Re: Headline generation as in diary?

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> How about:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
> index 78fe13303..9049b3a42 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
> @@ -5772,7 +5772,7 @@ displayed in agenda view."
>  		    r (replace-match "" nil nil r)))
>  	    (if (string-match "\\S-" r)
>  		(setq txt r)
> -	      (setq txt "SEXP entry returned empty string"))
> +	      (setq txt (org-no-properties (org-get-heading t t t t))))
>  	    (setq txt (org-agenda-format-item extra txt level category tags 'time))
>  	    (org-add-props txt props 'org-marker marker
>  			   'date date 'todo-state todo-state

Thanks for looking at this.

Ok - That gives me a headline in the agenda, but a wrong one (more or
less, a random headline in the same file, at a seemingly unrelated
location).

> (Iʼm guessing yet-another-config-variable is unnecessary)

I think so toom yes.

>     >> You can use them in timestamps as well, which is useful for
>     >> weird time
>     >> periods
>     >> 
>     >> **  Just before midnight on a few days 23:00-24:00
>     >> <%%(org-block 2020 8 31 2020 9 2)>
>     >> <%%(org-block 2020 9 10 2020 9 12)>
>
>     Michael> But it seems those time stamps are not allowed to span
>     Michael> multiple lines
>     Michael> (at least I don't get it work).  Seems org doesn't
>     Michael> recognize them as
>     Michael> such?
>
> Itʼs working fine for me in org-9.3.6. Note that I have my default
> agenda view set to a fortnight, and those dates span two different
> weeks.

I didn't mean time spans.  What doesn't work for me are time _stamps_
that span multiple text lines.


Thanks,

Michael.