> I just discovered that org-clock-in displays the clocked-in task
> in the mode line, so that I can click it and go back to the Org
> file, which I really like. I changed it to switch to the window
> in which I click, by prepending "@" to the interactive spec of
> org-clock-goto.
Clicking on the clock in the mode line now pops up a menu with
clocking options.
A new command `C-c C-x C-e' allows to set or change the effort
estimate of the task currently being clocked. This is mainly useful
when using an alert notification when the task should be finished.
Based on a patch by Konstantin Antipin.
This patch prevents the org-clock-sound notification and the
"Task'BLAH' should be finished by now."
message when the termination time is reached and the clock is not
running.
Before this patch spurious notifications and messages were generated when
clocking in a task with estimated effort time remaining. After clocking
out the task the remaining minutes would tick by and then the sound
and message that the task should be finished were generated - even though
you are not working on it anymore.
This makes org-clock-sound a little more well-behaved. The clock
sound was only being issued if you were already clocking a task that
was under its limit, and changed to clocking something else. Now each
time you clock in a new task it checks the estimated effort limit and
issues the org-clock-sound if the limit is exceeded.
This patch issues the org-clock-sound whenever you clock in a task
that is already over its estimated effort amount. This allows you to
use the estimated effort as a limit for the amount of time to spend on
a task. Each time you clock in the task you'll be notified that you
are over the limit. This is great for tasks where you want to limit
the amount of time spent (per day, since last repeat) and is a
reminder to go work on something else instead.
This commit changes which time is shown in the mode line while
clocking. Normally this will now be the total time ever clocked on
this task and its children.
However, when the task is a repeating one, only the time since the
last reset of the task will be shown. The time of the last reset is
now recorded in a LAST_REPEAT property.
You can also set the CLOCK_MODELINE_TOTAL property to the value
"current" to only show the current clocking instance. Or it may be
the value "today", to only add up the time spent today on this task.
Other possible values are "repeat", "all", or "auto".
Finally, you can set your default for this property with
`org-clock-modeline-total'.
* nil. No sound played.
* any string, that is not a file. Make a beep
* file name. Emacs tries to play it with aplay, if available.
If not, use standard emacs play-sound-file function.
show notification when time is up.
* Linux only: If libnotify is used - the standard notification
system in linux, then show notification with it.
Note: Additional package libnotify-bin should be installed.
Additionally, use beep if variable org-clock-sound is set.
* If aplay (alsa player) is available, interpret org-clock-sound as
path to the file, which should be played.
This reverts commit 61dfa0c67f.
This wasn't such a great idea after all. There is one case where
this is really annoying - if you are in the middle of displaying
an agenda view with lots of filters active and you change what you
are clocking it jumps away and you lose the agenda view.
This one case makes hitting a dedicated function key that runs
org-clock-goto more desireable.
Move the point to the selected task when clocking in using the clock
history. I find I'm always going to the currently clocked task after
picking it off of the menu and this saves one small step.
This could be optionally controlled by a variable.
Adam Elliot writes:
> Automatically resuming the clock after an Emacs restart
> fails under the following cases:
>
> 1. If org-log-states-order-reversed set to t (default), and
> a state change line precedes the clock line to resume.
> Error message is "Cannot restart clock because task does
> not contain unfinished clock".
>
[...]
> 2. If org-log-states-order-reversed set to nil. Error
> message is the same. Reason: point is placed *after*
> last clock line and so fails looking-at test.
>
This commit fixes the problem, in a slightly different way
than Adam proposed. Instead of trying to fix the old way to
find the position of the clock, we now simple search the
entry if there is an unfinished clock and go there. Since
new clocks are added before older ones, this should be a
safe bet.