Fil

On 8 April 2011 01:00, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

Filippo A. Salustri <salustri@ryerson.ca> wrote:

> That's a good start! Thanks!
> Cheers.
> Fil
>
> On 7 April 2011 23:34, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> 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?
>

Be sure to read the "Hacking" appendix in the org manual, in particular
"Using the property API" and "Using the mapping API".

Nick

> 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---
>
> Depending on what you want to do you can either act on marked entries or
> create a custom agenda skip function that can visit the tasks as the
> agenda is built.
>
> HTH,
> Bernt
>
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> Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
> Ryerson University
> 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
> M5B 2K3, Canada
> Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
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Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
Fax: 416/979-5265
Email: salustri@ryerson.ca
http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/