From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Autoarchiving done entries
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:17:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2myw3fa2f.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709040100.l8410JUE004132@localhost.localdomain> (Xavier Maillard's message of "Tue\, 4 Sep 2007 03\:00\:19 +0200")
Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
> >> I use something that I thought your users might find handy. It causes
> >> all completed todo items to be automatically flushed to the archive
> >> whenever I save my todo file.
>
> How about having it auto-archive completed TODOs that were finished more
> than a configurable number of days ago? I'd find that pretty useful.
>
> Sounds like the expiration mechanism one can find into gnus. I like the
> idea.
Quite a nice idea. In fact... DONE.
John
(defvar org-my-archive-expiry-days 2
"The number of days after which a completed task should be auto-archived.
This can be 0 for immediate, or a floating point value.")
(defun org-my-archive-done-tasks ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-min))
(let ((done-regexp
(concat "\\* \\(" (regexp-opt org-done-keywords) "\\) "))
(state-regexp
(concat "- State \"\\(" (regexp-opt org-done-keywords)
"\\)\"\\s-*\\[\\([^]\n]+\\)\\]")))
(while (re-search-forward done-regexp nil t)
(let ((end (save-excursion
(outline-next-heading)
(point)))
begin)
(goto-char (line-beginning-position))
(setq begin (point))
(when (re-search-forward state-regexp end t)
(let* ((time-string (match-string 2))
(when-closed (org-parse-time-string time-string)))
(if (>= (time-to-number-of-days
(time-subtract (current-time)
(apply #'encode-time when-closed)))
org-my-archive-expiry-days)
(org-archive-subtree)))))))))
(defalias 'archive-done-tasks 'org-my-archive-done-tasks)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-04 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-02 7:30 Autoarchiving done entries Carsten Dominik
2007-09-03 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-03 2:27 ` David Emery
2007-09-04 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-04 2:17 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2007-09-04 7:02 ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-05 3:42 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-03 3:12 ` John Wiegley
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