Re: [O] Re-marking agenda entries, with advice on org-agenda-bulk-action in .emacs

[netty hacky]

My bad, didn't realized I wasn't sending email in plain txt.

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 2:13 AM, netty hacky <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The issue of re-marking agenda entries has been raised before:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-02/msg00200.html
>
> I am facing the same problem.  I always do more than one bulk actions on the
> same set of agenda entries, so having to re-mark them manually has been a
> pain.  The org-agenda-bulk-mark-regexp command sort of helped, but I still
> prefer the Dired behavior of retaining the mark after action is performed,
> (typing one 'U' is much less keystroke than any manual re-marking).
>
> Anyway, I put the following piece of code in .emacs to give me the Dired
> like behavior.  It seems to work for me.  Since I'm new to Emacs Lisp and
> this is the 2nd day I'm hacking Org-mode code, could anyone help spot
> anything I did stupid here that may shoot me in the foot?  Much appreciated.
>
> (eval-after-load 'org-agenda
>   '(defadvice org-agenda-bulk-action (around bulk-re-mark
>                                              (&optional arg)
>                                              activate)
>      "Re-mark entries marked before action."
>      (let ((entries (copy-sequence org-agenda-bulk-marked-entries)))
>        ad-do-it
>        (let (pos (cnt 0) (cntskip 0) (msg (current-message)))
>          (dolist (e entries)
>            (setq pos (text-property-any (point-min) (point-max)
> 'org-hd-marker e))
>            (if (not pos)
>                (setq cntskip (1+ cntskip))
>              (goto-char pos)
>              (call-interactively 'org-agenda-bulk-mark)
>              (setq cnt (1+ cnt))))
>          (message "%s (%d entries re-marked, %d skipped)" msg cnt
> cntskip)))))
>
> Cheers,
> Net
> P.S. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all who helped make
> Org-mode such a beautiful piece of software and a life-changing experience.
>