Re: Including current time in agenda

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

Hi Julien,

On 06/12/10 03:03 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Julien Danjou wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 06 2010, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> So far my attempts have been some variation of `<%%(format-time-string
>>> "%H%M")>'  or `<%%(diary-entry-time ...)>'. Am I approaching this the
>>> wrong way? Is this not supported by the diary library?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.
>>
>> (defun jd:org-current-time ()
>>  "Return current-time if date is today."
>>  (when (equal date (calendar-current-date))
>>    (format-time-string "%H:%M Current time" (current-time))))
>>
>> And use %%(jd:org-current-time) in an entry.
>
> Wow, I overlooked this possibility.  Great.

That is exactly the information I want to have, but this only inserts an
entry in today's agenda without any timestamps.

I think the problem, as Eric explained earlier, is that the diary sexp
method only expects t or nil. So the string your function returns is
treated as true and a corresponding entry is inserted in the agenda
buffer for today. I think I would still need to insert the current time
in the time-grid as Carsten suggested earlier.

A weakly related question, how does one check/debug diary sexps?
Evaluating in the scratch buffer always gives me a "void variable date"
error. Replacing `date' with `(calendar-current-date)' however works
fine in the scratch buffer.

Thanks for all the suggestions. :)

-- 
Suvayu

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