Re: Including current time in agenda

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:

> Hi Julien,
>
> On 06/12/10 03:03 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Julien Danjou wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 06 2010, suvayu ali wrote:
>>>> So far my attempts have been some variation of `<%%(format-time- 
>>>> string
>>>> "%H%M")>'  or `<%%(diary-entry-time ...)>'. Am I approaching this  
>>>> the
>>>> wrong way? Is this not supported by the diary library?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.
>>>
>>> (defun jd:org-current-time ()
>>> "Return current-time if date is today."
>>> (when (equal date (calendar-current-date))
>>>   (format-time-string "%H:%M Current time" (current-time))))
>>>
>>> And use %%(jd:org-current-time) in an entry.
>>
>> Wow, I overlooked this possibility.  Great.
>
> That is exactly the information I want to have, but this only  
> inserts an
> entry in today's agenda without any timestamps.

This does actually fully work for me, so something in your setup must
cause a problem.  Have you changed the configuration for the time grid?

- Carsten

>
> I think the problem, as Eric explained earlier, is that the diary sexp
> method only expects t or nil. So the string your function returns is
> treated as true and a corresponding entry is inserted in the agenda
> buffer for today. I think I would still need to insert the current  
> time
> in the time-grid as Carsten suggested earlier.
>
> A weakly related question, how does one check/debug diary sexps?
> Evaluating in the scratch buffer always gives me a "void variable  
> date"
> error. Replacing `date' with `(calendar-current-date)' however works
> fine in the scratch buffer.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions. :)
>
> -- 
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.

- Carsten