From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>,
org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Including current time in agenda
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:45:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2EDC548D-2EB1-41A0-9E3E-24A9606639E6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CFCF398.1080106@gmail.com>
On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> On 06/12/10 03:03 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Julien Danjou wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 06 2010, suvayu ali wrote:
>>>> So far my attempts have been some variation of `<%%(format-time-
>>>> string
>>>> "%H%M")>' or `<%%(diary-entry-time ...)>'. Am I approaching this
>>>> the
>>>> wrong way? Is this not supported by the diary library?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.
>>>
>>> (defun jd:org-current-time ()
>>> "Return current-time if date is today."
>>> (when (equal date (calendar-current-date))
>>> (format-time-string "%H:%M Current time" (current-time))))
>>>
>>> And use %%(jd:org-current-time) in an entry.
>>
>> Wow, I overlooked this possibility. Great.
>
> That is exactly the information I want to have, but this only
> inserts an
> entry in today's agenda without any timestamps.
This does actually fully work for me, so something in your setup must
cause a problem. Have you changed the configuration for the time grid?
- Carsten
>
> I think the problem, as Eric explained earlier, is that the diary sexp
> method only expects t or nil. So the string your function returns is
> treated as true and a corresponding entry is inserted in the agenda
> buffer for today. I think I would still need to insert the current
> time
> in the time-grid as Carsten suggested earlier.
>
> A weakly related question, how does one check/debug diary sexps?
> Evaluating in the scratch buffer always gives me a "void variable
> date"
> error. Replacing `date' with `(calendar-current-date)' however works
> fine in the scratch buffer.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions. :)
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 6:49 Including current time in agenda suvayu ali
2010-12-06 11:47 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-06 11:55 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 12:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-06 12:27 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 13:00 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 13:10 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 13:38 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-06 14:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 14:30 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-12-06 14:45 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-12-06 14:53 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-12-06 14:56 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 14:59 ` Rémi Vanicat
2010-12-06 15:10 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 15:13 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-06 15:28 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-12-06 15:39 ` Matt Lundin
2010-12-12 8:30 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-12 17:54 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-12 21:31 ` Matt Lundin
2011-01-07 19:31 ` Erik Butz
2011-01-07 23:27 ` suvayu ali
2011-01-07 23:46 ` Erik Butz
2011-01-08 0:04 ` suvayu ali
2011-01-08 14:46 ` Erik Butz
2010-12-12 18:19 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 19:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-06 22:34 ` suvayu ali
2010-12-08 23:46 ` [PATCH] sexp can set its face (was: Including current time in agenda) Łukasz Stelmach
2010-12-12 7:44 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-13 0:14 ` suvayu ali
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