Re: key bindings for quickly setting effort estimates

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Tim O'Callaghan <timo@dspsrv.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: key bindings for quickly setting effort estimates
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:51:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E5A47E-B198-4D97-A178-D9A69A835E6A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d6808890911030433g4696481wfbd0ab76a3c140d0@mail.gmail.com>

On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:

> Would it be possible to add something like this to the
> "org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo" interface?
>
> possibly with a list of properties to select from:
> org-fast-tag-selection-include-properties '(("EFFORT_All"  ?e)
>                                                            
> ("FOCUS_All"  ?f))
>
> So to select effort of "0:20" i'd type "e 2" or similar?

No, I don't think to the tags interface, this would get messy.  For he  
agenda you can already do

    2 e

anod now I have changed it that you can also do `e 2' from the agenda,
or `C-c C-x e 2' from the Org buffer.

- Carsten

>
> Tim.
>
> 2009/11/3 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>:
>> We do have `org-set-effort', bound to `C-c C-x e'.  You can use a  
>> prefix arg
>> to get to a value directly.  But your approach is faster, if you  
>> have to do
>> this a lot.
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>> On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:
>>
>>> I found myself needing a quick way of setting effort estimates  
>>> outside
>>> column view, and came up with the following:
>>>
>>> ;; Zero effort is last (10th) element of global Effort_ALL property
>>> ;; so that we get zero effort when pressing '0' in the Effort column
>>> ;; in Column view, since this invokes `org-set-effort' with arg 0,
>>> ;; which stands for the 10th allowed value.
>>> (let ((effort-values
>>>      (org-property-get-allowed-values nil org-effort-property)))
>>>  (dotimes (effort-index 10)
>>>   (let* ((effort (nth effort-index effort-values))
>>>          (key-suffix (number-to-string
>>>                (if (= effort-index 9) 0 (1+ effort-index))))
>>>          (fn-name (concat "org-set-effort-"
>>>                           (number-to-string effort-index)))
>>>          (fn (intern fn-name)))
>>>     ;; (message "Binding M-o %s to %s which sets effort to %s"
>>>     ;;          key-suffix fn-name effort)
>>>     (fset fn `(lambda ()
>>>                 ,(format "Sets effort to %s." effort)
>>>                 (interactive)
>>>                 (org-set-effort ,(1+ effort-index))))
>>>     (global-set-key (concat "\eo" key-suffix) fn))))
>>>
>>> This assumes that Effort_ALL has 9 non-zero effort values, which  
>>> in my
>>> case is conveniently true:
>>>
>>> ("0:10" "0:20" "0:30" "1:00" "2:00" "3:00" "4:00" "8:00" "16:00"  
>>> "0")
>>>
>>> Hope this is of interest.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
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>> - Carsten
>>
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- Carsten