* Easy to use asking for Or-gmode property values (e.g., for Org-contacts)
@ 2015-05-28 10:11 Karl Voit
2015-05-28 14:00 ` Karl Voit
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Karl Voit @ 2015-05-28 10:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi!
I am using Org-contacts that way, that I copy new information from
external sources and move them to the properties afterwards:
: ** Firstname Lastname :FirstnameLastname:
: :PROPERTIES:
: :TYPE:
: :TITLE:
: :EMAIL: Firstname@company.com
: :URL:
: :MOBILE: 0043/
: :HOMEPHONE:
: :WORKPHONE:
: :PHONE:
: :COMPANY: This Company
: :STREET: Companystreet 42
: :POSTALCODE: 8010
: :CITY: Thiscity
: :COUNTRY: Österreich
: :PHOTOGRAPH: [[photo:FirstnameLastname.jpg]]
: :BORN: 1970-12-31
: :ITOLDTHEM_EMAIL: thisorthat@mydomain.com
: :ITOLDTHEM_ADDRESS:
: :ITOLDTHEM_PHONE:
: :ADDRESS_CHANGE_METHOD: email
: :CREATED: [2015-05-27 Wed 19:46]
: :END:
:
: - <2013-01-13 Fri> met at dinner party
: - This old company
: - Firstname@oldcompany.com
: - <2015-05-27 Wed> contact from XING with new data
: - This Company
: - Firstname@company.com
: - Companystreet 42, 8010 Thiscity
: - he is born on December 31st, 1970
This way, I do have the whole history below the properties and the
most current information.
The task of adding information is tedious: copy & paste from external
sources and then copy & paste to the properties accordingly.
This is why I came up with this idea: how about I paste new
information at the end of and then call a function which helps me a
lot:
- ask for each property (or a set of pre-defined properties)
- prompt property name
- let the user mark a region using keyboard or mouse
- if user presses confirmation keyoard shortcut (return?)
- if region: copy the region and set it as the new content for the current
property (overwriting any old property settings)
- if no region is set: do not change property
The workflow would improve a lot! And I do guess that this might be a
very handy function for lots of other purposes as well: ask me for all
or some properties!
With my very limited understanding of elisp: can this (easily) done?
Is there a code snippet which does similar stuff?
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2015-05-28 10:11 Easy to use asking for Or-gmode property values (e.g., for Org-contacts) Karl Voit
@ 2015-05-28 14:00 ` Karl Voit
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Karl Voit @ 2015-05-28 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
* Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> wrote:
>
> This is why I came up with this idea: how about I paste new
> information at the end of and then call a function which helps me a
> lot:
>
> - ask for each property (or a set of pre-defined properties)
> - prompt property name
> - let the user mark a region using keyboard or mouse
> - if user presses confirmation keyoard shortcut (return?)
> - if region: copy the region and set it as the new content for the current
> property (overwriting any old property settings)
> - if no region is set: do not change property
Jonathan Leech-Pepin sent me his solution to the issue. Instead of
asking for a set of properties, he wrote a function that takes the
currently selected region, asks for a property, and overwrites its
value with the region string.
I found an edge-case which I fixed (by removing leading and trailing
whitespaces) and I added comments as far as I understood the code.
The resulting function is:
,----
| (defun my-org-region-to-property (&optional property)
| (interactive)
| ;; if no region is defined, do nothing
| (if (use-region-p)
| ;; if a region string is found, ask for a property and set property to
| ;; the string in the region
| (let ((val (replace-regexp-in-string
| "\\`[ \t\n]*" ""
| (replace-regexp-in-string "[ \t\n]*\\'" ""
| (substring (buffer-string)
| (- (region-beginning) 1)
| (region-end))))
| )
| ;; if none was stated by user, read property from user
| (prop (or property
| (org-read-property-name))))
| ;; set property
| (org-set-property prop val))))
`----
Thank you very much, Jonathan!
The only downside of this method is, that I have to wait four
seconds until Org-mode has parsed the list of possible properties
within my contacts.org file.
Is there some kind of caching I could activate similar to (setq
org-refile-use-cache t)?
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