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Re: [Orgmode] How to add entries to an org file, not diary
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Bernt Hansen |
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Re: [Orgmode] How to add entries to an org file, not diary |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:39:37 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> If I'm visting an agenda (C-c a a) buffer, and want to add a diary
>> entry
>> for a particular day, I can use org-agenda-diary-entry, bound to 'i'.
>> This inserts an entry in my diary file.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is add the entry instead to an org file,
>> e.g. 'agenda.org' where I currently store all diary-like entries. Is
>> that functionality available? (Am trying to wean myself off diary
>> files, after many years of using it...)
>
> If you get the latest Org version from the git server, you can
> configure the variable `org-agenda-diary-file' to point to your
> "diary.org" file or any other Org-mode file. This should be a
> file dedicated for general appointments, anniversaries
> etc.
>
> Then `i' in the agenda will create new entries in that file.
> Simple entries (day and block) will be placed into an outline
> tree that is based on dates: Top-level years, level 2 months,
> level 3 days[1]. I have always wanted to have something
> like this, so that it will be easy to archive old stuff! So thanks
> for giving me a reason to finally make it.
>
> Right now I have implemented
>
> i d for day entries,
> i b for blocks,
> i a for anniversaries (which will be collected under a special
> heading "Anniversaries" in your `diary.org'
> i j To jump to the cursor date in the date tree
>
> What else would be useful?
>
> The same command will also be bound to the `i' key in the
> calendar (calendar restart required), so you can make the same
> kind of entries from the calendar - very convenient at times,
> in particular for long blocks.
>
> The basics of these new commands seem to work OK, but it
> is quite possible that I have not yet thought this through
> fully. Let me know what I am missing, so that we can tweak it.
This is really cool! :) Thanks for implementing the block dates!
I just tried it with anniversaries and get the following error
GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-11-09
on raven, modified by Debian
Org-mode version 6.32trans (release_6.32b.142.g01b1)
My version of org-mode has the clocking commit reverted
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-date-display-form)
(diary-date-display-form)
(let ((calendar-date-display-form ...)) (insert (format
"%%%%(diary-anniversary %s) %s" ... text)))
(cond ((eq type ...) (or ... ...) (outline-next-heading)
(org-back-over-empty-lines) (backward-char 1) (insert "\n") (let ... ...)) ((eq
type ...) (require ...) (org-datetree-find-date-create d1)
(org-agenda-insert-diary-make-new-entry text) (org-insert-time-stamp ...)
(end-of-line 0)) ((eq type ...) (if ... ...) (require ...)
(org-datetree-find-date-create d1) (org-agenda-insert-diary-make-new-entry
text) (org-insert-time-stamp ...) (insert "--") (org-insert-time-stamp ...)
(end-of-line 0)))
(let ((cw ...)) (org-switch-to-buffer-other-window (find-file-noselect
org-agenda-diary-file)) (widen) (goto-char (point-min)) (cond (... ... ... ...
... ... ...) (... ... ... ... ... ...) (... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...))
(if (string-match "\\S-" text) (progn ... ...) (message "Please finish entry
here")))
org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file(anniversary "foobar" (10 13
2009))
(cond ((equal char 100) (setq text ...)
(org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file ... text d1)) ((equal char 97)
(setq d1 ...) (setq text ...) (org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file
... text d1)) ((equal char 98) (setq text ...)
(org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file ... text d1 d2)) ((equal char
106) (org-switch-to-buffer-other-window ...) (org-datetree-find-date-create d1)
(org-reveal t)) (t (error "Invalid selection character `%c'" char)))
(let (d1 d2 char (text "")) (if (equal ... "*Calendar*") (setq d1 ... d2 ...)
(setq d1 ... d2 ...)) (message "Diary entry: [d]ay [a]nniversary [b]lock [j]ump
to date tree") (setq char (read-char-exclusive)) (cond (... ... ...) (... ...
... ...) (... ... ...) (... ... ... ...) (t ...)))
org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file()
(if (not (eq org-agenda-diary-file ...)) (org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file)
(require (quote diary-lib)) (let* (... ... ... ... ...) (unless cmd ...)
(unless ... ...) (let ... ...)))
org-agenda-diary-entry()
call-interactively(org-agenda-diary-entry)
-Bernt