Survey results

Survey results

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi,

you might remember that in November, Charles Cave organized a survey
among Org-mode users in November.  The results of this survey can be  
found at
http://orgmode.org/survey.html.

Thanks to Charles!  There is some really interesting stuff in this,
in particular in the answers to question 5.

- Carsten

automatic reminders in Emacs as pop ups [was: Re: Survey results ]

[Nick Dokos]

One answer to question 5 on the survey was another question: automatic
reminders in Emacs as pop ups?

Here is how I do it, using very little machinery. As part of org-mode
initialization, I add appointments from the diary to the agenda at
startup and I also make org-agenda-redo rescan the appt list:

-----------------------------------
(require 'appt)
(setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
(setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
(org-agenda-to-appt)

(defadvice  org-agenda-redo (after org-agenda-redo-add-appts)
  "Pressing `r' on the agenda will also add appointments."
  (progn 
    (setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
    (org-agenda-to-appt)))

(ad-activate 'org-agenda-redo)
-----------------------------------

I enable appt reminders, set the format to 'window and provide
a display function that calls a python program to do the popup:

-----------------------------------
(progn
  (appt-activate 1)
  (setq appt-display-format 'window)
  (setq appt-disp-window-function (function my-appt-disp-window))
  (defun my-appt-disp-window (min-to-app new-time msg)
    (call-process "/home/nick/bin/popup.py" nil 0 nil min-to-app msg new-time)))
-----------------------------------

Finally, the popup.py program is trivial:

-----------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/env python

""" Simple dialog popup example similar to the GTK+ Tutorials one """

import gtk
import sys

mins = sys.argv[1]
text = ' '.join(sys.argv[2:])
dialog = gtk.MessageDialog(None,
                           gtk.DIALOG_MODAL | gtk.DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,
                           gtk.MESSAGE_INFO, gtk.BUTTONS_OK,
                           "Appt in %s mins: %s" % (mins, text))
dialog.run()
dialog.destroy()
-----------------------------------

HTH,
Nick

Re: automatic reminders in Emacs as pop ups [was: Re: Survey results ]

[Piotr Zielinski]

Also, debian/ubuntu package libnotify-bin contains a command-line
utility "notify-send" that you can use to display non-modal user
notifications, in the same way as popup.py.

Piotr

On Jan 27, 2008 10:11 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> One answer to question 5 on the survey was another question: automatic
> reminders in Emacs as pop ups?
>
> Here is how I do it, using very little machinery. As part of org-mode
> initialization, I add appointments from the diary to the agenda at
> startup and I also make org-agenda-redo rescan the appt list:
>
> -----------------------------------
> (require 'appt)
> (setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
> (setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
> (org-agenda-to-appt)
>
> (defadvice  org-agenda-redo (after org-agenda-redo-add-appts)
>   "Pressing `r' on the agenda will also add appointments."
>   (progn
>     (setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
>     (org-agenda-to-appt)))
>
> (ad-activate 'org-agenda-redo)
> -----------------------------------
>
> I enable appt reminders, set the format to 'window and provide
> a display function that calls a python program to do the popup:
>
> -----------------------------------
> (progn
>   (appt-activate 1)
>   (setq appt-display-format 'window)
>   (setq appt-disp-window-function (function my-appt-disp-window))
>   (defun my-appt-disp-window (min-to-app new-time msg)
>     (call-process "/home/nick/bin/popup.py" nil 0 nil min-to-app msg new-time)))
> -----------------------------------
>
> Finally, the popup.py program is trivial:
>
> -----------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> """ Simple dialog popup example similar to the GTK+ Tutorials one """
>
> import gtk
> import sys
>
> mins = sys.argv[1]
> text = ' '.join(sys.argv[2:])
> dialog = gtk.MessageDialog(None,
>                            gtk.DIALOG_MODAL | gtk.DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,
>                            gtk.MESSAGE_INFO, gtk.BUTTONS_OK,
>                            "Appt in %s mins: %s" % (mins, text))
> dialog.run()
> dialog.destroy()
> -----------------------------------
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
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Re: Survey results

[Leo]

On 2008-01-27 21:22 +0000, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you might remember that in November, Charles Cave organized a survey
> among Org-mode users in November.  The results of this survey can be
> found at
> http://orgmode.org/survey.html.
>
> Thanks to Charles!  There is some really interesting stuff in this,
> in particular in the answers to question 5.
>
> - Carsten

It is interesting to see the number of Xemacs users is small.

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Re: Re: Survey results

[Bastien Guerry]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> It is interesting to see the number of Xemacs users is small.

Being included in GNU Emacs surely helps.  But note that "keeping XEmacs
compatibility" is also mentionned in the 5th section.

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