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From: equal.moon0346@fastmail.com
To: "Ihor Radchenko" <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can I use org-add-note with emacsclient?
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:35:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b42ad111-88a3-4c6f-abe1-cb864bb8aed7@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875y0mnydn.fsf@localhost>

On Mon, Dec 25, 2023, at 14:35, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> equal.moon0346@fastmail.com writes:
>
>> I'm trying to figure out how to start a note (C-c C-z) on the currently clocked task from emacsclient. Here's what I have so far:
>> ...
>> emacsclient -s test -nw --eval '(progn (org-clock-goto) (org-add-note))'
>>
>> This seems to have no effect. Oddly, if I paste this into M-:, it works fine. I've tried a number of things with e.g. plain capture templates that run the above code :after-finalize, using call-interactively, etc. After a cursory reading through the info manual on interactivity I find I'm still a bit lost. Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong and hopefully point me to the right manual page to read on this?
>
> `org-add-note' is implemented a bit awkwardly using post-command-hook,
> which makes it work only interactively.
> The hook does not trigger when you use --eval. That's why you are not
> seeing the note buffer after running the above shell command.
>
> What you can do is manually call the function used to raise the note
> buffer:
>
> emacsclient -nw --eval '(progn (org-clock-goto) (org-add-note) 
> (org-add-log-note))'

Thanks, this works! I'm curious as to why though. Shouldn't something like call-interactively solve this problem too? I'm thinking it has something to do with how the command loop works that I don't understand.

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-24  3:50 How can I use org-add-note with emacsclient? equal.moon0346
2023-12-25 14:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-12-26 16:35   ` equal.moon0346 [this message]

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