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.
RET will only do this if the cursor is on the link and
`org-return-follows-link' is set. `C-c C-o' will work anywhere in the
line.
Requested by Chris Leyon.
The following keys now do archiving
C-c C-x C-a archive using the command specified in
`org-archive-default-command'
This variable is by default set to `org-archive-subtree', which means
arching to the archive file.
The three specific archiving commands are available through
C-c C-x C-s archive to archive file
C-c C-x a toggle the archive tag
C-c C-x A move to archive sibling
These bindings work the same in an Org file, and in the agenda.
In addition:
- In the agenda you can also use `a' to call the default archiving
command, but you need to confirm the command with `y' so that this
cannot easily happen by accident.
- For backward compatibility, `C-c $' in an org-mode file, and `$' in
the agenda buffer continue to archive to archive file.
Richard Moreland writes:
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
> '(("X" agenda "" nil ("agenda.html"))))
> ;; This seems to break org-mobile-push?
> ;;(setq org-agenda-exporter-settings
> ;; '((org-agenda-add-entry-text-maxlines 5)
> ;; (htmlize-output-type 'font)))
>
> I have the lines above in my .emacs file. When I uncomment the 3
> commented lines, org-mobile-push just hangs after OVERVIEW.
>
> I don't understand exactly what is going on, but if I hit C-g or
> C-c enough I can regain control, but the sync never finishes.
org-habit.el (org-habit-get-priority): A new function that determines
the relative priority of a habit, based on how long past its scheduled
date it is, and how near the deadline is.
org-agenda.el (org-agenda-get-scheduled): Set habit priority using
`org-habit-get-priority'.
org-habit.el: New file, which implements code to build a "habit
consistency graph".
org-agenda.el (org-agenda-get-deadlines)
(org-agenda-get-scheduled): Display consistency graphs when outputting
habits into the agenda. The graphs are always relative to the current
time.
(org-format-agenda-item): Added new parameter `habitp', which indicates
whether we are formatting a habit or not. Do not display "extra"
leading information if habitp is true.
(org-agenda-auto-exclude-function): New customization variable for
allowing the user to create an "auto exclusion" filter for doing
context-aware auto tag filtering.
(org-agenda-filter-by-tag): Changes to support the use of
`org-agenda-auto-exclude-function'. See the new manual addition,.
The default in search view is not that the search expression is
searched for as a substring, i.e. the different words must occur in
direct sequence. The old way is only used it the first word in
the search string is preceded by a plus or a minus.
This was, more-or-less, requested by John Wiegley.
Peter Westlake writes:
> One small thing, though - in the agenda TODO view, pressing "t"
> to mark the task as Done messes up the layout:
>
> [[http://orgmode.org][Org-Mode]]: TODO Demonstrate problem with link
> in category
>
> (which appears as:
>
> Org-Mode: TODO Demonstrate problem with link in category)
>
>
> Press T on that line:
>
> [[http://orgmode.org][Org-Mode]]: TODO Demonstrate problemDONE
> Demonstrate problem with link in category
>
> (which appears as:
>
> Org-Mode: TODO Demonstrate problemDONE Demonstrate problem with
> link in category)
George Pearson writes:
> I have been getting the following message in the minibuffer
> area when marking tasks done in the daily agenda:
>
> Error in post-command-hook: (error Cannot switch buffers in a dedicated
> window)
>
> The item in the underlying org file IS marked DONE, and items with
> repeaters appear to be rescheduled properly. HOWEVER, the log lines,
> like
>
> - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2009-09-07 Mon 10:36]
>
> do NOT appear.
>
> Note I have been using:
>
> org-agenda-window-setup 'other-frame
>
> for some time now, but I notice there has been a recent change
> related to this variable. Could this be the source of the
> problem?
>
> I believe the error message appears on other operations in the
> daily agenda as well, but have not yet studied this in detail.
Many agenda commands split the current window, which is not allowed on
a frame containing a dedicated window.
