application switching hook

* application switching hook
@ 2009-06-02 19:04 Austin Frank
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From: Austin Frank @ 2009-06-02 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all--

I'd like to extend my time tracking to some activities outside of emacs.
More specifically, I'd like to be prompted to log a note in the active
time clock block whenever I change to an application outside of emacs.
I'm trying to be honest with myself about why I move from one
application to another (the difference between "needed a reference from
Zotero" and "got bored so went to check the score of the baseball
game").

In Mac OS X, I switch applications using the Command-Tab key sequence.
I suspect that the solution to my problem involves writing some
applescript that fires a call to emacsclient every time Command-Tab is
pressed, or perhaps every time the focused application changes.

I think the relevant command line call will be something like

  emacsclient -e "(progn (org-clock-goto) (org-add-note))"

But maybe other people have better ideas for this part of the solution.
Perhaps calling a remember template with the current clock as its target
(using whichever function drives `C-2 C-c C-c' in the remember buffer)
would be better?

Unfortunately, I know nothing of applescript and haven't turned up any
promising leads in web searches.  I know I've seen some applescript
posted to this list before, so someone out there must know something
about it.  Any chance one of you folks has an idea about how to
implement this functionality?

Alternatively, does emacs have something like an
`emacs-loses-focus-hook'?  I don't see anything using `M-x apropos' or
`M-x apropos-variable' for "focus", but perhaps I'm looking in the wrong
place.

Thanks for any comments,
/au

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Austin Frank
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