Re: Including current time in agenda

[suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

Hi Eric,

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been attempting this for a few days now. I want to have an
>> entry for the current time in today's agenda. That way I can keep
>> track of how much time I have left until my next appointment.
>>
>> So far what ever I try, it shows up as an entry without a timestamp as
>> shown below.
>>
>> Monday      6 December 2010 W49
>>                8:00...... ----------------
>>               10:00...... ----------------
>>               12:00...... ----------------
>>               14:00...... ----------------
>>   thoughts:   15:30-17:30 W' meeting
>>               16:00...... ----------------
>>               18:00...... ----------------
>>               20:00...... ----------------
>>   thoughts:   Currrent time
>>   thoughts:   TODO Hostel Room Change
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> If I understand things correctly, Emacs Diary expressions simply return
> t or nil to indicate whether an entry should be displayed for the
> particular date.  They do not return a string and, more to the point,
> they do not take the time into account.  In Emacs Diary, the time has to
> be part of the text outside the sexp.
>

Thank you for clarifying that. I was incorrectly expecting it returns
a text. Should have checked more closely.

> However, it would be nice if the agenda view could highlight the current
> time, much as it is possible to highlight the current day in a week
> view, for instance... so this could be a good "feature request"!  I have
> no idea how hard it would be to implement, mind you...
>

Would you have any idea where I could look to get started with
implementing something like this?

> --
> : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1
> : using Org-mode version 7.3 (release_7.3.211.g6388.dirty)
>

Thanks a lot for your response.

-- 
Suvayu

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