-row cells.

  • Karl Voit briefly described his system to deal with "hard to finish" tasks

  • Org mode clocking can be used as website blocker

  • Hooks executed when clocking in/out: ~org-clock-in-hook~, ~org-clock-out-hook~ 😇

  • Tomas Volf asked about giant Emacs setup: whether the author (me) remembers everything that is going on there:

    • The answer is no, I don't remember: things that are of use are simply in muscle memory and do not require further tweaking.
    • Sometimes, config things feel so natural (after years of usage), that they are thought as Emacs built-in (to later surprise trying with emacs -Q)
      • Like =highlight-parenthesis-mode=, which is a package I use for many years
        • Unlike built-in, it highlights multiple levels of parentheses around point, not a single level.

  • Karl Voit uses major mode hydra as a personal version of cheat sheet for rarely used commands

    • Another approach is using =which-key= package that displays all the prefix bindings after delay
    • Or M-x describe-bindings
    • Or something like =C-c C-v C-h= (any prefix ending with =C-h=), which will display a summary of bindings starting from that prefix key

  • kickingvegas asked about agenda command to move to an event that is scheduled now (for example, it is 2pm and the event is 1pm-3pm)

Why is cursor-type always 'bar in org-mode? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could it be that setq cursor-type is not respected by org-mode?

Org mode does not change cursor type in Org buffers. I recommend checking your hooks.

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#2 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, Sep 13, 19:00-21:00 UTC+3, Europe/Istanbul (list.orgmode.org)
 

The last meetup [1] turned out quite successful. Let's continue.

[1] https://list.orgmode.org/877cq38gdt.fsf@localhost/ (meetup notes)

URL: https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Time & Date: <2023-09-13 Wed 19:00-21:00 @+03,Europe/Istanbul> The room will be open half an hour before the official start.

During the meetup, we can:

  • Give advice to new users
  • Showcase Org configs or workflows
  • Demo/discuss interesting packages
  • Troubleshoot each-other's issues
  • Discuss "Org mode" section of Emacs news (https://sachachua.com/blog/)
  • Discuss anything else Org-related

Everyone is free to join the discussion/chat or lurk around silently, listening.

We will not do any recording by default.

Marcin Borkowski (2023) Irregular recurring TODOs in Org mode, part I in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are also habits where you can do the habit at least every X-Y days: https://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html But that's a bit different use-case.

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Marcin Borkowski (2023) Irregular recurring TODOs in Org mode, part I (mbork.pl)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Some time ago I mentioned a very peculiar type of TODOs I’d like to implement. These are things I’d like to do from time to time, but not necessarily on a regular basis...

Automated import posts from Reddit. Yes or no? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

IMHO, there is little point posting links if we cannot get the actual discussion going in the comments. Without discussion, you will simply turn communick.news into another https://planet.emacslife.com/.

For self posts, it is particularly important. The whole point of having the package/blog post author around is to ask her questions and get actual comment replies.

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Softwares on Karthinks [Karthinks] (2023) Cool your heels, Emacs #elisp #timers #throttle #debounce #mode-line #performance #advice (karthinks.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[Final call] Please help collecting statistics to optimize Emacs GC defaults (communick.news)
 

This is a followup on the previous call for collecting GC statistics [1].

We now got around 90 reports in the mailing list [2] and the frequency of getting new reports is fairly low now.

Thus, I would like to make one final call to submit the statistics. After a week from now, I will start bringing all the data together.

[1] https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/14dej62/please_help_collecting_statistics_to_optimize/

[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-gc-stats/

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[SUMMARY] [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, Aug 9, 19:00 UTC+3 (list.orgmode.org)
 

URL: https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Time & Date: <2023-08-09 Wed 19:00-21:00 @+03,Europe/Istanbul>

Thanks everyone who participated! We had quite a few people by Emacs meetup standards.

Here is a short summary of the main discussion points (those that I remember):