When inside a file that is part of `org-agenda-file`, the default scope to
search for locations via `db/org-get-location` (used for example when
interactively inserting links) is extended to include all agenda files, and not
only the current buffer. The idea behind this is to consider all agenda files
as one large data collection, and not only individual files. This inhibits the
usual error, when trying to insert links at items located in refile.org, that
links are only displayed for items in refile.org itself – which are usually not
many – when instead links to items in the default org files where actually
requested.
This should not be an issue for performance, as searching through all agenda
files for valid locations is fast even on Windows.
`org-read-date` seems to have bug that it does not consider the hh:mm part of an
input string sometimes. Trying to work around this by using internal times
whenever possible, but it's not complete yet.
Found that the report will only produce reasonable output when always working on
00:00. Left a note in the docstring to warn about this, should be fixed later on.
Use case: do not add a workload report (which usually contains links to all
current tasks) when inserting checklist backlinks; they do not carry any
information and are thus not relevant.
This is the expected behavior: when no start date is given, it should default to
today (the whole day), and not exactly now, so that day increments do not start
in the mid of the day, yielding misleading results.
When refreshing the Org agenda without completing redrawing it (i.e, by calling
`org-agenda-filter-by-tag`), effort estimates where added for every refreshing,
causing them to stack up. We now check whether a summed effort estimate is
already present and remove it before adding it again.
(Maybe one could also just skip the effort recalculation if the a summed effort
estimate is already present, but I am not sure whether this will cause display
inconsistencies when new events are added or old ones are deleted.)
When adding a link to an item via `org-store-link`, and the link is not known
yet, the links is always put at the beginning of the list of currently known
links, as stored in `org-stored-links`. This allows to conveniently insert this
link via `org-insert-link` by just choosing the first element of the list, which
is selected by default.
However, when the link to the requested item is already present in
`org-stored-links`, the link is not pushed to the beginning of
`org-stored-links` by `org-store-link`, but kept where it is. When calling
`org-insert-link` to insert a link to the item, manual selection of the correct
link is required, which is annoying and unnecessarily interrupting the current
workflow. Even worse, when overlooking the notification that the link is
already stored, one will assume that the link to the requested item is at the
top of `org-stored-links` (which is isn't), subsequently inserting false links
when blindly calling `org-insert-link`. (Yes, this has happend to me …)
This patch fixes this issue by ensuring that links to items (regardless whether
they have already been known or not) are always put at the front of the
`org-stored-links`. This patch also removes the rarely used
`db/org-clear-stored-links` function, whose purpose was to provide some kind of
workaround, but turned out not to be convenient enough to actually be
used (because it also removed potentially useful links when clearing the cache).
The original version of `grep-read-files` includes file names in its default
values, giving an irritating completion candidate list when used with ivy.
Changed this to just let `completing-read` do the completion itself.
We are now not merely copying a template from another item, but more abstractly
insert a checklist consisting of backlinks and a template. Update docstring and
function name to reflect that, but keep the old name of `db/org-copy-template`
as an obsolete alias.
Experimental
Backlinks are an integral part of the checklist for the item at point, so why
not include them per default?
Copying is for now done unconditionally and without any customization. If those
will turn out necessary, then they will be added later.
This is different from the previous default start date of today, as now all past
items will also be considered. Additionally, also include the start date (or
today, if not given) to be included in the result table to show all efforts
still left for that day.
Simply replacing the first and last characters of a timestampt with `[` and `]`
is not sufficient when a time range is given with a start timestamp and an end
timestamp, because then the result would be something like `[2022-09-30 Fri
08:00>--<2022-09-30 Fri 09:00]`. So let's replace all `<` with `[` and all `>`
with `]`, just to be save.
This report will list the incremental planned workload between a given time
range using a given increment. This way, one may better at finding time to
schedule new tasks coming in.
The current implementation might be slow, because it's calling a complete
parsing process for each step in the overview report. One could instead think
about calling it only once and then disecting the individual tasks for when they
are planned specifically. But before we dive in these complications, let's
frist see whether the report is worth it.
This special kind of dynamic block inserts all planned tasks between two dates
and sums up it's efforts. This could help in deciding what additional tasks to
accept or what dates to promise for completion of new tasks.
