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(org-scan-tags): Make the search case-sensitive.
(org-tags-sparse-tree): Don't overrule
`org-show-following-heading' and `org-show-hierarchy-above'.
(org-reveal): New command.
(org-show-context): Renamed from `org-show-hierarchy-above'.
(org-fast-tag-selection-single-key): New option.
(org-fast-tag-show-exit, org-set-current-tags-overlay): New
functions.
(org-tags-overlay): New variable.
(org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines): New option.
("session"): Add circular data structure `org-mark-ring' to
exceptions list in session.el.
(org-agenda-window-setup, org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit):
New options.
(org-agenda-quit): Use `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
(org-prepare-agenda, org-agenda-quit): Use
`org-agenda-window-setup'.
(org-pre-agenda-window-conf, org-blank-before-new-entry): New
variables.
(org-finalize-agenda): Activate bracket links in agenda.
(org-at-timestamp-p, org-at-date-range-p): Additional argument
INACTIVE-OK.
(org-show-hierarchy-above, org-show-following-heading): List
values allowed for fine-tuned configuration.
(org-show-hierarchy-above): New argument CONTEXT, use the
fine-tuned settings in `org-show-hierarchy-above' and
`org-show-following-heading'.
(org-display-custom-time): New function.
(org-toggle-time-stamp-overlays, org-insert-time-stamp): New
function.
(org-display-custom-times, org-time-stamp-custom-formats):
(org-maybe-intangible): New macro.
(org-activate-bracket-links, org-hide-wide-columns): Use
`org-maybe-intangible'.
(org-open-file): Use `shell-quote-argument'.
(org-display-internal-link-with-indirect-buffer): New option.
(org-file-remote-p): Get regexp from list.
(org-link-expand-abbrev): New function.
(org-link-abbrev-alist): New option.
(org-open-at-point, org-cleaned-string-for-export): Call
`org-link-expand-abbrev'.
(org-timeline, org-agenda-list, org-todo-list)
(org-tags-view): Remove the KEEP-MODES argument.
(org-finalize-agenda-hook): New hook.
(org-get-alist-option): New function.
(org-follow-timestamp-link): New function.
(org-open-at-point): Call `org-follow-timestamp-link'.
(org-log-note-marker, org-log-note-purpose)
(org-log-note-window-configuration): New variables.
(org-add-log-maybe, org-add-log-note, org-store-log-note): New
functions.
(org-log-note-headings): New option.
(org-dblock-write:clocktable): Bug fix, removed infinite loop.
(org-store-link): Support for dired-mode.
(org-open-file): Substitute environment variables into filename.
(org-last): New defsubst.
(org-agenda-re-align-tags): New function.
(org-agenda-align-tags-to-column): New option.
(org-agenda-timeline): Group removed.
(org-prepare-agenda, org-prepare-agenda-buffers)
(org-run-agenda-series, org-timeline, org-agenda-list)
(org-todo-list, org-tags-view): Call `org-agenda-prepare' and set
the text property inticating the agenda type.
(org-agenda-post-command-hook): Get agenda type from text property
at point.
(org-agenda): Handle command sets. Set
`org-agenda-last-arguments' and obey
`org-agenda-overriding-arguments'.
(org-agenda-overriding-arguments, org-agenda-last-arguments): New
variables.
(org-agenda-goto-today, org-agenda-later, org-agenda-earlier)
(org-agenda-week-view, org-agenda-day-view): Use
`org-agenda-overriding-arguments' to make updating work with
multi-block agendas.
(org-agenda-prefix-format): Allow different formats for the
different agenda entry types.
(org-timeline-prefix-format): Option removed, use
`org-agenda-prefix-format' instead.
(org-prepare-agenda): New function.
(org-select-timeline-window): Option removed, use
`org-select-agenda-window' instead.
(org-respect-restriction): Variable removed.
(org-cmp-tag): New function.
(org-agenda-sorting-strategy, org-entries-lessp): Implement
sorting by last tag.
