From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Handling errors in command line exporting of agenda?
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 16:27:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft9jTLomPHBwd7N59oMGEreKCEvpEJm+KKjRkjUDiARCqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5653.1312837754@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net>
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>> > John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:59 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi John,
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:53 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >>> If you can use wildcards to specify your files, it might be possible by
>> >> >>> just one extra call to --eval. Something like this might work:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs --eval '(find-file-read-only "<wildcard>" t)' \
>> >> >>> --eval '(org-batch-agenda "w")' > ~/org/aux/agenda-export.txt
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hmm. That might work. Everything I pull from is in ~/org... could the
>> >> >> wildcard simply be "~/*.org"? Forgive my emacs wildcard ignorance.
>> >> >
>> >> > As far as I know, emacs accepts any wildcard that is valid in the shell.
>> >> > Since all your files are in ~/org, I would say try "~/org/*.org". The
>> >> > '~/org/' limits it to files within your org directory and the '*.org'[1]
>> >> > limits it to all files with a .org extension.
>> >
>> > Not true - if you want wildcards expanded, you have to do it yourself.
>> > E.g. C-h f file-expand-wildcards
>> >
>> > ,----
>> > | file-expand-wildcards is a compiled Lisp function in `files.el'.
>> > |
>> > | (file-expand-wildcards PATTERN &optional FULL)
>> > |
>> > | Expand wildcard pattern PATTERN.
>> > | This returns a list of file names which match the pattern.
>> > |
>> > | If PATTERN is written as an absolute file name,
>> > | the values are absolute also.
>> > |
>> > | If PATTERN is written as a relative file name, it is interpreted
>> > | relative to the current default directory, `default-directory'.
>> > | The file names returned are normally also relative to the current
>> > | default directory. However, if FULL is non-nil, they are absolute.
>> > `----
>> >
>>
>> Thanks. I tried with this based on this new information:
>>
>> ,---
>> | emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs --eval '(find-file-read-only \
>> | (file-expand-wildcards "~/org/*.org") t)' \
>> | --eval '(org-batch-agenda "e")' > ~/org/aux/agenda-export.txt
>> `---
>>
>> But I get this error:
>> ,---
>> | Wrong type argument: stringp, ("~/org/file1.org" "~/org/file2.org"... etc.)
>> `---
>>
>> I'm assuming something about how I used this is returning the wrong data type?
>
> Yes:
>
> | This returns a list of file names which match the pattern.
>
> so you have to loop over the list.
Ah. Got it. I have no elisp-fu to figure that out.
>
> Nick
>
> PS. BTW, don't take this as an endorsement of the course you are
> following. I don't have the time to think much about it, and I don't
> have a better solution, but personally, I would try to find another
> method: my knee-jerk reaction was to use emacsclient if emacs is running
> (if not, fall back to emacs --batch: since no other instance is running,
> you wouldn't have to deal with locking in that case). But that may or
> may not work - I just don't know.
>
Understood. I though the batch method would be great until all of this
happened. All I want is some kind of agenda "snapshot generator" so I
can have a visible reminder of that's going on always present, whether
emacs is running or not. I'm running equipment and out of my office
all the time. I don't live in emacs and don't even have it open unless
I'm taking notes actively. Thus, having it on my wallpaper would be my
ideal solution as a reminder of what I need to do.
John
>>
>> As another option, if I run this and just respond with "p" when I'm
>> asked about the lock (proceed), it works. I'm assuming that running
>> agenda won't mess up an unsaved file, but that it just accesses it for
>> todos and other information. If this is the case and an automatic
>> "proceed" is safe... is there a way to pass some sort of "--force"
>> option to emacs from the command line to override the lock when it's
>> encountered?
>>
>> I'm running through cron and thus am not able to manually respond to the prompt.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> > Nick
>> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Bummer, this is not working:
>> >>
>> >> ,---
>> >> | emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(find-file-read-only "~/org/*.org" t)' \
>> >> | -eval '(org-batch-agenda "e")' > ~/org/aux/agenda-export.txt
>> >> `---
>> >>
>> >> Do you see anything wrong with that? I guess I wonder what that first
>> >> part will do as perhaps the org-batch-agenda command is not
>> >> necessarily going to follow suit with the read-only command. As in,
>> >> does the first eval command affect anything that the org-batch-agenda
>> >> command is going to do? Is it trying to do the equivalent of opening
>> >> up all *.org files in read-only buffers and then run the agenda
>> >> export?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> John
>> >> > I hope this helps. :)
>> >> >
>> >> > Footnotes:
>> >> >
>> >> > [1] The asterisk (*) stands for zero or more characters. You can find
>> >> > more details in `man bash` under the heading "Pattern Matching".
