From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
Cc: emacs-org <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [org-feed] Remember the Milk - active timestamps
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:27:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <964C7E01-5A9D-405C-8DBD-2E9E9C619FE7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a0glyru.fsf@rub.de>
On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:33 PM, Sven Bretfeld wrote:
> Hi Carsten
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> how is the appointment time visible in the RTM stream? Are they
>> using
>> a special tag for it or so?
>
> They have a really weak management for dates. Everything that exceeds
> the due-time by more than one week, is awkward to insert (especially
> on
> a phone) and very buggy and unstable. Yes, they have a special tag
> inside the stream, but in the meantime I think it's not worth worrying
> how to grab and convert it.
>
> Now, I solved the case by inserting a couple of digits directly into
> the
> headline and change it with an org-feed-after-adding-hook:
>
> ,----RTM
> |
> | This is a date @@10030411:15-12:45
> |
> `----
>
> It will be converted into:
>
> ,----Orgmode
> |
> | ** This is a date
> | <2010-03-04 11:15-12:45>
> |
> `----
>
> by this function:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun rtm-dateconvert ()
> (interactive)
> (beginning-of-buffer)
> (while (re-search-forward "@@\\([0-9][0-9]\\)\\([0-9][0-9]\\)\\
> ([0-9][0-9]\\)\\([0-9]*[0-9]+:[0-9][0-9]\\)\\
> ([-]*[0-9]*[0-9]*[:]*[0-9]*[0-9]*\\)" nil t)
> (replace-match "\n <20\\1-\\2-\\3 \\4\\5>" nil nil))
> (save-buffer "mygtd.org"))
>
> (add-hook 'org-feed-after-adding-hook 'rtm-dateconvert)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
This is a good solution! I think one could to a lot more smart
reading in this way....
>
> So far it works. But it's not very elegant to jump to the beginning of
> the buffer in the first step. I couldn't find out how to restrict
> re-search-forward to only the current line. If that is possible, one
> could get rid of the necessity of the @@.
Why only the current line? Are you sure that you are not dealing with
a multi-line text?
Anyway, yes you can:
(goto-char (point-at-bol))
(looking-at ".*?AndThenYourRegexpHere")
HTH
- Carsten
>
> There are still some other problems in using RTM with org-feed. I will
> start a new thread on them. If they can be solved, I can absolutely
> recommend RTM for orgmode users who own an Android phone (there is a
> RTM
> app in the Market), especially since Reqall is not yet available in
> most
> parts of Europe and OrgMobile for Android is not yet fully usable.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sven
>
>
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- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 21:10 [org-feed] Remember the Milk - active timestamps Sven Bretfeld
2010-03-04 16:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-04 18:33 ` Sven Bretfeld
2010-03-04 20:27 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-03-04 18:33 ` Sven Bretfeld
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