Re: C-c C-y in currently clocked header

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

On 2014-10-16, at 05:52, Daniel Clemente wrote:

>> >
>> > **** currently clocking
>> > 	 :CLOCK:
>> > 	 CLOCK: [2014-10-15 Wed 16:06]
>> > 	 CLOCK: [2014-10-13 Mon 11:23]--[2014-10-13 Mon 11:54] =>  0:31
>> > 	 :END:
>> >
>> > Now it's 16:26. If I put the cursor in 16:06 and press C-c C-y (org-evaluate-time-range), it would be useful to see in the minibuffer that the difference until now is 20 minutes.
>> 
>> Saluton!
>> 
>> Are you aware that you can set org-clock-mode-line-total to 'current?
>> (Personally, I only discovered it before a few hours, and set it to
>> 'today.)
>
> Yes, but you may want to see the current clocking duration independently of the settings of the current header. E.g. even if org-clock-mode-line-total==all, I want to see that my unclosed clocking amounts for 20 minutes.

Fair enough, I just wanted to make sure you knew about that variable.
(As I told, I wasn't aware of it until recently.  And the only reason I
learned about it, btw, was the thought "something like this /should/ be
possible", and it's Org-mode, after all, so obviously it was.

Notice that your proposed solution (while reasonable from the point of
view of how C-c C-y works) might be cumbersome – you'd need to go to the
place where you have the :LOGBOOK: drawer, open it, move to the first
line and hit C-c C-y.  A faster way to get the same information might be

C-c C-x C-o
[the info you wanted gets displayed in the echo area]
C-u C-c C-x C-i
1

if you don't mind splitting the clocking line in :LOGBOOK: into two.
(AFAIU, you also run into the risk of dropping one minute of clocking
time if you happen to do this at hh:mm:59 or something.)

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University