Re: Multiple agenda buffers at git@github.com:7max/org-mode.git

[Max Mikhanosha <max@openchat.com>]

I realize that I may have too many, my initial approach was to start
with some obvious one, then test and keep adding to the list.

But the bugs that shows up are hard to reproduce, and subtle, and it
was slow going, and I was sure I'm missing some.

So I went the other direction, and made a list of vars by grepping
org-agenda.el for "(defvar ....", and tested again, and it was easier
to eliminate the variables from the list, since any variables that
caused problems usually throw error (due to global value being NIL),
instead of doing something subtly wrong that is hard to notice.

At Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:50:22 +0000, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> Hi Max,
> 
> how did you select the variables that should become buffer-local?
> You might have too many in your list, for example org-last-heading-marker...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> On 25.1.2012, at 21:45, Max Mikhanosha wrote:
> 
> > I had put my initial implementation of multiple agenda buffers and
> > sticky agenda support on git@github.com:7max/org-mode.git branch
> > multiple-agenda-buffers.
> > 
> > To enable, use M-x org-toggle-sticky-agenda
> > 
> > In order to take full advantage of the sticky agenda, you need to give
> > your various agendas different buffer names, you can do it by
> > including `org-agenda-buffer-name' into the list of bound variables in
> > `org-agenda-custom-commands'
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
> >      '(("a" "Agenda and NEXT (priority)"
> >         ((agenda ""
> >                  ((org-agenda-span 'day)))
> >          (tags-todo "/!NEXT"
> >                     ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Next Tasks")
> >                      (org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options t)
> >                      (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t)
> >                      (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines t)
> >                      (org-tags-match-list-sublevels t)
> >                      (org-agenda-sorting-strategy
> >                       '(priority-down category-keep)))))
> >         ((org-agenda-buffer-name "*Agenda*")))
> >        ("t" "TODO entries"
> >         todo ""
> >         ((org-agenda-buffer-name "*Todo List*")))))
> > 
> > 
> > When sticky agenda is enabled, most of org-agenda Emacs variables
> > become buffer local, and org-agenda-quit is changed to bury the buffer
> > instead of killing it. Correspondingly org-agenda will show previously
> > buried buffer if it exists, instead of re-generating it.
> > 
> > This allows user to have many "mini-agendas" and switch between them
> > rapidly
> > 
> > I would appreciate any bug-reports about things not working, and of
> > course patches or fixes for them. The most likely cause of any
> > breakage is that `org-agenda-local-vars' list needs adjusting and/or
> > fixing.
> > 
> > Regards
> >  Max
>