From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian van den Broek Subject: feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:48:31 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBnNJ-0000gw-Pu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:48:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBnNI-0006Ns-Py for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:48:33 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:54886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBnNI-0006Nm-N2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:48:32 -0400 Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so2691210vws.0 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:48:31 -0700 (PDT) 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi all, [Apologies to the mods and to all if this goes through twice; I sent from the wrong gmail tab :-[ ] It wouldn't stun me were orgmode already able to do what I have in mind, but trying it and consulting the fine manual didn't suggest that it does. I very much appreciate orgmode's ability to parse the content of a yank for date and time information while entering a timestamp. I think it would be even cooler were orgmode able to parse the content of a selected region and extract the same information, replacing the region with the timestamp created on the basis of the text in the region. It certainly is true that one can select the region, kill it, invoke the datetime prompt, and then yank to achieve the same effect. However, having just done that more than 50 times in a row with a series of dates copied from a webpage, it has occurred to me that the ability to move directly from a selected region to a datetime prompt while skipping the kill and yank steps would have saved more than a hundred key-chords. Not revolutionary, and surely not a high priority, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there in case any of the developers think it worth the time to implement. If not, no biggie. Thanks and best, Brian vdB