1 ;;; remember --- a mode for quickly jotting down things to remember
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1999-2001, 2003-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
6 ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
7 ;; Created: 29 Mar 1999
9 ;; Keywords: data memory todo pim
10 ;; URL: http://gna.org/projects/remember-el/
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31 ;; Todo lists, schedules, phone databases... everything we use
32 ;; databases for is really just a way to extend the power of our
33 ;; memory. To be able to remember what our conscious mind may not
34 ;; currently have access to.
36 ;; There are many different databases out there -- and good ones --
37 ;; which this mode is not trying to replace. Rather, it's how that
38 ;; data gets there that's the question. Most of the time, we just
39 ;; want to say "Remember so-and-so's phone number, or that I have to
40 ;; buy dinner for the cats tonight." That's the FACT. How it's
41 ;; stored is really the computer's problem. But at this point in
42 ;; time, it's most definitely also the user's problem, and sometimes
43 ;; so laboriously so that people just let data slip, rather than
44 ;; expend the effort to record it.
46 ;; "Remember" is a mode for remembering data. It uses whatever
47 ;; back-end is appropriate to record and correlate the data, but it's
48 ;; main intention is to allow you to express as _little_ structure as
49 ;; possible up front. If you later want to express more powerful
50 ;; relationships between your data, or state assumptions that were at
51 ;; first too implicit to be recognized, you can "study" the data later
52 ;; and rearrange it. But the initial "just remember this" impulse
53 ;; should be as close to simply throwing the data at Emacs as
58 ;; Hyperbole, as a data presentation tool, always struck me as being
59 ;; very powerful, but it seemed to require a lot of "front-end" work
60 ;; before that data was really available. The problem with BBDB, or
61 ;; keeping up a Bibl-mode file, is that you have to use different
62 ;; functions to record the data, and it always takes time to stop what
63 ;; you're doing, format the data in the manner expected by that
64 ;; particular data interface, and then resume your work.
66 ;; With "remember", you just hit `M-x remember' (you'd probably want
67 ;; to bind this to an easily accessible keystroke, like C-x M-r), slam
68 ;; in your text however you like, and then hit C-c C-c. It will file
69 ;; the data away for later retrieval, and possibly indexing.
71 ;; Indexing is to data what "studying" is in the real world. What you
72 ;; do when you study (or lucubrate, for some of us) is to realize
73 ;; certain relationships implicit in the data, so that you can make
74 ;; use of those relationships. Expressing that a certain quote you
75 ;; remembered was a religious quote, and that you want the ability to
76 ;; pull up all quotes of a religious nature, is what studying does.
77 ;; This is a more labor intensive task than the original remembering
78 ;; of the data, and it's typical in real life to set aside a special
79 ;; period of time for doing this work.
81 ;; "Remember" works in the same way. When you enter data, either by
82 ;; typing it into a buffer, or using the contents of the selected
83 ;; region, it will store that data -- unindexed, uninterpreted -- in a
84 ;; data pool. It will also try to remember as much context
85 ;; information as possible (any text properties that were set, where
86 ;; you copied it from, when, how, etc). Later, you can walk through
87 ;; your accumulated set of data (both organized, and unorganized) and
88 ;; easily begin moving things around, and making annotations that will
89 ;; express the full meaning of that data, as far as you know it.
91 ;; Obviously this latter stage is more user-interface intensive, and
92 ;; it would be nice if "remember" could do it as elegantly as
93 ;; possible, rather than requiring a billion keystrokes to reorganize
94 ;; your hierarchy. Well, as the future arrives, hopefully experience
95 ;; and user feedback will help to make this as intuitive a tool as
100 ;; This tool hopes to track (and by doing it with as little new code
103 ;; - The raw data that gets entered
105 ;; - The relationships between that data (either determined
106 ;; implicitly by parsing the input, or explicitly by the user's
107 ;; studying the data).
109 ;; - Revisioning of the data
111 ;; - Where it came from, and any context information that can be
112 ;; programmatically determined.
114 ;; - Allowing particular views of the initially amorphous data pool
115 ;; (ala the Xanadu concept).
117 ;; - Storage of the data in a manner most appropriate to that data,
118 ;; such as keeping address-book type information in BBDB, etc.
