From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
To: pholcomb@cpoint.net
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with agenda-custom commands
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:01:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23E675E6-2987-4C4C-9526-5CDE58FFB75D@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080930164045.GC28285@cpoint.net>
On Sep 30, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Paul Holcomb wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 07:16:41AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>>> *) Is there a simple way to construct an agenda view that:
>>> -shows all past scheduled events for one TODO keyword only
>>> -skips for all others
>
>> I have not tested this, but you might be able to use the general
>> tags/
>> property/todo matcher
>> on `C-c a m' like this:
>>
>> SCHEDULED<"<today>"/!+MYTODOKEYWORD
>
> This works, but not for a day or week view.
Yes, correct, you cannot do this for the agenda.....
>
>
> On the positive side, while I was trying to figure out how to do
> this, I've started to rethink how I'm using the different date
> keywords.
>
> I was originally trying to overload the meaning of SCHEDULED. Making
> a TODO item that starts in the future and then will continue showing
> up until done (as in the manual) for "WAITING" items, but also as a
> TODO item that starts in the future, but then should become a normal
> TODO item for everything not a "WAITING" item.
>
> I think a better approach to the second one is going to be using a
> property like ACTIVEON, like so:
>
> :PROPERTIES:
> :ACTIVEON: <2008-10-01 Wed>
> :END:
>
> I'm still at the idea stage here, but think it could work with a hook
> similar to org-expiry.el or org-depend.el
Well, keep thinking and keep us posted.
>
>
>>> *) Using a defconst symbol or function that evaluates to a stringp
>>> in place of an actual string in for the match field.
>>>
>>> It seems like the evaluation order is at fault, but I couldn't get
>>> further.
>>
>> indeed, currently the match entry is not evaluated. I guess we could
>> do that, but it would involve changing several functions. I would
>> need a convincing use case before I invest the time. How would you
>> want to use this?
>
> Totally not important. I was just trying to clean up some of my
> agenda functions and feared I was missing something basic.
OK.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-01 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-24 23:16 Help with agenda-custom commands Paul Holcomb
2008-09-28 5:16 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-09-30 16:40 ` Paul Holcomb
2008-10-01 9:01 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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2008-10-01 13:19 ` Robert Goldman
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