From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>,
Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: How to add entries to an org file, not diary
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:45:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73F2B76E-82D8-4548-925C-C449843D5A0F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vk7fkdi.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>
Fixed, thanks
- Carsten
On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:39 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> If I'm visting an agenda (C-c a a) buffer, and want to add a diary
>>> entry
>>> for a particular day, I can use org-agenda-diary-entry, bound to
>>> 'i'.
>>> This inserts an entry in my diary file.
>>>
>>> What I'd like to do is add the entry instead to an org file,
>>> e.g. 'agenda.org' where I currently store all diary-like entries.
>>> Is
>>> that functionality available? (Am trying to wean myself off diary
>>> files, after many years of using it...)
>>
>> If you get the latest Org version from the git server, you can
>> configure the variable `org-agenda-diary-file' to point to your
>> "diary.org" file or any other Org-mode file. This should be a
>> file dedicated for general appointments, anniversaries
>> etc.
>>
>> Then `i' in the agenda will create new entries in that file.
>> Simple entries (day and block) will be placed into an outline
>> tree that is based on dates: Top-level years, level 2 months,
>> level 3 days[1]. I have always wanted to have something
>> like this, so that it will be easy to archive old stuff! So thanks
>> for giving me a reason to finally make it.
>>
>> Right now I have implemented
>>
>> i d for day entries,
>> i b for blocks,
>> i a for anniversaries (which will be collected under a special
>> heading "Anniversaries" in your `diary.org'
>> i j To jump to the cursor date in the date tree
>>
>> What else would be useful?
>>
>> The same command will also be bound to the `i' key in the
>> calendar (calendar restart required), so you can make the same
>> kind of entries from the calendar - very convenient at times,
>> in particular for long blocks.
>>
>> The basics of these new commands seem to work OK, but it
>> is quite possible that I have not yet thought this through
>> fully. Let me know what I am missing, so that we can tweak it.
>
> This is really cool! :) Thanks for implementing the block dates!
>
> I just tried it with anniversaries and get the following error
>
> GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of
> 2008-11-09
> on raven, modified by Debian
> Org-mode version 6.32trans (release_6.32b.142.g01b1)
>
> My version of org-mode has the clocking commit reverted
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-date-display-form)
> (diary-date-display-form)
> (let ((calendar-date-display-form ...)) (insert (format "%%%%(diary-
> anniversary %s) %s" ... text)))
> (cond ((eq type ...) (or ... ...) (outline-next-heading) (org-back-
> over-empty-lines) (backward-char 1) (insert "\n") (let ... ...))
> ((eq type ...) (require ...) (org-datetree-find-date-create d1) (org-
> agenda-insert-diary-make-new-entry text) (org-insert-time-stamp ...)
> (end-of-line 0)) ((eq type ...) (if ... ...) (require ...) (org-
> datetree-find-date-create d1) (org-agenda-insert-diary-make-new-
> entry text) (org-insert-time-stamp ...) (insert "--") (org-insert-
> time-stamp ...) (end-of-line 0)))
> (let ((cw ...)) (org-switch-to-buffer-other-window (find-file-
> noselect org-agenda-diary-file)) (widen) (goto-char (point-min))
> (cond (... ... ... ... ... ... ...) (... ... ... ... ... ...)
> (... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...)) (if (string-match "\\S-"
> text) (progn ... ...) (message "Please finish entry here")))
> org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file(anniversary
> "foobar" (10 13 2009))
> (cond ((equal char 100) (setq text ...) (org-agenda-add-entry-to-
> org-agenda-diary-file ... text d1)) ((equal char 97) (setq d1 ...)
> (setq text ...) (org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file ...
> text d1)) ((equal char 98) (setq text ...) (org-agenda-add-entry-to-
> org-agenda-diary-file ... text d1 d2)) ((equal char 106) (org-switch-
> to-buffer-other-window ...) (org-datetree-find-date-create d1) (org-
> reveal t)) (t (error "Invalid selection character `%c'" char)))
> (let (d1 d2 char (text "")) (if (equal ... "*Calendar*") (setq
> d1 ... d2 ...) (setq d1 ... d2 ...)) (message "Diary entry: [d]ay
> [a]nniversary [b]lock [j]ump to date tree") (setq char (read-char-
> exclusive)) (cond (... ... ...) (... ... ... ...) (... ... ...)
> (... ... ... ...) (t ...)))
> org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file()
> (if (not (eq org-agenda-diary-file ...)) (org-agenda-diary-entry-in-
> org-file) (require (quote diary-lib)) (let* (... ... ... ... ...)
> (unless cmd ...) (unless ... ...) (let ... ...)))
> org-agenda-diary-entry()
> call-interactively(org-agenda-diary-entry)
>
> -Bernt
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-09 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-06 15:16 How to add entries to an org file, not diary Stephen Eglen
2009-11-06 17:02 ` Matt Lundin
2009-11-07 7:04 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-06 17:21 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-11-07 7:02 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-07 18:28 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-11-09 21:09 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-09 21:39 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-11-09 21:45 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-11-10 1:57 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-11-10 5:51 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-11-10 7:23 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-10 14:28 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
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