From: "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: manipulating the agenda from elisp?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:00:24 -0400 [thread overview]
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Thanks to everyone for the hints and tips. It's much appreciated.
Cheers.
Fil
On 8 April 2011 12:59, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8.4.2011, at 05:34, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>
> > "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm thinking I might like to try some programming to do things to the
> >> agenda from an elisp function.
> >> I tried 'apropos agenda' but I didn't really see the kind of thing
> >> I'm looking for.
> >> What I'm hoping is for some way to iterate over each item in the
> >> agenda, and be able to access the content of the item in some
> >> structured way.
> >> I think I've seen functions that can pull info like TODO state and
> >> priority from the item under the cursor, so it's the iteration part
> >> that I'm really interested in.
> >>
> >> Any advice?
> >
> > Hi Fil,
> >
> > I just found the B f code to execute an arbitrary function on marked
> > entries in the agenda. Maybe this will help?
> >
> > This following code visits the marked entries and just displays the
> > heading for the task.
> >
> > Mark multiple entries in the agenda with 'm' and then 'B f bh/test RET'
> > should display the heading of each marked task in the *Messages* buffer.
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > (defun bh/test ()
> > (interactive)
> > (let* ((marker (or (org-get-at-bol 'org-marker)
> > (org-agenda-error)))
> > (buffer (marker-buffer marker))
> > (pos (marker-position marker)))
> > (with-current-buffer buffer
> > (if (org-mode-p)
> > (save-excursion
> > (goto-char pos)
> > (message "%s" (nth 4 (org-heading-components))))))))
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Also useful can be
>
> (org-entry-properties marker)
>
> Kind of slow for *many* entries, but perfectly good for a limited number...
>
> - Carsten
>
>
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Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-08 2:05 manipulating the agenda from elisp? Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-08 3:34 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-04-08 3:53 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-08 5:00 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-08 11:30 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-08 16:59 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-08 17:00 ` Filippo A. Salustri [this message]
2011-04-08 16:36 ` Bastien
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