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Suvayu
>> >> >
>> >> > Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
>
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2011-08-05 22:15 Handling errors in command line exporting of agenda? John Hendy
2011-08-05 23:34 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-05 23:35 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-08 18:12 ` John Hendy
2011-08-08 18:28 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-08 18:53 ` John Hendy
2011-08-08 18:59 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-08 19:48 ` John Hendy
2011-08-08 20:22 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-08 20:31 ` John Hendy
2011-08-08 20:33 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-08 20:37 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-08 20:54 ` John Hendy
2011-08-08 21:09 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-08 21:27 ` John Hendy [this message]
2011-08-08 21:30 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-08 22:17 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-08 21:46 ` suvayu ali
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2013-03-20 3:07 ` Nick Dokos
2013-03-20 6:44 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-20 12:54 ` Ista Zahn
2013-03-20 14:08 ` Nick Dokos
2013-03-20 14:28 ` Gary Oberbrunner
2013-03-20 17:21 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-20 7:08 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-20 15:38 ` John Hendy
2013-03-20 15:42 ` John Hendy
2013-03-20 16:06 ` Nick Dokos
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2013-03-20 16:12 ` Fwd: " Gary Oberbrunner
2013-03-20 17:08 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-20 17:25 ` Nick Dokos
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2013-03-20 18:15 ` Nick Dokos
2013-03-20 18:32 ` Ista Zahn
2013-03-20 18:39 ` Nick Dokos
2013-03-20 18:43 ` Andreas Röhler
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2013-03-20 19:53 ` Andreas Röhler
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2013-03-20 22:06 ` Ista Zahn
2013-03-20 18:42 ` Andreas Röhler
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2013-03-25 15:40 ` Eric Schulte
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2013-03-25 17:41 ` John Hendy
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2013-03-24 7:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-24 14:47 ` John Hendy
2013-03-24 15:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-24 16:58 ` Nick Dokos
2013-03-24 16:59 ` John Hendy
2013-03-24 18:41 ` Nick Dokos
2013-03-25 20:46 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-25 21:37 ` Eric Schulte
2013-03-26 6:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-26 12:32 ` Eric Schulte
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2012-11-01 18:17 ` John Hendy
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2012-08-27 4:04 ` Nick Dokos
2012-08-27 6:08 ` John Hendy
2012-08-28 8:49 ` Ian Barton
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2012-09-06 7:00 ` Jambunathan K
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2012-09-06 16:08 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
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2011-11-03 17:55 ` suvayu ali
2011-11-03 18:07 ` John Hendy
2011-11-04 17:29 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-04 19:29 ` suvayu ali
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2011-10-20 17:44 ` Nathan Neff
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2011-06-15 18:23 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-06-15 18:21 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-06-15 18:31 ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-15 18:59 ` Rainer M Krug
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2011-06-16 7:15 ` Rainer M Krug
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2011-06-16 8:22 ` Rainer M Krug
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2011-05-24 18:57 ` John Hendy
2011-05-24 19:25 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-24 19:31 ` John Hendy
2011-05-24 19:58 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-24 20:42 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-24 21:12 ` Nick Dokos
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2011-05-25 7:22 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-27 0:58 ` suvayu ali
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2011-05-27 16:17 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-27 16:50 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-05-27 17:37 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-27 18:30 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-05-27 21:25 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-28 7:17 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-05-28 10:14 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-05-28 15:21 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-28 18:10 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-06-01 18:50 ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-01 19:08 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-06-10 22:31 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-06-13 1:38 ` suvayu ali
2011-06-13 1:52 ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-13 2:40 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-06-13 3:29 ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-13 3:45 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-06-13 4:27 ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-13 4:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-06-13 5:29 ` Nick Dokos
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2011-05-24 20:06 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-24 19:42 ` Sebastien Vauban
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2010-08-21 21:11 ` John Hendy
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2010-08-21 23:17 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-23 14:22 ` John Hendy
2010-08-23 15:16 ` Nick Dokos
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