Re: Date-centric Clocktable

[Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.orgmode@olafdietsche.de>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
>
>> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>> 
>>>> Why don't you just use a simple (perl/python/...) script to collect your
>>>> data? Here's a quick hack in perl:
>>> 
>>> That was my plan if I was not able to do from within Org. To me it would
>>> be a lot faster than hacking something together in emacs-lisp,
>>> unfortunately. 
>> 
>> If you insist on elisp, maybe something along these (untested) lines
>> might work:
>> 
>> ---8<--- cut here ---
[snip]
>> --- cut here --->8---
>
> this is great!

Thank you :-)

> Maybe we should make this a little builtin function,
> with a format specification to create the lines.
> What is still missing, I think, is some sorting by time would.
> Basically, use
>
>   (org-float-time
>    (apply 'encode-time (save-match-data (org-parse-time-string (match-string 1)))))
>
> after the successful search for a clock string to get a floating
> point number representing the starting time, collect the 
> line you are creating into an alist with the times and sort
> them before inserting into the buffer.

I don't know, wether adding small special purpose functions adds real
value, since we already have "org-map-entries". Maybe adding generic
functions to org or showing lisp snippets at worg would be more useful.

Regards, Olaf