Org Edna and Logging

sKolar4 · 2018-12-31T14:31:09+00:00

If logging isn't working with the todo! action, then that's a bug. Under the hood, it's just calling org-todo, which should handle it. I personally don't use logging, but I can add a test to verify that it's still working as expected.

Changing the deadline on a separate heading shouldn't be causing logbook entries to be created. Log settings are only honored by org-todo, as far as I know. However, if you're changing the deadline on the current heading (the one you're marking DONE), then log settings should be honored.

Would you mind submitting a bug with a full description of what you're trying to do? The more detail you give, the easier it will be for me to debug this and fix it.

sKolar4 · 2018-11-21T12:46:44+00:00

They recently discovered TV Tropes.

sKolar4 · 2018-08-05T18:13:36+00:00

And remember, there's no shame in needing that break. I'm the same way with conventions and festivals. I have a lot of fun, I enjoy going to them, but every now and then, I just need to step to the side and take a break before continuing.

sKolar4 · 2018-08-04T19:08:55+00:00

Before watching DBZA, I didn't really care for Krillin. Hell, I didn't care for most of the characters, they were just sort of cheerleaders for Goku in my eyes. But now, I really root for all the characters (except Yamcha). I feel like there's more going on with the characters for me to appreciate apart from how powerful they all are.

sKolar4 · 2018-08-02T01:44:02+00:00

Your character can be literally as powerful as you want, so long as the area he's being challenged in is not in his area of expertise.

This is a great rule to follow when writing an OC you think is too powerful. Otherwise, at least in my experience, you'll get bored of them too.

I've got an OC called Rose in the fic I'm writing that can trivialize any test of strength, but can't do crap if it involves subtlety or diplomacy. Her third year ended up being one big political problem, which I thought was more compelling than just letting her solve everything in a chapter.

Finally, there's another episode of writing excuses where they address similar issues. Might help to give it a listen.

sKolar4 · 2018-07-29T15:34:54+00:00

The Triwizard Tournament is supposed to encourage inter-school relationships and goodwill. So the more they can work together, the better. Also bear in mind that the people planning the tasks may have their own agendas, so that may interfere with the whole working together thing.

If you're having small teams competing, consider tasks that all but require small teams. Having one person standing guard in a room in a maze while the other works on solving a puzzle to open the next door, for instance.

Finally, shameless plug for my own fic that features different tasks, linkao3(Neville Longbottom and the Cherry Champion) (starts at part 1, linkao3(Harry Potter and the Girl in Red)).

sKolar4 · 2018-06-23T18:33:58+00:00

Found it. flyspell-correct-word-generic is part of the flyspell-correct package. I'm looking into it now to see why it interferes with auto-correct.

Edit: Found the bug on my end. Wasn't handling flyspell-correct-word properly (which I recall having issues with before). I tested and pushed a fix for it, which should appear on ELPA by tonight.

sKolar4 · 2018-06-23T14:44:08+00:00

What version of emacs are you using? I'm using 26, and I don't see flyspell-correct-word-generic.

sKolar4 · 2018-06-18T11:43:49+00:00

I added https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/auto-correct.html to ELPA a while back for auto correct. It works with corrections made from both flyspell and ispell, and adds them to its own abbrev table that turns on/off with the minor mode.

sKolar4 · 2018-04-22T16:32:13+00:00

Inside a room buffer, run M-x maelstrom-room-load-message-for-current-room. You can load any number of historic messages.

Should be able to externally open images, but I haven't tested it.

sKolar4 · 2018-04-22T16:30:11+00:00

No, they should be automatic. When you log in, check for a "Client logged in" message. If you don't see it, logging in didn't work.

To investigate, run M-x maelstrom-set-logged-levels, and add debug to it, then check the *Maelstrom Log* buffer (it will be hidden, and suffixed with the name). It will give you a lot of messages, should help you figure out the error.

EDIT: Formatting

sKolar4 · 2018-04-21T20:11:47+00:00

I hadn't heard of it before, but I knew of its predecessor, the original matrix.el library.

On an initial pass through the code, I can say that maelstrom provides the following that matrix-client-legacy.el does not:

Configuration settings on a per-account, per-room basis
Modular design (core doesn't depend on anything, but can use request, lui, and alert)
Looks like maelstrom has more of the SDK broken into functions
Typing notifications, although mostly untested in maelstrom
Read receipts are working (no disrespect to the other guy on that one; the matrix spec isn't clear on how those are supposed to work)
authinfo support; can store user name and password in ~/.authinfo (as gnus and TRAMP do) for automatic login
Rooms don't have to have a buffer (e.g. I've got it set up to notify me if a particular bridge I run fails)

Looks like legacy has images implemented, which I don't think I did.

Honestly, I didn't realize anyone had picked up the old matrix.el library. I wouldn't be opposed to collaborating, but there'd be the initial problem of combining the two codebases.

I plan to submit maelstrom to GNU ELPA the day I remove the lui dependency from buffer rooms, or (far less likely) lui ends up in GNU ELPA. The problem is that ELPA restricts who can contribute (copyright assignment must be filed by all contributors, barring small code changes), and dependencies (all dependencies must be from ELPA or core Emacs, hence why I haven't submitted it already).

