* Custom todo-like thing in agenda?
@ 2014-08-16 2:15 Marcin Borkowski
2014-08-18 11:48 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-08-19 8:10 ` Joe Corneli
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2014-08-16 2:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org-mode mailing list
Hi all,
I was wondering whether something like this is possible. (Well, I'm
pretty sure it is, what I don't know whether I'm competent enough to
pull it off...) I'd like to be able to create a special agenda view
(or block in a "normal" agenda, this shouldn't make much difference,
since I may use block agenda instead of the usual C-c a a), in which
the lines would behave much like TODOs, with the exception that their
source would not be an Org file, but something else. In my case, it
would be a web todo-like service, with the possibility of extracting
info (like the deadline and such) using some command-line curl
invocation. Then, I could (rather easily, I guess) write some Elisp
to parse this info, and (here the hard part - at least for me -
begins) somehow insert it in the agenda buffer.
Of course, I could also just generate an "intermediate", temporary org
file, using curl -> parsing -> buffer -> save and include it in the
agenda. This would most probably speed up the process of generating
the agenda (which is a plus). However, I'd like another
functionality: I'd like to have the `t' command to send some
information to the web service I'm using.
Where should I start? Is there anything even remotely similar to what
I'm trying to achieve so that I could analyze its source, for
instance? Is the "intermediate org file" idea a reasonable one (the
more I think about it, the more I like it)?
If I decide to go the "intermediate-file" way, where could I hook into
the agenda generation, so that it is e.g. created only once each day
(to save time) or on explicit demand (this part is easy, I guess -
just some command to create it and a key in org-agenda-mode-map...)?
Should I advise org-agenda or is there some hook run *before* agenda
generation? Should I advise org-todo? (Just looking at its source
made my head spin...) Should I use some hooks for the todo behavior I
described? (I found org-trigger-hook and
org-after-todo-state-change-hook; frankly, I don't really get why both
are there...
Sorry for being a bit vague - this is still a concept in a preliminary
stage, and it's 4:07 am here;)...
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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* Re: Custom todo-like thing in agenda?
2014-08-16 2:15 Custom todo-like thing in agenda? Marcin Borkowski
@ 2014-08-18 11:48 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-08-18 11:56 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-19 8:10 ` Joe Corneli
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sebastien Vauban @ 2014-08-18 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ
Hello Marcin,
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> I was wondering whether something like this is possible. (Well, I'm
> pretty sure it is, what I don't know whether I'm competent enough to
> pull it off...) I'd like to be able to create a special agenda view
> (or block in a "normal" agenda, this shouldn't make much difference,
> since I may use block agenda instead of the usual C-c a a), in which
> the lines would behave much like TODOs, with the exception that their
> source would not be an Org file, but something else. In my case, it
> would be a web todo-like service, with the possibility of extracting
> info (like the deadline and such) using some command-line curl
> invocation. Then, I could (rather easily, I guess) write some Elisp
> to parse this info, and (here the hard part - at least for me -
> begins) somehow insert it in the agenda buffer.
>
> Of course, I could also just generate an "intermediate", temporary org
> file, using curl -> parsing -> buffer -> save and include it in the
> agenda. This would most probably speed up the process of generating
> the agenda (which is a plus). However, I'd like another
> functionality: I'd like to have the `t' command to send some
> information to the web service I'm using.
>
> Where should I start? Is there anything even remotely similar to what
> I'm trying to achieve so that I could analyze its source, for
> instance?
This seems interesting for sure.
I don't have more knowledge than you on such a topic; however, if I had
to really look into that, I'd start by taking a look at the following:
- `org-debbugs.el' package from Michael Albinus
- Bugzilla integration from John Wiegley
(see https://gist.github.com/jwiegley/472120)
HTH -- and please publish any step you make!
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
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* Re: Custom todo-like thing in agenda?
2014-08-18 11:48 ` Sebastien Vauban
@ 2014-08-18 11:56 ` Michael Albinus
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Michael Albinus @ 2014-08-18 11:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sebastien Vauban; +Cc: public-emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ
Sebastien Vauban <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>
writes:
> Hello Marcin,
Hi,
> - `org-debbugs.el' package from Michael Albinus
... which is meanwhile debbugs-org.el, part of the debbugs package on
GNU ELPA.
> Best regards,
> Seb
Best regards, Michael.
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* Re: Custom todo-like thing in agenda?
2014-08-16 2:15 Custom todo-like thing in agenda? Marcin Borkowski
2014-08-18 11:48 ` Sebastien Vauban
@ 2014-08-19 8:10 ` Joe Corneli
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Joe Corneli @ 2014-08-19 8:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marcin Borkowski; +Cc: Org-mode mailing list
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering whether something like this is possible. (Well, I'm
> pretty sure it is, what I don't know whether I'm competent enough to
> pull it off...) I'd like to be able to create a special agenda view
> (or block in a "normal" agenda, this shouldn't make much difference,
> since I may use block agenda instead of the usual C-c a a), in which
> the lines would behave much like TODOs, with the exception that their
> source would not be an Org file, but something else.
One possible idea would be to check out org-weather-metno
from https://github.com/ruediger/weather-metno-el
--
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I am located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is
concerned, I appear to be well outside the solar system."
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