Hi Christian,
Christian Moe <mail <at> christianmoe.com> writes:
> I'm not quite clear on your use case / desired result now. Why do you
> want results through batch mode on the command line in order to embed
> them in a webpage? Embed how? Is this something you could perhaps do
> simply by exporting from Org to HTML?
Thanks for your mail. I found a (not so quick but very dirty) way to do what
I want. Just to explain:
The first step was the management of distribution lists withhin emacs. In
the second step I wanted to make the distribution lists also available via
Web. What I did now is to use a combination of php, emacs batch mode and
agenda views, shellscript and perl:
In my index.php I call a shell script:
=====================================
<!-- ;-separated list of email addresses -->
<pre><?php echo shell_exec("emacs-export-distribution-list.sh"); ?></pre>
emacs-export-distribution-list.sh
==================================
# Export Agenda View and write to file
emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-batch-agenda "1")' | sed '1d' | sed
'1d' > distribution_list.txt
# Extract email adresses
perl -wne 'while(/[\w\.]+@[\w\.]+\w+/g){print "$&; "}' distribution_list.txt
Emacs configuration
====================
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
(quote (("1" "Distribution List" tags "tag1+tag2"
((org-agenda-prefix-format
'((tags . "%-40:(km/get-properties) ; ")))
(org-use-tag-inheritance nil))))))
And the function:
(defun km/get-properties ()
(concat
(org-entry-get (point) "EMAIL")))
In emacs I could not find a way to extract only the email addresses in an
agenda view. So it was a good idea to use the following in the buffer as you
suggested:
#+NAME: list2csv
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var match="tag1+tag2"
(mapconcat 'identity
(org-map-entries
'(org-entry-get (point) "EMAIL")
match nil)
",")
#+END_SRC
But for the webpage I could use Perl to further process an agenda view. And
since I knew how to get an agenda view exported using emacs batch mode, this
was the hack I was looking for.
Perhaps not very professional, but it works. ;-)
Thanks again for your help!
Karl
