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From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: calendar date adjustments blocked
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 06:30:55 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1111050630180.95271@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0376B403-8F85-412C-84BD-285C7619E3BC@gmail.com>

Is it just the calendar or other things that use pop ups in emacs? On Sat, 
5 Nov 2011, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> 
> On 5.11.2011, at 03:03, Nick Dokos wrote:
> 
> > Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> I needed to enter information for two dates in org-mode and went into 
> >> calendar using c-c+! and got the current date as expected then hit c-b to 
> >> move the date to yesterday and pointer remained on today's date.  So I 
> >> ended up hitting <cr> on today's date and editing it in the actual org 
> >> file and filling the rest of my entry in after it.  Then I repeated the 
> >> operation for today and entered today's information.  I was a bit 
> >> surprised that the date was locked like that once calendar mode was 
> >> entered but managed a workaround anyway.
> >> 
> > 
> > I guess your problem is that the calendar is indeed popped up, but the cursor
> > is still in the daytime prompt in the minibuffer. As Bernt points out, typing
> > -2 at that point gets you to the right date.
> > 
> > The calendar seems to be for inveterate mouser users, not keyboard
> > types: even if I C-x o to the calendar window, the cursor ends up not on
> > today's date but off to the right somewhere and I get an error message:
> > 
> > ,----
> > | Error in post-command-hook (org-read-date-display): (buffer-read-only *Calendar*)
> > `----
> > 
> > Not sure what's going on there: I expected that after I switched windows
> > to the Calendar, my cursor would be on today's date.
> 
> The popup calender in Org is a special construct that hijacks key presses
> so that all control can be done from the minibuffer, without switching to the
> calender buffer itself.  This has side effects if you try to move
> into the calendar buffer window anyway.
> 
> Bernt showed one way to specify the date.  You can also click on the date
> to get it selected immediately.  Or you can use S-left twice to get the date
> selected with the shadow cursor in the calendar window.  There are more
> key presses that manipulate the calendar window from the minibuffer, see
> 
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Creating-timestamps.html#Creating-timestamps
> 
> HTH
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
> 

Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
When people ask do you believe in Numerology, the proper reply for me at
least is do you believe in a hammer?  The proper answer for me for both
questions is no, they're both tools and to be used under appropriate
circumstances.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-05 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-04  6:12 calendar date adjustments blocked Jude DaShiell
2011-11-05  0:11 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-11-05  2:03 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-05  6:26   ` Carsten Dominik
2011-11-05 10:30     ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2011-11-05 11:11       ` Carsten Dominik
2011-11-05 15:29     ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-05 17:23       ` Jude DaShiell
2011-11-05 17:56         ` Carsten Dominik

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