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From: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>
To: David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wish list: sort tasks by age
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:58:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d48kipim.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a9gem4v.wl%maus.david@gmail.com> (David Maus's message of "Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:24:48 +0200")

David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com> writes:

> At Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:40:21 +0530,
> Manish wrote:
>> 
>> There are property and mapping APIs documented in the manual under
>> section on hacking.
>
> And what a fun it is to train my elisp skills. A first hack that seems to work:
>
> (defun dmj/org-assure-creation-property ()
>   "Process all orgmode entries of current buffer that do not
>   match a defined search string"
>   (interactive)
>   (org-map-entries 'dmj/org-insert-creation-property "+Creation_Time=\"\"")
> )
>
> (defun dmj/org-insert-creation-property ()
>   "Insert Creation-Property in Orgmode entry at point"
>   (let ((stamp (format-time-string (cdr org-time-stamp-formats) (current-time)))) 
>     (setq stamp (concat "[" (substring stamp 1 -1) "]"))
>     (org-entry-put (point-marker) "Creation_Time" stamp))
> )
>
> The first function (dmj/assure-creation-property) processes every
> entry in current buffer that match the search query Creation_Time="",
> i.e. entries with an empty or no Creation_Time property at all and
> calls dmj/org-insert-creation-property to insert a Creation_Time
> property with the current time into this entry.

Thanks for this David -- you might also have a look at the code in
org-expiry.el.  If there is anything there that you want to improve,
please do so!

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30 20:04 wish list: sort tasks by age Christopher League
     [not found] ` <87tz1wzy1o.wl%maus.david@gmail.com>
2009-07-01  8:10   ` Manish
2009-07-01 10:24     ` David Maus
2009-07-01 11:58       ` Bastien [this message]
2009-07-01 13:26         ` Christopher League
2009-07-01 14:46           ` Bastien
2009-07-01 11:57 ` Bastien

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