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Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day
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Toby Cubitt |
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Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day |
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Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:16:53 +0100 |
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:40:20PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Nicolas Goaziou writes:
> > Then let's wait for Achim (Cc'ed) to illustrate what he has in mind,
> > because his proposal is too vague yet to permit discussion about it.
>
> What I had in mind was to remove org-time-clocksum-format and replace
> the associated format calls with a formatting function that has
> customizable behaviour (how customizable is t.b.d.).
>
> (format org-time-clocksum-format h m) => (org--format-time n fmt)
>
> Even if nothing else changes, that removes a lot of unnecessary code
> duplication, like the seven or so different ways to split the hours
> from the minutes that may or may not agree on their results.
I think whatever we end up doing, it's going simply things and remove
duplicate code. Which I agree is definitely a good thing.
> This is not far from your own suggestion to provide different functions
> depending on which output is desired, I just happen to think that these
> functions would all be so similar that they should be rolled into a
> single function that can produce different outputs. I think there'd
> only be a handful of possible values for fmt based on the current usage
> and that suggests just another cond form would be needed in
> implementing this function rather than a full-blown format string
> interpreter.
It seems to me your `org--format-time' function would end up looking very
like what I sketched. A cond to switch between "hh:mm", "hh.mm",
"dd hh:mm" or "dd hh.mm" based only on the contents of the fmt argument
would have to check whether fmt contains 2 or 3 %-sequences, then check
if it contains "." or ":"
If these 4 options are the only ones that are ever going to be useful, we
could instead just have a single defcustom with a 4-way choice (between 4
different descriptive symbols). This would remove some flexibility from
the existing version (as well as adding some), but it's simpler than
partially parsing the fmt string.
Toby
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Dr T. S. Cubitt
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Complutense University
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- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Achim Gratz, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Achim Gratz, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Achim Gratz, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day,
Toby Cubitt <=
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/11/05
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/06
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/11/06
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/06
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/11/06
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/06
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/11/06
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/06
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/11/06
- Re: [O] [PATCH] Separate clocksum format for durations >= 1 day, Toby Cubitt, 2012/11/06