Re: making org-time-stamp a bit more interactive

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: making org-time-stamp a bit more interactive
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:28:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2E532751-E3D0-49BE-9ECA-D088970F6C2B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091102143015.GC32187@atlantic.linksys.moosehall>

Hi Adam, this is kind-of hard to implement, I am afraid.

It is still on my list, but my first attempt just failed.   :(

- Carsten

On Nov 2, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> If I have an existing time stamp (e.g. SCHEDULED/DEADLINE)
> corresponding to (say) several months ago, and I want to update it to
> some date in the future, but I want to see the calendar in order to
> help decide the new date, I find the org-time-stamp interface slightly
> lacking.  Ideally I could:
>
>  - hit C-c . to start editing the time stamp
>  - hit '.' to change it to the current day
>  - use all the standard time stamp navigation bindings to move
>    from today to a new date
>
> Unfortunately the 2nd step does not update the Calendar buffer, so the
> 3rd step navigates relative to the original date, not relative to
> today.  Would it be easy to fix this?  Ideally the fix would also
> apply if the 2nd step involved typing something like '+2w'.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
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- Carsten