Re: Re: clock based context settings

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: clock based context settings
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:42:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BCBB01D7-E06F-4CC5-AB13-64A8720CEB19@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hj6imm$hnm$1@ger.gmane.org>

Hi Richard,

I do not see a general-enough use case for this.  You can, of course,
as mentioned by David) use the existing hooks for something like
this.  Here is an example (untested)

(add-hook 'org-clock-in-hook
	  (lambda ()
	    (let ((code (org-entry-get nil "CLOCKINEXEC")))
	      (when (and code (string-match "\\S-" code))
		(eval (read code))))))

HTH

- Carsten

On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Richard Riley wrote:

> David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com> writes:
>
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>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> At Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:16:08 +0100,
>> Richard Riley wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to be able to execute arbitrary elisp when I clock in  
>>> or
>>> out of a certain org.item This would be very, very useful for  
>>> defining
>>> variables or even keystrokes on a "per project" basis. Ideally it  
>>> would
>>> work using inheritance so if an item does not have something then  
>>> the
>>> project or file level values would be used.
>>>
>>> e.g at the file level:
>>>
>>> #+CLOCKINEXEC: (setq curr-url "project1.com")
>>>
>>> Or at the org item level
>>>
>>> ** touch up picture of the org logo
>>> :PROPERTIES:
>>> :CLOCKINEXEC:   (setq curr-url "org-mode.com/images")
>>> :END:
>>>
>>> Would others think this might be useful or is there another way/ 
>>> approach
>>> to achieve something similar?
>>
>> You could use the org-clock-hooks `org-clock-in-hook',
>> `org-clock-out-hook' and `org-clock-cancel-hook' in combination  
>> with a
>> function that checks for the desired conditions and sets the  
>> variables
>> accordingly.
>
> No variables or conditions. Just exec the block.
>
>>
>> A question that came in my mind: What happens if you clock out or
>> cancel a clock? Are the variables kept or set to a default value? Or
>> to the value they had before clocking in?
>
> Neither. I had thought to keep it easy - globals/whatever set by both
> clockin and clockout - its up to you to ensure that the elisp in your
> in/out code properties "do it right". They are nothing more than  
> single
> elisp snippets. Probably a progn sequence or equivalent But then I  
> dont
> know too much about things like local/global scope in elisp. ie can I
> create some sort of specific "object" and tack these value on and have
> them all just vanish when clockout occurs?  Even then I could see that
> clock in/out code (:CLOCKOUTEXEC:) would probably set things globally
> frequently.
>
> Limited experience with elisp and how it all hangs together makes it
> hard for me to pinpoint what might be the best approach.
>
> e.g globals set (if you so want) or can we provide something with more
> localisation on a per task basis to complement/simplify the code?  ie
> perhaps CLOCKINEXEC is "(progn (org-with-current-task-set-var "url"
> "ibm.com")(setq myGlobal nil)) and elsewhere a hot key invokes
> (browse-url (org-with-current-task-get "url")). I dont know to be  
> honest
> what the "elisp/emacs" paradigm/approach is to things like that.
>
> Just chewing the cud at this stage;)
>
> -- 
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>
>
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- Carsten