Yup; I'd noticed those sections and noted them for future study. Thanks. Cheers. Fil On 8 April 2011 01:00, Nick Dokos wrote: > Filippo A. Salustri wrote: > > > That's a good start! Thanks! > > Cheers. > > Fil > > > > On 7 April 2011 23:34, Bernt Hansen wrote: > > > > "Filippo A. Salustri" 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/