From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: changing all timestamps in a document by a certain value?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:36:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec9C3SCj6XUrhZEHTAXe65rEooihBKwJHOtV5in5wcTK7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26428.1342669684@alphaville>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm revising my course syllabi for next Fall and therefore need to
> > update all the timestamps. In this case, I need to add 361 days to
> > every stamp. Is there a function somewhere that can read a timestamp,
> > convert it to a numerical value, change the value, and then record the
> > new value in the right format? It would make my life easier if I could
> > at least define a macro to do this.
> >
>
> You might be able to do more precise surgery with org-element (just
> guessing here: I haven't done anything with org-element yet), but if you
> can search for the timestamps simply, you might be able to get away with
> just a keyboard macro, e.g. if all timestamps are of the form
> <YYYY-MM-DD ...> and *nothing else* looks like that, then a keyboard
> macro that does something like the following:
>
> search for "<201"
> advance a few chars to get to the DD part
> ESC 361 S-<up>
>
> might be all that you need. Then you repeat (once) with C-x e or (many
> times) with C-u 1000 C-x e.
>
> But it really depends on identifying a search string that will not lead
> you astray. Also make sure you save a backup of your file before you
> start - you may have to do this a couple of times before you get it
> right.
>
> Assuming that the simple search above is sufficient, doing
>
> C-x ( C-s < 2 0 1 RET 6*C-f ESC 3 6 1 <S-up> C-x )
>
> to define the macro should be enough. kmacro-edit-macro then shows me this:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; Keyboard Macro Editor. Press C-c C-c to finish; press C-x k RET to
> cancel.
> ;; Original keys: C-s < 2 0 1 RET 6*C-f ESC 3 6 1 <S-up>
>
> Command: last-kbd-macro
> Key: none
>
> Macro:
>
> C-s ;; isearch-forward
> < ;; self-insert-command
> 2 ;; self-insert-command
> 0 ;; self-insert-command
> 1 ;; self-insert-command
> RET ;; org-return
> 6*C-f ;; forward-char
> ESC
> 3 ;; self-insert-command
> 6 ;; self-insert-command
> 1 ;; self-insert-command
> <S-up> ;; org-shiftup
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
Thanks to both you guys -- I tried both solutions, they both work! I love
this list.
Matt
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2012-07-19 1:46 changing all timestamps in a document by a certain value? Matt Price
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