From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: calendar date adjustments blocked Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:29:24 -0400 Message-ID: <23453.1320506964@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <6690.1320458628@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <0376B403-8F85-412C-84BD-285C7619E3BC@gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMiBW-0000dc-8z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:29:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMiBU-00007u-UB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:29:30 -0400 Received: from g1t0029.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.36]:22618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMiBU-00006u-IM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:29:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Carsten Dominik of "Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:26:57 BST." <0376B403-8F85-412C-84BD-285C7619E3BC@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: Jude DaShiell , nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On 5.11.2011, at 03:03, Nick Dokos wrote: > > > Jude DaShiell 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 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