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To have org-mode expand everything by default: M-x customize-variable RET org-startup-folded
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To insert code-blocks quickly: <s TAB
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To insert a new bullet/number in the current list: M-RET
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To promote a heading:
M-<left arrow>
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To demote a heading:
M-<right arrow>
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Hyperlinks:
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To link to another org-mode file:
[[file:dir/other_file.org]]
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To create a link with a description:
[[file:dir/other_file.org][Description]]
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To follow a hyperlink C-c C-o
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To go back: C-c &
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To edit a link: C-c C-l
- Link = link target
- Description = description
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To add LaTeX to Org-mode:
- Don't need to do anything special to add LaTeX to org-mode
- Use
\(
and\)
as inline math delimiters - Use
\begin{equation}
and\end{equation}
for blocks for equations - Can preview LaTeX with C-c C-x C-l if `dvipng` is installed
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To escape markup:
Verbatim
Code
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To export to HTML:
C-c C-e h h
(to export to file)C-c C-e h o
to export to file and open- Export config options:
org-export-with-toc
toggles TOCorg-export-with-section-numbers
toggles section numbers
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Generic markup:
/italics/
italics_underline_
underline*bold*
bold+strikethrough+
strikethrough
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To set the initial visibility of an item, add the following property: :Visibility: folded
- A property drawer starts with
:PROPERTIES:
and ends with:END:
- To insert a property (and create the drawer, if necessary): C-c C-x p
- To reset to initial visibility: C-u C-u
- A property drawer starts with
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To add a single checkbox:
C-u C-c C-c
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To make a list into a list of checkboxes:
C-u C-c C-x C-b
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To make the to-do statistics cookies compute statistics recursively
- Configure
org-hierarchical-todo-statistics
to set recursive stats globally - Set the
:COOKIE_DATA:
property to "recursive" to set it on a per item level
- Configure
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To override the default initial visibility, put one of
#+STARTUP: overview #+STARTUP: content #+STARTUP: showall #+STARTUP: showeverything
at the top of the file
- To undo all visibility changes made while editing,
C-u C-u <tab>
- To undo all visibility changes made while editing,
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Table editing:
- To create a table, start the line with a | and separate each column with |
- To create a horizontal line, start the line with |- (this separates headers from entries)
- To insert a row above:
M-S-<down>
- To insert a row below:
C-u M-S-<down>
- To delete the current row:
M-S-up
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Agenda mode
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First, set up the following keybinds
(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link) (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda) (global-set-key "\C-cc" 'org-capture) (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-switchb)
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To launch agenda mode hit
C-c a
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To add files to the agenda list:
C-c [
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To remove a file from the agenda list:
C-c ]
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To launch the global to-do list:
C-c a t
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To go to the file in which a to-do item is defined
- go to file in another window
- go to file in this window
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To rebuild agenda buffer:
r
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To set priorities on agenda items
C-c ,
- You can also adjust priorities with
S-up
andS-down
- To adjust the values used for priorities, customize
org-highest-priority
org-lowest-priority
org-default-priority
- To give priorities different colors:
- Customize:
org-agenda-fontify-priorities
-> set to "Cookies Only"org-priority-faces
-> set a color for each priority
- My priority faces
- 0: red2
- 1: gold1
- 2: SpringGreen2
- 3: CadetBlue2
- 4: gray94
- 5: gray50
- Customize:
- You can also adjust priorities with
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To customize how items are sorted in the agenda view mode, customize org-agenda-sorting-strategy
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To turn bulleted list into a numbered list, use
S-left
orS-right
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To make the agenda view use am/pm times instead of 24-hour time, do
M-x customize-variable RET org-agenda-timegrid-use-ampm
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To disable plain-text timestamps, turn off
org-agenda-search-headline-for-time
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To prevent emacs from folding subtrees when you paste them, customize
org-yank-folded-subtrees
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To make emacs only color the stars in a headline, customize
org-level-color-stars-only
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To launch org-agenda in its own frame, customize
org-agenda-window-setup
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To delete org-mode-links, add the following function to your .emacs
(defun afs/org-replace-link-by-link-description () "Replace an org link by its description or by the link if description is empty" (interactive) (if (org-in-regexp org-bracket-link-regexp 1) (save-excursion (let ((remove (list (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))) (description (if (match-end 3) (org-match-string-no-properties 3) (org-match-string-no-properties 1)))) (apply 'delete-region remove) (insert description)))))
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