Questions tagged [org-mode]
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Tangling fails when using #+PROPERTY instead of manually adding header arguments when using org source blocks
The following code doesn't work, yet adding :tangle tangleobject.org manually to each source block provides us with the expected tangle result. Any clue why?
#+PROPERTY: header-args :tangle ...
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What steps should I take to troubleshoot use-package not loading packages
I'm using emacs 29.1 on Windows.
I have extracted the emacs folder to a corporate OneDrive.
I have a home folder set up with emacs-29.1\share\emacs\site-lisp\site-start.el
with (setenv "HOME"...
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Prevent ox-koma-letter.el from creating .tex files?
When running org-koma-letter-export-to-pdf on an .org file to create a .pdf file ox-koma-letter.el also creates a .tex file. Does anyone know if there is any way to prevent it (or just clean it up ...
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Running emacs in batch mode from command line doesn't work
Does anyone know if ox-koma-export.el can be invoked from command line:
emacs --batch -e '(org-koma-letter-export-to-pdf)' letter.org
Should emacs in general be universally reproducible from command ...
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How to use a dynamic block (column view) as input to a babel function?
I am trying to use the table of an org-mode columnview dynamic block as input to a org-mode babel function. It works fine with static tables, but with the dynamic table, I get a "Reference not ...
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Warning: void-function org-link-set-parameter [duplicate]
Anyone know why I might be getting the following warning on running emacs? I'm running org-mode 9.7 with the latest doom emacs.
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/home/seba/....
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detangle preserve noweb
I've recently gotten into literate Programming with org-mode.
I'd like to be able to write all my functions across multiple Code Blocks, tangle them into a files but also test them from inside the org ...
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How to set org mode to edit file when click on html file link?
The default action when click on a html file link will open it in browser.
How to config the action of click to distinct web links and disk file link, so the web link starts with http or https will be ...
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how to export a table of contents for tagged lines only
Let's say my document has this motif:
* Heading 1 :sometag:
** Heading 1.1
*** Heading 1.1.1 :target:
* Heading 2 :target:
** Heading 2.1 :sometag:
When exporting (say, ...
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org-mode custom agenda view with multiple lines per item?
Is it possible to create an agenda view that displays a few lines for each item? I want to get items tagged :project:, by running a search like you do with org-tags-view (the tag and maybe some other ...
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Store and recover expansion state within org mode
I realize that this question has been asked before, many times, (How to save expansion state of org-file?, as well as org-mode: go back from sparse tree to previous visibility), but, it does seem to ...
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update org-mode inline image after image file modified
I have a image displayed as inline image in org-mode. I would expect after the image file modified by others, emacs detect such modify and refresh the buffer to show the updated image.
How can I make ...
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How can I compute a running sum? [duplicate]
To get a running sum in column $2, row i of all entries in column $1 from the first row @1 up to and including row i,
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the tedious solution is to write (for three ...
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Ignore all headings on export
I have been using an org-contrib package (ox-extra) to exclude certain headings upon export. It works by adding an "ignore" tag to whichever heading you want to ignore, exporting the ...
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How to get the starred version of a latex section on org-mode?
How do I get the starred version of a latex chapter/section from an org-mode headlight?
* my section ---> \section{my section}
??? ---> \section*{my section}
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(Org mode) Copy to clipboard without asterisks and tags?
Do you know any "easy" way to copy to clipboard a region from an org-mode document without asterisks and tags:
* Header :tag1:
text
so it would appear in the clipboard as:
Header
text
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How to locate the LaTeX fragment/equation that failed org-latex-preview
I used C-u C-u C-c C-x C-l (org-latex-preview) to re-generate preview images for all LaTeX fragments in a org-mode buffer. The process succeeded in most places but failed somewhere, giving this error:
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Tab-completion in order to access org-roam ecosystem
I'm looking to access an .org note at a specific heading, in such a way that tab completion is available. Is there any such thing? usage example: <command> microeconomics <tab-completed-...
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How to make orgtbl-mode work within embedded LaTeX environment in org-mode itself?
I read a blog, which mentioned using orgtbl-mode to write a matrix quickly in org table format and then translated it into the LaTeX format. The post mentioned that due to the close relation between ...
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how to replace Hyperbole implicit action buttons with equivalent org-mode functionality?
I like using the Hyperbole implicit buttons as a very easy way to take actions by just doing M-RET on some text -- for example, I want to jump straight to the org-mode agenda for the day, so I put {C-...
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How to get the duration of a SCHEDULED headline in minutes
How can I get the duration of a scheduled headline in minutes? As an example, I'd expect the following heading to return 65.
* Foo
SCHEDULED: <2023-11-19 Sun 10:00-11:05>
What I've tried
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Getting rid of multiple :PROPERTIES: drawers in org-mode
Due to a encoding snafu on my part in which I inadvertently added line returns to each line in an org-mode buffer and for which emacs org-id added a :PROPERTIES: drawer right after each headline when ...
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In org-mode, how can I find the start and end points of the enclosing heading?
I'm writing a function and I would like to operate on the current org heading and its content. For example:
* Head 1
Text
** Head 2
- Item 1
- Item 2[p]
- Item 3
If we look at the above ...
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org-bullets-mode doesn't activate at start up
Since installing a new GNU-Linux distribution (MX), org-bullets-mode does not activate automatically when I open my documents. I have to activate it manually (M-x org-bullets-mode). Yet, I haven't ...
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Change vertical margins/size of the address fields in the koma-letter-export
I'm trying to export a letter as a pdf using org-koma-letter-export-to-pdf command, which is part of the koma-letter-export package (ox-koma-letter.el).