To determine whether a merge is in progress, do not check in the current
directory for .git/MERGE_HEAD, but do this in the repository directory.
When computing `base-dir`, take the whole non-directory part, not just the
basename; otherwise directories like .emacs.d will get the final `.d` get
stripped off.
This allows to see of which git repository the current working directory is part
of.
This is also included in Howard Abrams configuration, but he instead determines
the name of the current git repository by looking at `remote.origin.url`.
However, my upstream branch is not always called `origin`, and sometimes there
is no upstream repository at all. Using the name of the current directory (not
the whole path, though) instead seems to be a good compromise from my point of
view.
The project is archived and no longer available from melpa, so let's keep a
local copy with us.
It might be necessary to add an extra use-package declaration with autoload
definitions, but we'll do that when it's clear it's necessary.
This partially reverts cff8720a44, but keeps the
doc-string.
Rationale: TOPICs may contain notes which should be reviewd regularly. Those
TOPICs should also be tagged with NOTE but could (and should) in addition
contain sub-items about concrete tasks. In this case refiling to a NOTE should
be allowed.
Maybe limiting refiling to NOTE:TOPIC combinations would be more strict here,
but I think this complexity is not (yet) worth it.
Sometimes only the backlinks to the items itself might be interesting, or
backlinks to the current item and its direct parent. To allow for easy
insertion of dynamic backlink blocks in those cases as well, include a
:parent-depth parameter. The default value of nil means no limit is imposed, as
has been the case until now.
The idea is that those entries represent project notes which should not get
tasks refiled as sub-items (sub-headings to structure these notes are fine,
though, and must be added directly). To connect tasks with project notes, use
links and backlinks instead.
This helps to prevent accidental refiling of tasks under notes and loosing them
there. A drawback is that `C-u org-refile` won't list notes as visiting targets
anymore; for this, use imenu instead.
Mostly making use of pcase-*, but I am not quite sure whether the `(,foo . ,bar)
syntax really helps …
Also adjusted some comments and some formatting.
We are interested in the backlinks so we now put them first. The backlink
targets (i.e., current item or any of its parents) are now grouped after the
priority of the item containing the backlink.
This dynamic block will list all items (including their priority) that link to
the item at point or to any of its parent items. The use case for this is to
have a series of periodic appointments where certain topics should be
discussed (“jour fixe”), and where those topics can be referenced in those
appointments via backlinks. However, simple backlinks to an item on a fixed
date is not sufficient here, as there might not be enough time on that day to
discuss all items. To avoid having to manipulate all backlinks that could not
be discussed, one could simply add a reference to the parent item of all
appointments of the jour fixe series. Using the new dynamic block introduced
here, this item will be on the list of open topics until it's closed.
It does not make sense to look in non-Org buffers for backlinks of items, but
this was indeed what happend until now: the function `db/org-get-location` only
checked whether the current buffer is associated with a file, and if so uses it
for querying the user for an item to select. This does not make sense, as
`db/org-get-location` is supposed to return a mark to an Org item.
This is now fixed by `db/org-get-location` to also check whether the current
buffer is also an Org buffer. It's as simple as that.
This function is not meant for interactive use, but instead should be used in
source blocks such as
```
(db/org-backlinks-to-item-at-point)
```
This will add a table of all items linking to the current item at point, and cut
be used in item templates, for example.
Background: I tried to achive this functionality with `org-ql` directly, but
somehow failed. This function simply encapsulates the corresponding call to
`org-ql-query`, adding the ID property of item at point automatically.
When inserting links multiple times, it's annoying to have to go back to the
original place the link points to and reinsert it into the stored link list.
Using a universal argument to toggle `org-link-keep-stored-after-insertion` is
also not an option, as I keep forgetting to use it.
Instead, by default keep all links after insertion. To be able to handle the
growing list of links, we now provide a function `db/org-clear-stored-links` to
set the list of stored links to the empty list.
It happens sometimes that the clock is not active, in which case hydra tried to
replace strings in `org-clock-current-task`, then a nil value. Fixed this.
I think I just did it wrong, so let's try adding a note by calling
`org-add-note` directly. So far it's working better, but I am not quite sure
whether I really did it right this time. In any way, `org-add-note` keeps track
of all the bookkeeping for taking notes, so my code is simpler now :)
This allows both a more fine-grained and more flexible control over where
templates can be located and which templates are suppoed to be used for the item
at point. This function could also be bound to a custom key binding to make it
easier to invoke.
