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I've been an #Emacs user for like 20 years because there was one thing I needed to do back then that was made easier by elisp, and I just got used to using it. In all that time, I hardly ever tinkered much with the config, save a few minor tweaks it was pretty much stock. I had no strong feelings about Emacs in general, it was just the text editor I'd grown comfortable with.

I've recently been diving into #Lisp and poking around with my Emacs config, and after all these years, I think I'm starting to get the appeal. I am still a proponent of "use the tool that works for you", but I'm personally firmly on team Emacs now.

#emacs #lisp

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I'd been told that there were add-ons that could do things like making vim more Emacs-like, but I never saw the point in spending energy to make some arbitrary tool more like the one I was already using for no particular reason.

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I've been an #Emacs user for probably about two decades. Despite this, I only recently learned that ELPA and MELPA are not the same.
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Today I somehow fumbled an #org-mode keyboard command and made a file into an attachment on itself. I didn't know that was possible.

Fortunately, revision control came to the rescue.

#emacs #git

#git #emacs #org-mode

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Is there a way to tell #Emacs #org-mode to omit yhe TOC and headline numbers when exporting to a text or markdown file? I'm trying to implement a #JohnnyDecimal system, so I'm supplying my own numbers and the 00.00-index.org file essentially is the table of contents.

Edit: Because not all replies federate, here's the solution I ended up with:

#+STARTUP: overview indent nonum
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
#emacs #org-mode #JohnnyDecimal
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Since the manual doesn't include examples, it can be confusing as to how to actually use those settings. For this case, add the following line:

#+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil

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Does anyone know if #org-mode has a way to specify a repeating scheduled item in UTC time? I have a few of these, and don't want to have to adjust them all when the clock changes. #emacs
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Maybe a answer : org-mode utc

Setting timezone of org-mode

I'm just getting started with org-mode, and really like it so far. I work in London with xemacs running on OpenVMS based on the East Coast US. Is there any way to get org-mode to use a timezone other
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@lann This is close to what I'm looking for. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do something like set a property on a headline that says "treat everything in this subtree as UTC".
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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

So, for the last few days, #Emacs has been glitching out on me. When I'd try to do certain things, it'd complain about an undefined variable and then just refuse to do the thing I asked it to do. Today, it started doing this when I tried to list the manuals.

I deleted the cache files and restarted it. Everything's fine now. I'm glad it's fixed, but... really?

#emacs
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Do you use emacs.desktop files, eg with desktop-save? I've also had strange goings-ons where starting emacs gives errors and even C-x C-c doesn't work. Removing the .emacs.desktop file in use resolves it.
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@mocom I think this is what broke it.

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I think the problem started when I installed the org-mode package from M-x list-packages even though it was already installed via apt. I removed it again, but I think it broke things.

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lann
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org is a built in package :
  org                            9.5.5          built-in              Outline-based notes management and organizer

So no reason to install it

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TIL that #Emacs' built-in web browser is named eww.

That seems an appropriate name for a web browser, tbh.

#emacs

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Why does #Debian's #Emacs package not include the documentation?

Turns out that's in the emacs-common-non-dsfg package... obviously.

#Debian #emacs
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because emacs' manual is licensed under dsfg (EDIT: i meant gfdl, lol) which is not free in debian's perspective
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Links to a lot of the background on the many, many discussions that happened around the GFDL and its compatibility with the DFSG:

wiki.debian.org/GFDLHistory

GFDLHistory - Debian Wiki

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Is there a way to tell org-mode's agenda view not to show completed to-dos and schedule entries that are more than say a week past completion?
#emacs
#emacs

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```
;; to the first question: not to show completed to-dos in agenda view
(setq org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t)
```

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#orgmode

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I've been an #Emacs user for a long time because it's just what I got used to. I had no particular loyalty to it.

The more I dig into org-mode though, the more I see it as its killer feature though. This alone is enough to keep me from ever switching to another editor.

Please note: if you like another editor better, that's perfectly fine. Use what works for you. For the love of God, I'm not trying to spark an Emacs vs. vim flame war.

#emacs

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org-mode is too slow for me. I load it up like "I have to wait 20 seconds for a file to load? For this?" It's 2024 ffs
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I keep not-quite fully embracing org-mode because I spend too much time outside of Emacs (e.g. on mobile devices). I probably just need to work out some scripting to dump into an inbox queue.

Plus work being absolutely inflexible about not letting work sync to anything else, though it helps enforce life boundaries. 😀

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Despite having been an #Emacs user for years, I know I've only scratched its surface. I finally decided to start looking into org-mode (I blame @screwlisp for this) and, it's actually pretty damn cool.
#emacs @screwlisp

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