* Re: Timestamp increment inside tables
2007-05-03 17:33 ` Timestamp increment inside tables Niels Giesen
@ 2007-05-08 6:40 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Carsten Dominik @ 2007-05-08 6:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Niels Giesen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi Niels,
nice idea, I am taking the patch. There *could* be a problem if you
start this command in a table that is not correctly aligned, but I
don't think it is worth catering for this special case.
Thanks.
- Carsten
On May 3, 2007, at 19:33, Niels Giesen wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> Please consider this patch to `org-table-copy-down', serving to
> increment timestamps in
> an org-table while copying down, similar to integer icrements:
>
> --- org.el 2007-04-25 08:26:21.000000000 -0100
> +++ org2.el 2007-05-03 19:24:00.776923788 -0100
> @@ -6495,7 +6495,11 @@
> column to be filled row-by-row.
> If the variable `org-table-copy-increment' is non-nil and the field
> is an
> -integer, it will be incremented while copying."
> +integer or a timestamp, it will be incremented while copying. In the
> case of
> +a timestamp, if the cursor is on the year, change the year. If it is
> on the
> +month or the day, change that. Point will stay on the current date
> field
> +in order to easily repeat the interval."
> (interactive "p")
> (let* ((colpos (org-table-current-column))
> + (column (- (point) (point-at-bol)))
> (field (org-table-get-field))
> (non-empty (string-match "[^ \t]" field))
> @@ -6526,5 +6530,8 @@
> (insert txt)
> (org-table-maybe-recalculate-line)
> - (org-table-align))
> + (org-table-align)
> + (when (and org-table-copy-increment (org-at-timestamp-p t))
> + (goto-char (+ (point-at-bol) column))
> + (org-timestamp-up 1)))
> (error "No non-empty field found"))))
>
> Table alignment does not seem to pose any problems, but this is one
> thing that might
> require some critical looking into.
>
> Regards,
>
> Niels Giesen
>
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