Questions tagged [org-mode]
is an Emacs major mode for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system. Because Org mode is a vast subject area, other tags must accompany the `org-mode` tag.
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How to center a table with respect to the page, and how to reduce its font size?
I need a table to be centered with respect to the page. By default it is aligned with the left text border, and being large it exceeds the right page margin:
This is the Org-mode source:
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Copying entries from Org Roam into current buffer
I am using org-roam to store templates that I use frequently. I got tired of copying the templates manually into my current buffer so I decided to write a helper function to automate the process. I ...
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How can I control the height of the section superstar in org mode?
If I start Emacs (29.1 on macOS Ventura) using the .emacs file
(require 'org-superstar)
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (org-superstar-mode 1)))
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How can I get the output of a batch emacs run to a custom path?
This works, but the output file is in the same directory as the source file:
$ emacs ./notes.org --batch -f org-html-export-to-html --kill
How can I get the output in a different directory?
I tried ...
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Un-wrap cells in org-mode
Is there a way to turn all multiline (wrapped) cells in a table in org-mode into single-line (un-wrapped) cells?
The table I have:
|------------+----------+-----+-----|
| DATE | DESCR | IN | ...
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How to extract markups?
Sorry for the vagueness of the question, I hope the following explanation will be clear enough.
I often keep notes of my readings and most of these notes are composed of extracts of these readings. I ...
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Is it possible to work with org-mode tables inside org-babel source blocks as if they were placed directly in an org-file?
Imagine we have the following content of an org-file:
| | Col 1 | Col 2 |
| row 1 | | |
| row 2 | | |
#+name: Table1
#+begin_src org
| | Col 1 | Col 2 |
| row 1 | ...
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Schedule repeating org-agenda TODO entry with diary sexp and time
I have repeating appointments for the next half year and want them to show up in my agenda. I managed to make them show on the correct dates like this:
* TODO Example Event
SCHEDULED: <%%(and(diary-...
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org-latex-preview fails when \usepackage{fontspec} used
To write in different language, I'm exploring different LaTeX engine mainly XeLaTex.
#+LATEX_COMPILER: xelatex
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{fontspec}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \setmainfont{CMU Serif}
* This is ...
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How to include .ODG graphs when using org-latex-export?
How do I include .odg files (created by libreoffice-draw) as a figure when exporting org file into PDF file?
And, also is it possible to make odg work with M-x org-toggle-inline-images?
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Emacs not showing inline images, I created with doom emacs with org-download
I have an org-file, which I started with doom emacs using org-download clipboard. This results in attachment files like this:
When in doom emacs, I can do org-inline-images (org click on it) and it ...
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How can I make a line-break work in a LaTeX export without any need for special characters?
What I want is to be able to write
foo
bar
and have my LaTeX export recognise the line-break. Two line breaks rather than one would also be acceptable.
#+OPTIONS: \n:t gives the behaviour that I ...
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change major mode without hiding text or revealing hidden text (for live-coding)
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I am live-coding. I would like to be able to change the major mode to and from org-mode without un-hiding any of the text that org-mode has hidden. I would switch to a code mode whenever I ...
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How do I trim spaces and indentations after traversing a DOM tree?
The following traverse the dom tree and provide an iterative custom formatting. However during the formatting, there are empty spaces and indentations which I needed to trim.
;;; This is where the ...
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Conversion from html to org-mode error: *** Eval error *** Wrong type argument: listp, " "
I tried to build a small converter which will traverse the dom-tree and output its org-mode equivalent but I faced a *** Eval error *** Wrong type argument: listp, " " error means the ...
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Hide org-mode nodes with priorities below a threshold
Is it possible to hide org-mode nodes with set priorities below a threshold?
My use case is:
I have a bunch of large org-mode files with lots of nodes in each of them, complex nested hierarchies and I ...
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emacs jupyter gives *invalid read syntax* error in org mode
am trying to execute a simple code block in org mode
* a simple trial
#+begin_src jupyter :session py :async no
x = 'foo'
y = 'xbar'
x + ' ' + y
#+end_src
I get the following error
Code block ...
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??? showing in Agenda instead of file name
I have several .org file and typically have them all open in Emacs at the same time. Recently, my agenda started showing one of those file names as "???" instead of the actual filename--...
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Programmatically use org-tags-view to search in current subtree
I am looking for a way to programmatically search for headings in the current subtree. More specifically, I have a vocabulary file, in which I store words I need to learn. Each word is a subtree in ...
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How to define a new org-babel-execute function for a new major mode?
I want to be able to run code in org mode using the major mode defined in the nand2tetris package. How can I write an org-babel-execute function to do this?
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Mixing org-mode export backends
How can I export to a single file using several backends for different
parts of the org file? Specifically, when exporting an org file with
a specific backend, I want to be able to export some ...
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How edit .org file in text mode
Is there any way to temporarily change the mode of org files to be able to edit them as ordinary text files?
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Upgraded emacs and now there's extra whitespace around latex equations using org-latex-preview
This is inside a docstring in a python script, using org-preview-latex:
After rendering:
The whitespace goes away if I run convert -trim ltximg/org-ltximg_60b58ddb1d181ad22bd828dd88e5039cf2e80a89....
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can org-refile-targets match headings *without* a given tag?
I can configure org-refile-targets to match headings in an org file with a certain tag. Can I do an arbitrary tag match? I'm interested in headings without a certain tag.
(For example, I'd like to ...
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Org-mode: Adding Attributes and Captions to Babel Table Results
Given the following org-mode file:
#+TITLE: Tests
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[outputdir=build]{minted}
* Export Configuration
#+name: Configuration
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent :exports ...
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Can :var NAME=ASSIGN in org mode work if ASSIGN includes a colon?
