Re: Feature Request

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature Request
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:46:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e8aed769bb343fd1e5a4d66f688e2f0@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070208160549.GB16624@odin.demosthenes.org>

On Feb 8, 2007, at 17:05, Russell Adams wrote:

> I started tinkering, this being my first macro.

Looks very good already.

>
> I can't say its behaving as I expected.
>
> (defun my-daily-insertion

Every funtion needs an argument list, even if it is the empty one:

(defun my-daily-insertion ()

>   (interactive)
>   (beginning-of-buffer)

Correct, but better use  (goto-char (point-min)), has fewer side 
effects.

>   (re-search-forward "DAILY-INSERTION-POINT")
>   (forward-line -1)
>   (insert "*** " (format-time-string "%Y%m%d" (current-time)) )
> )

Looks all fine to me.

- Carsten

>
> I'd welcome input.
>
> Russell
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:09:21AM -0500, Russell Adams wrote:
>> The way I'm reading that macro, it'll prompt me for a date, etc. That
>> would be useful for creating a range of dates in a tree if I needed to
>> define a time period.
>>
>> I guess I didn't explain myself clearly. I wanted to generate those
>> dated headings under the "Daily" heading for the current date
>> only. Just a shortcut so I can hit a single key to add todo items for
>> today, and have them added to my chronological "Daily" tree.
>>
>> I've just found that I'm managing TODO and agenda scheduled items
>> well, but I didn't have a good way to handle all the little
>> miscellaneous items that pop up. No reason to spend time filing them
>> elsewhere, just a date would suffice. It also helps keep the tree
>> sparse when searching.
>>
>> Russell
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:37:27PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 26, 2006, at 1:58, Russell Adams wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've gotten in a habit of storing my todo's in the following format,
>>>> and I'm curious if there's a way to automate this...
>>>>
>>>> * Daily
>>>> ** 2006-09
>>>> *** 2006-09-25
>>>> **** TODO Item One
>>>>
>>>> I don't always have an item for each day, its sparsely populated, 
>>>> but
>>>> I'd like to automate making the first few headings.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions? Even a macro? ;]
>>>
>>> The cl macro "loop" is your friend....
>>>
>>> (defun my-date-tree (y1 y2)
>>>   (interactive "nFirst year: \nnLast year: ")
>>>   (require 'calendar)
>>>   (loop for y from y1 to y2 do
>>>     (message "Doing year %d..." y)
>>>     (insert "* " (format "%4d" y) "\n")
>>>     (loop for m from 1 to 12 do
>>>       (insert "** " (format "%4d-%02d" y m) "\n")
>>>       (loop for d from 1 to 31 do
>>>         (when (= m (car
>>> 		    (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute
>>> 		     (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
>>> 		      (list m d y)))))
>>>           (insert "*** " (format "%4d-%02d-%02d" y m d) "\n"))))))
>>>
>>> Hope this helps
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
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