I have taken an entire Cyborganise step

[Aaron]

The combined graphic on the website err master-cyborganize-graphic.jpg
is quite useful I added a few notes for me to remember what to do.

So software-wise emacs-org mode and the local Wordpress is installed.
I already had Brainstorm going.

So I ran up some scratch files blabbing whatever came to mind. Went
through the splitting to left and right side and now have a T3 entry,
a new notes.org and bigger actionables.org and .brn files. Notes was
too small to bother sorting.

Overall it wasn't too bad and really relatively fast to organise. In
other words, it all works. There are problems I found though on this
first run through.

I am not sure the .emacs config file will work for making wordwrap
global as when i did it .emacs was a new and blank file unlike on the
video. I may test it later. Reactivating wordwrap is a PITA.

Tried spellchecking but it seems to need 'ispell' i will look this up
later.

cua-mode seems to not work. Copy seems to be fine. Paste will not
work.

Originally I used Writer (LibreOffice) instead of Emacs but read about
issue of large files by Joseph in the last post and so read up on it.
I'm guessing it's the .org files that will grow to enormity. I may
yet try the alternative suggested.

Anyway so I copied the actionables chronological tape text in Writer
over to Emacs but there was a problem. Nonstandard characters came
with it. Namely a dash instead of minus. Writer autocorrects the
minus to dash. Pointless prettiness FTW. I switched it off and fixed
the issue. Saving with non standard characters doesn't seem to be a
good idea. Now this event was easily fixed but I'm more concerned
with copy pasting from places like the web (references) which could
have all sorts of non standard characters. I can see this becoming a
burden. What to do?

I'll keep going with this as I am able and see the longer term
consequences.

[Joseph Buchignani]

Hi Aaron,

Congrats on fully implementing Cyborganize. You're officially a power user. 

The .emacs file should start out blank. Restart Emacs and see if word wrap is enabled properly. If it isn't, the most likely problem is that you didn't create your .emacs file in the home directory, i.e. ~/

Yes, ispell is required for spellchecking. I don't use it, ovbiously. 

I don't use CUA mode so I can't comment, although I might recommend checking out Xah Lee's distro instead. Are you on Windows or Linux? The interaction of CUA mode and Org-mode might break something, but I'm sure Xah's distro would fix this. 

Yes, your chronological tape .org files grow to enormity, and beyond. 

Emacs handles non-standard characters properly. It won't always display them perfectly unless you pick the right ASCII encoding or whatever. I had this issue and worried about it for a while, and then somehow fixed it. It's a display only thing - copy out of Emacs and it works fine again. And it's easy to fix without messing with code. But I forget exactly how to do it. 

Keep in mind that if Emacs is too painful, you can use something like TextPad.

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[Joseph Buchignani]

By the way, one of the great things about Emacs is that it is essentially more stable than your operating system. 

It's very, very hard to lose data. I can only remember it happening once, maybe twice, in years. And that was small amounts of recent work. 

It basically crashes less often than your operating system, considering that it can automatically recover entire sessions. 

After a crash, just hit:

M-x recover-session and accept the default options (yes or y to everything). 

[Joseph Buchignani]

Aaron, the reason CUA mode doesn't work with Org-mode is because C-c is a core command for Org-mode, and can't be rebound to mean "Copy"

I will look into fixes for this