Re: How to add entries to an org file, not diary

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> If I'm visting an agenda (C-c a a) buffer, and want to add a diary
>> entry
>> for a particular day, I can use org-agenda-diary-entry, bound to 'i'.
>> This inserts an entry in my diary file.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is add the entry instead to an org file,
>> e.g. 'agenda.org' where I currently store all diary-like entries.  Is
>> that functionality available?  (Am trying to wean myself off diary
>> files, after many years of using it...)
>
> If you get the latest Org version from the git server, you can
> configure the variable `org-agenda-diary-file' to point to your
> "diary.org" file or any other Org-mode file.  This should be a
> file dedicated for general appointments, anniversaries
> etc.
>
> Then `i' in the agenda will create new entries in that file.
> Simple entries (day and block) will be placed into an outline
> tree that is based on dates:  Top-level years, level 2 months,
> level 3 days[1].  I have always wanted to have something
> like this, so that it will be easy to archive old stuff!  So thanks
> for giving me a reason to finally make it.
>
> Right now I have implemented
>
> i d   for day entries,
> i b   for blocks,
> i a   for anniversaries (which will be collected under a special
>       heading "Anniversaries" in your `diary.org'
> i j   To jump to the cursor date in the date tree
>
> What else would be useful?
>
> The same command will also be bound to the `i' key in the
> calendar (calendar restart required), so you can make the same
> kind of entries from the calendar - very convenient at times,
> in particular for long blocks.
>
> The basics of these new commands seem to work OK, but it
> is quite possible that I have not yet thought this through
> fully.  Let me know what I am missing, so that we can tweak it.

This is really cool! :)  Thanks for implementing the block dates!

I just tried it with anniversaries and get the following error

GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-11-09
on raven, modified by Debian
Org-mode version 6.32trans (release_6.32b.142.g01b1)

My version of org-mode has the clocking commit reverted

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-date-display-form)
  (diary-date-display-form)
  (let ((calendar-date-display-form ...)) (insert (format "%%%%(diary-anniversary %s) %s" ... text)))
  (cond ((eq type ...) (or ... ...) (outline-next-heading) (org-back-over-empty-lines) (backward-char 1) (insert "\n") (let ... ...)) ((eq type ...) (require ...) (org-datetree-find-date-create d1) (org-agenda-insert-diary-make-new-entry text) (org-insert-time-stamp ...) (end-of-line 0)) ((eq type ...) (if ... ...) (require ...) (org-datetree-find-date-create d1) (org-agenda-insert-diary-make-new-entry text) (org-insert-time-stamp ...) (insert "--") (org-insert-time-stamp ...) (end-of-line 0)))
  (let ((cw ...)) (org-switch-to-buffer-other-window (find-file-noselect org-agenda-diary-file)) (widen) (goto-char (point-min)) (cond (... ... ... ... ... ... ...) (... ... ... ... ... ...) (... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...)) (if (string-match "\\S-" text) (progn ... ...) (message "Please finish entry here")))
  org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file(anniversary "foobar" (10 13 2009))
  (cond ((equal char 100) (setq text ...) (org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file ... text d1)) ((equal char 97) (setq d1 ...) (setq text ...) (org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file ... text d1)) ((equal char 98) (setq text ...) (org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file ... text d1 d2)) ((equal char 106) (org-switch-to-buffer-other-window ...) (org-datetree-find-date-create d1) (org-reveal t)) (t (error "Invalid selection character `%c'" char)))
  (let (d1 d2 char (text "")) (if (equal ... "*Calendar*") (setq d1 ... d2 ...) (setq d1 ... d2 ...)) (message "Diary entry: [d]ay [a]nniversary [b]lock [j]ump to date tree") (setq char (read-char-exclusive)) (cond (... ... ...) (... ... ... ...) (... ... ...) (... ... ... ...) (t ...)))
  org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file()
  (if (not (eq org-agenda-diary-file ...)) (org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file) (require (quote diary-lib)) (let* (... ... ... ... ...) (unless cmd ...) (unless ... ...) (let ... ...)))
  org-agenda-diary-entry()
  call-interactively(org-agenda-diary-entry)

-Bernt