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From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Including current time in agenda
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 23:34:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Tb7xvR66xFB+LR6qPQMR40_JSE21pPOC-K55T@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ei9ulky8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 06 2010, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> So far my attempts have been some variation of `<%%(format-time-string
>>> "%H%M")>'  or `<%%(diary-entry-time ...)>'. Am I approaching this the
>>
>>> wrong way? Is this not supported by the diary library?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.
>>
>> (defun jd:org-current-time ()
>>   "Return current-time if date is today."
>>   (when (equal date (calendar-current-date))
>>     (format-time-string "%H:%M Current time" (current-time))))
>>
>> And use %%(jd:org-current-time) in an entry.
>>
>> I think this is what you want?
>
> Julien,
>
> many thanks for proving me wrong!  This is great, especially if I have
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> *** current time
>    :PROPERTIES:
>    :CATEGORY: Now ——————►
>    :END:
> %%(jd:org-current-time)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> and change your "Current time" string to "◄——————".  Now all I have to
> do is get rid of the ":" put after the category string and I have a nice
> symmetric time indicator!
>

I actually tried to set the text properties for the string instead,
but looks like org-agenda is ignoring that.

(defun jd:org-current-time ()
  "Return current-time if date is today."
  (when (equal date (calendar-current-date))
    (propertize (format-time-string "%H:%M Current time") 'font-lock-face
		'(:weight bold :foreground "DodgerBlue4" :background "snow"))))

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-06  6:49 Including current time in agenda suvayu ali
2010-12-06 11:47 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-06 11:55   ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 12:08     ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-06 12:27       ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 13:00       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 13:10         ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 13:38 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-06 14:03   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 14:30     ` Suvayu Ali
2010-12-06 14:45       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 14:53         ` Suvayu Ali
2010-12-06 14:56           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 14:59       ` Rémi Vanicat
2010-12-06 15:10         ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 15:13       ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-06 15:28         ` Suvayu Ali
2010-12-06 15:39   ` Matt Lundin
2010-12-12  8:30     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-12 17:54       ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-12 21:31         ` Matt Lundin
2011-01-07 19:31           ` Erik Butz
2011-01-07 23:27             ` suvayu ali
2011-01-07 23:46               ` Erik Butz
2011-01-08  0:04                 ` suvayu ali
2011-01-08 14:46                   ` Erik Butz
2010-12-12 18:19       ` suvayu ali
2010-12-06 19:27   ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-06 22:34     ` suvayu ali [this message]
2010-12-08 23:46       ` [PATCH] sexp can set its face (was: Including current time in agenda) Łukasz Stelmach
2010-12-12  7:44         ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-13  0:14         ` suvayu ali

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