Re: Task time limit

["Sebastjan Trepca" <trepca@gmail.com>]

> This is just 84 days old :)
Hehe, I guess I have a long queue ;)

Anyway, this new version works! :)

Thank you very much, this will be very useful. Btw, why not integrate
it with org-mode?

Sebastjan


> > Copied into my .emacs file, changed the time to 1 minute, clocked in a
> > task, waited a minute and nothing happened :)
>
> Are you activating appointments with (appt-activate) somewhere?
> What is the output of M-x appt-delete RET ?
>
> Maybe you can try with a more realistic value of 20 minutes and check if
> the appt appears somewhere (with-x appt-delete RET)
>
> BTW, here is the last version I use, letting you to delete
> "appointments" if you clock out (only in the org-mode buffer):
>
> ;; Make sure you have a sensible value for `appt-message-warning-time'
> (defvar bzg-org-clock-in-appt-delay 100
>   "Number of minutes for setting an appointment by clocking-in")
>
> (defun bzg-org-clock-in-add-appt (&optional n)
>   "Add an appointment for the Org entry at point in N minutes."
>   (interactive)
>   (save-excursion
>     (org-back-to-heading t)
>     (looking-at org-complex-heading-regexp)
>     (let* ((msg (match-string-no-properties 4))
>            (ct-time (decode-time))
>            (appt-min (+ (cadr ct-time)
>                         (or n bzg-org-clock-in-appt-delay)))
>            (appt-time ; define the time for the appointment
>             (progn (setf (cadr ct-time) appt-min) ct-time)))
>       (appt-add (format-time-string
>                  "%H:%M" (apply 'encode-time appt-time)) msg)
>       (if (interactive-p) (message "New appointment for %s" msg)))))
>
> (defadvice org-clock-in (after org-clock-in-add-appt activate)
>   "Add an appointment when clocking a task in."
>   (bzg-org-clock-in-add-appt))
>
> (defun bzg-org-clock-out-delete-appt nil
>   "When clocking out, delete any associated appointment."
>   (interactive)
>   (save-excursion
>     (org-back-to-heading t)
>     (looking-at org-complex-heading-regexp)
>     (let* ((msg (match-string-no-properties 4)))
>       (setq appt-time-msg-list
>             (delete nil
>                     (mapcar
>                      (lambda (appt)
>                        (if (not (string-match (regexp-quote msg)
>                                               (cadr appt))) appt))
>                      appt-time-msg-list)))
>       (appt-check))))
>
> (defadvice org-clock-out (before org-clock-out-delete-appt activate)
>   "Delete an appointment when clocking a task out."
>   (bzg-org-clock-out-delete-appt))
>
> --
> Bastien
>



-- 
Sebastjan