The exact functionality you want isn’t currently implemented, but I would be skeptical of saving lots of images into a research log if your opinion is that you “definitely don’t want to save them.” Anyways, the functionality you desire has been expressed in the org-mode mailing list a couple of times in recent years – … Read more
I think markdown and org derive from the different demands, while they coincidently have the similar markup syntax to edit plain text documents. Markdown is only designed to easily read/write plain text. Refer to its philosophy: Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. However, org is more complicated and it … Read more
The last row of a table is @> For example to get the sum for the third column in the last line, you can use the formula @>$3=vsum(@2..@-1) Maybe you have to adapt the @2, if you don’t have a header line…
You can enclose the text within = or ~ signs to have it typeset in monospaced font and export it verbatim (which means it is not processed for org-specific syntax): This is =verbatim text= or ~code~. You’ll find all information about org-mode markup elements in the relevant section of the manual.
As you said, Emacs has the –batch option to perform operations with Emacs from the shell. In addition to that, you can use the -l flag to load Emacs Lisp code from a file and execute it, and the -f flag to execute a single Lisp function. Here is a basic example, which exports a … Read more
Try: (setq org-hide-emphasis-markers t) or set it via customize: M-xcustomize-variableRETorg-hide-emphasis-markersRET
if you add [[myimage.png]], org mode will use the file myimage.png as an inline image for myimage.png. You can then run M-x org-display-inline-images to display your inline image. adding (setq org-startup-with-inline-images t) to your .emacs will make image inlined on opening a org buffer. M-x org-redisplay-inline-images will refresh inlined image if needed. You could also … Read more
C-u C-c . will insert a timestamp at point, though Org will still prompt you for a time (with the default being the current time). More: “Creating timestamps” in the Org Mode manual.
Emacs 23.2 doesn’t directly support Google Chrome, but it does support a “generic” browser, and something like this should work: (setq browse-url-browser-function ‘browse-url-generic browse-url-generic-program “chromium-browser”) You don’t mention your OS, but if it’s Windows or Mac, you can try: (setq browse-url-browser-function ‘browse-url-default-windows-browser) (setq browse-url-browser-function ‘browse-url-default-macosx-browser) And, if that doesn’t work, there are other folks who … Read more
C-c C-c should clear out the sparse-tree hiding and highlighting, but as far as I know, you can’t just go back to the “last view” you had of it. If you want to go back to the full-view, use Shift-Tab to cycle all entries.