I would like to view my org file like a blog, where top-level headlines display a short summary of their contents, when folded (say the first 5 lines). Is there a way to do this with cycling? Or through Agenda views perhaps?
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I like presentation zen, where less is more. I would like to export my org-mode files as beamer slides, but have the heading title ignored so as not to position a title at the top left of the each slide.
I can do it on a per-slide basis with:
** My slide title
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_ENV: fullframe
:END:
Is there a way of applying this rule to every slide, without having to add this :PROPERTIES: section beneath every heading in my org file?
Several answers were suggested on the org mode mailing list here.
The one solution that worked for me was to put the following line at the top of my org file:
#+LATEX_HEADER: \setbeamertemplate{frametitle}{}
I am using org-journal in emacs (Windows). I tag some of the journal entries. Is there an easy way to display all of the full entries (i.e. the headline and the following entry) for a certain tag in a certain time frame? It is quite easy to display the headlines for a certain tag in agenda view (http://orgmode.org/manual/Tag-searches.html#Tag-searches), but I would like the full entry in the same buffer (mostly for export or printing).
With Beamer frames can be repeated by labeling the frame that should be repeated such as
\begin{frame}[label=framelabel]
...
\end{frame}
and then using \againframe{framelabel} at the place where that frame is to be repeated.
How can this method be used with Org-mode's Beamer export? The label can obviously be added by putting it in BEAMER_envargs such as:
* Org-mode section
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_envargs: [label=questions]
:END:
But there are two problems in using \againframe via Org-mode:
\againframe is placed badly both if it is placed under an Org-mode section and if it is put directly in an Org-mode section. The problem is that in the former case is that is is placed inside a frame when it should be placed between. The problem in the latter case is that it is placed inside \frametitle.
\againframe is either swallowed by Org-mode sections or it is marked as one. Both are poor logical representations of its function.
So is there some effective way of using \againframe with Beamer or is there some other way to repeat frames with Org-mode that I have overlooked?
I have already looked at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-05/msg00954.html in trying to work this out.
I am running Org-mode 7.6 in Emacs 23.3.1 and I use Beamer 3.13.
The current org-mode has support for againframe. Just create a frame and add the beamer option BEAMER_env = againframe to the corresponding section. Or use C-c C-b a to insert it if you initialized the beamer mode on org-startup.
More information can be found in the org-mode documentation.
An example is available in the original proposal of the syntax:
* section
** My frame title :B_frame:
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_env: frame
:END:
Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text.
Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text.
** section :B_againframe:
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_env: againframe
:BEAMER_act: 2
:BEAMER_ref: *My frame title
:END:
This section will create "\againframe<2>{sec-1-2}".
** Following frame
etc.
I don't think this is currently possible. The limitation lies in the tree structure of an org document. As far as I understood from your question, the \againframe{...} command basically repeats a slide as is. In org terms, that means the original tree used to generate the slide is repeated. Since the org document format doesn't let you have any content which is not part of a tree (other than the frontmatter/header at the top of a file), I believe this is not possible. This has been discussed on the mailing list a few times, from what I understood there are no plans to implement something like this.
Is there a way to tell org-mode to load only the first N lines of a long text file? I would like to keep the whole file open to be able to search through it, but have org-mode display on the first N lines of my file, which is where I edit new content.
If you have a structured outline in org-mode, you can set the global file visibility with the #+STARTUP markup, or the visibility of any heading with the VISIBILITY property, see Visibility Cycling for details. The benefit of using the built-in org-mode properties is that it's easy to have a file open up in exactly the state you want.
I have my journal file set up to accomplish something similar what I think you're asking for using these org-mode properties. The "Today" section is opened so I can see everything, but older archives are collapsed.
I'm not sure the title really fits the description?
I think you just want use buffer narrowing, which lets you hide everything outside of the specified region for as long as necessary.
You can manually narrow the buffer by marking the region and typing C-xnn
Widen the display back to the full buffer with C-xnw
I guess you could use an eval Local Variable to automate this to a pre-defined region, if you really wanted to.
There's also narrow-to-defun (C-xnd) and narrow-to-page (C-xnp). If you throw a page break into your org file (C-qC-l), the latter might prove handy.
In org-mode's daily/weekly agenda view, is there a way to display the full context of the entries?
My reading of the code is that it finds the first heading above the timestamp and displays that. However, in my case, that heading is often 3-4 levels deep and doesn't make sense without the bullets above it. It also doesn't seem like there are hooks to easily change that. Filtering is trivial, but not changing the fundamental presentation format.
There is no way to display all the context directly in the agenda view, but you can right click on the headline in agenda view and it will show you that headline in the main window in a sparse tree context.
You may have to collapse everything in the main window in order for the right-click-locating to show the sparse-tree view.
That seems pretty close to what you're looking for. To check, do this:
Create desired agenda view.
In main document window collapse everything to just first level headlines.
Right-click on the desired headline in the agenda view. It should show the headline in sparse tree context in the main document window.
There are several things you can do to get better information about context in agenda views, short of using the right-click function described above.
First, you can arrange your headlines themselves so that they give you more context information. It would be possible, e.g., to have numerous 4th level headlines labeled 'Tasks', each which includes tasks related to the headings above in each tree. That's not going to give good context info in agenda view, though, since each line's headline text would be the same (i.e., 'Task') and have no info in context. A simple solution would simply be to make the headlines more specific, e.g., 'Project xxxx Tasks' and 'Project yyy Tasks'.
A different way of getting more context in agenda view would be by using 'categories'. The first column in agenda view is the filename containing the headline by default, but if the headline has a category the category will be shown. To assign a category to a headline and all of its subtree you can add a category property to the main headline, like this:
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY:Project xxx Stuff
:END:
Now agenda view will show 'Project xxx Stuff' in the first column for each of the agenda lines that are gathered from that headlines subtree.
Maybe an agenda is not really what you need. I would use this:
`M-x org-sparse-tree RET D'
then select the date range and navigate through the results.
HTH
Follow-mode (S-f) gets pretty close to what the OP is looking for. Credit to #armando.sano in a comment on another answer.