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Formatting requirements

Something you could discuss is the expectations that BeOrg has in the format of the Org files (if any).

  • Blank lines -- I put in blank lines for readability.  Will BeOrg remove them and where?  Be precise.
  • Auto-fill -- Should we fill paragraphs or let it wrap at the end of a line?  I'm an old Emacs user, so I tend to turn on auto-fill.
  • CRLF vs NL -- How does BeOrg hand EOL?  If I mostly edit on a PC (CRLF), will that cause problems with BeOrg?
  • How is BeOrg on other character sets?
  • Anything else?

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Oh! That's a "set!, not "setl" !


I'd been using init to set  the tag column as Emacs and Beorg disagree, but I recently noticed it wasn't working and reset it in Emacs.

Check https://beorg.app/learning/excluding-tasks-from-specific-files-for-the-agenda-and-todo-lists/ for a guide on creating an init.org.

Thanks Matthew! Could you guide me to where init.org should be stored? Is it in the root org folder? I added it and the setting you posted, but the app doesn't seem to respect spacing still. Anything I'm missing?

There is a new setting to add blank lines between headers. Add...


(set! beorg-add-newline-between-headlines #t)


...to your init.org. Possibly still not quite what some of you are looking for so hope to continue to make improvements here.

+1 Still very much waiting for this feature. It's holding me back from using the app.

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Another +1 for keeping blank lines

another +1 in favor of not removing blank lines.  This creates all kinds of (apparently unnecessary?) churn for a workflow that syncs between my working org mode directory and iCloud.


Having a setting that only affects entries added in beorg, but not the entire file, sounds great to me.


thanks!



I have made some small improvements on this over the past few releases but still some work to do.

I would love to hear if the setting is implemented or not? Seems it cannot be found in beorg3 or it is somewhere hided? :)

Thanks. Glad to hear it.

I will take a look to see if a new setting can be introduced to stop beorg messing with blank lines. For most users they would probably keep this on - but if you do you want to be in control of spacing, etc then I'll see if beorg can be made to leave that alone.

+1 for the option to not remove blank lines. I don't want to use the app currently because it does that.

Same issue here, after I modified some of my GTD items, some irrelevant parts of the the org file containing the items are also changed.


All I want is that, if I modified TODO item status only, only that *relevant* part will be changed, so that my original formatting will not be affected. 

Good idea. By now I use beorg only with a dedicated org file because of the formatting, hope that you can put this idea into your wish list :)

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