Therefore, we now just kill the frame by hand when exiting the agenda.
org.el (org-offer-links-in-entry): Don't use "Select link" as a prompt
in the temporary window.
org-agenda.el (org-agenda-bulk-mark): Use a slightly soberer prefix for
marked entries in the agenda view.
> > New mode to show some entry body text in the agenda
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > There is now a new agenda sub-mode called
> > `org-agenda-entry-text-mode'. It is toggled with the `E' key.
> > When active, all entries in the agenda will be accompanied by a
> > few lines from the outline entry. The amount of text can be
> > customized with the variable `org-agenda-entry-text-maxlines'.
>
>
> this already avoids displaying drawer lines.
> I also see lines like:
>
> - State "DONE" from "WARTEN" [2009-08-04 Di 16:19]
> - State "DONE" from "WARTEN" [2009-07-02 Do 09:43]
> ...
>
> and in my remeber templates I always create lines like:
>
> created: [2009-08-03 Mo 11:46]
>
> with the creation date of the entry.
> Would it be possible and make sense to set up a variable for a
> regexp to exclude lines like the ones above from showing?
This commit sets up such a variable, and also a hook.
The category can contain a bracket link. This commit makes sure that
the prefix in the agenda looks OK if there is a link, and that the
link is accessible with `C-c C-o 0'.
Peter Westlake writes:
> This is quite obscure, and an odd corner case, but here it is.
>
> If you have an item which is:
>
> - a TODO
> - scheduled
> - ordered
> - blocked by a child TODO
>
> then it leaves an empty line in the agenda.
>
> Here's a test case:
> ,----
> | * Press t r on this line in the agenda
> | SCHEDULED: <2009-09-02 Wed>
> | :PROPERTIES:
> | :ORDERED: t
> | :END:
> | *** TODO Report invisible scheduled items
> `----
>
> C-a a a will show an agenda with "Scheduled: Press t r ...".
> Press "t" on that line to add a TODO.
> Press "r" to redisplay, and see the line go blank.
>
> Peter.
Henry Atting writes:
> If org agenda is displayed in an other frame then windows aren*t
> restored when quitting, I have to kill the frame manually. I
> really would like it to behave like e.g. gnus-other-frame which
> automatically kills his frame on quitting.
The new keys are b and f. This used to be on the cursor keys, but
they do now again do cursor motion.
This is a significant change in the UI, I hope this will not cause too
many problems.
Fix bulk refiling in the agenda due to commit
9ec5529 (Fix jumping to last refile location in agenda, 2009-08-20)
This restores the original behaviour.
This bug was caused by commit
8c177dc832, and reported by Matt
Lundin. The problem was that this commit tried to remove the text
propertes of the MATCH part of an agenda command. However, in block
commands, the MATCH part is not a string.
New variable `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown' to avoid
that a entry shows up in the agenda for today for both a scheduling
and a deadline entry. See the docstring of the variables for more
details.
Bernt Hansen writes:
> Every so often I run into a situation where bulk refiling
> doesn't work anymore.
>
> I currently have 15 items in my refile.org file that I want
> to refile to other locations. I marked a few of them and
> bulk refiled them just fine. Then I marked a few more and B
> r fails with "Cannot find entry for marker #<marker at
> 297156 in norang.org>"
>
> I think this happens when I mark multiple tasks in the same
> subtree (i.e. the parent and a sibling) and refile both to
> the same location. After that it gets confused.
>
> If I have a task like this in refile.org
>
> #+FILETAGS: REFILE
> * Test
> ** Test 2
>
> and run a tags match on REFILE I see both tasks. Mark both
> with m in the agenda and B r to some other location. It
> refiles the first (and this moves the sibling too) and then
> it's broken after that.
>
> I get the following backtrace
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot find entry for
> marker #<marker at 297156 in norang.org>")
Indeed the happens because, when a parent gets refiled or
achieved, any entries corresponding to its children are
removed from the agenda.
