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I'm trying to make a little script that will allow me to list and clock in on recent tasks from the command line, so that I can put it into an Argos script and have it be basically have it be an org clock GNOME shell extension. I noticed that there's the variable org-clock-history which is a list of markers. And I'm guessing markers are character offsets? So I might be able to translate those markers into headings, and so forth. But there must be an easier way, I'm guessing.

So, is there a way to get a list of recently clocked tasks (i.e., headings) from the org-mode clock? I've discovered that I can run emacsclient --eval '(elisp here)' to run elisp. Now all I have to do is figure out what to put in there.

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  • See the chapter on markers in the Emacs Lisp manual and more particularly the section on information from Markers in that chapter.
    – NickD
    Sep 25, 2020 at 1:31
  • What should I be looking for there? I don't see anything relevant
    – Jonathan
    Sep 25, 2020 at 4:45
  • org-clock-history is a list of markers. For each of those markers you can get the relevant buffer and the position in the buffer using the functions on that page.
    – NickD
    Sep 25, 2020 at 12:46
  • Ok, but then you have the position in the buffer, and the buffer, but how does that help me to get a list of clocked tasks from the command line?
    – Jonathan
    Sep 26, 2020 at 21:16

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