Hi everyone,
I use org-mode religiously these days. I blogged about my use here (
http://technical-dresese.blogspot.com/2007/08/org-mode.html) (please excuse
the fact that when I wrote this I didn't know about the existing org-mode
functionality to jump to the current clock).
I generally have a problem of integrating the work I do in the shell with
the tasks in org-mode. Plus, I often need access to the shells at home I
started from work. I thought I'd combine these problems into a little
org-mode extension that ties screen and org-mode together, via ansi-term.
For these to work, you have to load ansi-term, which my hack is based on.
If there's enough interest, I'll make a real .el file out of this.
The general idea is that you start a task in which all the work will take
place in a shell. This usually is not a leaf-task for me, but usually the
parent of a leaf task. From a task in your org-file, M-x ash-org-screen
will prompt for the name of a session. Give it a name, and it will insert a
link. Open the link at any time to go the screen session containing your
work!
It works pretty well for me. The only problem is that I often run emacs in
a screen session itself, and I can never get scrolling to work right in
screen-in-screen.
(defun ash-org-screen-buffer-name (name)
"Returns the buffer name corresponding to the screen name given."
(concat "*screen " name "*"))
(defun ash-org-screen-helper (name arg)
;; Pick the name of the new buffer.
(let ((term-ansi-buffer-name (generate-new-buffer-name
(ash-org-screen-buffer-name name))))
(setq term-ansi-buffer-name
(term-ansi-make-term term-ansi-buffer-name "/usr/bin/screen" nil
arg name))
(set-buffer term-ansi-buffer-name)
(term-mode)
(term-char-mode)
(term-set-escape-char ?\C-x)
term-ansi-buffer-name))
(defun ash-org-screen (name)
"Start a screen session with name"
(interactive "MScreen name: ")
(save-excursion
(ash-org-screen-helper name "-S"))
(insert-string (concat "[[screen:" name "]]")))
And don't forget to add ("screen" . "elisp:(ash-org-goto-screen \"%s\")") to
org-link-abbrev-alist.