From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: calendar date adjustments blocked
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:23:22 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1111051322270.12320@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23453.1320506964@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org>
hitting -2 in the date field had no effect, what did work though was
shift-leftarrow though. On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> 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
> >
>
> Thank you - time to hit the books (again). Of all people, I should have
> known better than to post without checking the manual first.
>
> Nick
>
>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-05 17:23 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
2011-11-05 11:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-11-05 15:29 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-05 17:23 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2011-11-05 17:56 ` Carsten Dominik
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