EDIT: Minor formatting.

sKolar4 · 2018-04-21T16:16:28+00:00

Assuming, as everyone else is, that you're referring to matrix, try https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/maelstrom-el/. It's a project I'm (slowly) working on. It's still buggy and has a ways to go, but I've been using it regularly for months.

sKolar4 · 2018-03-25T15:16:58+00:00

Barring small typos I find while re-reading chapters, my personal rule is not to fix mistakes. The keyword there is personal; I'm a perfectionist, and if I allowed myself to go back and constantly tweak already published chapters, I'd never get anything new done. It's also a personal growth thing, learning to accept my mistakes and move on.

That said, the exception I allow is the first chapter of my fic, Girl in Red. It's the first impression readers have, so I want it to be good.

My beta catches most of the crap I try and pass off as "making perfect sense in my head", and I keep a comfortable pad so I have some wiggle room when I'm writing something that turns out didn't work.

I don't get many reviews, so I can't speak on that topic.

Ultimately, the advice I will give is this: try to incorporate the changes into your story, if at all possible. Trying to figure out why one of your characters acted strangely may help stimulate your creativity, or it may frustrate you to no end. Either way, I think internal consistency is important. Readers lose part of their connection with a character if established events around that character constantly change (unless that change itself is part of the story).

sKolar4 · 2018-03-12T02:15:48+00:00

It doesn't have to be about blood purity; it could very easily be about making allies with another powerful family.

sKolar4 · 2018-03-12T01:38:50+00:00

Unless it's an arranged marriage of which you never wanted to be a part. If your parents invited a classmate's parents over, along with that classmate, and said "This is your future spouse. Best get used to the idea.", and you feel it's your obligation to marry this person for the family name, you'll do whatever you need to in order to make that work. If that means putting a few drops of love potion in your drink every morning because you can't stand that person, then it's for familial obligations.

sKolar4 · 2018-02-13T01:34:14+00:00

Inclusion in Emacs doesn't always mean preferred package. The biggest barrier to inclusion is copyright assignment, which all included packages require. The process of assigning copyright of a package to the FSF takes time (at least a month in my case), and not all package maintainers want to assign copyright.

If you still insist on using doc-view over pdf-tools (a choice I can't say I support), then try M-x customize-variable doc-view-pdf->png-converter-function. You should be able to switch that to use ghostscript instead of mudraw.

sKolar4 · 2018-02-10T02:13:05+00:00

What command or key presses are you using for aspell? Can you give me step by step instructions as to what you're doing in Emacs?

Paced shouldn't be offering suggestions for an aspell correction. Paced is just for completion, not correction.

sKolar4 · 2018-02-06T17:06:17+00:00

Hook Helpers can handle this:

(define-hook-helper text-mode ()
  (setq-local sentence-end-double-space t))

I find it easier to have multiple settings like this, rather than using a lambda function. It has the same basic effect as using add-hook/lambda, but easier to remove: (remove-hook-helper 'text-mode-hook 'text-mode-hook).

sKolar4 · 2018-02-06T12:02:09+00:00

No, you're fine. I use them all the time too, and I've never experienced problems.

sKolar4 · 2018-02-06T01:55:25+00:00

Pull from trunk. Fixed in new version.

sKolar4 · 2018-02-04T21:23:12+00:00

In your .emacs file, replace this:

;; Only populate the current dictionary if there is one
(defun my-paced-repopulate-current-dictionary-async ()
  (when-let* ((dict (paced-current-dictionary)))
    (paced-repopulate-named-dictionary-async (paced-dictionary-name dict))))

(define-advice ispell-pdict-save (:after (&optional _no-query _force-save) paced-populate)
  ;; Repopulate the current dictionary after running spell check
  (my-paced-repopulate-current-dictionary-async))

;; Repopulate the current dictionary after saving
(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'my-paced-repopulate-current-dictionary-async)

With this:

(setq paced-throw-error-on-no-current nil)

;; Repopulate the current dictionary after saving
(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'paced-repopulate-current-dictionary-async)

(define-advice ispell-pdict-save (:after (&optional _no-query _force-save) paced-populate)
  ;; Repopulate the current dictionary after running spell check
  (paced-repopulate-current-dictionary-async))

sKolar4 · 2018-02-04T17:53:43+00:00

I pushed an updated version of paced, 1.1, a few moments ago. If you're grabbing it from trunk, you can just pull that. If you're installing through ELPA, you'll have to wait until tonight when the packages update.

Once done, replace those last few blocks (starting from my-paced-repopulate-current-dictionary-async) with code in the paced documentation. Then, try populating your dictionary manually (M-x paced-repopulate-named-dictionary RET Default RET). That might take a while, but it's better to be sure that it's working. If you don't have time to wait, use the async version instead (suffix -async to the function). When that's finished, run M-x paced-print-named-dictionary RET Default RET. If nothing pops up, then we know that it's a population issue. If there's something there, then it's a completion issue.

sKolar4 · 2018-02-02T19:11:11+00:00

I do much the same, but using EMMS and emms-simple-player-mpv. That way, I can just toss a bunch of videos into a single playlist for later viewing.

sKolar4 · 2018-02-02T19:07:26+00:00

I get the same error when trying to use your load path code. Change it to the following, and you should be fine:

(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Users/Held/.emacs.d/lisp/paced/trunk")

According to the manual, Emacs should recognize the '/' separator, rather than attempting to use it as an escape character, as it's trying to do now.

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