From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: fuzzy matching of parameters
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 08:55:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28trywi45.fsf@Johns-MacBook-Air.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec8js7xhAbbb6qFPX92EieikkjaZuOS5TOK3M2ia5O50TA@mail.gmail.com>
I would not do that if I were you. The fuzzy match might inadvertently
send feed back to the wrong student. I would fall back to some manual
attachment if you do not find an exact match, e.g. using helm or ivy to
select the files for attachment, perhaps sorted and matched using their
fuzzy algorithms.
Matt Price writes:
> I have just done something I'm very excited about. Given a directory name
> (the variable ~assignment~ in this case) and a list of student info, search
> through the directory for files whose names contain the student names, and
> attach those to newly created subtrees.
>
> Before now, manually attaching those files has been a real pain, so it's
> great to have this automated! However, sometimes the name I have on file
> doesn't quite match the submitted name. In particular, my Chinese students
> usually have an English first name that we use in class, and a
> transliterated Chinese personal name that is used in official documents
> (like my class list). I would like to first try to match the whole name,
> and if that fails, attempt some kind of "fuzzy" match of the name. I'm not
> sure the best way to go about it.
>
> Any suggestions? Here is, I think, the relevant section of code (I can post
> the wider context if that would be helpful). Thanks!
>
> Matt
>
> (mapcar (lambda (stu)
> (let ((name (car stu))
> (email (cdr stu))
> )
> (insert (format "\n** %s" name))
> (org-todo 'todo)
> (org-set-property "MAIL_TO" email)
> (org-set-property "MAIL_SUBJECT"
> (format "Comments on %s
> Assignment (%s)"
>
> (mwp-org-get-parent-headline) name ))
> ;; try to attach files, if possible
> (condition-case nil
> (let* (( afiles (directory-files
> assignment nil name)))
> (if afiles
> (dolist (f afiles)
> (org-attach-attach (concat
> (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name)) assignment "/" f) ))
> (message "No files match name of %s"
> name)))
> (error (message "Unable to attach file
> belonging to student")))
> (save-excursion
> (org-mark-subtree)
> (org-cycle nil))
> )) students)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-02 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-02 2:11 fuzzy matching of parameters Matt Price
2016-12-02 3:01 ` Charles C. Berry
2016-12-02 13:55 ` John Kitchin [this message]
2016-12-03 17:06 ` Matt Price
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