Patch by Matt Lundin
Matt writes:
> The missing piece of the puzzle is integration with "diary" and
> "cal-tex" functions via the org-diary sexp. I have found org-diary to be
> excruciatingly slow when called for anything more than a couple of days.
> I have the following line in my diary file:
>
> &%%(org-diary :timestamp :sexp)
>
> If I try to view 20 or so upcoming days in the diary by typing C-u 20 d
> on a date in the calendar, it can take upwards of 30 seconds to generate
> the diary display. This is of little consequence, since I can, after
> all, simply use the custom agenda command. But I often want to print out
> a nice LaTeX calendar of my appointments with cal-tex-cursor-month. And
> that takes upwards of 50 seconds (see attached elp-results file).
>
> Judging from the elp-results, the culprit seems to be
> org-prepare-agenda-buffers (46 seconds), which is called 31 times (once
> for each day). It seems to me that since org-diary is being called 31
> times in quick succession by the same function (diary-sexp-entry), one
> should only need to call org-prepare-agenda-buffers once.
>
> The only solution I could see to this problem was to add a test to see
> if org-diary had been called less than 1 second ago. Thus, I added the
> variable org-diary-last-run-time and a conditional in org-diary that
> only runs org-prepare-agenda-buffers if org-diary-last-run-time is less
> than 1 second in the past.
>
> With the patch, it now takes appr. 5 seconds to generate the LaTeX
> calendar with cal-tex and org-prepare-agenda-buffers is called only
> once.
Allow C-2 C-c C-w to work in the agenda.
Update agenda after refiling
This rebuilds the agenda buffer after the refile operation completes.
It was removing the to-be-refiled task before prompting for the location
which felt a little strange. While on the prompt you can't see
the task you are refiling anymore since it was just removed from the
agenda list and if you aborted from the refile operation
with C-g then the task to be refiled has already been removed.
org-agenda.el (org-agenda-include-deadlines): Added new
customization variable to determine whether unscheduled tasks
should appear in the agenda solely because of their deadline.
Default to true, which was the previous behavior (it just wasn't
configurable).
(org-agenda-mode-map, org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch): Bind ! in
the agenda to show/hide deadline tasks.
(org-agenda-menu): Added menu option for show/hide deadlines.
(org-agenda-list): Make the agenda list sensitive to the value of
`org-agenda-include-deadlines'.
(org-agenda-toggle-deadlines): New function to toggle the value of
`org-agenda-include-deadlines' and repaint the modeline
indicators.
(org-agenda-set-mode-name): Show "Deadlines" in the agenda
modeline if deadline tasks are being displayed.
Patch by Matt Lundin
Matt writes:
> Below is a patch I've been using to speed up the construction of
> agenda views limited to certain types of entries (e.g., timestamps and
> sexps). Previously, I had constructed "calendar" views consisting
> only of timestamps and sexps by using the variable
> org-agenda-skip-function to exclude scheduled items and deadlines from
> the agenda. This, however, proved somewhat slow (3-4 seconds for
> weekly calendars, 10-12 seconds for monthly calendars). The patch
> below cuts the times to 1 and 3 seconds respectively. I believe it
> provides an efficient alternative to the skip function by allowing the
> user to tweak the arguments passed to org-agenda-get-day-entries.
Patch by Stephen Eglen, who writes:
> Just a small suggestion here. In the agenda, an entry like:
> * <2010-01-20 Wed 09:00-09:30> test
>
> gets formatted as follows:
>
> Wednesday 20 January 2010
> 8:00...... ----------------
> test: 9:00- 9:30 test
> 10:00...... ----------------
>
> the leading whitespace before '9:00' and '9:30' is needed to align the
> times, but having the space after the dash looks odd (at least to my
> latex-trained eyes). Would it be possible to patch org-agenda to put a
> leading zero rather than leading whitespace. With this patch, I see:
>
> Wednesday 20 January 2010
> 08:00...... ----------------
> test: 09:00-09:30 test
> 10:00...... ----------------
This patch introduces a new user option to select this behavior.
Stephen Eglen writes
> Within the agenda buffer, if I type 'i j' to jump to the current date I
> get:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function org-datetree-find-date-create)
> org-datetree-find-date-create((1 20 2010))
> org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file()
> org-agenda-diary-entry()
> call-interactively(org-agenda-diary-entry nil nil)
>
> If I then do M-x load-library org-datetree
>
> and repeat 'i j', it works. Should this function be autoloaded?
Patch by Stephan Schmitt, who writes:
> An error was thrown when all tags of a headline are hidden by
> org-agenda-hide-tags-regexp (in this case the function
> get-text-property got nil as third argument)
Samuel Wales writes:
> I found three places where the lowercase version of a todo
> kw is treated specially in the latest org. For example,
>
> * todo this is lowercase
>
> First, in the agenda, they have a special face.
>
> Second, when inserting an id link, they are removed.
>
> Third, when printing the olpath, they are removed. To
> reproduce, place point at bol on 5 and press the spacebar.
> I expect todo to be in the olpath, but it is not.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Samuel
>
>
> * 1
> *** 2
> ***** here are some keywords i like
> ******* todo
> ********* 5
When an agenda custom command has an empty string as MATCH element, so
far this would lead to a meaningless search using an empty matcher.
Now and empty (or white) string will be interpreted just like a nil
matcher, i.e. the user will be prompted for the match.
Lukas Stelmach writes:
> Isn't it wrong when a note like this:
>
> * A very interesting meeting 11:15-12:00
> <2009-11-30 Mon>--<2009-12-01 Tue>
>
> Shows up in the agenda time gird only on monday while being untimed on
> tuesday? To make it right I do
>
> * A very interesting meeting
> <2009-11-30 Mon 11:15>--<2009-11-30 Mon 12:00>
> <2009-12-01 Tue 11:15>--<2009-12-01 Tue 12:00>
>
> or simply
>
> * A very interesting meeting 11:15-12:00
> <2009-11-30 Mon>
> <2009-12-01 Tue>
>
> Which works but doesn't show the recurrence counter.
Bernt Hansen writes:
> When org-agenda-diary-file is set to a special org file for diary
> entries and transient mark mode is enabled 'i' in the agenda fails
> with 'mark is not active now'
>
> My workaround for this is C-SPC to set the mark anywhere legal in the
> agenda display (ie not on the first or last line) and then hit 'i'
> to insert my diary entries.
Matt Lundin writes:
> The new org-agenda-diary-entry looks quite convenient.
>
> Would it be possible to add an option to bypass the date tree so as to
> add each new appointment as a simple first level heading? I prefer to
> keep my appointments organized by project and/or category and have no
> real use for the date tree. Ideally, new appointments would appear as
> first level headlines in the org-agenda-diary-file (i.e., my inbox),
> ready to be refiled.
