Bug: Feature request: make length of history in org-clock-select-task customizable [8.2.7c (8.2.7c-51-g896fa6-elpaplus @ c:/Users/clange/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140825/)]

Bug: Feature request: make length of history in org-clock-select-task customizable [8.2.7c (8.2.7c-51-g896fa6-elpaplus @ c:/Users/clange/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140825/)]

[Christoph LANGE]

Dear developers,

I would like to ask you to consider the following feature request: to 
make the length of the history of recent tasks in org-clock-select-task 
customizable.  If I understand correctly, this should be as 
straightforward as replacing the three occurrences of the hard-coded 
number 10 in this defun by a defcustom'd variable.  Maybe call it 
org-clock-select-max-task-items – I tried to find something that's 
similar to recentf-max-menu-items.

Background: I use org-mode for logging all of my work time and sometimes 
switch between too many tasks.

Cheers, and many thanks in advance,

Christoph

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200)
  of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN
Package: Org-mode version 8.2.7c (8.2.7c-51-g896fa6-elpaplus @ 
c:/Users/clange/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140825/)


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Re: Bug: Feature request: make length of history in org-clock-select-task customizable [8.2.7c (8.2.7c-51-g896fa6-elpaplus @ c:/Users/clange/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140825/)]

[Subhan Michael Tindall]

Try 
(setq org-clock-history-length <n>) 
In your .emacs
I believe the max on the list length is 35, but I could be wrong.
If I'm understanding your question correctly this should address  your issue.

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> Behalf Of Christoph LANGE
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> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: [O] Bug: Feature request: make length of history in org-clock-select-
> task customizable [8.2.7c (8.2.7c-51-g896fa6-elpaplus @
> c:/Users/clange/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140825/)]
> 
> Dear developers,
> 
> I would like to ask you to consider the following feature request: to make the
> length of the history of recent tasks in org-clock-select-task customizable.  If I
> understand correctly, this should be as straightforward as replacing the three
> occurrences of the hard-coded number 10 in this defun by a defcustom'd
> variable.  Maybe call it org-clock-select-max-task-items – I tried to find
> something that's similar to recentf-max-menu-items.
> 
> Background: I use org-mode for logging all of my work time and sometimes
> switch between too many tasks.
> 
> Cheers, and many thanks in advance,
> 
> Christoph
> 
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200)
>   of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN
> Package: Org-mode version 8.2.7c (8.2.7c-51-g896fa6-elpaplus @
> c:/Users/clange/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140825/)
> 
> 
> --
> Christoph Lange, Enterprise Information Systems Department
> Applied Computer Science @ University of Bonn; Fraunhofer IAIS
> http://langec.wordpress.com/about, Skype duke4701
> 
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Re: Bug: Feature request: make length of history in org-clock-select-task customizable [8.2.7c (8.2.7c-51-g896fa6-elpaplus @ c:/Users/clange/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20140825/)]

[Christoph LANGE]

On 2014-08-28 18:03, Subhan Michael Tindall wrote:
 > Try
 > (setq org-clock-history-length <n>)
 > In your .emacs

Thank you very much, that's great!  I had no idea, because …

* the documentation of org-clock-goto and org-clock-in (which display 
the history given universal-argument) didn't refer to this,

* org-clock-select-task does not obviously refer to 
org-clock-history-length,

* I was misled by the hard-coded 10 in org-clock-select-task, which, as 
I now understand, defines the boundary between digits and letters to 
number tasks.

 > I believe the max on the list length is 35, but I could be wrong.

I think you are right about this, given the initial code in 
org-clock-history-push, and the limit to 9 digits (why actually not use 
"0" for the most recent one?) and 26 alphabetic letters.

Cheers,

Christoph

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Christoph Lange, Enterprise Information Systems Department
Applied Computer Science @ University of Bonn; Fraunhofer IAIS
http://langec.wordpress.com/about, Skype duke4701

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