From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
Cc: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: calendar date adjustments blocked
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 18:56:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFD73CC-4EAE-4900-80C3-6B03889767A2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1111051322270.12320@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg>
On 5.11.2011, at 18:23, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> hitting -2 in the date field had no effect,
Bernt means typing into the minibuffer "-2" and then hitting RET
- Carsten
> what did work though was
> shift-leftarrow though. On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Nick Dokos wrote:
>
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 5.11.2011, at 03:03, Nick Dokos wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I needed to enter information for two dates in org-mode and went into
>>>>> calendar using c-c+! and got the current date as expected then hit c-b to
>>>>> move the date to yesterday and pointer remained on today's date. So I
>>>>> ended up hitting <cr> on today's date and editing it in the actual org
>>>>> file and filling the rest of my entry in after it. Then I repeated the
>>>>> operation for today and entered today's information. I was a bit
>>>>> surprised that the date was locked like that once calendar mode was
>>>>> entered but managed a workaround anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess your problem is that the calendar is indeed popped up, but the cursor
>>>> is still in the daytime prompt in the minibuffer. As Bernt points out, typing
>>>> -2 at that point gets you to the right date.
>>>>
>>>> The calendar seems to be for inveterate mouser users, not keyboard
>>>> types: even if I C-x o to the calendar window, the cursor ends up not on
>>>> today's date but off to the right somewhere and I get an error message:
>>>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | Error in post-command-hook (org-read-date-display): (buffer-read-only *Calendar*)
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what's going on there: I expected that after I switched windows
>>>> to the Calendar, my cursor would be on today's date.
>>>
>>> The popup calender in Org is a special construct that hijacks key presses
>>> so that all control can be done from the minibuffer, without switching to the
>>> calender buffer itself. This has side effects if you try to move
>>> into the calendar buffer window anyway.
>>>
>>> Bernt showed one way to specify the date. You can also click on the date
>>> to get it selected immediately. Or you can use S-left twice to get the date
>>> selected with the shadow cursor in the calendar window. There are more
>>> key presses that manipulate the calendar window from the minibuffer, see
>>>
>>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Creating-timestamps.html#Creating-timestamps
>>>
>>
>> Thank you - time to hit the books (again). Of all people, I should have
>> known better than to post without checking the manual first.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>
> Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
> When people ask do you believe in Numerology, the proper reply for me at
> least is do you believe in a hammer? The proper answer for me for both
> questions is no, they're both tools and to be used under appropriate
> circumstances.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-05 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-04 6:12 calendar date adjustments blocked Jude DaShiell
2011-11-05 0:11 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-11-05 2:03 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-05 6:26 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-11-05 10:30 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-11-05 11:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-11-05 15:29 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-05 17:23 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-11-05 17:56 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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