We address this issue by
- sorting the markers, to make sure parents will be handled
before children
- No longer throwing an error when a bulk action entry no
longer is present in the agenda - most likely it was taken
care of together with its parent.
This commit defines three new functions in org-timer.el:
- org-timer-set-timer, bound to `C-c C-x ;' in Org buffers
and to `;' in Org agenda buffers. This function sets a
timer for the headline the cursor is currently it. Up to
three timers can be set.
- org-timer-show-remaining-time: this shows the remaining
time for the last set timer.
- org-timer-reset-timers: this reset all timers.
This functionality was requested by Samuel Wales and emulates
that of tea-time.el -- see the emacswiki doc about tea-time.el:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/tea-time
Agenda bulk commands on marked entries now can also set the scheduling
date or a deadline. Normally, all entries will be set to the
specified date. However, when writing the change as "++5d" or "++2w",
then each time stamp will independently be shifted by that amount.
This commit implements refiling directly from the agenda.
It also implements a mechanism for selecting a number of entries in
the agenda and then executing a command on all of them. Possible
actions include archive, refile, todo state setting, and more.
When the agenda buffer for an agenda series is created, this was so
far done without the options of the custom agenda command in place.
This meant that some options would not take effect, because the only
place where that did would have an effect was during creation of that
buffer.
This commit makes sure that the global options of an agenda series are
in fact in place when the buffer is created.
Nicolas Goaziou writes:
> As I was saying in anoter post, it looks like there's something
> weird happening when using C-k in agenda view:
>
> 1. Create two new remember entries (i.e. test and test2) with the
> same tag (I used @office)
> 2. Narrow down the agenda view to only see the @office entries.
> 3. Kill the last but one entry (it should be "test") : both of
> "test" and "test2" disappear frow the view. Actually, "test2" is
> not properly killed, but it is scary nonetheless.
>
> It only happens with two last entries.
>
> Is anyone able to reproduce this ?
Peter Frings writes:
> Good day, org-ers
>
> I have seen a *small* problem in the Agenda's log mode.
>
> Org-mode version 6.26d
> GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.5.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2008-11-01
>
>
> I have this in time-sheets.org:
>
>
> * Project AI
> ** Enhancement PT <2009-04-30 Thu 10:00-11:00 +1w>
> CLOCK: [2009-05-14 Thu 09:55]--[2009-05-14 Thu 10:45] => 0:50
>
>
> But, the Agenda shows this:
>
> Day-agenda (W20):
> Thursday 14 May 2009
> 9:00...... ----------------
> planning: 9:12- 9:55 Clocked: (0:43) BUSY Notifications
> time-sheet: 10:00-11:00 Clocked: (0:50) Enhancement PT
> time-sheet: 10:00-11:00 Enhancement PT
> 10:00...... ----------------
> 11:00...... ----------------
>
He is right. Progress lines should never take their
time from the headline, always only from the triggering line.
Benjamin Andresen writes:
> I was curious as to why a value such log-mode wasn't customizable
> to be run on start-up as follow-mode and clock-report-mode are.
>
> If Carsten thinks this is a good idea, I've attached a patch that
> may shave of 5 seconds of him adding it. It applies cleanly to
> current git HEAD.
This commit applies Beanjamin's patch
Tassilo Horn writes:
> I have this entry in an org-file.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ** bung Grundlagen der Softwaretechnik (B 016) :teaching:
> <2009-04-22 Wed 08:30-10:00 +1w>
> <2009-04-29 Wed 10:15-11:45> (Fr Hannes bernehmen)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I expect it to be displayed every wednesday after 2009-04-22
> for 08:30-10:00 and on 2009-04-29 it should be displayed
> twice: one at the usual time and one for 10:15-11:45.
>
> But the agenda shows only the regular entry (08:30-10:00)
> and omitts the exception. If I reorder the timestamps, so
> that the exception comes first, only the exception will be
> shown on 2009-04-29. Every other wednesday shows the
> regular repeater date.
>
> What do I have to do to make that entry showing up twice on
> 29th April?
This commit adds a new option
`org-agenda-skip-additional-timestamps-same-entry'. When set
to t, an entry that has multiple active time stamps will get
multiple lines in the agenda.
If the trigger for a log mode entry in the agenda has notes, for
example a note associated with a state change or with a clock entry,
the first line of the notes will now be added to the logbook entry.
You can turn this off the with new variable
`org-agenda-log-mode-add-notes'.
During secondary agenda filtering, pressing "?" now will install a
filter that selects entries which do not have an effort defined.
This new model was necessary because we needed to stop interpreting
entries with no effort defines as 0 effort. This was inconsistent,
because for normal agenda sorting, the treatment of these entries
depends on the variable `org-sort-agenda-noeffort-is-high'. Now this
variable is also respected during filtering.
The new variable `org-agenda-cmp-user-defined' can contain a function
to test how two entries should be compared during sorting.
user-defined-up and user-defined-down can then be part of any sorting
strategy.
The new variable `org-agenda-search-headline-for-time' also turned off
time searching for diary items as an unwanted side-effect. This
commit makes sure that diary entries are always parsed for a time.
Harri Kiiskinen writes:
> It seems that org-use-tag-inheritance set to regexp, the use of
> #+FILETAGS: and org-todo-list do not work together. It seems, that a
> regexp in org-use-tag-inheritance matching a tag set in #+FILETAGS
> causes this error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> string-match("^ +" nil)
> [...]
> when org-use-tag-inheritance is set to regexp "te"
> with this file:
>
> --------
> #+STARTUP:
> #+FILETAGS: tea
> * TODO testing :test:
> ** TODO too :data:
> -----
>
> When the regexp is "tes", so that the FILETAG does not match,
> org-todo-list produces a correct list.
This is indeed a bug. The all to `org-get-tags-at' does change the
match data if there is a match for the inheritance regexp. This
problem is now avoided by first extracting (match-string 1), and then
getting the tags.
Studying this bug also exposed another one, namely that file tags are
not marked as inherited tags. This is now fixed, immediately when
the #+FILETAGS line is parsed.
Items are listed in the agenda sometimes in bright colors, to draw
attention to important tasks or deadlines. When such an item is
switched to DONE, the state change is reflected by the new TODO
keyword, but the line itself might still be bright. Org de-emphasizes
the line by changing the face of the line. It used to change it to
the face `org-done', but now we use a new, independent face
`org-agenda-done'.
This commit implements an important change: When, during a
stuck-project search, a project tree is identified as not stuck, so
far the search would continue after the end of the project tree. From
now on, the search continues in the subtree, so that stuck subprojects
can still be identified.
> Feature Request: that the pdf saved automatically from agenda be
> immediately displayed
> The saving of a pdf is a really nice feature. I had hacked
> org-agenda, I think, to automatically do this. However, it would
> be nicer if immediate display were optional. I don't know
> whether \C-u makes sense as a prefix to saving a file with \C-x
> \C-w. Perhaps not.
Why not, C-c C-x C-w is a fine idea for this. It should now work.
Anupam Sengupta writes:
> I routinely use time ranges (and occasionally time-stamp ranges)
> in my org files to document the scheduled block of time for a
> meeting or activity. As an example, I will mark meetings as:
>
> * A Meeting
> <2009-03-12 Thu 10:00-11:00>
>
> As often happens with meetings, rescheduling needs to be done and
> I use S-<up> or S-<down> on the time-stamp to make the
> modifications. While this works fine, it usually leads to a
> duplication when the *time* part of the time-stamp needs to be
> changed.
