* Some questions about column view and org mode
@ 2010-03-28 13:36 Friedericksen Hope
2010-03-29 12:20 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Friedericksen Hope @ 2010-03-28 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Dear all,
I start to like column view. :)
But as I played around with it, a few questions came up:
- Is there some built-in timestamp property? The background is that I would like to have a column with a timestamp in it which I can set manually (but of course, I would like to have the calendar
opened up when I press "e" on a field of this column, like on a SCHEDULED or DEADLINE column) I found the TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA property in the manual, but I was not able to use this for my
purpose and I also do not quite understand for what they are useful, but this is another topic. ;-)
- If there is such a thing as a timestamp column, is there a summary method which gives me the timestamp farest away or calculates the maximum difference from today to a timestamp in the past?
- Is there a way to get column view work with repeated timestamps? (I would like to have a birthday column with a DEADLINE property and of course, the birthday repeats every year.)
And two questions, not specifically related to column view:
- What is the fastest/easiest way to reload an org buffer, so that global settings get loaded (for example changes in global column definitions)? At the moment I close the buffer with C-k RET and open
it again with C-f M-p RET but this seems a unnecessarily complicated
Thank you in advance for any suggestions/comments and also thank you, Carsten, for this wonderful tool. :-)
Greetings,
Friedericksen
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* Re: Some questions about column view and org mode
2010-03-28 13:36 Some questions about column view and org mode Friedericksen Hope
@ 2010-03-29 12:20 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Carsten Dominik @ 2010-03-29 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: friedericksen.hope; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Mar 28, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Friedericksen Hope wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I start to like column view. :)
>
> But as I played around with it, a few questions came up:
> - Is there some built-in timestamp property? The background is that
> I would like to have a column with a timestamp in it which I can set
> manually (but of course, I would like to have the calendar opened up
> when I press "e" on a field of this column, like on a SCHEDULED or
> DEADLINE column) I found the TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA property in
> the manual, but I was not able to use this for my purpose and I also
> do not quite understand for what they are useful, but this is
> another topic. ;-)
They are a way to access the first normal and inactive time stamps in
an entry - but they cannot be used to set the timestamp when it does
not already exist.
> - If there is such a thing as a timestamp column, is there a summary
> method which gives me the timestamp farest away or calculates the
> maximum difference from today to a timestamp in the past?
Hmm, I remember that James TD Smith implemented at some point. Take a
look at the @min and @max operators for column view, maybe there is
something you can use (I don't know myself, because I have never used
these).
> - Is there a way to get column view work with repeated timestamps?
> (I would like to have a birthday column with a DEADLINE property and
> of course, the birthday repeats every year.)
If the birthday is the *first* non-keyword time stamp, the TIMESTAMP
property should access it.
>
> And two questions, not specifically related to column view:
> - What is the fastest/easiest way to reload an org buffer, so that
> global settings get loaded (for example changes in global column
> definitions)? At the moment I close the buffer with C-k RET and open
> it again with C-f M-p RET but this seems a unnecessarily complicated
C-c C-c in any l#+ line.
- Carsten
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