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Why is cursor-type always 'bar in org-mode? in c/emacs

[–] Titus 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your advice and for looking into this!

I went through all the hooks, they just start:

org-superstar-mode
prettify-symbols-alist
org-auto-tangle-mode
typo-mode

But I commented out almost everything in my config and found out it has to do with mixed-pitch. The solution:

  (use-package mixed-pitch
    :config
    (setq mixed-pitch-variable-pitch-cursor 'box))

When no setting is done, mixed-pitch automatically sets the cursor to 'bar. So my setting it to 'box by cursor-type was of no use for my org-mode buffers (with mixed-pitch). Phew! Now it works as I like it.

Thanks again for your quick answer. It's great that everything can be set to one's liking in Emacs.

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Why is cursor-type always 'bar in org-mode? (self.emacs)

submitted 1 year ago by Titus to c/emacs

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In my init-File I have the cursor-type set to 'box. Still, when I open an org-file, the cursor is automatically set to 'bar. If I change the major mode to outline-mode, it is set to 'box, and when I change it back to org-mode, it is set to 'bar.

I tried region-evaluate on the line (setq cursor-type 'box) in an org-file, and the cursor changes to 'box. But I would like to have it set to box right away through init.el.

My theme is modus-operandi-tinted, and I looked there, but it just sets the color of the cursor, not its form. Could it be that setq cursor-type is not respected by org-mode?

(I use mixed-pitch mode.)

Thank you very much for any help!

#2 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, Sep 13, 19:00-21:00 UTC+3, Europe/Istanbul in c/emacs

[–] Titus 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the summary of your last meeting, I learned about cool packages I didn't know about.

How to filter a dynamic block column view by only part of an property entry in c/emacs

[–] Titus 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much! I feel stupid I didn't find that out. But I'm also very glad you told me -- because now I can not only filter the year, but also keywords from a list of keywords in another property, using the curly brackets. That is wonderful and helps me a lot. Thanks again for answering and for being patient with a "blind" man!

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How to filter a dynamic block column view by only part of an property entry (self.emacs)

submitted 1 year ago by Titus to c/emacs

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Hello everyone! My first post in this new forum.

I read a lot for research, and to keep track of the read books I am experimenting with a combination of bibtex and org mode column view. I have list of my books in an org-file, which then is exported to a bib-file to be able to use org-cite-insert.

Now, to filter the list of books to show I need to set the :match criteria in the column view dynamic block. This works well for all exact matches. But for instance, if I want to match all the books I have read in a certain year (I have a field in the per-book-heading like: DATE_FINISHED), I cannot filter them out. If the value is, say, 2023-08-26, how can I filter that when I am looking only for the year?

It seems to me, :match is always looking at the whole entry, I cannot use:

:match "DATE_FINISHED=\"2023\"

I would have to use:

:match "DATE_FINISHED=\"2023-08-26\"

But I want all the books of 2023, not only those of the 26th of August. How could I solve this? Thank you very much for any hint!

Titus