Re: Re: Bugs and suggestions for Org 4.70

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Apr 13, 2007, at 14:10, Bastien wrote:

>
>>> - It would be nice if we had some feedback in the modeline telling us
>>> what project / headline is currently clocked in -- suggestion stolen
>>> from the planner mailing list...
>>
>> I like this idea.  However, it would probably take up a lot of space 
>> in
>> the mode line.....  What do you suggest as the content of the label?  
>> I
>> guess the elapsed time since the clock was started, and some info 
>> about
>> the item.
>
> Yes.  Since headlines styles heavily depends on users' habits, why not 
> use
> a new format (like `org-email-link-description-format') ?
>
> org-clocked-in-task-modeline-format examples :
>
> "%e - %.15h" : shows elapsed time and the first 15 characters of the
>                headline (excluding TODO/tags keywords)
>
> "%e - [%s%d] %t %p %h %T"
>              : shows elapsed time, scheduled/dealine state, TODO 
> keyword,
>                priority, full headline and tags.
>
> "%c (%e)"    : only shows parent category elapsed time
>
> Formatting options :
>
> %e   elapsed time
> %f   file
> %c   category
> %t   todo state
> %p   priority
> %h   headline field
> %T   tags
> %s   scheduled (default: "S" for scheduled)
> %d   deadline (default: "D" for deadline)

Since there is always only one project that is being clocked,
this seems a little overkill to me.  Maybe a command to jump
to the item being clocked would be more useful.

- Carsten