[Orgmode] [org-feed] Some problems with Remember the Milk and org-feed

[Sven Bretfeld]

Hi to all

As I have said before, I can recommend www.rememberthemilk.com (RTM) to
capture tasks and dates on an Android phone as long as MobileOrg for
Android is still under development.

I will post my setup at the bottom of this posting. Maybe it's of use
for others. 

There are still two problems I encountered:

1. Emacs needs login information to access the RTM feed. I have not
   figured out yet, how to automatize that. At the moment I type in
   username and password once after I started a new Emacs session.

2. I start org-feed every hour with a run-at-time function. Every 2nd or
   3rd time, Emacs is unable to read the feed and hangs forever, the
   minibuffer saying something like "Reading 18 bytes". I haven't
   figured out the reason for this problem yet. It might have something
   to do with the creation of the feed by the RTM page. Usually it works
   again after I have accessed the feed with another feedreader. The
   problem also seems to occur every time when the feed is completely
   empty. All I can say is that the freezing occurs before Emacs even
   had asked for the login information, i.e. directly after hitting C-c
   C-x g in a new Emacs session. However, sometimes it works well even
   in a new session. The message buffer says nothing. How can I make
   Emacs more verbose to track the problem?

Thanks for help,

Sven

Here is my setup for org-feed with RTM. After the above problems will be
solved, I will also publish this and my way of using Android together
with orgmode on Worg.

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(if (string-equal system-name "kamaloka")
;; Because I want only one of my (always running) computers to insert
;; the feeds. If you don't need that, delete the first line and the last
;; bracket.
(setq org-feed-alist
      '(("RTM"
         ;; The 1st feed is for tasks. I use the Inbox of RTM for that.
         ;; You have to insert @@h for :HOME: or @@o for :OFFICE:
         ;; so that the RTM entry looks like this:
         ;; `Do your laundry @@h' or
         ;; `Read Sam's report @@o'.
         "https://www.rememberthemilk.com/atom/[username]/[number_of_the_feed]/";
         "~/aktuell/myconf/mygtd.org"
         "New Tasks"
         :template "* NEXT %title"
         :parse-feed org-feed-parse-atom-feed
         :parse-entry org-feed-parse-atom-entry)
        ("RTM-Termine"
         ;; The 2nd feed is for dates. I use a RTM folder called `dates'
         ;; for that.
         ;; You have to insert @@ and the date and time without any
         ;; format, so that the RTM entry looks like this:
         ;; `Meeting with Sam @@10030411:15-12:45' or
         ;; `Lunch @@10030413:00.
         ;; It will be converted to <2010-03-04 11:15-12:45>
         "https://www.rememberthemilk.com/atom/[username]/[number_of_the_feed]";
         "~/aktuell/myconf/mygtd.org"
         "Termine"
         :template "* APPT %title"
         :parse-feed org-feed-parse-atom-feed
         :parse-entry org-feed-parse-atom-entry)
         )))

(defun rtm-dateconf ()
  "This function converts the RTM feeds into the orgmode format."
  (interactive)
  (beginning-of-buffer)
    (while (re-search-forward 
"@@\\([0-9][0-9]\\)\\([0-9][0-9]\\)\\([0-9][0-9]\\)\\([0-9]*[0-9]+:[0-9][0-9]\\)\\([-]*[0-9]*[0-9]*[:]*[0-9]*[0-9]*\\)"
 nil t)
      (replace-match "\n <20\\1-\\2-\\3 \\4\\5>" nil nil))
  (beginning-of-buffer)
  (while (re-search-forward "@@h" nil t)
    (replace-match ":HOME:" nil nil))
  (beginning-of-buffer)
  (while (re-search-forward "@@o" nil t)
    (replace-match ":OFFICE:" nil nil))
  (save-buffer "mygtd.org")
)

(add-hook 'org-feed-after-adding-hook 'rtm-dateconf)

;; Run org-feed once every hour.
(if (string-equal system-name "kamaloka")
(run-at-time  3600 3600 'org-feed-update-all))

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