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From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Including current time in agenda
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:10:37 +0100
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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
>> suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote=
:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> However, it would be nice if the agenda view could highlight the curre=
nt
>>>> time, much as it is possible to highlight the current day in a week
>>>> view, for instance... so this could be a good "feature request"! =A0I =
have
>>>> no idea how hard it would be to implement, mind you...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Would you have any idea where I could look to get started with
>>> implementing something like this?
>>
>> Sorry, not a clue. =A0All I can suggest is you look at org-agenda.el.
>
> Take a look at the function org-agenda-add-time-grid-maybe.
>
> There is a loop over the gridtimes. =A0Just before the
>
> =A0 (while (setq time (pop gridtimes))
>
> you could add something like
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(setq time (format-time-string "%H%M"))
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(push (org-format-agenda-item
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 nil "--- now --- now --- now --- now --- =
now --- " "" nil
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (concat (substring time 0 -2) ":" (substr=
ing time -2)))
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0new)
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(put-text-property
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 2 (length (car new)) 'face 'org-time-grid (car new))
>
> You may still play with the string to be used (here "now --- now --- ..."=
),
> you might want to add a different face, and the whole thing should be
> configurable
> with some variable - plenty of work and testing left for you :)
>

Thanks a lot Carsten! I'll post back to the list in case I succeed or
if I get stuck. :)

> - Carsten
>
>



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