120 ;; * Using "remember"
122 ;; As a rough beginning, what I do is to keep my `remember-data-file' in
123 ;; outline-mode format, with a final entry called "* Raw data". Then,
124 ;; at intervals, I can move the data that gets appended there into
125 ;; other places. But certainly this should evolve into an intuitive
126 ;; mechanism for shuffling data off to its appropriate corner of the
129 ;; To map the primary remember function to the keystroke F8, do the
132 ;; (autoload 'remember "remember" nil t)
134 ;; (define-key global-map [f8] 'remember)
138 ;; If Emacs could become a more intelligent data store, where
139 ;; brainstorming would focus on the IDEAS involved -- rather than the
140 ;; structuring and format of those ideas, or having to stop your
141 ;; current flow of work in order to record them -- it would map much
142 ;; more closely to how the mind (well, at least mine) works, and hence
143 ;; would eliminate that very manual-ness which computers from the very
144 ;; beginning have been championed as being able to reduce.
146 ;; Have you ever noticed that having a laptop to write on doesn't
147 ;; _actually_ increase the amount of quality material that you turn
148 ;; out, in the long run? Perhaps its because the time we save
149 ;; electronically in one way, we're losing electronically in another;
150 ;; the tool should never dominate one's focus. As the mystic
151 ;; Faridu'd-Din `Attar wrote: "Be occupied as little as possible with
152 ;; things of the outer world but much with things of the inner world;
153 ;; then right action will overcome inaction."
155 ;; * Diary integration
157 ;; To use, add the following to your .emacs:
159 ;; ;; This should be before other entries that may return t
160 ;; (add-to-list 'remember-handler-functions 'remember-diary-extract-entries)
162 ;; This module recognizes entries of the form
166 ;; and puts them in your ~/.diary (or remember-diary-file) together
167 ;; with an annotation. Dates in the form YYYY.MM.DD are converted to
168 ;; YYYY-MM-DD so that diary can understand them.
172 ;; DIARY: 2003.08.12 Sacha's birthday
176 ;; 2003.08.12 Sacha's birthday
182 (defconst remember-version
"2.0"
183 "This version of remember.")
185 (defgroup remember nil
186 "A mode to remember information."
191 (defcustom remember-mode-hook nil
192 "Functions run upon entering `remember-mode'."
194 :options
'(flyspell-mode turn-on-auto-fill org-remember-apply-template
)
197 (defcustom remember-in-new-frame nil
198 "Non-nil means use a separate frame for capturing remember data."
202 (defcustom remember-register ?R
203 "The register in which the window configuration is stored."
207 (defcustom remember-filter-functions nil
208 "Functions run to filter remember data.
209 All functions are run in the remember buffer."
213 (defcustom remember-handler-functions
'(remember-append-to-file)
214 "Functions run to process remember data.
215 Each function is called with the current buffer narrowed to what the
216 user wants remembered.
217 If any function returns non-nil, the data is assumed to have been
218 recorded somewhere by that function."
220 :options
'(remember-store-in-mailbox
221 remember-append-to-file
222 remember-store-in-files
223 remember-diary-extract-entries
224 org-remember-handler
)
227 (defcustom remember-all-handler-functions nil
228 "If non-nil every function in `remember-handler-functions' is called."
232 ;; See below for more user variables.
234 ;;; Internal Variables:
236 (defvar remember-buffer
"*Remember*"
237 "The name of the remember data entry buffer.")
239 (defcustom remember-save-after-remembering t
240 "Non-nil means automatically save after remembering."
246 (defcustom remember-annotation-functions
'(buffer-file-name)
247 "Hook that returns an annotation to be inserted into the remember buffer."
249 :options
'(org-remember-annotation buffer-file-name
)
252 (defvar remember-annotation nil
253 "Current annotation.")
254 (defvar remember-initial-contents nil
255 "Initial contents to place into *Remember* buffer.")
257 (defcustom remember-before-remember-hook nil
258 "Functions run before switching to the *Remember* buffer."
262 (defcustom remember-run-all-annotation-functions-flag nil
263 "Non-nil means use all annotations returned by `remember-annotation-functions'."
268 (defun remember (&optional initial
)
269 "Remember an arbitrary piece of data.
