From: Steve Hafner <steve.b.hafner@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Executing functions remotely from agenda
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:12:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=dtMyBrHw7c-oLJ2v0cx1bikhUvFk4C_LgFU8b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp3vwnte.fsf@fastmail.fm>
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> Steve Hafner <steve.b.hafner@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
>>> Steve Hafner <steve.b.hafner@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I've written a few elisp functions to edit entries, and I would like
>>>> to be able to execute them remotely from the agenda; but it seems no
>>>> hooks or other facilities exist to do so. Am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>
>>> (info "(org) Using the mapping API")
>>>
>>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-mapping-API.html
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>
>> OK, I'm able to run elisp commands remotely from an agenda buffer
>> using org-map-entries; but what I'd really like to do is specifically
>> target the current item, and I don't see what expression for MATCH
>> would only match the current item. By "current item" I mean the entry
>> corresponding to the line that point is on within the agenda buffer.
>
> Ah. I see. I misread "remotely from agenda" as "not in the agenda".
>
> You can jump to the current entry in a number of ways. There is the
> function org-agenda-goto. Within the agenda, you can also get the
> markers for the current entry with:
>
> (org-get-at-bol 'org-marker)
> (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker)
>
> You can use these markers (usually with save-excursion or
> save-window-excursion) to jump to the function and alter it. The code of
> org-agenda-todo provides a nice example of this.
Thanks for the directions! The org-agenda-todo code with modifications
does the job I wanted.
>
> It would be nice if this functionality were abstracted a bit in
> org-agenda.el. Right now, each of the org-agenda editing commands
> (org-agenda-todo, org-agenda-set-tags, org-agenda-priority,
> org-agenda-add-note, etc.) reimplements the same behavior.
>
Indeed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-05 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-05 2:26 Executing functions remotely from agenda Steve Hafner
2011-01-05 4:22 ` Matt Lundin
2011-01-05 6:56 ` Steve Hafner
2011-01-05 12:13 ` Matt Lundin
2011-01-05 18:12 ` Steve Hafner [this message]
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