From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Add TODO from external app?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:15:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHa53uyPEY8gt+C8rk5osAi3UwghL9S2HGrg3W98QR_vjXfr0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhv5w76q.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Lawrence,
>
> Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've seen various things for interacting with org mode from external
>> apps. I found org-protocol, as well as a Mutt-to-org mode article.
>> Per the tittle, I want to be able to add new TODO items from, say, an
>> email or a PHP-based web page form. Is this just brute force external
>> file manipulation, i.e., e.g., my PHP code would simply open a .org
>> file and concatenate a properly formatted TODO line . . . or are
>> there more sophisticated ways of talking to emacs/org-mode from
>> without?
>
> I'm aware of such sophisticated ways, so for now simply open a .org
> file and write to it.
Emacs can be used as a scripting environment so if you can figure out
how to do it from elisp that might be a more sophisticated way.
That said, one of the beauties of org is that it's just plain text and
the format for a link is pretty darn simple. So I've always just
written to the file using the format.
--
In Christ,
Timmy V.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-16 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-01 15:41 Add TODO from external app? Lawrence Bottorff
2014-04-01 17:08 ` Anthony Lander
2014-04-02 3:07 ` Jeff Kowalski
2014-04-16 16:31 ` Bastien
2014-04-16 18:15 ` Tim Visher [this message]
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