270 INITIAL is the text to initially place in the *Remember* buffer,
271 or nil to bring up a blank *Remember* buffer.
273 With a prefix or a visible region, use the region as INITIAL."
275 (list (when (or current-prefix-arg
277 transient-mark-mode
))
278 (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)))))
279 (funcall (if remember-in-new-frame
280 #'frameset-to-register
281 #'window-configuration-to-register
) remember-register
)
283 (if remember-run-all-annotation-functions-flag
286 (mapcar 'funcall remember-annotation-functions
))
288 (run-hook-with-args-until-success
289 'remember-annotation-functions
)))
290 (buf (get-buffer-create remember-buffer
)))
291 (run-hooks 'remember-before-remember-hook
)
292 (funcall (if remember-in-new-frame
293 #'switch-to-buffer-other-frame
294 #'switch-to-buffer-other-window
) buf
)
295 (if remember-in-new-frame
296 (set-window-dedicated-p
297 (get-buffer-window (current-buffer) (selected-frame)) t
))
298 (setq buffer-offer-save t
)
300 (when (= (point-max) (point-min))
301 (when initial
(insert initial
))
302 (setq remember-annotation annotation
)
303 (when remember-initial-contents
(insert remember-initial-contents
))
304 (when (and (stringp annotation
)
305 (not (equal annotation
"")))
306 (insert "\n\n" annotation
))
307 (setq remember-initial-contents nil
)
308 (goto-char (point-min)))
309 (message "Use C-c C-c to remember the data.")))
312 (defun remember-other-frame (&optional initial
)
313 "Call `remember' in another frame."
315 (list (when current-prefix-arg
316 (buffer-substring (point) (mark)))))
317 (let ((remember-in-new-frame t
))
320 (defsubst remember-mail-date
(&optional rfc822-p
)
321 "Return a simple date. Nothing fancy."
323 (format-time-string "%a, %e %b %Y %T %z" (current-time))
324 (format-time-string "%a %b %e %T %Y" (current-time))))
326 (defun remember-buffer-desc ()
327 "Using the first line of the current buffer, create a short description."
328 (buffer-substring (point-min)
330 (goto-char (point-min))
332 (if (> (- (point) (point-min)) 60)
333 (goto-char (+ (point-min) 60)))
336 ;; Remembering to UNIX mailboxes
338 (defcustom remember-mailbox
"~/Mail/remember"
339 "The file in which to store remember data as mail."
343 (defcustom remember-default-priority
"medium"
344 "The default priority for remembered mail messages."
348 (defun remember-store-in-mailbox ()
349 "Store remember data as if it were incoming mail.
350 In which case `remember-mailbox' should be the name of the mailbox.
351 Each piece of pseudo-mail created will have an `X-Todo-Priority'
352 field, for the purpose of appropriate splitting."
353 (let ((who (read-string "Who is this item related to? "))
354 (moment (format "%.0f" (float-time)))
355 (desc (remember-buffer-desc))
356 (text (buffer-string)))
358 (insert (format "From %s %s
361 Message-Id: <remember-%s@%s>
367 (remember-mail-date t
)
370 remember-default-priority
371 (user-full-name) user-mail-address
373 (let ((here (point)))
379 (while (re-search-forward "^\\(From[: ]\\)" nil t
)
380 (replace-match ">\\1")))
381 (append-to-file (point-min) (point-max) remember-mailbox
)
384 ;; Remembering to plain files
386 (defcustom remember-data-file
(locate-user-emacs-file "notes" ".notes")
387 "The file in which to store unprocessed data.
388 When set via customize, visited file of the notes buffer (if it
389 exists) might be changed."
390 :version
"24.4" ; added locate-user-emacs-file
392 :set
(lambda (symbol value
)
393 (let ((buf (find-buffer-visiting (default-value symbol
))))
394 (set-default symbol value
)
395 (when (buffer-live-p buf
)
396 (with-current-buffer buf
397 (set-visited-file-name
398 (expand-file-name remember-data-file
))))))
399 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
402 (defcustom remember-leader-text
"** "
403 "The text used to begin each remember item."
407 (defun remember-append-to-file ()
408 "Remember, with description DESC, the given TEXT."
