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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatically insert inactive timestamps
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:42:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hfkxitd.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83884.1291812788@iu.edu> (Andrew J. Korty's message of "Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:53:08 -0500")

"Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu> writes:

> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>
>> (add-hook 'org-insert-heading-hook 'bh/insert-heading-inactive-timestamp)
>
> Using org-insert-heading-hook is more elegant than my way, but I only
> want timestamps on TODO entries, so I use
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defadvice org-insert-todo-heading (after ajk/org-time-stamp-new-headline activate
>                                          compile)
>  (let ((previous-location (point)))    ; not sure why save-excursion doesn't work
>    (org-insert-time-stamp (current-time) t t
>                           (concat "\n " (make-string (org-current-level) ? )))
>        (goto-char previous-location)))
> #+end_src
>
> Here's my vote for a new hook, org-insert-todo-heading-hook. :-)
>

FWIW, I use the todo state hook to insert an inactive timestamp when
changing to an active todo state (provided a timestamp doesn't already
exist):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun my-org-todo-insert-timestamp ()
  "Insert an inactive timestamp if none exists."
  (when (string-match (regexp-opt (append my-org-next-actions my-org-projects)) state)
    (let ((ts (org-entry-get nil "TIMESTAMP_IA")))
      (unless ts
	(save-excursion
	  (org-back-to-heading)
	  (org-show-entry)
	  (next-line 1)
	  (unless (or (looking-at (concat "\\s-+" org-deadline-time-regexp))
		      (looking-at (concat "\\s-+" org-scheduled-time-regexp)))
	    (previous-line 1))
	  (end-of-line)
	  (org-insert-time-stamp (current-time) t t "\n")
	  (indent-for-tab-command))))))

;; Add a time stamp to the entry if an active todo state is added
;; and there is no timestamp
(add-hook 'org-after-todo-state-change-hook 'my-org-todo-insert-timestamp)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then to use this hook when calling org-insert-todo-heading, I set the
following:

(setq org-treat-insert-todo-heading-as-state-change t)

Best,
Matt

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-08  0:24 Automatically insert inactive timestamps Julian Burgos
2010-12-08  2:06 ` Russell Adams
2010-12-08  3:01 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-12-08 12:53   ` Andrew J. Korty
2010-12-08 15:10     ` Nick Dokos
2010-12-08 17:25       ` Andrew J. Korty
2010-12-08 17:42     ` Matt Lundin [this message]

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