I use org-ref in org-mode to handle cross references, and I use labels like tab:one, fig:two, etc., to identify label types and format them accordingly (using cleveref in LaTeX export). I then have ...
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In org-mode, how to reference the value of a property in another property?
For example, when exporting, the #+title property is taken as the title of the document, which will show as the heading in, for example, a latex pdf. Ideally I would like the #+title value to also be ...
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org-mode: How to define then call a Java method using source blocks
I have a super simple example where I have a list, a Java method and a call to this method. It looks like this:
#+name: animals
- dog
- cat
- guinea pig
- horse
#+name: does-contains-cat
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How to get org-emphasis to work with timestamps?
Org-mode emphasis works fine in my org-mode buffers except with timestamps, i.e. =[2023-09-27 Wed]=. Emphasis work fine with plain words.
Removing a square bracket or dash from the timestamp makes it ...
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orgtbl-to-orgtbl removes special header lines
I have a table with some formatting lines in the header, e.g.,
#+ORGTBL: SEND DEST orgtbl-to-orgtbl :splice nil :skip 0
| N | First name | Last name |
| / | < | < |
| <l&...
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How to export all overdue TODOs as if they are scheduled for today
What I'm trying to do is to export an .ics file daily that can be imported to Google Calendar so that I can view all unfinished TODOs on my phone. In Emacs, I have org-agenda show the unfinished TODOs ...
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Fish and org-babel
I am having troubles with the output of a fish session in org-babel. It seems to be related to the bracketed paste, but only happens when :session is used. I was wondering if there is any way to clean ...
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turn off auto-fill in org tables?
I have (setq-default auto-fill-function 'do-auto-fill) in my config file, and I'm noticing that in org mode, auto-fill/wrapping occurs even within (wide) tables, which I don't like.
I confirmed that ...
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Help me get Scala source blocks working in org mode
UPDATE: This issue was fixed for me by changing my version of scala from scala 3 to 2.13, as recommended by NickD in the comments below.
END UPDATE
When I attempt to evaluate Scala source blocks in ...
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Help me get Engraved source blocks working
In Org mode mode am trying to export source blocks to Latex using engrave-faces. My init.el includes the following.
(use-package engrave-faces
:ensure t
:init
(setq org-latex-src-block-backend '...
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run check-parens or similar when saving or tangling literate configuration?
I use org babel to load my literate configuration file "config.org". But sometimes when editing that org file, I introduce some error -- say, a missed parenthesis -- and then restart emacs. ...
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Expand specific org-mode table column with headings
Consider an org-mode file like so:
#+NAME: foobar
| | Alice | Bob | Charlie |
| Foo | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Bar | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Baz | 31 | 32 | 33 |
* Alice
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How to set a buffer local variable (e.g. fill-column) for one specific .org file? [duplicate]
I use fill-column 80 for the majority of my files. Howover, I have a .org with a table that is slightly wider than 80 columns. I'd like to automatically set (setq fill-column 100) for that file only, ...
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How can I org-store-link when ssh sudo hopping?
I open the file like this, with hopping:
C-x C-f /ssh:b0ef@ximian|sudo:ximian:/etc/nixos/configuration.nix RET
If I call org-store link, I get this:
[[file:/sudo:root@ximian:/etc/nixos/configuration....
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don't show images in html or local links in pdf-latex
I want to transfer folders with documents with Syncthing to the Android tablet, the documentation is made in orgmode and I export to PDF or HTML. But they don't resolve local addresses in the tablet; ...
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How to make LaTeX in org-msg e-mails look nice?
I just want to send nice-looking e-mails like this
This e-mail is achieved by using Apple Mail, LaTeXiT and a bit of hand-waving. However, in org-msg mode I can by default with dvipng/imagemagick ...
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Use an org-mode code block to execute other code blocks
I want to use a code block to execute other code blocks with a given language. For example, in my document I want to validate every HTML block using the W3 validator. Currently I do it as follows.
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Combined search: notmuch mail, org-mode docs, and filesystem locate?
I often look for information that could be either in some org-mode document, in an old email, or somewhere in the file system (and probably other places). Now I can use org-search, notmuch-search, ...
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How to SHIFT-RET to open link in a new tab while preserving RET behavior in org-mode?
In org-mode
I want to open link in a new tab when I press Shift-RET.
I'm currently using RET to open link.
I tried to use (setf (cdr (assoc 'file org-link-frame-setup)) 'find-file-other-tab).
That ...
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How to add heading in this format
I use org mode for many things including a Getting things done file and daily I am adding many headings, mostly in the format:
* TODO [#1] "Heading text here, to be typed in by me"
SCHEDULED:...
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How to fix "cd: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" error?
I use org-babel-tangle to generate latex documents from org files.
These org files have the following first line:
#+PROPERTY: header-args :latex :comments org :tangle PATH/FILE_NAME.tex
I built a ...
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Follow symbolic links in alternative org-roam directory
I use org-roam to take notes. I have two org-roam directories. The alternative one has a .dir-locals.el file where I set the value of org-roam-directory and org-roam-db-location with the path to the ...
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How to tangle code blocks from an org file, compile the output, and open the result, with a single command?
I use org-babel-tangle to generate lilypond and latex documents from org files.
These org files have the following first line:
#+PROPERTY: header-args :LANG :comments org :tangle PATH/FILE_NAME.EXT
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How do I insert an http link into org-mode with its title?
Is there a way to have org-mode automatically set the description from the html page's when inserting a link into org-mode?
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how to programmatically create list of org-roam nodes with given tag?
I'd like to create (meta) node that contains all references to nodes given org roam tag.
For example, Let's say I've tens of org-roam-nodes about python-programming-language (each node has tag python)....
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