From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to get all agenda TODOs programmatically?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:55:32 +0100
Message-ID: <877et5joln.fsf@mbork.pl>
References: <87376v36up.fsf@mbork.pl> <87a813rqdx.fsf@fastmail.fm>
	<87r2ue29j8.fsf@mbork.pl> <874lrasxu2.fsf@fastmail.fm>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Return-path: <emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34298)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <mbork@mbork.pl>) id 1eV0kz-0004nM-2V
	for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:55:53 -0500
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <mbork@mbork.pl>) id 1eV0kv-0006Ah-1i
	for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:55:53 -0500
Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:48798)
	by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <mbork@mbork.pl>) id 1eV0ku-00064E-QH
	for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:55:48 -0500
In-reply-to: <874lrasxu2.fsf@fastmail.fm>
List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/emacs-orgmode>,
	<mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/>
List-Post: <mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode>,
	<mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Sender: "Emacs-orgmode"
	<emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>


On 2017-10-07, at 18:54, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

>>> Finally, if you want simply to gather the todo data programmatically for
>>> further processing you can use the function org-map-entries.
>>
>> Thanks, that seems to be a good pointer.  I'll check it out.
>
> I think something like this would generate a such a list:
>
> (org-map-entries '(cons (nth 4 (org-heading-components))
>                          (list (org-get-deadline-time nil)))
>                   "/!TODO" 'agenda)
>
> Each item in the list would look something like this:
>
> ("Test" (23000 24400))
>
> You could then feed the list to whatever function you'd like.

Thanks again.  I played around with this for some time, but there is one
problem.  The agenda has a lot of settings, and replicating them with
org-map-entries turned out to be no fun.

Is there a way to plug into the agenda generating functions somehow to
get a Lisp list of agenda items?  I'm pretty sure that can be done -
org-super-agenda does something similar, after all - but I have no idea
why.  I could delve into agenda source myself, but is is quite hairy, so
maybe someone knows that already?

TIA,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski