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From: Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Moving and resetting attachments
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 13:20:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ogot9c$aqj$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lw05njr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

Am 01.06.2017 um 06:39 schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:
> Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> two questions about moving attachments to org files:
>>
>> C-c C-a a attaches a file and stores it under ./data/ID/...
>>
>> Using C-c C-a s I can set another directory a attachment directory.
>> Can I make org-mode move the content of the previous
>> directory to the new directory?
>>
>> Can I "reset" the attachment directory, i.e. like C-c C-a s but
>> :ATTACH_DIR: is deleted and the contents of the previous
>> directory are moved to ./data/ID?
>>
>> Rationale:
>>
>> I use org mode as a document management system. Create an entry Papers -> Interpolation -> ECCOMAS. I know create an
>> custom attachment directory ECCOMAS, next to the org file as long as I
>> am working on that paper. When it's finished, I
>> want to move the contents of the ECCOMAS attachment directory to ./data/ID/.
> 
> It doesn't work this way now, but I think it makes sense, and I would
> also find that helpful. `org-attach-set-directory' could be changed to
> check for existing files, and offer to move them. There's no
> `org-attach-unset-directory', but I suppose there could be.

Hey,

I hacked together some lines of lisp that should achieve that. It's my first non-trivial (from my point of trivialness)
piece of code. I'm open for any suggestions:

(defun flo/org-attach-move ()
  (interactive)
  (when (org-attach-dir)
    (let ((target (read-string "Move attachments to: ")) ; read-directory-name here?
          (attach-dir (org-attach-dir)))

      (if (string= target "")
          (progn
            (org-entry-delete nil "ATTACH_DIR")
            (setq target (org-attach-dir t)))
        (progn
          (org-entry-put nil "ATTACH_DIR" target)
          (make-directory target t))
        )

      (unless (string= target attach-dir)
        (copy-directory attach-dir target t nil t)
        (message "Deleting %s" attach-dir)
        ;; (shell-command "rm -rf %s" attach-dir)
        )
      )
    )
  )


Best,
Florian

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-01 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-31 12:29 Moving and resetting attachments Florian Lindner
2017-06-01  4:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-01 11:20   ` Florian Lindner [this message]
2017-06-02  9:19     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-02  9:51       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-02 12:34         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-02 14:34           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-02 16:51             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-04  7:59               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-04 23:25                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-06 13:56                   ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-07  7:52       ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-10  7:36         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-13  8:49           ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-13 21:41             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-20 18:12               ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-24  8:53                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-28 14:57                   ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-13  8:53           ` Florian Lindner

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