409 (let* ((text (buffer-string))
410 (desc (remember-buffer-desc))
411 (remember-text (concat "\n" remember-leader-text
(current-time-string)
412 " (" desc
")\n\n" text
413 (save-excursion (goto-char (point-max))
414 (if (bolp) nil
"\n"))))
415 (buf (find-buffer-visiting remember-data-file
)))
417 (with-current-buffer buf
419 (goto-char (point-max))
420 (insert remember-text
))
421 (if remember-save-after-remembering
(save-buffer)))
422 (append-to-file remember-text nil remember-data-file
))))
424 (defun remember-region (&optional beg end
)
425 "Remember the data from BEG to END.
426 It is called from within the *Remember* buffer to save the text
429 If BEG and END are nil, the entire buffer will be remembered.
431 If you want to remember a region, supply a universal prefix to
432 `remember' instead. For example: \\[universal-argument] \\[remember] RET."
433 ;; Sacha: I have no idea where remember.el gets this context information, but
434 ;; you can just use remember-annotation-functions.
436 (let ((b (or beg
(min (point) (or (mark) (point-min)))))
437 (e (or end
(max (point) (or (mark) (point-max))))))
439 (narrow-to-region b e
)
440 (if remember-all-handler-functions
441 (run-hooks 'remember-handler-functions
)
442 (run-hook-with-args-until-success 'remember-handler-functions
))
443 (remember-destroy))))
445 (defcustom remember-data-directory
"~/remember"
446 "The directory in which to store remember data as files.
447 Used by `remember-store-in-files'."
452 (defcustom remember-directory-file-name-format
"%Y-%m-%d_%T-%z"
453 "Format string for the file name in which to store unprocessed data.
454 This is passed to `format-time-string'.
455 Used by `remember-store-in-files'."
460 (defun remember-store-in-files ()
461 "Store remember data in a file in `remember-data-directory'.
462 The file is named by calling `format-time-string' using
463 `remember-directory-file-name-format' as the format string."
464 (let ((name (format-time-string
465 remember-directory-file-name-format
(current-time)))
466 (text (buffer-string)))
469 (write-file (convert-standard-filename
470 (format "%s/%s" remember-data-directory name
))))))
473 (defun remember-clipboard ()
474 "Remember the contents of the current clipboard.
475 Most useful for remembering things from other applications."
477 (remember (current-kill 0)))
479 (defun remember-finalize ()
480 "Remember the contents of the current buffer."
482 (remember-region (point-min) (point-max)))
485 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'remember-buffer
'remember-finalize
"23.1")
487 (defun remember-destroy ()
488 "Destroy the current *Remember* buffer."
490 (when (equal remember-buffer
(buffer-name))
491 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
492 (jump-to-register remember-register
)))
494 ;;; Diary integration
496 (defcustom remember-diary-file nil
497 "File for extracted diary entries.
498 If this is nil, then `diary-file' will be used instead."
499 :type
'(choice (const :tag
"diary-file" nil
) file
)
502 (defun remember-diary-convert-entry (entry)
503 "Translate MSG to an entry readable by diary."
505 (when remember-annotation
506 (setq entry
(concat entry
" " remember-annotation
)))
507 (if (string-match "\\([0-9]+\\)\\.\\([0-9]+\\)\\.\\([0-9]+\\)" entry
)
509 ;; For calendar-date-style. This costs us nothing because
510 ;; the call to diary-make-entry below loads diary-lib
511 ;; which requires calendar.
514 (let ((style (if (boundp 'calendar-date-style
)
516 ;; Don't complain about obsolescence.
517 (if (with-no-warnings european-calendar-style
)
520 (cond ((eq style
'european
)
521 (concat (match-string 3 entry
) "/"
522 (match-string 2 entry
) "/"
523 (match-string 1 entry
)))
525 (concat (match-string 1 entry
) "-"
526 (match-string 2 entry
) "-"
527 (match-string 3 entry
)))
528 (t (concat (match-string 2 entry
) "/"
529 (match-string 3 entry
) "/"
530 (match-string 1 entry
)))))
534 (autoload 'diary-make-entry
"diary-lib")
537 (defun remember-diary-extract-entries ()
538 "Extract diary entries from the region."
