Re: using org-mode and screen

From: "Andrew Hyatt" <andrew_hyatt@yahoo.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using org-mode and screen
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:20:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8389b600802031220w78b7d5b8oa7c7b88731a0e87e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C8A3326F-4E9A-4A19-BF14-90371DB97D97@science.uva.nl>

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Cool.  I'll send something along to you when I package it up...
On Feb 3, 2008 3:22 AM, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:

> Well, Andrew,
> if you write an extension, I will put it into the CONTRIB directory of the
> distribution.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Andrew Hyatt wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I use org-mode religiously these days.  I blogged about my use here (
> http://technical-dresese.blogspot.com/2007/08/org-mode.html) (please
> excuse the fact that when I wrote this I didn't know about the existing
> org-mode functionality to jump to the current clock).
>
> I generally have a problem of integrating the work I do in the shell with
> the tasks in org-mode.   Plus, I often need access to the shells at home I
> started from work.  I thought I'd combine these problems into a little
> org-mode extension that ties screen and org-mode together, via ansi-term.
>
> For these to work, you have to load ansi-term, which my hack is based on.
>
>
> If there's enough interest, I'll make a real .el file out of this.
>
> The general idea is that you start a task in which all the work will take
> place in a shell.  This usually is not a leaf-task for me, but usually the
> parent of a leaf task.  From a task in your org-file, M-x ash-org-screen
> will prompt for the name of a session.  Give it a name, and it will insert a
> link.  Open the link at any time to go the screen session containing your
> work!
>
> It works pretty well for me.  The only problem is that I often run emacs
> in a screen session itself, and I can never get scrolling to work right in
> screen-in-screen.
>
> (defun ash-org-screen-buffer-name (name)
>
>   "Returns the buffer name corresponding to the screen name given."
>
>   (concat "*screen " name "*"))
>
>
>
> (defun ash-org-screen-helper (name arg)
>
>   ;; Pick the name of the new buffer.
>
>   (let ((term-ansi-buffer-name (generate-new-buffer-name
> (ash-org-screen-buffer-name name))))
>     (setq term-ansi-buffer-name
>
>           (term-ansi-make-term term-ansi-buffer-name "/usr/bin/screen" nil
>
>                                arg name))
>
>
>
>     (set-buffer term-ansi-buffer-name)
>
>     (term-mode)
>
>     (term-char-mode)
>
>
>
>     (term-set-escape-char ?\C-x)
>
>     term-ansi-buffer-name))
>
>
>
> (defun ash-org-screen (name)
>
>   "Start a screen session with name"
>
>   (interactive "MScreen name: ")
>
>
>
>   (save-excursion
>
>     (ash-org-screen-helper name "-S"))
>
>   (insert-string (concat "[[screen:" name "]]")))
>
> And don't forget to add ("screen" . "elisp:(ash-org-goto-screen \"%s\")")
> to org-link-abbrev-alist.
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