Re: [O] Custom time display in mode-line

[Antoine Levitt]

Daniel Clemente n142857 at gmail.com writes:

 
 
 Hi
 
   org-clock-modeline-total now accepts following values: current, today, 
repeat, all, auto.
   It would be useful to allow it to accept either a custom function or a 
format string which composes a text
 string like:
 0:10 (tot: 1:10/2:00)
   meaning: „clocking 10 minutes in this session, but the total clocked time 
(including those 10min) is
 1:10, and the effort estimate is 2:00“.
 
   Not all entries have a „total clocked time“ (: entries clocked for the 
 first 
time) and not all entries
 have an estimate.
 - Either many format strings must be given (_simple, _with_total, 
_with_estimate,
 _with_total_and_estimate), e.g. (%current %current (tot: %total) 
%current/%estimate
 %current (tot:%total/%estimate))
 - … or we must cope with results like 0:10 (tot: /)
 - … or a custom function must be used to do those conditionals.
 
   Accepting a function would be like redefining org-clock-get-clock-string 
 but 
without touching org's core.
 
   I tried to change the code but I'm confused as to why org-clock-modeline-
total (a mere
 visualization/„view“ setting) is read in org-clock-get-sum-start (which is a 
„model“/core
 function and therefore not tied to any particular „view“). I think org-clock-
modeline-total
 should be read just in org-clock-get-clock-string.
   Documentation of org-clock-get-clocked-time is also wrong („The time 
returned includes the time
 spent on this task in previous clocking intervals.“) since this depends on 
what
 org-clock-get-sum-start did.
 
 --
 Daniel


Hi,

I just started using org-clock, and that seems like a major issue (from an 
emacs 
user perspective, who is used to be able to modify everything that gets 
displayed, especially such an important part). The code is a bit messy and I 
don't understand everything, so I'm not able to write a patch for this, but can 
someone look into that? Ideally, org-clock-modeline-total would be obsoleted 
and 
replaced by a org-clock-modeline-format that'd get passed to format-spec.

Re: [O] Custom time display in mode-line

[Antoine Levitt]

Hi,
Thanks for answering,

01/05/12 19:41, Bastien
 Antoine Levitt antoine.lev...@gmail.com writes:

 Ideally, org-clock-modeline-total would be obsoleted and replaced by a
 org-clock-modeline-format that'd get passed to format-spec.

 Please suggest the docstring for `org-clock-modeline-format'.  This 
 will give us a stable basis to work on.  

 At this stage, I don't understand clearly enough what is buggy about
 `org-clock-modeline-total'.

It's not buggy, it's just not customizable enough. I'm very sensitive
about what goes into my modeline. (and apparently I'm not alone)

I have in mind something like mode-line-format. So for instance, the
docstring would be something like:

String containing a template for displaying mode line when clock is
active. The following %-constructs will be replaced:
%n -- the name of the task
%t -- time clocked into this task today
%c -- time clocked in the current instance of the clock
%a -- all time clocked for this task

Plus there should probably be stuff about repeats and effort that I
don't understand because I don't use them.

Other emacs packages (for instance, gnus via gnus-group-line-format and
such variables) allow pretty much unlimited customization of these
format strings, so it makes sense that org does too.

But I'm realizing that even that is not sufficient for what I want. What
I really want is complete lisp control, with access to the time
clocked. For instance, I'd like to be able to display stuff like Task1
: 00:24 today, 04:13 this week. Maybe a refactoring with more options
to org-clock-get-clocked-time (for instance, accepting the same :block
options as the clocktable) would be a good idea?