[Orgmode] Re: Executing functions remotely from agenda

[Steve Hafner]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Matt Lundin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Steve Hafner <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Matt Lundin <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Steve Hafner <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> I've written a few elisp functions to edit entries, and I would like
>>>> to be able to execute them remotely from the agenda; but it seems no
>>>> hooks or other facilities exist to do so. Am I missing something?
>>>>
>>>
>>> (info "(org) Using the mapping API")
>>>
>>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-mapping-API.html
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>
>> OK, I'm able to run elisp commands remotely from an agenda buffer
>> using org-map-entries; but what I'd really like to do is specifically
>> target the current item, and I don't see what expression for MATCH
>> would only match the current item. By "current item" I mean the entry
>> corresponding to the line that point is on within the agenda buffer.
>
> Ah. I see. I misread "remotely from agenda" as "not in the agenda".
>
> You can jump to the current entry in a number of ways. There is the
> function org-agenda-goto. Within the agenda, you can also get the
> markers for the current entry with:
>
> (org-get-at-bol 'org-marker)
> (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker)
>
> You can use these markers (usually with save-excursion or
> save-window-excursion) to jump to the function and alter it. The code of
> org-agenda-todo provides a nice example of this.

Thanks for the directions! The org-agenda-todo code with modifications
does the job I wanted.

>
> It would be nice if this functionality were abstracted a bit in
> org-agenda.el. Right now, each of the org-agenda editing commands
> (org-agenda-todo, org-agenda-set-tags, org-agenda-priority,
> org-agenda-add-note, etc.) reimplements the same behavior.
>

Indeed.