Re: [Orgmode] clocking in and out in remember buffers - seems to be buggy

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:

I use to clock in a task when beginning to write in a remember buffer.
For example when receive a phone call from a customer I pop up a remember template and the first thing I do is to start the clock.

- it would be very nice to have a way to do this automatically, maybe a certain variable ...

You could use remember-mode-hook to run org-clock-in, maybe depending

on some string that you find and remove in the buffer.  The string could

be part of the template, for example CLOCK-IN:

(add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'my-start-clock-if-needed)

(defun my-start-clock-if-needed ()

  (save-excursion

    (goto-char (point-min))

    (when (re-search-forward " *CLOCK-IN *" nil t)

       (replace-match "")

       (org-clock-in))))

After writing down notes and doing some stuff, documenting further in the clocked in remember buffer, I finally want to save and close the remember template.
After for example "C-u C-c C-c" I am asked if I want to clock out...

The query happens when the buffer gets killed - by then it is too late, the

content of the buffer has already been filed away.

I will (in 5.20) have a check if the clock is running in the remember buffer

before allowing you it file it.  This will not be an automatic clock-out

because that would lead to trouble with possibly adding a note about

clocking out.  But it will stop you from exiting without clocking out first.

- Carsten