From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: lecodesportif@eml.cc
Cc: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using properties for diary-anniversaries
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:36:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26027.1295879818@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from lecodesportif@eml.cc of "Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:27:54 PST." <1295857674.26398.1416871253@webmail.messagingengine.com>
lecodesportif@eml.cc wrote:
> > > * John
> > > :PROPERTIES:
> > > :Name: John
> > > :Birthday: 5 4 1900
> > > :END:
> > >
> > > I would like to add the "Birthday" and "Name" properties to Org Agenda
> > > automatically. What I have so far is:
> > >
> > > %%(apply 'diary-anniversary (read (org-entry-get nil "Birthday"))) John
> > >
> > > When I enter this line right after the properties, the anniversary is
> > > added at the correct date in the agenda. But I still have to enter the
> > > name manually.
> > >
> >
> > Try something like this:
> >
> > %%(apply 'diary-anniversary (mapcar 'string-to-number (split-string
> > (org-entry-get nil "Birthday")))) John is %d years old
>
> The %d was already working with my above code and the entry was
> displayed at the correct date. What I am looking for is a way to get the
> value of the name property ("John") automatically. That way I wouldn't
> have to insert all names manually in the %%(apply... line following the
> properties.
>
Yes, sorry: I figured that I had answered the wrong question after I
sent it, but I was too tired to fix my mistake at that time. However, I
could not make your formulation work for me at all. I still don't
understand how it could possibly work: afaict, org-entry-get returns the
birthday as a string, "5 4 1900", the read returns the month as a
number, 5, and diary-anniversary should blow up because it needs at least two
arguments (a month and a day) - and it does in my case.
Be that as it may, re. filling in the name, I don't know how to do it
and I'm not sure that it can be done: the string after the function call
is scanned for %d but no other evaluation is done. org just passes the
string along and all of that work is done in diary-anniversary whose
doc string says:
,----
| The diary entry can contain `%d' or `%d%s'; the %d will be replaced
| by the number of years since the MONTH, DAY, YEAR, and the %s will
| be replaced by the ordinal ending of that number (that is, `st',
| `nd', `rd' or `th', as appropriate). The anniversary of February 29
| is considered to be March 1 in non-leap years.
`----
So I think that's all you can do.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-24 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-23 14:36 Using properties for diary-anniversaries lecodesportif
2011-01-23 21:03 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-23 23:04 ` lecodesportif
2011-01-24 1:16 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-24 8:27 ` lecodesportif
2011-01-24 14:36 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-01-24 20:46 ` Adam
2011-01-24 21:02 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-25 13:17 ` lecodesportif
2011-01-25 14:53 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-25 15:05 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-25 15:22 ` lecodesportif
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