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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: mankoff@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Easy entry of date ranges
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:36:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737z5hy3u.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87io815r7r.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:46:00 +0800")

On Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 at 11:46, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Org and the calendar make it fairly easy to enter time ranges, by
>>>> typing "--" and then the end time or "+" and then the duration. I'd
>>>> like to do something similar for dates, but it doesn't seem to be
>>>> supported. Is there an easy way to enter a date range for a scheduled
>>>> task?

[...]

> For a vacation, a plain timestamp is more appropriate. However! That
> just begs the question of how to make it easier to enter a date range.
> That's a question I don't know the answer to -- I suspect there isn't
> any way but just hitting a couple of hyphens and then "C-c ." again. I
> suppose Org could help by setting the default date of the end time to
> something after the start time.
>
> Eric

Actually, org is quite smart in this respect.  if you enter a time stamp
and then ask to enter another, org automatically inserts the -- between
the two time stamps.  E.g. try this key sequence to get a time range
that covers 7 days starting today:

  C-c . RET C-c . +6 RET

and you should get: <2015-08-27 Thu>--<2015-09-02 Wed>

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-176-g45abec

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-26 17:35 Easy entry of date ranges Ken Mankoff
2015-08-26 19:04 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-26 20:38   ` Ken Mankoff
2015-08-27  3:46     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-27  8:15       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-27  9:36       ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2015-08-27  9:52         ` Rasmus
2015-08-27 11:22         ` Ken Mankoff
2015-08-27 15:33         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-27 16:14           ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-27 17:46             ` Miguel Ruiz

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