>
> For the same example above, if the time-block has now changed to
> 11:00-12:00, then I need to do S-<up> on both the "10:00" and the
> "11:00" string. I.e,
>
>
> * A Meeting
> <2009-03-12 Thu 11:00-11:00>
> ^
> +---------------- After the first S-<up>
>
> * A Meeting
> <2009-03-12 Thu 11:00-12:00>
> ^
> +---------------- After the second S-<up>
>
> Can we have a feature (with a toggle option perhaps) which would
> *move* the block (i.e., both time entries) by the same amount
> when either one is moved in the same direction. I.e., the
> proposal is to have:
>
> * A Meeting
> <2009-03-12 Thu 11:00-12:00>
> ^ ^
> | |
> | +---------- Automatically shifted
> +---------------- After the S-<up>
This is in fact how changing time works in many applications, and
it does make sense here as well. The commits implements this
change.
It also implements a way to change the start time of an entry from
the agenda. The date is normally changed with S-right/left.
Now, if you add a C-u prefix, the hour will be changed. If you
immediately press S-right/left again, hours will continue to be
changed.
A double prefix will do the same for minutes.
Custom commands can now bind `org-agenda-filter-preset'. This filter
will then be present in the agenda view and persist through refresh
and further filtering. Only a new agenda command will remove the
filter again.
The variable org-priority-faces can now be used to set special faces
for different priority cookies.
Also, in the agenda, the default is now to fontify only the priority
cookie, not the entire task. See the variable
`org-agenda-fontify-priorities'.
Before this patch, org-agenda-quit would delete the agenda window if
the frame had more than one window. This patch changes that behavior
slightly so that if org-agenda-window-setup is 'current-window, the
agenda window won't be deleted.
A new hook is introduced, `org-agenda-before-write-hook'.
A function that ca be added to this hook is
`org-agenda-add-entry-text'. When this is done, each of the entries
shown in the agenda is amended with text that in the original buffer
is part of the entry text below the headline. Drawers are not copied,
and also the line with scheduling and deadline information is not
used. Finally, the number of ines to be added is imited by
`org-agenda-add-entry-text-maxlines'.
If the headline contains a time-of-day in one format or another, it
will be used to sort the entry into the time sequence of items for a
day. Some people have time stamps in the headline that refer to the
creation time or so, and then this produces an unwanted side effect.
If this is the case for your, use the new option
`org-agenda-search-headline-for-time' to turn off searching the
headline for a time.
John Rakestraw writes:
> I noticed today that, at least in my set-up, setting these variables
> this way:
>
> (setq org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks 'invisible)
> (setq org-enforce-todo-checkbox-dependencies t)
>
> means that a TODO task with checkboxes doesn't get included in the
> agenda. However, the sub-tasks in the checkbox list don't get included,
> either. So the TODO task with checkboxes doesn't show up in the agenda.
>
> It makes sense given the way the variables work. However, I wonder if
> it makes more sense for a task with checklisted sub-tasks to be
> included in the agenda so that the tasks and sub-tasks don't get lost.
> Or, to put the point slightly differently, I think that a TODO that's
> blocked because it has dependent TODOs might be treated differently in
> agenda listings than a TODO that's blocked because it has dependent
> checklist items.
>
> Not a big deal to me because I don't typically use checkboxes for TODO
> items. But I thought I'd raise it for consideration.
I agree with this view and the commit implements exactly this.
The variables `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines' and
`org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date, and
`org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options' are now all mentioned in
the docs.
The commands org-agenda-show can now be used to show varying degrees of
context when called with a prefix argument. `0 SPC', `1 SPC', ... `4
SPC'.
The new command `org-agenda-cycle-show' shows different amounts of
context when called several times in succession.
Christopher Suckling reports that todo state sorting doe not work in
block agenda. The reason for this that the variable
`org-todo-keywords-for-agenda' which is supposed to be a lost of all
keywords of all buffers contributing to the agenda, is not correct
during the construction of a block agenda.
Therefore, this commit instructs the todo state comparison function to
refer back to the original buffer for a list of todo keywords.
When org-depend.el is loaded, running the blocker hook will already
toggle a tag. However, when dimming the agenda, we do not want that.
Reported by Dan Griswold.