From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Some questions about column view and org mode Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:20:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwDxy-0000t2-8U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:21:14 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51189 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwDxu-0000sT-Tl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:21:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwDxd-0008Ns-Eg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:21:10 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com ([209.85.219.218]:41445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwDxd-0008Nl-85 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:20:53 -0400 Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so171565ewy.32 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:20:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: friedericksen.hope@gmail.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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