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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Martin Owen <martinowenuk@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Advice on writing a refile to heading function?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:45:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft829fDddNSnXt5-81d4cD-OXi2sNWMULd3NOOWToHhJKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADrADkkszhO-3nxq8fp9ZYfd-o3-UNw4bYaLaaFjGps2XkPW2g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Martin Owen <martinowenuk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing a Pomodoro minor mode on top of org-mode. I'm planning to
> maintain
> an Activity Inventory with estimates against each item and move items into
> a
> Todo Today heading each day as I progress through them. The approach is
> based on
> the Pomodoro approach suggested in this book:
> http://pragprog.com/book/snfocus/pomodoro-technique-illustrated.
>
> My problem is, as I plan to do a lot of refiling, I wanted to write a
> function
> that will take a heading regular expression and refile the subtree at
> point underneath
> it. I am finding this to be difficult, and am wondering if anybody can
> offer me
> any advice? Is it even possible to refile a subtree to a point using Emacs
> Lisp?
>
>
Based on your example file, you're trying to refile "Todo Today" items into
a date tree of sorts below for progress tracking? Is that the gist? Just
want to make sure I (and the list) understand what you're trying to move
and to where (i.e. elaborate on "point underneath it").


Thanks!
John


> I've posted my code here: https://gist.github.com/mowen/5225169 My
> approach uses the org-cut-subtree and org-paste-subtree functions, but it
> doesn't work in all situations. You can see this from the
> org-pomodoro-refile-up test which is currently failing.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Martin
>

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-29 12:51 Advice on writing a refile to heading function? Martin Owen
2013-03-29 14:45 ` John Hendy [this message]
2013-03-29 23:01   ` Martin Owen

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