From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Easy entry of date ranges
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:22:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r3mpf027.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737z5hy3u.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
Hi Eric, Eric, Rasmus, and Nicolas,
On 2015-08-27 at 05:36, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 at 11:46, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>>> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Org and the calendar make it fairly easy to enter time ranges, by
>>>>> typing "--" and then the end time or "+" and then the duration. I'd
>>>>> like to do something similar for dates, but it doesn't seem to be
>>>>> supported. Is there an easy way to enter a date range for a scheduled
>>>>> task?
>
> [...]
>
>> For a vacation, a plain timestamp is more appropriate. However! That
>> just begs the question of how to make it easier to enter a date range.
>> That's a question I don't know the answer to -- I suspect there isn't
>> any way but just hitting a couple of hyphens and then "C-c ." again. I
>> suppose Org could help by setting the default date of the end time to
>> something after the start time.
>>
>> Eric
>
> Actually, org is quite smart in this respect. if you enter a time stamp
> and then ask to enter another, org automatically inserts the -- between
> the two time stamps. E.g. try this key sequence to get a time range
> that covers 7 days starting today:
>
> C-c . RET C-c . +6 RET
>
> and you should get: <2015-08-27 Thu>--<2015-09-02 Wed>
Thank you all for the reminder of SCHEDULED, DEADLINE, normal and inactive timestamp use cases, and the information about easy-entry of inactive ranges. Workflow much improved!
-k.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-27 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-26 17:35 Easy entry of date ranges Ken Mankoff
2015-08-26 19:04 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-26 20:38 ` Ken Mankoff
2015-08-27 3:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-27 8:15 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-27 9:36 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-27 9:52 ` Rasmus
2015-08-27 11:22 ` Ken Mankoff [this message]
2015-08-27 15:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-27 16:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-27 17:46 ` Miguel Ruiz
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