From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: clock and WAIT
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:47:25 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7cdbe31001151017k6b0f68dr565da215dce4eb1d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hiq7he$b63$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Richard Riley wrote:
> Manish writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Richard Riley wrote:
>>>
>>> When I put a task into certain states it would be nice to stop the clock
>>> automatically. It is done for DONE at the moment.
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to make
>>>
>>> org-clock-out-when-done
>>>
>>> a list of state names rather than (or in addition to) a bool?
>>>
>>> That way I could make it DONE, WAIT so when I cycle the state to WAIT (eg for
>>> an email confirming something works) the clock is stopped automatically?
>>>
>>> Or is there another mechanism for this? Or is the mantra more to keep
>>> stop/start manual until the obvious state for "DONE"?
>>>
>>
>> Not for a list of states but it can be done for at least one state.
>> See variable org-clock-out-switch-to-state.
>>
>> HTH
>
> Thats a different issue. That determines which state the task is
> automatically switched to when you actually remember to clock out.
You are right. I misunderstood. Sorry.
>
> I'm not sure I would find that useful since there are multiple states I
> might be in with and without the clock running and I wouldnt want stopping the
> clock to reset the state.
How about this?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-hook 'org-after-todo-state-change-hook
'(lambda ()
;; clock out when switching to WAIT
;; based on Eric Fraga's recent post to org-mode list
(if (string= state "WAIT") (org-clock-out t))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Not sure if this is exactly what you need but guess it's a starting point..
--
Manish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-15 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-15 11:22 clock and WAIT Richard Riley
2010-01-15 15:47 ` Manish
2010-01-15 17:10 ` Richard Riley
2010-01-15 18:17 ` Manish [this message]
2010-01-15 17:16 ` Carsten Dominik
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