On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:36:55AM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Nicholas S-A wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> * Carsten Dominik <domi...@science.uva.nl> [2009-01-25 22:17:16 >> +0100]: >> >>> It is unlikely that this can be make faster in a significant way. >>> Why is it a problem???? Even if it takes 10 seconds? >>> Ah, I see, you do this in every new shell?????? This sounds >>> unnecessary, to say the least. >>> Maybe you have to explain better what exactly your are doing.... >> >> So, the way I currently use remind is run it as "remind ~/.remind" in >> my >> .bash_profile. It reminds me of deadlines and events at any login >> shell, >> so that I don't forget about them (and also so they are fast to >> access). >> This works well, as it is quick to load and doesn't contribute >> significantly to the login time at e.g. a Terminal window or SSH >> connection. The problem comes because I now use org-mode agenda to >> schedule everything, so I have to enter upcoming events twice -- once >> in >> my agenda files, and once in ~/.remind. As such, I thought I could >> improve my workflow by just printing the emacs agenda instead of >> running >> remind -- but this is slow. I also tried with emacsclient, but that >> didn't improve it any. > > > A work-around would be to use a cronjob to dump the the agenda output > to a file, maybe once a minute or even once every hour, and then to > cat this file into your shells.
Just wanted to chip in and say this is a great idea - thanks to Nicholas and Carsten! * goes to implement this himself now * -- Oliver Charles / aCiD2 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode