From: Jonathan Leech-Pepin <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com>
To: Simon Campese <emacs-orgmode@campese.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:56:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHRqSkSBEWFEygxzbnbycbk416eZnZ3GJ1HUKf8oF1LGUyYrMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjj3d98v.fsf@rman-office.uni.lux>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-25 17:56 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 [this message]
2012-01-28 22:38 ` Simon Campese
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