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From: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: automating incrementing of date stamps
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:27:27 +0100
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To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
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Hi Jude

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> w=
rote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Michael Brand wrote:

> if S-<ret> means hold the shift key down then hit return,

Yes.

> in emacs
> org-mode 7.9.2 this key combination did not increment the date stamp.

What tells =93C-h c S-<RET>=94 in that place? Also check the manual
section =933.1 The built-in table editor=94 about S-<RET> saying =93This ke=
y
is also used by shift-selection and related modes (see Conflicts).=94 or
try emacs -Q.

> When I keyed in the date stamp, I did it by hand keying in all of the
> required characters myself since a couple of the dates are already in the
> past.  Could that have prevented proper date incrementing?

No, it doesn=92t matter if you only type. But the powerful =93C-c . [...]
RET=94 can be used also for dates in the past, replace =93[...]=94 with
=9312-9-8=94, use shift with arrows, etc.

> Could I get
> around this block by entering the first date stamp as <today -2d> and the=
n
> trying shift-return from there on out to get the other needed dates in th=
e
> log?

Such relative dates are not supported in tables but you can use
=93C-c . -2 RET=94 etc.

Michael