Re: [O] missing appointments
Rodrigo Amestica ramest...@lavabit.com 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
Re: [O] missing appointments
Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com 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
Memnon Anon gegendosenflei...@googlemail.com writes: Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com 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
Bernt Hansen be...@norang.ca wrote: Memnon Anon gegendosenflei...@googlemail.com writes: Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com 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
Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com 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.
[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
