[O] a small contribution

[Filippo A. Salustri]

Hi all,

I use geektool on my Mac to put useful things on my desktop.  (Rainmeter is the equivalent program for windoze.)

Anyways, I would like have some todo items show up in geektool, but emacs eats cpu, aquamacs doesn't do --batch stuff well, and I hate wasting cycles.

So I wrote a small perl program that digests every file in my org directory looking for todos.  It runs blindingly fast compared to emacs, and it does what I need it to.

I've included the script at the end of this msg, should anyone else find it interesting.

One should consider changing the values of $orgdir and $re.

And (maybe) the location of perl.

It parses :CATEGORY: properties and prints that out (or the file name if there's no category) for each task with a keyword matching one in $re.

It's not perfect, I know.  But it does work for me.

Cheers.

Fil

#!/usr/bin/perl

$orgdir = '/Users/fil/Dropbox/org';

$re = 'ACTIVE|REVIEW';

@files = ();

$line = '';

$category = '';

# get files

opendir D, $orgdir;

@files = grep { /\.org$/ } readdir(D);

closedir D;

for my $file (@files) {

  $category = $file;

  $category =~ s/\.org$//;

  open F, "$orgdir/$file";

  while ($line = <F>) {

    if ( $line =~ m/:CATEGORY: *(.+)$/ ) { $category = $1; }

    if ( $line =~ m/^\*+ +($re) +(.+)$/ ) {

      printf "%-13s: %s\n", $category, $2;

    }

  }

  close F;

}

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Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
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http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/