Instead of going upward from the end, we now just start from the beginning and
skip all drawers we may encounter. This should also allow to copy subtrees in
templates, although adjustments to the headline indentations might be necessary
if the template and point are on different levels.
Using `insert` directly makes use of character conversion and may scramble the
byte when inserting into the buffer (indeed, `insert` does not seem to insert
the byte, but the characters whose code-points is given in the string; same for
`insert-char`).
My checklist template are usually located in a separate file, and sometimes even
in more than one. Being able to copy those template to point is thus crucial.
Excluding NOTEs as refile targets also excludes them as jump targets for C-u C-c
C-w, which is bad. Better move all NOTEs out of the main task list into a
separate notes.org or something.
This reverts commit 90b6e91051.
NOTEs are meant to hold information for the project at hand, and not to collect
tasks, because NOTEs are meant to live longer than those tasks. Use dedicated
subprojects to group tasks. Task may (and probably should) refer to NOTEs for
keeping long lasting information, though.
Iterating over the current set of file names may not work when no files are
given (in which case all agenda files should be visisted). However, instead of
fixing the set of files, it should be more robust to find all referenced buffers
by iterating over the markers of the entries. In that case, even if a file is
visited by multiple buffers, we can be sure that the right buffers are referesh
before the timeline is redrawn.
When listing files, it's not relevant whether the file is readable or whether
a symbolic link points to a non-existing file. What matters is that the file
itself exists, either as a file or as a symbolic link.
This is relevant when using `git annex find` to list files matching some search
criteria.
This function is referenced in some doc string already, and could as well be
public, so let's make it so. This amounts to removing a dash from it's function
name.
This allows the same copy behavior as before (apart from newly introduced bugs,
that is), but in addition gives the possibility to copy bodies of arbitraty
items that can be choosen interactively. This might come in handy when copying
general checklists from anywhere in the main Org mode file to the current task.
This allows to insert links to items that were recently clocked into. The
selection to those items is done via `org-clock-select-task`, which itself will
display items from `org-clock-history`.
So far, only a toggle for playing and pausing was available. Providing a
shortcut for `emms-stop` makes unconditionally sure the music is stoped.
Funnily(?), this also replaces an obsolete shortcut for `emms-show`.
So far, we only considered one link in a headline and replaced it with its
description when linking to it. When there are multiple links, this will fail.
This commit changes this by iterating over all links in the headline, not only
the first one.
So far, when a link is discovered in a headline, we only keep the description of
that link. This will throw away the context of that link, which is
undesirable. So let's keep it.
When inserting links to other Org items or to the currently clocked-in item, the
complete target headline is used as a description in the newly inserted link.
When that target headline is itself a link, the newly inserted link will contain
the complete link as a description, rendering it unreadable and also
malformed (it's not allowed to have two consequtive brackets in the description
of a link). To remedy this, we now explicitly check the target headline for
being a link, and if so, only use the description of it as the description in
the newly inserted link.
When the link to another item is already present in the history of
`org-store-link`, nothing is updated. Inserting the topmost link then results
in a wrong link being inserted.
Not using `org-store-link` at all fixes this problem and also leaves the history
of `org-store-link` untouched. It also simplifies the implementation by not
relying on the complexity of `org-store-link`, but instead just only using
`org-entry-get` and `org-id-get-create`.
The `default-buffer` is apparently not optional when the current buffer is not
associated with a file. If `default-buffer` is missing and the current buffer
is not a file-buffer, e.g., a note buffer, then `org-refile-get-targets` fails.
When finding the location of an Org mode item to link to,
`org-refile-get-location` may return a point even if the target buffer is not
the default buffer. Resolving point in the default buffer thus yields a false
marker and the inserted link is wrong. To remedy this, also consider the file
name returned by `org-refile-get-location` to resolve point in the file buffer
for that file.
`org-refile-get-location` sometimes only returns a point and not a marker. In
that case, manually convert the point to a marker to ensure that calling
functions now where to go to. Additionally, ensure that
`db/org-default-org-file` is opened if not already done so, and error out if the
current buffer is not associated with a file and no default Org file exists.
Daniel -