From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Ringing the alarm bell in orgmode
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:55:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wqejf3v5po.fsf@home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87640f8nd4.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Tue\, 06 Nov 2007 14\:22\:47 +0000")
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 8:23 Ringing the alarm bell in orgmode Uwe Jochum
2007-11-06 8:48 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2007-11-06 14:37 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 9:43 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 10:23 ` Uwe Jochum
2007-11-06 14:22 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 13:55 ` Richard G Riley [this message]
2007-11-06 15:41 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 15:16 ` William Henney
2007-11-06 15:34 ` Chris Leyon
2007-11-06 15:35 ` Richard G Riley
2007-11-06 16:43 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2007-11-06 16:47 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 16:58 ` William Henney
[not found] ` <uzlxrfphs.fsf@uni-konstanz.de>
2007-11-06 15:31 ` Bastien
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