(org-complete): Better completion in in-buffer option lines.
(org-in-item-p): New function.
(org-org-menu): Added entries for checkboxes.
(org-cycle): Extra brouping in outline-regexp, because it is used
in a search with "^" prepended.
(org-provide-checkbox-statistics): New option.
(org-set-font-lock-defaults): Highlight checkbox statistics.
(org-update-checkbox-count-maybe)
(org-get-checkbox-statistics-face): New functions.
(org-update-checkbox-count): New command.
(org-insert-item, org-toggle-checkbox): Call
`org-update-checkbox-count-maybe'.
(org-export-as-html): XEmacs compatibility for coding system.
(org-force-cycle-archived): New command.
(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees): Display message when ARCHIVE
overrules cycling.
(org-fix-position-after-promote): If the line contains only a todo
keyword, add a final space.
(org-promote-subtree, org-demote-subtree): Call
`org-fix-position-after-promote'.
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9 "We can't be arrested for it as far as I know, but it is definitely |
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10 invalid for an interval to have zero length." |
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17 I remember when I lost an argument. Boy did that hurt! ;-). |
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22 "'Cowardly' is not an adverb, although it looks like one. It is an |
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23 adjective. It makes a statement about general temperament, rather |
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24 than a specific occasion. I don't think Emacs has a general |
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25 temperament." |
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26 "Mine does." |
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27 -- RMS and Eli Zaretskii |
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31 "In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an |
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32 item such as 'Edit -> Search' is activated from the menu, I was just |
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33 thinking that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, |
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34 blinking (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in." |
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35 "How about dancing elephants?" |
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36 "They don't fit in my office." |
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37 "Well once the elephants are done, your office will be much... |
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38 bigger." |
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39 -- Stefan Monnier, Miles Bader and Kai Grossjohann |
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43 I remember these versions as yard-rocks (is that between inch-pebbles |
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44 and mile-stones?). |
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49 "I think it depends on video drivers. I cannot reproduce it on my |
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50 home PC, but I can at work." |
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51 "Can you try to find a workaround at work? (I guess you don't need |
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52 a homearound at home. ;-)" |
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53 -- Jason Rumney and RMS |
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57 By the way, I also really really hate this unibyte/multibyte problem. |
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58 Sometimes I think I should have opposed to the introduction of such a |
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59 concept more strongly. |
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62 it's easy if you try |
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63 no bytes below us |
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64 above us only chars |
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65 imagine all the people living in multibyte |
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71 I try to uphold the ideals that I was taught to value as an American, |
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72 but every year I get less and less help from the United States. |
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73 -- RMS |
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78 doesn't make sense to follow it." |
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79 "Nevertheless, until now, we always did." |
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80 "So.... should we not fix old bugs?" |
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81 "Why fix an old bug if you can write three new ones in the same |
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82 time?" |
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83 -- Miles Bader, Eli Zaretskii and David Kastrup |
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88 be more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits |
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89 transferring those redundant "u"s. |
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100 "I can't decide whether the title of this thread is more fitting for |
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101 a blues song or a pulp fiction booklet. It certainly projects drama." |
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103 "Actually, for some keymaps 'depraved' would fit better." |
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104 "I knew it! You're one of them vi lovers! There is nothing wrong |
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105 with Emacs using escape, meta, alt, control, and shift!" |
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111 "The only user-defined constant is ignorance. (With programmers, |
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112 this is a variable concept ;-)" |
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117 "Uh, 'archaic' and 'alive' is not a contradiction." |
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118 "Yes it is. 'Archaic' does not mean 'old' or 'early'. It means |
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120 "'He arche' in Greek means 'the beginning'. John 1 starts off with |
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121 'En arche en ho Logos': in the beginning, there was the word. Now of |
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122 course we all know that Emacs was there before Word, but this might |
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131 also for people not familiar with `woman'." |
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134 a woman, and it would make her come right to the topic at point |
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137 There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know." |
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