Re: [PATCH] Org Manual: Document time range spec at the date/time prompt

From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Org Manual: Document time range spec at the date/time prompt
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:32:08 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81eie8je8v.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81tyn43nyz.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:56:28 +0530")

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Re-submitting my earlier patch. Please ignore the earlier one.

    > Comments:

    > Support for specifying the duration in absolute minutes could be
    > useful in some cases. (In my case, I was trying to plug in the
    > duration of a BBC production specified in minutes - for eg 92 min,
    > 116 min, 205 min etc).

    > Related bugs:

    > 1. While trying to specify time range as '2:00-3:00' I see the
    > following message - 'Error in post-command-hook: (parse-error not
    > an integer 3:)'. The corresponding calendar entry gets created
    > though.

    > 2. Is there support for agenda to wrap around the day. For example
    > how would the following entries be interpreted 23:00+2:00,
    > 3:00+48. Just curious.


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From ddc86808233b21f72bb544f5ebfdde5e5db115f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:41:07 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Org Manual: Document time range spec at the date/time prompt

* org.texi (The date/time prompt): Document specification of time
ranges.

TINYCHANGE
---
 doc/org.texi |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index 13af2df..4938f48 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -5212,6 +5212,16 @@ The function understands English month and weekday abbreviations.  If
 you want to use unabbreviated names and/or other languages, configure
 the variables @code{parse-time-months} and @code{parse-time-weekdays}.
 
+You can specify a time range by giving start and end times or by giving a
+start time and a duration (in HH:MM format). Use '-' or '--' as the separator
+in the former case and use '+' as the separator in the latter case. E.g.
+
+@example
+11am-1:15pm    --> 11:00-13:15
+11am--1:15pm   --> same as above
+11am+2:15      --> same as above
+@end example
+
 @cindex calendar, for selecting date
 @vindex org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt
 Parallel to the minibuffer prompt, a calendar is popped up@footnote{If
-- 
1.7.0.4


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