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2019-07-15

• 18:31 UTC (new) 2019-07-15 Batch Org agenda . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Org-mode agenda is a notoriously complex system. It is really great from a user’s perspective, but a nightmare for a programmer wanting to tap into its generation. A long time ago I have had an idea for a productivity tool which would compute my “agenda score” (for lack of a better name), where each task not yet done would contribute to a total of some kind of “penalty” points – and more of them depending on how long the task is overdue. However, I am probably too stupid to be able to understand what is going on under the hood of org-agenda, and I started to look for better ways. There do exist some tools which might help with that – org-super-agenda being one of them, but there are probably others. Still, I felt this is not the best way. I decided to drop my idea (at least until I have more time and motivation to get back to it). After some time, however, I came back to org-agenda, this time from another direction.

2019-07-08

• 21:02 UTC (new) 2019-07-08 Pausing an Emacs keyboard macro . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As I promised last week, I’d like to describe something I probably knew a long time ago, but completely forgot about. You can pause an Emacs keyboard macro during its execution. But wait, there’s more!

2019-07-01

• 18:31 UTC (new) 2019-07-01 Syntax-aware navigation, keyboard macros, sleeping Emacs and interactive functions . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few days ago I had an interesting Emacs-related problem. I wanted to record and use a keyboard macro which would find a certain TeX one-parameter macro (say, \todo) and comment it out. The tricky part was that it was not at all guaranteed that this macro would be on a line on its own, so “finding the string \todo, going to the beginning of the line and inserting a percent character” won’t work.

2019-06-24

• 04:56 UTC (new) 2019-06-24 org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp vs org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Org Agenda is a legendary feature. One of its selling points is customizability (as is usual in Emacs in general). This, however, comes at a price: agenda generating is slow, even though it is reportedly heavily optimized. (At the worst moment, my agenda took about half a minute to generate. A naive benchmark convinced me that the reason was a rather large Org file, weighing almost a megabyte and containing several thousand headlines (a.k.a. capture.org). No surprise, and a good candidate for optimizing (most of its entries do not really need to be even considered for agenda, so those which do can be moved to another file, and this one can be excluded from agenda generation). But today, I’d like to talk about something else – two of the many options governing agenda generation, namely org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date and org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp.

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