From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to dynamically change org-clock-mode-line-total?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:01:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871si42zmj.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lggkfoo2.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>
On 2018-01-26, at 19:41, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to be able to dynamically switch between various settings of
>> org-clock-mode-line-total. To this end, I wrote the following code.
>>
>> (setq org-clock-mode-line-total-settings
>> '((current . "time spent in this chunk on the current task")
>> (today . "time spent today on the current task")
>> (all . "total time spent on the current task")))
>> (setq org-clock-mode-line-total-setting-number 0)
>>
>> (defun toggle-org-clock-mode-line-total-setting (setting-number)
>> "Toggle between org-clock-mode-line-total settings.
>> With a numeric argument, use setting SETTING-NUMBER."
>> (interactive "P")
>> (if (numberp setting-number)
>> (setq org-clock-mode-line-total-setting-number
>> (mod setting-number (length org-clock-mode-line-total-settings)))
>> (setq org-clock-mode-line-total-setting-number
>> (mod (1+ org-clock-mode-line-total-setting-number)
>> (length org-clock-mode-line-total-settings))))
>> (let ((org-clock-mode-line-total-setting (nth org-clock-mode-line-total-setting-number
>> org-clock-mode-line-total-settings)))
>> (setq org-clock-mode-line-total (car org-clock-mode-line-total-setting))
>> (org-clock-update-mode-line)
>> (message "Modeline shows %s."
>> (cdr org-clock-mode-line-total-setting))))
>>
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I checked that the variable
>> org-clock-mode-line-total is modified correctly, but even after saying
>> (org-clock-update-mode-line), nothing gets updated. Am I doing
>> something wrong?
>>
>
> AFAICT, org-clock-mode-line-total is not used by
> org-clock-update-mode-line at all. It may be that the name of the
> variable is misleading. The only place I see it used is
> org-clock-get-sum-start.
Thanks, that helped! It seems my function is now working (almost)
correctly, although it is now cargo cult programming - I don't really
understand what's going on here. I'll try to make sense of it tomorrow,
now it's too late;-).
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
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2018-01-26 11:23 How to dynamically change org-clock-mode-line-total? Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-26 18:41 ` Nick Dokos
2018-02-01 21:01 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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