From: "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: manipulating the agenda from elisp?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:30:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin=QYDtoexbxKPUpN7j4f+iPAipAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5451.1302238840@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org>
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Yup; I'd noticed those sections and noted them for future study.
Thanks.
Cheers.
Fil
On 8 April 2011 01:00, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> Filippo A. Salustri <salustri@ryerson.ca> wrote:
>
> > That's a good start! Thanks!
> > Cheers.
> > Fil
> >
> > On 7 April 2011 23:34, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> >
> > "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm thinking I might like to try some programming to do things to
> the
> > > agenda from an elisp function.
> > > I tried 'apropos agenda' but I didn't really see the kind of thing
> > > I'm looking for.
> > > What I'm hoping is for some way to iterate over each item in the
> > > agenda, and be able to access the content of the item in some
> > > structured way.
> > > I think I've seen functions that can pull info like TODO state and
> > > priority from the item under the cursor, so it's the iteration part
> > > that I'm really interested in.
> > >
> > > Any advice?
> >
>
> Be sure to read the "Hacking" appendix in the org manual, in particular
> "Using the property API" and "Using the mapping API".
>
> Nick
>
> > Hi Fil,
> >
> > I just found the B f code to execute an arbitrary function on marked
> > entries in the agenda. Maybe this will help?
> >
> > This following code visits the marked entries and just displays the
> > heading for the task.
> >
> > Mark multiple entries in the agenda with 'm' and then 'B f bh/test
> RET'
> > should display the heading of each marked task in the *Messages*
> buffer.
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > (defun bh/test ()
> > (interactive)
> > (let* ((marker (or (org-get-at-bol 'org-marker)
> > (org-agenda-error)))
> > (buffer (marker-buffer marker))
> > (pos (marker-position marker)))
> > (with-current-buffer buffer
> > (if (org-mode-p)
> > (save-excursion
> > (goto-char pos)
> > (message "%s" (nth 4 (org-heading-components))))))))
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > Depending on what you want to do you can either act on marked entries
> or
> > create a custom agenda skip function that can visit the tasks as the
> > agenda is built.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Bernt
> >
> > --
> > Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
> > Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
> > Ryerson University
> > 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
> > M5B 2K3, Canada
> > Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
> > Fax: 416/979-5265
> > Email: salustri@ryerson.ca
> > http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Alternatives:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
>
--
Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
Fax: 416/979-5265
Email: salustri@ryerson.ca
http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-08 2:05 manipulating the agenda from elisp? Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-08 3:34 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-04-08 3:53 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-08 5:00 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-08 11:30 ` Filippo A. Salustri [this message]
2011-04-08 16:59 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-08 17:00 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-08 16:36 ` Bastien
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