Re: [Orgmode] [ feature request ] colourful timestamps

[Carsten Dominik]

I am taking this patch, thanks.

- Carsten

On Dec 9, 2007 11:39 PM, Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Phil Jackson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Something I thought might be nice is highlighting of timestamps
> > according to there relativity to time().
> >
> > For example, at time of writing, <2006-12-11> would be red, <2007-12-03
> > Mon 19:00> pink. Perhaps for customisation:
> >
> > (setq org-timestamp-colour-map
> >  '(("<2h" . 'face)
> >    ("<10m" . 'face)))
>
> I like the general idea of having feedback about the proximity of a
> deadline or time-stamp.  But I think doing this interactively is better,
> since the values like "<2h" "<10m" (in your example) are very likely to
> change quite often, no?
>
> In the same spirit, I've written this, which let you check for deadlines
> or scheduled items before a date (strings like "+2d" are okay):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun org-check-before-date (date)
>   "Check if there are deadlines or scheduled entries before DATE."
>   (interactive (list (org-read-date)))
>   (let ((case-fold-search nil)
>         (regexp (concat "\\<\\(" org-deadline-string
>                         "\\|" org-scheduled-string
>                         "\\) *<\\([^>]+\\)>"))
>         (callback
>          (lambda () (time-less-p
>                      (org-time-string-to-time (match-string 2))
>                      (org-time-string-to-time date)))))
>     (message "%d entries before %s"
>              (org-occur regexp nil callback) date)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> If you want to permanently add this to `org-sparse-trees', here is a
> patch against 5.16b.
>
>
> --
> Bastien
>
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