From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: Easy entry of date ranges Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:04:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87egip50se.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUfyN-0007ng-My for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:03:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUfyM-0005zt-Ud for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:02:59 -0400 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::196]:42796) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUfyM-0005ww-Id for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:02:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Ken Mankoff's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:35:39 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ken Mankoff Cc: Org Mode Hello, Ken Mankoff 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? I don't think so. However, in Org, scheduling a task to date A means it can start from date A. Scheduling a task to "date A -- date B" would be equivalent to scheduling it to date A. You probably want to do scheduled + deadline, which is supported. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou