Joseph Le Roux <joseph.le.r...@gmail.com> writes: > Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > >> On Tuesday, 21 Oct 2014 at 16:47, Joseph Le Roux wrote: >>> Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>> Will `org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift' do what you want? >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the pointer, it could be very handy in my use-case, but this >>> function copies the org-class as is for all clones. I would like to >> >> The idea is to use the clone function and not the org-class >> expression. Combining the two simply confuses things! >> >> What I do every start of term is define an entry for each lecture slot >> in a week including the actual time information, lecture theatre, >> etc. I then clone each individual entry using +1w for the number of >> weeks in the term. I remove any subtrees generated that correspond to >> lectures that do not actually exist, e.g. they fall on a holiday or >> during our study week. >> >> Later, if an individual lecture gets cancelled, I simply remove the >> corresponding subtree as I do for holidays etc. > > Thank you Eric, I'll follow the advice. As Rasmus showed, > 'org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift' works with a timestamp, but it does > not with (the result of) an org-class call. Ideally, what I would like > to do is to specify a set of classes using org-class syntax and, as a > result, get a set of headers. 'org-class' is a powerful tool, but just > not powerful enough yet...
I have used to use classes in the past, but I now use a setup close to Eric's. One reasons is for good org-caldav support. Here's how I schedule my Spanish classes this term: (with-temp-buffer (insert "* Spanish course ** Spanish class <2014-10-07 Tue 18:30-20:30>") (goto-line 2) (org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift 8 "+1w") (save-excursion (insert "** Spanish class <2014-10-09 Thu 18:30-20:30>\n")) (org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift 7 "+1w") (goto-char (point-min)) (org-sort-entries nil ?t) ;; like C-c ^ t (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max))) Of course in practice, this is easier to "interactively", but it's hard to describe briefly. Is there anything you miss about `org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift'¹? Would you be happy if it asked if you want to skip some weeks initially? Or do you not like the extra space it takes? —Rasmus Footnotes: ¹ note the "`" in the beginning, not "'" -- Bang bang
