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From: Mark Edgington <edgimar@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Arbitrary lisp functions in column-attributes
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:41:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMsBe8qhRvQmMui3HbPq8tX2s9V9POrxOpFh3-SA6KSs6VkYfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello all,

Since the formatting on my earlier post was bad, I'm re-posting this
with a bit more information:

I would really appreciate it if it were possible to specify an
arbitrary lisp function to process node-properties when creating a
column view.  Currently it is possible to have something like:

* Top node for columns view
   :PROPERTIES:
   :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %TAGS %PRIORITY %TODO
   :END:


But I'd like to be able to do something like:

   :COLUMNS: %ITEM{fn:process_item}(My Column Heading Name) %TAGS
%PRIORITY %TODO

which would pass the ITEM property's value as a single argument to the
process_item function.  The returned value/string of the function
would be what appears in the column view.

Of course one should also be able to use a lambda expression in place
of the function name.

Does this sound like something worth working on?  I would certainly
have various uses for such functionality, so I imagine it would be
useful to others as well.

I understand that there is the org-collector module, but this isn't
quite sufficient. Although it permits arbitrary lisp expressions, it
doesn't allow one to customize what's printed for the column-headers,
like a normal columnview block would allow.

Regards,

Mark

next             reply	other threads:[~2013-10-31 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-31 16:41 Mark Edgington [this message]
2013-10-31 17:56 ` Arbitrary lisp functions in column-attributes Aaron Ecay
2013-11-01 19:47   ` Mark Edgington
2013-11-03 22:38     ` Aaron Ecay
2013-11-04  3:09       ` Mark Edgington
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-28 17:00 Mark Edgington
2013-11-04 12:08 ` Bastien
2013-11-04 17:56   ` Mark Edgington
2013-11-05 21:06     ` Bastien
2013-11-06  5:02       ` Mark Edgington
2013-11-06  8:20         ` Bastien

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