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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Brian van den Broek <vanden@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:18:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipkxdtui.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALiMtFD=Fb1WZUvpLBN8Rq_8+_PGemYiFA8OpgyNAE4ZsN0gvQ@mail.gmail.com> (Brian van den Broek's message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:40:49 +0200")

Hi Brian,

Brian van den Broek <vanden@gmail.com> writes:

> I very much appreciate orgmode's ability to parse the content of a
> yank for date and time information while entering a timestamp. I think
> it would be even cooler were orgmode able to parse the content of a
> selected region and extract the same information, replacing the region
> with the timestamp created on the basis of the text in the region.

I'm not sure I understand: right now, when you select a timestamp and
run `C-c .' on it, the selected timestamp is the default prompt.  Is
this what you have in mind?  If not, can you give a clearer example?

Thanks!

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-31  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-06 12:40 feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region Brian van den Broek
2011-12-28 16:18 ` Bastien [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-06 12:48 Brian van den Broek
2011-10-06 19:46 ` Achim Gratz
2011-10-06 22:38   ` Brian van den Broek
2011-10-07  8:12     ` suvayu ali
2011-10-07 14:36       ` Brian van den Broek
2011-10-07 15:42         ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-08  7:33         ` suvayu ali
2011-10-24  6:00           ` Bastien
2011-10-25 16:56             ` Brian van den Broek
2011-10-26  7:56               ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-26 12:00                 ` Brian van den Broek

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