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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Easy entry of date ranges
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:38:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2twrlg4yl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egip50se.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>


On 2015-08-26 at 15:04, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> 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?
>
> I don't think so. However, in Org, scheduling a task to date A means
> it can start from date A. Scheduling a task to "date A -- date B"
> would be equivalent to scheduling it to date A.
>
> You probably want to do scheduled + deadline, which is supported.

No, scheduled + deadline is a different use case. The syntax I use, =SCHEDULED: <2020-01-01>--<2020-01-07>=, is valid, there just isn't an easy way to enter it. One (of many) use cases: a week long vacation. This use case is supported by Org since the Agenda helpfully shows "(1/7)", and "(2/7)", etc. before each entry. Everything else is so efficient and has shortcuts, including time ranges, I just hoped I was missing something here. Perhaps it hasn't been implemented yet.

  -k.
  

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-26 20:39 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 [this message]
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
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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