From: Simon Campese <emacs-orgmode@campese.de>
To: Jonathan Leech-Pepin <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:38:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjizbggv.fsf@tu-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHRqSkSBEWFEygxzbnbycbk416eZnZ3GJ1HUKf8oF1LGUyYrMw@mail.gmail.com>
Hey Jonathan,
thanks for the hints, it works like a charm! As far as I can overlook
this, adding relative dates to the template expansion should not be a
lot of work, basically one just has to add a simple wrapper to
org-read-date. I gave some more thoughts to an appropriate symbol and
the best I could come up with is '_'. I therefore propose the following:
% {EXP}t, %_{EXP}T, %_{EXP}u, %_{EXP}U
in a capture-template inserts an (in-)active date-/timestamp that would
have resulted from manually entering the expression EXP at the
interactive date-/timeprompt.
If no serious objections come up, I will put this on my todo-list.
Best wishes,
Simon
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:56:37 -0500, Jonathan Leech-Pepin <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:42, Simon Campese <emacs-orgmode@campese.de> wrote:
> >
> > Dear community,
> >
> > I want to setup a capture-template that sets a
> > SCHEDULE-property in the future (say one week from today) without any
> > user interaction.
> >
> > Currently, I almost achieve this by inserting the line
> >
> > :SCHEDULED: <%(org-read-date nil nil nil nil nil "+1w")>
> >
> > into my template. When I now call the template, I end up in the
> > date-time-prompt, with "+1w" prefilled, so that manually have to press
> > enter.
> >
> > Maybe it is trivial to call an interactive lisp-function and emulate
> > some keypress, in which case I would be thankful for the code that
> > achieves this (my lisp-skills are limited). Also, one should be able to
> > achieve what I want by using format-time-string and increment the
> > current time, but again my lisp-skills prohibit me from implementing it
> > myself.
>
> A similar question had come up on StackOverflow (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7986935/using-org-capture-templates-to-schedule-a-todo-for-the-day-after-today/7988809#7988809
> ).
>
> My answer there should apply, adjusting the offset from +1d to +1w :
>
> SCHEDULED: %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+1d\"))
>
> Alternately you can include the SCHEDULED: portion within the
> timestamp insertion itself. This example will also include a fixed
> time at which to schedule the item (unneeded in this case I suspect
> but it could be of use elsewhere) :
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+1w 12:00\") t nil
> \"SCHEDULED: \")
>
> > In any case, it might be a good idea to include non-interactive access
> > to relative times in template expansion, so that for example one
> > can state something like %t[+1w] or %{+1w}t in the template to get the
> > date one week from today (one should spend some more time to specify the
> > actual input-format of course...). What do you think?
>
> I agree, adding the ability to automatically have relative dates would
> allow for quicker capture templates if you regularly need to to set
> them with a specific offset.
>
> > Thank you very much,
> >
> > Simon
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-28 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-25 16:42 Non-interactive insertion of future-dates Simon Campese
2012-01-25 17:37 ` Borbus
2012-01-28 17:42 ` Simon Campese
2012-01-25 17:56 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2012-01-28 22:38 ` Simon Campese [this message]
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