Re: [O] [PATCH] Change: (org-agenda-bulk-action) Prompt w/number of marked items

[Adam Porter]

I went ahead and made a patch for that idea.

Thanks,
Adam

>From bba4a705cb028643ee76c9e37b0168e8a1152986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Porter <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 03:53:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] org-agenda: Add org-agenda-scatter-days option

The new option sets the number of days to prompt with when scattering
bulk-selected agenda items.  It can be set to a number of days, or to
the number of selected items (which scatters the items one-per-day
starting on the next day).  The default value is 7, so the default
behavior is unchanged from previous versions.

* lisp/org-agenda.el (org-agenda-scatter-days): Add option.
(org-agenda-bulk-action): Use option.
* etc/ORG-NEWS: Add entry.
---
 etc/ORG-NEWS       |  9 +++++++++
 lisp/org-agenda.el | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/etc/ORG-NEWS b/etc/ORG-NEWS
index 2a22be0..e489dbc 100644
--- a/etc/ORG-NEWS
+++ b/etc/ORG-NEWS
@@ -312,6 +312,15 @@ beginning of a headline when using Org speed commands.  
Now, if there
 is already a restriction at point, hitting =<= again (or =C-x C-x <=) will
 remove it.
 
+*** Option =org-agenda-scatter-days=
+
+The new option, =org-agenda-scatter-days=, sets the number of days to
+prompt with when scattering bulk-selected agenda items.  It can be set
+to a number of days, or to the number of selected items (which
+scatters the items one-per-day starting on the next day).  The default
+value is 7, so the default behavior is unchanged from previous
+versions.
+
 ** New commands and functions
 
 *** ~org-insert-structure-template~
diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
index eaeddb6..6d3799c 100644
--- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
+++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
@@ -2042,6 +2042,12 @@ Note that functions in this alist don't need to be 
quoted."
   :version "24.1"
   :group 'org-agenda)
 
+(defcustom org-agenda-scatter-days 7
+  "Number of days to scatter bulk-selected items across, by default."
+  :type '(choice (integer :tag "Number of days")
+                (const :tag "Number of bulk-selected items" 
org-agenda-bulk-marked-entries))
+  :group 'org-agenda)
+
 (defmacro org-agenda-with-point-at-orig-entry (string &rest body)
   "Execute BODY with point at location given by `org-hd-marker' property.
 If STRING is non-nil, the text property will be fetched from position 0
@@ -9967,7 +9973,9 @@ The prefix arg is passed through to the command if 
possible."
         (let ((days (read-number
                      (format "Scatter tasks across how many %sdays: "
                              (if arg "week" ""))
-                     7)))
+                     (pcase org-agenda-scatter-days
+                       ((pred integerp) org-agenda-scatter-days)
+                       ('org-agenda-bulk-marked-entries (length 
org-agenda-bulk-marked-entries))))))
           (setq cmd
                 `(lambda ()
                    (let ((distance (1+ (random ,days))))
-- 
2.7.4