Hi Eric, On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I have been attempting this for a few days now. I want to have an >> entry for the current time in today's agenda. That way I can keep >> track of how much time I have left until my next appointment. >> >> So far what ever I try, it shows up as an entry without a timestamp as >> shown below. >> >> Monday 6 December 2010 W49 >> 8:00...... ---------------- >> 10:00...... ---------------- >> 12:00...... ---------------- >> 14:00...... ---------------- >> thoughts: 15:30-17:30 W' meeting >> 16:00...... ---------------- >> 18:00...... ---------------- >> 20:00...... ---------------- >> thoughts: Currrent time >> thoughts: TODO Hostel Room Change >> >> >> So far my attempts have been some variation of `<%%(format-time-string >> "%H%M")>' or `<%%(diary-entry-time ...)>'. Am I approaching this the >> wrong way? Is this not supported by the diary library? >> >> Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions. > > If I understand things correctly, Emacs Diary expressions simply return > t or nil to indicate whether an entry should be displayed for the > particular date. They do not return a string and, more to the point, > they do not take the time into account. In Emacs Diary, the time has to > be part of the text outside the sexp. >
Thank you for clarifying that. I was incorrectly expecting it returns a text. Should have checked more closely. > However, it would be nice if the agenda view could highlight the current > 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"! I 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? > -- > : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 > : using Org-mode version 7.3 (release_7.3.211.g6388.dirty) > Thanks a lot for your response. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