540 (goto-char (point-min))
542 (while (re-search-forward "^DIARY:\\s-*\\(.+\\)" nil t
)
543 (push (remember-diary-convert-entry (match-string 1)) list
))
545 (diary-make-entry (mapconcat 'identity list
"\n")
546 nil remember-diary-file
))
547 nil
))) ;; Continue processing
549 ;;; Internal Functions:
551 (defvar remember-mode-map
552 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
553 (define-key map
"\C-x\C-s" 'remember-finalize
)
554 (define-key map
"\C-c\C-c" 'remember-finalize
)
555 (define-key map
"\C-c\C-k" 'remember-destroy
)
557 "Keymap used in `remember-mode'.")
559 (define-derived-mode remember-mode indented-text-mode
"Remember"
560 "Major mode for output from \\[remember].
561 This buffer is used to collect data that you want to remember.
562 \\<remember-mode-map>
563 Just hit \\[remember-finalize] when you're done entering, and it will file
564 the data away for latter retrieval, and possible indexing.
566 \\{remember-mode-map}"
567 (set-keymap-parent remember-mode-map nil
))
569 ;; Notes buffer showing the notes:
571 (defcustom remember-notes-buffer-name
"*notes*"
572 "Name of the notes buffer.
573 Setting it to *scratch* will hijack the *scratch* buffer for the
574 purpose of storing notes."
578 (defcustom remember-notes-initial-major-mode nil
579 "Major mode to use in the notes buffer when it's created.
580 If this is nil, use `initial-major-mode'."
581 :type
'(choice (const :tag
"Use `initial-major-mode'" nil
)
582 (function :tag
"Major mode" text-mode
))
585 (defcustom remember-notes-bury-on-kill t
586 "Non-nil means `kill-buffer' will bury the notes buffer instead of killing."
590 (defun remember-notes-save-and-bury-buffer ()
591 "Save (if it is modified) and bury the current buffer."
593 (when (buffer-modified-p)
599 (defvar remember-notes-mode-map
600 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
601 (define-key map
"\C-c\C-c" 'remember-notes-save-and-bury-buffer
)
603 "Keymap used in `remember-notes-mode'.")
605 (define-minor-mode remember-notes-mode
606 "Minor mode for the `remember-notes' buffer.
607 This sets `buffer-save-without-query' so that `save-some-buffers' will
608 save the notes buffer without asking.
610 \\{remember-notes-mode-map}"
614 (add-hook 'kill-buffer-query-functions
615 #'remember-notes--kill-buffer-query nil t
)
616 (setq buffer-save-without-query t
))))
619 (defun remember-notes (&optional switch-to
)
620 "Return the notes buffer, creating it if needed, and maybe switch to it.
621 This buffer is for notes that you want to preserve across Emacs sessions.
622 The notes are saved in `remember-data-file'.
624 If a buffer is already visiting that file, just return it.
626 Otherwise, create the buffer, and rename it to `remember-notes-buffer-name',
627 unless a buffer of that name already exists. Set the major mode according
628 to `remember-notes-initial-major-mode', and enable `remember-notes-mode'
631 Use \\<remember-notes-mode-map>\\[remember-notes-save-and-bury-buffer] to save and bury the notes buffer.
633 Interactively, or if SWITCH-TO is non-nil, switch to the buffer.
636 Set `initial-buffer-choice' to `remember-notes' to visit your notes buffer
637 when Emacs starts. Set `remember-notes-buffer-name' to \"*scratch*\"
638 to turn the *scratch* buffer into your notes buffer."
640 (let ((buf (or (find-buffer-visiting remember-data-file
)
641 (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect remember-data-file
)
642 (and remember-notes-buffer-name
643 (not (get-buffer remember-notes-buffer-name
))
644 (rename-buffer remember-notes-buffer-name
))
645 (funcall (or remember-notes-initial-major-mode
647 (remember-notes-mode 1)
650 (switch-to-buffer buf
))
653 (defun remember-notes--kill-buffer-query ()
654 "Function that `remember-notes-mode' adds to `kill-buffer-query-functions'.
655 Save the current buffer if modified. If `remember-notes-bury-on-kill'
656 is non-nil, bury it and return nil; otherwise return t."
657 (when (buffer-modified-p)
659 (if remember-notes-bury-on-kill
661 ;; bury-buffer always returns nil, but let's be explicit.
668 ;;; remember.el ends here