org-clock-convenience-clocked-agenda-re is not robust to changes in org-agenda-prefix-format about org-clock-convenience

[dfeich]

I think your current workaround of showing the information in different blocks (or could even be different views as different agenda custom views) is nice. Getting org-clock-convenience to automatically adapt to the settings in org-agenda-prefix-format would be quite a high effort, so I would not like to go that way. If really needed, a user can adapt the existing regexps and matching field name lists to fit his configuration, but it will require some advanced emacs regexp skills.

I am using generic functions to find, read out, or place the cursor in named fields. These functions always take among the arguments a regexp defining all the fields, and a list of field names. As an example, this call places point (the cursor) at the field "d1-time" that is defined by the regexp org-clock-convenience-clocked-agenda-re and the list of field names in org-clock-convenience-clocked-agenda-fields.

(org-clock-convenience-goto-re-field 'd1-time
					 org-clock-convenience-clocked-agenda-re
					 org-clock-convenience-clocked-agenda-fields)

So, one just needs to modify those two variables.

The best way for me in Emacs to play with regexps and getting the escaping right is to use Emacs' regexp-builder mode.

I need to add some documentation for users to make them aware of these problems. Thank you again for reporting.

[dfeich]

Closing this old bug. The solution to problems with customized org-agenda-prefix-format are documented in the README file under the heading Dealing with changes in org-agenda-prefix-format.