From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Stegemann Subject: Re: date marking with (org-diary) Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:06:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KciKb-0001Gm-4F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:07:09 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KciKY-0001FK-EL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:07:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42307 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KciKY-0001FA-88 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:07:06 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48021 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KciKX-00036u-Iz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:07:05 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KciKR-0001pF-Ec for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:06:59 +0000 Received: from london.zeitform.net ([146.140.213.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:06:59 +0000 Received: from ulf-news by london.zeitform.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:06:59 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Carsten, all, Carsten Dominik wrote: > On Aug 15, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote: [...] >> Including agenda items into the diary with '&%%(org-diary ...' is >> something I personally find pretty useless as the dates of those items >> are not fontified in the calendar. Using '%%(org-diary ...' would be >> fine but the entries to use (':scheduled', ':todo' aso) cannot be >> limited any further. This not only leads to unacceptable delays while >> calendar tries to fontify its buffer but also to a calendar with nearly >> everyday marked. My intent was to mark dates with appointments only (I >> have scheduled items, todos etc. nearly everyday so there's no need to >> mark them). In my case this means that (org-diary) would need to >> distinct between different TODO keywords. However, filtering based on >> tags or date/time formats would be fine, too. >> >> My question now is: Is there currently any way to achieve such a >> filtering with (org-diary)? And if not, are there any plans to enhance >> (org-diary) in that direction? [...] > this is not supported yet, and I have no concrete plans to implement > this. Marking entries in the calendar will always be unacceptably > slow, because the way the calendar/diary implements this is creating > the list of appointment for each of the 90+ days in the calendar > display. Even with filtering, this would be slow - basically one > would have to rewrite the code in the diary. okay, then I guess we have to live with it. [...] > Making use of the cursor position in the agenda > =============================================== [...] > * Picking a date for scheduling/deadline in the agenda Thank you for pointing this out. It's not quite what I was looking for but nevertheless it's a good workaround. Thanks for your help. Ulf