By default to and from address fields take up ...
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org-latex-preview fail to produce images (org-preview-latex setting problem)
my setting (Org mode version 9.6.6)
(setq luamagick '(luamagick :programs ("lualatex" "convert")
:description "pdf > png"
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whitespaces absorbed at the beginning of a LaTeX equation in org-mode?
I need to insert some spaces (\quad) at the beginning of an equation such as $\quad x$. But the \quad is silently absorbed by org-mode when the embedded LaTeX is converted to an image.
I did some ...
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Can I use a var or property as image prefix in org mode?
In the org mode image [[/path/to/image.png]], can I define a var or something like property at head of the file, such as 'imgPath', and use it in image like [[{$imgPath}/image.png]] ?
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org-mode: Bump/increase node priorities in the current buffer
Is there a way to automatically bump the priorities of all nodes in the current buffer by 1?
If that's relevant, I use digital priorities(org-priority-down/org-priority-up work fine).
It's a bit ...
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capture day in calfw calendar and pass it to org-agenda
I am trying to capture from the calfw calendar and have the entry appear in the agenda buffer, in the same way that the emacs calendar does.
with bind c for capture it tells me that there is no cfw:...
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How to access node property in my own export process
Given an org document, I'd like to traverse all headlines of the
given level and extract the headline title, provided that:
Headline title can be generated by inline source blocks that use node ...
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Org-mode LaTeX export set AUCTeX local variables
I have an org-mode document, say
#+TITLE: My Title
* Section
My first section
and I want to export it to LaTeX with org-latex-export-to-latex.
This generates a .tex file that I can now compile.
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Clocktable grouped by category instead of by file
I'd like to have a clocktable report which groups TODOs by their CATEGORY property instead of by file. As an example, this is my current clocktable report:
#+BEGIN: clocktable :scope cashpw/org-clock--...
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org-emphasis-alist - why italic not work in org mode?
Emacs 27.1
Here my settings of org-emphasis-alist
'(org-emphasis-alist
'(("*"
(bold :foreground "deep sky blue"))
("="
(italic :foreground "...
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How to force inheritance of the properties included from external file in OrgMode
Problem - introduction
Let's say we've got the following org file
* Headline 1 with name taken from properties - src_elisp{(org-entry-get nil "Name")}
:PROPERTIES:
:Name: J.S. Bach
:END:
**...
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add Horizontal/Vertical Dividing Lines for the exported HTML table
For example, here's an Org file:
| A | B |
| C | D |
| A | B |
|---+---|
| C | C |
How to make the exported HTML tables look like:
A
B
C
D
More specifically, I want these dividing lines:
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org mode embedded LaTeX does not work for packages imported using usepackage?
I have used org mode embedded LaTeX for a while. The commonly used syntax such as subscripts, fractions and math symbols works well out of the box. All that is needed is to put the LaTeX content ...
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Use different font for math fragments in org mode
How do I use the fixed-pitch font for math fragments in org-mode buffers? I.e., I want to use a monospace font for all strings of the form \(...\) or \[...\], where ... may include newline characters ...
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Calculating using entry properties in Org mode clocktable
I have some entries in an Org mode file that have a property containing a lambda expression:
* Tasks
** Task 1
:PROPERTIES:
:Formula: (lambda (x) (max 20.0 (* 11.0 x)))
:END:
:LOGBOOK:
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Is there a way to suggest label names in org-mode html export?
In the org-mode example below, I would like to be able to specify the label name to be used by the latex export back-end. Is there such a way?
I have a reason : To be able to mix org-style references [...
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`org-html-export-to-html` not adding color for the code blocks
I have an org file with the following code block:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(+ 1 2)
#+end_src
And when I export it using M-x org-html-export-to-html, the code blocks in the generated file have no color.
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Integration between org-transclusion and denote
Is there a way to convince org-transclusion to accept denote links as input? Or maybe a list of them? Or perhaps, in the perfect scenario, a list of them, from a dynamic block?
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org can't execute on remote machine
I have a .org file on my laptop that I use to run code on a remote server. However, when I try to execute the code I'm getting Tramp errors.
My local org file has the following header:
# -*- org-...
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org-mode latex export of source block with engraved gives error for latex3 code due to missing color-`face` processing
I want to export my source blocks from org-mode to pdf through latex with the export backend engraved. I installed the package engraved-faces, set the variable with (setq org-latex-src-block-backend '...
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Org table column to string
How do I concatenate a column into a string in Org mode? I want to get abc instead of ((a) (b) (c)) as a result. Or is there simply a header that I can tweak?
#+name: example-table
| i |
|---|
| a |
| ...
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multicolumn pandoc slide with ox-pandoc export
I was wondering if it would be possible to have a multiple column beamer slide using ox-pandoc in emacs orgmode. Below is the typical syntax for multiple columns, this however does not work if pandoc-...
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Agenda view with TODO items sorted by deadline and then by scheduled
I would like to have my TODO items sorted first by deadline and then by scheduled date, while for all the other ones, I honestly don't care. So, let's assume I have the following org file content and ...
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Fully case insensitive org property search
I would like to be able to perform fully case insensitive searches of properties and their values in my org files, and have the results presented in a sparse tree.
For example, if I have sections ...
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Executing custom code on org entry state change
I was recently reading a blog about Do-nothing scripting which is about encoding the instructions for a task as a step towards automating it. It occurred to me that this would be very nice paired with ...
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How to add a specific pdf page as an image in org-mode, and correctly export it?
I am working in a file document.org, and I have an embedded image, the second page of a file images.pdf.
The org-file shows this correctly (with the code shown below). However, upon exporting it to ...
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