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How to automatically save all org files after marking a repeating item as DONE in the org agenda? I'm using this to automatically save my org buffers after every change to TODO status:

(advice-add 'org-todo :after (η #'org-save-all-org-buffers))

(Where η ignores all arguments and calls the given function.)

This however doesn't work for repeating tasks, scheduled like this:

SCHEDULED: <2016-04-22 Fri +1d>

The org document is still modified after changing the state from TODO to DONE. I've tried a number of hook variables and methods, all without success.

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  • Are you saying that the file does not get saved? Or just that it is still marked as modified after the change? Maybe you could try the hook org-trigger-hook instead of using advice.
    – nispio
    Apr 21, 2016 at 15:27
  • @nispio, Tried that, the org buffer is still modified even if I call org-save-all-buffers unconditionally in org-trigger-hook.
    – Mark Karpov
    May 26, 2017 at 8:45

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OK, after some investigation it looks like after calling the org-todo, the Org mode tries to store some sort of a “note” using the org-store-log-note function. So the chain of events is roughly the following:

  • org-todo is called.
  • The advice runs org-save-all-org-buffers without problems, everything gets saved.
  • If it's a repeating task, org-store-log-note gets called, which edits the org file again leaving the buffer in a modified state.

Knowing that, the solutions is obvious—just add an :after advice to the org-store-log-note function. My current setup is thus:

(advice-add 'org-deadline       :after (η #'org-save-all-org-buffers))
(advice-add 'org-schedule       :after (η #'org-save-all-org-buffers))
(advice-add 'org-store-log-note :after (η #'org-save-all-org-buffers))
(advice-add 'org-todo           :after (η #'org-save-all-org-buffers))

This η thing is just a helper I defined:

(defmacro η (fnc)
  "Return function that ignores its arguments and invokes FNC."
  `(lambda (&rest _rest)
     (funcall ,fnc)))
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  • This would be nice. I tried copying the lines and pasting them. But that 'η' character seems to causing prablem. When pasted, it shows is \267. How do I get 'η'?
    – deshmukh
    Dec 1, 2017 at 10:36
  • @deshmukh, I have added the definition of that eta helper, hope you find it helpful. (You can use whatever you like instead of η, it's not necessary to use a greek letter after all :-)
    – Mark Karpov
    Dec 2, 2017 at 14:46
  • Perfect. I changed η to xx-mu and it worked fine. Thanks. But still curious, how come the same character displays as η in your .emacs and as \267 in mine?
    – deshmukh
    Dec 4, 2017 at 10:51

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