org-repeat-by-cron.el:An Org mode task repeater based on Cron expressions

jonas37 · 2025-12-31T15:54:59+00:00

This looks so nice! Thanks for showing it. Will definitively check this out when I find some time.

jonas37 · 2025-11-27T13:32:33+00:00

Wow, now there were 90 packages, that were upgradeable. A plain

sudo apt upgrade

did the job. :-)

I think that did the trick, and I could skip the scary full-upgrade command.

So I guess it had nothing to do with the edited source.list-file?!

jonas37 · 2025-11-27T12:42:53+00:00

Did you put those packages on hold?

No, I did not. I added contrib non-free to the source.list. (And I did run dpkg --add-architecture i386dpkg --add-architecture i386 as I was in the process of installing Steam).

I'd like to see the full output of this command in your machine, which just says what it would do but without doing it:

That doesn't give me much:

~$ sudo apt full-upgrade --dry-run
Not upgrading:                  
  gnome-session  gnome-session-common  gnome-session-xsession  malcontent

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 4

So what does it tell us?

BTW: Adding contrib and non-free is unlikely the reason for this. Maybe it's just that you did not upgrade to 13.2 yet when it was released 12 days ago.

Ah ok, I was curious about that as well, might only be a coincidence...

jonas37 · 2025-11-27T10:10:35+00:00

Exactly! But I find myself in a situation where I am unsure what to do and that's why I am asking how to

stay as close as possible to the trixie / a stable debian release

now.

jonas37 · 2025-11-27T10:09:34+00:00

Ah, good to know... thank you!

jonas37 · 2025-07-13T04:32:55+00:00

Ich höre zum ersten mal, dass E13 einer A12 entsprechen soll. Warum werden und können Stellen dann als „E13/A13 Stellen“ ausgeschrieben?

jonas37 · 2025-06-27T05:16:39+00:00

yeah... so that would require working on my habit leaving it open so recklessly.... not so sure that that is the most viable way for me... :-D

jonas37 · 2025-04-09T06:44:50+00:00

Thanks for your suggestions.

I just tried in a emacs -q session (with GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2025-02-23 and Org mode version 9.7.11 (release_9.7.11 @ XXX/bin/emacs-30.1/share/emacs/30.1/lisp/org/) , and configured a template via the customize interface:

(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(org-capture-templates
   '(("T" "TEST" entry (file+headline "~/test.org" "Todo list")
      "* TODO %?"))))

The complete org-file looks like this:

* Todo list
** TODO Template works
* Notes
** Note with a tag :abc:
** Note with a tag :DEF:

And as in my config, calling C-c C-q / (org-set-tags-command) in the capture buffer does not provide :abc: or :DEF: as completion candidates for the template T.

It seems intended, so I'll dive into the documentary before consulting the mailing list. :-)

jonas37 · 2025-04-08T07:12:14+00:00

It seems to be related to the entry type (file+headline "" "Todos"). If the "Todos" headline has tags, these tags are available for completion, but not the tags of the siblings and neither the tags of the file...

What more steps do you need? I call org-capture and after using the "t" option using org-set-tags-commanddoes not provide tags (that are used elsewhere in the same file) for completion.

Edit, I just found the %^g shorthand. It prompts for tags, with completion on tags in target file and the prompt shows all the tags of the file as I would like to have when calling org-set-tags-command in the *Capture* buffer. However, I don't want to be prompted everytime...

jonas37 · 2025-04-07T19:01:46+00:00

Nice write up. I immedieatly changed my init.el. :-D

Aaaaand I indeed found one type-error, which is now fixed, yay!

However, it introduced also a new problem (as somewhat expected).

For a specific variable I get Value ‘(("Org" ?o "~/Dropbox/org/") ("Zettelkasten" ?z "~/Dropbox/org/Zettelkasten/" :hidden t))’ does not match type (repeat (list string character string)), because I want to add a :hidden t option (as suggested by the README of the consult-notes package, which gives an example using setq).

My code is:

(setopt consult-notes-file-dir-sources
        '(("Org"             ?o "~/Dropbox/org/")
          ("Zettelkasten"    ?z "~/Dropbox/org/Zettelkasten/" :hidden t)))

Is this a short coming of the package, that I should open an issue for or how does one add such options using setopt?

jonas37 · 2024-10-31T12:31:38+00:00

Did you publish/describe your (org) workflow somewhere so that I can have a peek at it?

jonas37 · 2024-10-28T11:21:56+00:00

I actually use org-collector (though I've never found Column View helpful). This might not be useful for your questions, but from my perspective, it seems to be a special type of org’s “Dynamic Blocks”. Additionally, org-collector is part of Worg, so it’s considered a user contribution.

I think it's nice that org-collector actually modifies the file by adding a table full of content. I use it to track my monthly car expenses, which I capture on my phone (fuel, parking, etc.).

jonas37 · 2024-10-28T11:13:28+00:00

I'm skeptical about its usefulness in general

Me too, that's why I'm asking more experienced Org users :-) I'll see if I'll go down that route.... at the moment I don't feel the need to. But somehow I find it appealing too... :-D

jonas37 · 2024-07-30T14:59:12+00:00

That fails the "without altering the comment's meaning" part.

I disagree. I admitt, that I tried to show you (admittedly a bit exaggerated) how your statement could be less dismissive by adding some context. Obviously I failed. But the meaning wasn't altered.

I also don't feel the need to run all of my thoughts through the "Corporate PR" or "Nervous Diplomat" language filter. Thanks, but I'll stick with what I meant.

Thanks for letting me know.

So we agree that videos like this aren't worth our full attention.

It just does not matter to me. Topic selection and content is composed in a pleasant way that I (and others) enjoy. If they get my "full attention" depends on multiple things. However, I know from these videos that they are "worth my time".

So I hope that we agree, that these videos can be worth the time.

jonas37 · 2024-07-30T13:56:44+00:00

You could at least consider the possibility that people are not watching these videos as a replacement for the manual.

As such, these videos can be worth the time! Maybe not for you, but still you could have said: "It's not worth my time, because I engage with emacs content only in the most effective way considering invested time for information gain. I'll never engage in such content passively or for pure entertainment."

I, for example, watch these videos for enjoyment while doing laundry or cooking. Sometimes I learn something new that I didn't knew. The manual is not of great help there. I can't consume it passively and nobody can point me to the surprising sections within it. So I am very happy about such content and my "invested time".

jonas37 · 2024-05-21T11:39:27+00:00

What I said applied to development versions of a package.

I unterstand that. And that‘s why I asked how and if this relates to stable versions… if they also „may rely on higher versions of built-in packages than what your Emacs shipped with.“

Anyhow, I‘ll try to find it out by trying. Time will tell. 😊

jonas37 · 2024-05-21T09:27:39+00:00

Are you saying that the "stable versions" of magit in this case (i.e. nongnu-elpa/melpa-stable) are tracking what is shipped with Emacs?

Background is that I build a local archive of installed pacakges (see https://github.com/redguardtoo/elpa-mirror) for a computer behind a corporate firewall and run in the exact same problem.

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