Re: [Orgmode] Help with agenda-custom commands

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 30, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Paul Holcomb wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 07:16:41AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> > > *) Is there a simple way to construct an agenda view that:
> > > -shows all past scheduled events for one TODO keyword only
> > > -skips for all others
>
> > I have not tested this, but you might be able to use the general  
> > tags/
> > property/todo matcher
> > on `C-c a m' like this:
> >
> > SCHEDULED<"<today>"/!+MYTODOKEYWORD
>
> This works, but not for a day or week view.

Yes, correct, you cannot do this for the agenda.....


> On the positive side, while I was trying to figure out how to do
> this, I've started to rethink how I'm using the different date
> keywords.
>
> I was originally trying to overload the meaning of SCHEDULED.  Making
> a TODO item that starts in the future and then will continue showing
> up until done (as in the manual) for "WAITING" items, but also as a
> TODO item that starts in the future, but then should become a normal
> TODO item for everything not a "WAITING" item.
>
> I think a better approach to the second one is going to be using a
> property like ACTIVEON, like so:
>
>  :PROPERTIES:
>  :ACTIVEON:       <2008-10-01 Wed>
>  :END:
>
> I'm still at the idea stage here, but think it could work with a hook
> similar to org-expiry.el or org-depend.el

Well, keep thinking and keep us posted.

> > > *) Using a defconst symbol or function that evaluates to a stringp
> > > in place of an actual string in for the match field.
> > >
> > > It seems like the evaluation order is at fault, but I couldn't get
> > > further.
> >
> > indeed, currently the match entry is not evaluated.  I guess we could
> > do that, but it would involve changing several functions.  I would
> > need a convincing use case before I invest the time.  How would you
> > want to use this?
>
> Totally not important.  I was just trying to clean up some of my
> agenda functions and feared I was missing something basic.

OK.

- Carsten