Thanks to everyone for the hints and tips. It's much appreciated.
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On 8.4.2011, at 05:34, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm thinking I might like to try some programming to do things to the
>> agenda from an elisp function.
>> I tried 'apropos agenda' but I didn't really see the kind of thing
>> I'm looking for.
>> What I'm hoping is for some way to iterate over each item in the
>> agenda, and be able to access the content of the item in some
>> structured way.
>> I think I've seen functions that can pull info like TODO state and
>> priority from the item under the cursor, so it's the iteration part
>> that I'm really interested in.
>>
>> Any advice?
>
> Hi Fil,
>
> I just found the B f code to execute an arbitrary function on marked
> entries in the agenda. Maybe this will help?
>
> This following code visits the marked entries and just displays the
> heading for the task.
>
> Mark multiple entries in the agenda with 'm' and then 'B f bh/test RET'
> should display the heading of each marked task in the *Messages* buffer.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun bh/test ()
> (interactive)
> (let* ((marker (or (org-get-at-bol 'org-marker)
> (org-agenda-error)))
> (buffer (marker-buffer marker))
> (pos (marker-position marker)))
> (with-current-buffer buffer
> (if (org-mode-p)
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char pos)
> (message "%s" (nth 4 (org-heading-components))))))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Also useful can be
Kind of slow for *many* entries, but perfectly good for a limited number...
- Carsten