Re: Re: Ringing the alarm bell in orgmode

[Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> "Uwe Jochum" <uwe.jochum@uni-konstanz.de> writes:
>
>> Message from Nov 06 2007 (10:43):
>>>> But I cannot figure out how to set an alarm bell in Emacs for
>>>> scheduled stuff in orgmode.
>>>
>>> Did you try `org-agenda-to-appt'?  
>>
>> Bastien,
>>
>> thanks! I hadn't seen that in the manual... 
>
> One way to find information when browsing the manual in Info-mode is to
> press `i' (M-x Info-index) and enter the index key to look for.

Is it just me or are emacs info pages really a bit of a dog to search
through?

>
> Here you can look for "appointment reminders" or "appt.el" and it will
> open this page:
>
>   (info "(org)Weekly/Daily agenda")
>
> If you think this information should appear somewhere else, please
> suggestion other location(s).
>
>> It works, but I have to do it manually evry time I start orgmode or
>> every time I set a new appointment. Wouldn't it be good to make this
>> more automatic, i.e. somehow configurable by the user, for instance
>> like so: make it an option, so I can activate it globally in the
>> org-agenda options menu, in such a way that new appointments are
>> detected automatically and the bell rings without doing
>> org-agenda-to-appt by hand?
>
> Better let the user decide by himself when he wants `org-agenda-to-appt'
> to be called.  Two (non-exclusive) methods:
>
> 1. Add a hook to `before-save-hook' locally in `org-mode-hook' so that
>    saving an Org buffer will check for new appointments and add them to
>    the list of appointments:
>
>    (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
> 	     (lambda() (add-hook 'before-save-hook
> 		                 'org-agenda-to-appt t t)))
>
>    Note that pressing `s' in agenda buffers will save all agenda files
>    and run `org-agenda-to-appt' for each of them.
>
> 2. Add a custom key to call 'org-agenda-to-appt from an agenda buffer.
>
>    (org-defkey org-agenda-mode-map "\C-cA" 'org-agenda-to-appt)
>
> If you use one of these two methods, maybe it's better to silent
> `org-agenda-to-appt' since the repeated messages can be annoying.  
> I'll provide a way to do this.