Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 188, Issue 10

Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 188, Issue 10

[Baldero Mendoza]

Re: org mode and ledger

Ok. I'm nobody's guru in anything, but I have used - and continue to use -
both of these utilities for years now.
Normally with each new update of emacs nothing much changes with these two
in my usage of them.
For org mode, 1) I open Emacs, 2) if I have a question with org mode I do "
C h i" to go to info, 3) then "m", 4) then " org" followed by "tab" to fill
it out, then " enter". This used to to take me to something of an org mode
manual within info.
Not any more. Now all I get is " [ no match ] ".
As for ledger, that's a double entry command line accounting system that's
really amazing. I've tried others, including gnucash. Gnucash is very nice
- the best of all that I've tried outside of ledger - but it doesn't give
me control of my ledgers. Sooner or later with gnucash an error will crop
up where I screwed up somewhere and then I'm stuck with it because it's so
hard to back up. Not so with ledger, which never ever messes with your
data, and you always have the freedom to back up and fix things easily.
Maybe those manuals for ledger and org mode are things I added years ago
and just forgot. Don't know.


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> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
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> Subject: Re: Emacs for forums?
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> James Taylor <james@openmail.cc> writes:
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> > Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> >
> >> I would also like this. For fun I looked at the Arch Linux bbs, which
> >> turns out to use something called FluxBB, which turns out to have had a
> >> couple abortive attempts at adding a rest API, the most recent of which
> >> fizzled out in 2016. Oh well.
> >>
> >> Perhaps Hacker News would be a good (relatively simple) first testing
> >> ground.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >
> > Hmm, maybe. I tried a login, and account creation and login are possible
> > already with EWW on Hacker News, though I don't know if posting can be
> > done. Paul Graham sure saw me comin'.
>
> All I know is, if I've got a HN client on my Android phone, it should be
> possible to do via Emacs. I'd be looking to add this to Gnus in
> particular, though, not EWW in general.
>
> > As a side note, I'm very glad to not be the only one who thought this
> > would be nice. It's comforting to know that, if there were an elisp
> > hacker crazy enough to try a forum package, there wouldn't be a
> > userbase of 1. ;)
>
> I think we could get four, at least :)
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 08:07:40 -0400
> From: Baldero Mendoza <bzy711@gmail.com>
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> Subject: ledger and org-mode
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> I have noticed that Emacs 25 no longer includes help ( using "C-h-i") for
> "ledger" or "org-mode". Am I wrong in this, or was there a reorganization
> that filed that stuff somewhere else, or what?
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> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:09:59 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: ledger and org-mode
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> > From: Baldero Mendoza <bzy711@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 08:07:40 -0400
> >
> > I have noticed that Emacs 25 no longer includes help ( using "C-h-i") for
> > "ledger" or "org-mode".
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> I do see "Org mode' in the top level Info menu.
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> As for "ledger", what is that?
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Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 188, Issue 10

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Baldero Mendoza <bzy711@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 21:43:24 -0400
> 
> Ok. I'm nobody's guru in anything, but I have used - and continue to use -
> both of these utilities for years now.

Nothing wrong with that.

> Normally with each new update of emacs nothing much changes with these two
> in my usage of them.
> For org mode, 1) I open Emacs, 2) if I have a question with org mode I do "
> C h i" to go to info, 3) then "m", 4) then " org" followed by "tab" to fill
> it out, then " enter". This used to to take me to something of an org mode
> manual within info.
> Not any more. Now all I get is " [ no match ] ".

Please tell more about your current Emacs version and about your
upgrade process.  What is the current Emacs version, and what was the
one you had before?  How did you install the new version, and on what
OS?

Also, do you have the INFOPATH environment variable set, and if so,
what is its value?  What is the value of the Info-directory-list
variable inside Emacs (you can show it using the "M-:" command)?

Finally, if you do "C-h i", what do you see in the node "dir" that
this displays?  Please show its entire contents, and please also tell
what is the value of default-directory in the *Info* buffer showing
that node.

I presume that the manuals you cannot find are somewhere on your
system, but Info is misconfigured, and so doesn't see them.  The
questions above are designed to find the reasons for that.