Re: Re: Ringing the alarm bell in orgmode

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

"Uwe Jochum" <uwe.jochum@uni-konstanz.de> writes:

> Message from Nov 06 2007 (10:43):
>>> But I cannot figure out how to set an alarm bell in Emacs for
>>> scheduled stuff in orgmode.
>>
>> Did you try `org-agenda-to-appt'?  
>
> Bastien,
>
> thanks! I hadn't seen that in the manual... 

One way to find information when browsing the manual in Info-mode is to
press `i' (M-x Info-index) and enter the index key to look for.

Here you can look for "appointment reminders" or "appt.el" and it will
open this page:

  (info "(org)Weekly/Daily agenda")

If you think this information should appear somewhere else, please
suggestion other location(s).

> It works, but I have to do it manually evry time I start orgmode or
> every time I set a new appointment. Wouldn't it be good to make this
> more automatic, i.e. somehow configurable by the user, for instance
> like so: make it an option, so I can activate it globally in the
> org-agenda options menu, in such a way that new appointments are
> detected automatically and the bell rings without doing
> org-agenda-to-appt by hand?

Better let the user decide by himself when he wants `org-agenda-to-appt'
to be called.  Two (non-exclusive) methods:

1. Add a hook to `before-save-hook' locally in `org-mode-hook' so that
   saving an Org buffer will check for new appointments and add them to
   the list of appointments:

   (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
	     (lambda() (add-hook 'before-save-hook
		                 'org-agenda-to-appt t t)))

   Note that pressing `s' in agenda buffers will save all agenda files
   and run `org-agenda-to-appt' for each of them.

2. Add a custom key to call 'org-agenda-to-appt from an agenda buffer.

   (org-defkey org-agenda-mode-map "\C-cA" 'org-agenda-to-appt)

If you use one of these two methods, maybe it's better to silent
`org-agenda-to-appt' since the repeated messages can be annoying.  
I'll provide a way to do this.

-- 
Bastien