From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: calendar date adjustments blocked
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:11:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67A5D004-7087-4E4C-895C-4B6902D4738F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1111050630180.95271@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg>
On 5.11.2011, at 11:30, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Is it just the calendar or other things that use pop ups in emacs?
Just the calendar, and only when called from an Org-mode command
that prompts the user for a date.
- Carsten
> On Sat,
> 5 Nov 2011, Carsten Dominik 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
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-05 11:12 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 [this message]
2011-11-05 15:29 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-05 17:23 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-11-05 17:56 ` Carsten Dominik
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