Re: [O] missing appointments
Nick Dokos wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand how it works, but I've added it (plus some > debugging) and we'll see how it goes: is the "24:01" a relative time or > an absolute time? I can't make heads or tails of the run-at-time doc. I went through the code: it's an absolute time and it represents one minute past midnight of the next day (my original "00:01" was one minute past midnight of the current day, i.e. some time in the past). > And what reschedules it for next time? Doesn't the timer fire once (if REPEAT > is nil) and then it's done? Still not clear about this though. I'll see what happens at midnight tonight. Nick PS. BTW, I was just looking through Bernt's document and saw that in my earlier mail, I missed the activation of appointments: (appt-activate 1) So that's one more thing for the OP to add to his .emacs.
Re: [O] missing appointments
Bernt Hansen wrote: > Memnon Anon writes: > > > Nick Dokos writes: > > > >> ;; wrong > >> (setq org-appt-timer (run-at-time "00:01" nil (function > >> org-agenda-to-appt))) > > [...] > >> o finally, I would like to add a call at midnight every day to > >> recalculate appointments for the next day - unfortunately, the call > >> above is not correct, so for now I do it manually with an > >> org-agenda-redo as above. One of these days I'll get that fixed. If > >> anybody has done that already, I'll gladly steal your code :-) > > > > http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-14-1 > > > > Memnon > > Heh! Even I had to look that up... and it's my document! > > For the list archives I think this is the relevant part of the above > link (since the sec-14-1 is likely to change in the future) > > ; If we leave Emacs running overnight - reset the appointments one minute > after midnight > (run-at-time "24:01" nil 'bh/org-agenda-to-appt) > > This originally came from Carsten Dominik years ago ... when I was > setting up my appt for the first time. > > Thanks Carsten! > Thanks, Memnon! And Bernt and Carsten (and also Russell Adams who had it in the hack I mentioned yesterday)! I'm not sure I understand how it works, but I've added it (plus some debugging) and we'll see how it goes: is the "24:01" a relative time or an absolute time? I can't make heads or tails of the run-at-time doc. And what reschedules it for next time? Doesn't the timer fire once (if REPEAT is nil) and then it's done? I remember I had some misconceptions about run-at-time before and these are probably more misconceptions on my part. One of these days, I'll dust the cobwebs out (but they keep returning...) Nick
Re: [O] missing appointments
Memnon Anon writes: > Nick Dokos writes: > >> ;; wrong >> (setq org-appt-timer (run-at-time "00:01" nil (function org-agenda-to-appt))) > [...] >> o finally, I would like to add a call at midnight every day to >> recalculate appointments for the next day - unfortunately, the call >> above is not correct, so for now I do it manually with an >> org-agenda-redo as above. One of these days I'll get that fixed. If >> anybody has done that already, I'll gladly steal your code :-) > > http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-14-1 > > Memnon Heh! Even I had to look that up... and it's my document! For the list archives I think this is the relevant part of the above link (since the sec-14-1 is likely to change in the future) --8<---cut here---start->8--- ; If we leave Emacs running overnight - reset the appointments one minute after midnight (run-at-time "24:01" nil 'bh/org-agenda-to-appt) --8<---cut here---end--->8--- This originally came from Carsten Dominik years ago ... when I was setting up my appt for the first time. Thanks Carsten! Regards, Bernt
Re: [O] missing appointments
Nick Dokos writes: > ;; wrong > (setq org-appt-timer (run-at-time "00:01" nil (function org-agenda-to-appt))) [...] > o finally, I would like to add a call at midnight every day to > recalculate appointments for the next day - unfortunately, the call > above is not correct, so for now I do it manually with an > org-agenda-redo as above. One of these days I'll get that fixed. If > anybody has done that already, I'll gladly steal your code :-) http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-14-1 Memnon
Re: [O] missing appointments
Rodrigo Amestica wrote: > Hi, > > I use appt to connect desktop notifications to appointments in my > agenda. However, the connection between the appointments and the > notification system does not happen until I visit the agenda with, for > example, "C-c a a", which I sometimes forget to invoke and I end up > missing appointments. > > Trying to automate I created a short cut like this: > > emacs -f org-agenda-list my-main-org-file > > However, this seems to execute org-agenda-list before my-main-org-file > has fully opened in its own buffer and I end up with the window split into > two buffers: top one scratch and bottom one my-main-org-file, which is > visually very annoying. It is completely mysterious to me the timing > at which different actions take place within emacs and how to control > and sequence them, like a 'wait' call. > > Is there a way to automatically execute org-agenda-list after > my-main-org-file has fully finished opening in its buffer? > I think this is the wrong way to go about it. > Is it there some more streamlined way to connect agenda to > notifications such that I would not need to explicitly enable them > every time I open the file? > The way to do it is to call org-agenda-to-appt. The trick is to call this function at all the necessary places/times. I have the following code in my initialization file, after the rest of org initialization: --8<---cut here---start->8--- ... (org-agenda-to-appt) (defadvice org-agenda-redo (after org-agenda-redo-add-appts) "Pressing `r' on the agenda will also add appointments." (progn (setq appt-time-msg-list nil) (org-agenda-to-appt))) (ad-activate 'org-agenda-redo) (add-hook 'org-capture-after-finalize-hook (function org-agenda-to-appt) ) ;; wrong (setq org-appt-timer (run-at-time "00:01" nil (function org-agenda-to-appt))) ... --8<---cut here---end--->8--- There are four pieces here: o an explicit call - this gets executed at initialization and loads up the appt-time-msg-list from the agenda. o advising org-agenda-redo so that after it's done, it resets appt-time-msg-list and calls org-agenda-to-appt again. That way, if something goes wrong, I can pop up the agenda, press "r" and start afresh. o add a call to org-capture-after-finalize-hook - that way when I capture an appointment for today, it will be added automatically. o finally, I would like to add a call at midnight every day to recalculate appointments for the next day - unfortunately, the call above is not correct, so for now I do it manually with an org-agenda-redo as above. One of these days I'll get that fixed. If anybody has done that already, I'll gladly steal your code :-) I *think* that should catch everything. BTW, there is an org-hacks entry by Russell Adams: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#org-agenda-appt-zenity where he suggests also adding it to org-agenda-finalize-hook: that way it gets done every time you display the agenda as well. Not sure whether it's necessary or overkill for me, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. Nick
[O] missing appointments
Hi, I use appt to connect desktop notifications to appointments in my agenda. However, the connection between the appointments and the notification system does not happen until I visit the agenda with, for example, "C-c a a", which I sometimes forget to invoke and I end up missing appointments. Trying to automate I created a short cut like this: emacs -f org-agenda-list my-main-org-file However, this seems to execute org-agenda-list before my-main-org-file has fully opened in its own buffer and I end up with the window split into two buffers: top one scratch and bottom one my-main-org-file, which is visually very annoying. It is completely mysterious to me the timing at which different actions take place within emacs and how to control and sequence them, like a 'wait' call. Is there a way to automatically execute org-agenda-list after my-main-org-file has fully finished opening in its buffer? Is it there some more streamlined way to connect agenda to notifications such that I would not need to explicitly enable them every time I open the file? thanks, Rodrigo