From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: manipulating the agenda from elisp?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:59:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC2053AF-6F16-4BD0-A2F7-4853E2A3470E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp0h2z80.fsf@norang.ca>
On 8.4.2011, at 05:34, Bernt Hansen 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?
>
> 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---
Also useful can be
(org-entry-properties marker)
Kind of slow for *many* entries, but perfectly good for a limited number...
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-08 16:59 UTC|newest]
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
2011-04-08 16:59 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-04-08 17:00 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-08 16:36 ` Bastien
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