Hi Julien,
Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizol...@free.fr> writes:
> I often need to purge DONE items from my org files. I have set up a
> special agenda view for checking those items and cutting some subtrees
> from it using bulk commands. I'm using a function adapted from the
> example in the manual (I've no idea if it's the best way to do it
> however) :
>
> ,----
> | (defun bulk-cut ()
> | (interactive "P")
> | (let* ((marker (or (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker)
> | (org-agenda-error)))
> | (buffer (marker-buffer marker)))
> | (with-current-buffer buffer
> | (save-excursion
> | (save-restriction
> | (widen)
> | (goto-char marker)
> | (org-back-to-heading t)
> | (org-cut-subtree))))))
> `----
>
> Typing B f bulk-cut RET removes the selected items but it's a lot of
> typing for a very useful action in my opinion.
>
> Could it be added to the list of default bulk actions, with a "X" key
> for example ?
Please test this patch and try to set `org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions'
(see the docstring).
Thanks for bringing this up!
>From 0c90c476015f4b9e20199df30652bb341fd0d811 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bastien Guerry <b...@altern.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:48:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] org-agenda.el: New variable for custom bulk action
functions.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions): New
variable for custom bulk action functions.
(org-agenda-bulk-action): Use it.
Thanks to Julien Cubizolles for triggering this idea.
---
lisp/org-agenda.el | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
index 37f8e84..4209b45 100644
--- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
+++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
@@ -1695,6 +1695,19 @@ the lower-case version of all tags."
:group 'org-agenda
:type 'function)
+(defcustom org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions nil
+ "Alist of characters and custom functions for bulk action.
+For example, this value makes those two functions available:
+
+ '((?R set-category)
+ (?C bulk-cut))
+
+With selected entries in an agenda buffer, `B R' will execute
+set-category on the selected entries. Note that functions in
+this alist don't need to be quoted."
+ :type 'alist
+ :group 'org-agenda)
+
(eval-when-compile
(require 'cl))
(require 'org)
@@ -8149,7 +8162,13 @@ The prefix arg is passed through to the command if possible."
org-agenda-bulk-marked-entries)
;; Prompt for the bulk command
- (message "Bulk: [r]efile [$]arch [A]rch->sib [t]odo [+/-]tag [s]chd [S]catter [d]eadline [f]unction")
+ (message (concat "Bulk: [r]efile [$]arch [A]rch->sib [t]odo"
+ " [+/-]tag [s]chd [S]catter [d]eadline [f]unction"
+ (when org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions
+ (concat " Custom: ["
+ (mapconcat (lambda(f) (char-to-string (car f)))
+ org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions "")
+ "]"))))
(let* ((action (read-char-exclusive))
(org-log-refile (if org-log-refile 'time nil))
(entries (reverse org-agenda-bulk-marked-entries))
@@ -8243,6 +8262,10 @@ The prefix arg is passed through to the command if possible."
(org-agenda-schedule nil time))
(error nil)))))))
+ ((assoc action org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions)
+ (setq cmd (list (cadr (assoc action org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions)))
+ redo-at-end t))
+
((equal action ?f)
(setq cmd (list (intern
(org-icompleting-read "Function: "
--
1.7.5.2
--
Bastien
