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From: Simon Campese <emacs-orgmode@campese.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:42:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjj3d98v.fsf@rman-office.uni.lux> (raw)

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. 

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? 


Thank you very much,

Simon

next             reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-25 16:42 Simon Campese [this message]
2012-01-25 17:37 ` Non-interactive insertion of future-dates Borbus
2012-01-28 17:42   ` Simon Campese
2012-01-25 17:56 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2012-01-28 22:38   ` Simon Campese

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