counter macro in dates?

counter macro in dates?

[Matt Price]

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I'd love to be able generate dates dynamically using the {{{n}}} org macro,
or some other mechanism.  I don't immediately see how that would be
possible but maybe someone can guide me.  I'd want to do something
equivalent to this pseudo-elisp:

(let ((base-date 2017-09-05))
  (+ base-date (* 7 {{{n}}}))

I haven't looked into how date objects are parsed in org-mode, though, so I
have no idea how hard it would be to actually implement something like
this.

Thank you everyone!

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Re: counter macro in dates?

[Adam Porter]

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> I'd love to be able generate dates dynamically using the {{{n}}} org
> macro, or some other mechanism. I don't immediately see how that would
> be possible but maybe someone can guide me. I'd want to do something
> equivalent to this pseudo-elisp:
>
> (let ((base-date 2017-09-05))
> (+ base-date (* 7 {{{n}}}))
>
> I haven't looked into how date objects are parsed in org-mode, though,
> so I have no idea how hard it would be to actually implement something
> like this.

Apologies to the list for practically spamming this recently, but it
seems directly relevant:

https://github.com/abo-abo/tiny

It has built-in support for Org dates with its %(date) function.
Apparently it can be used like this:

m\n8|**** TODO Learning from Data Week %(+ x 2) \nSCHEDULED: <%(date "Oct 7" (* x 7))> DEADLINE: <%(date "Oct 14" (* x 7))>

Which results in:

**** TODO Learning from Data Week 2
SCHEDULED: <2013-10-07 Mon> DEADLINE: <2013-10-14 Mon>
**** TODO Learning from Data Week 3
SCHEDULED: <2013-10-14 Mon> DEADLINE: <2013-10-21 Mon>
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Re: counter macro in dates?

[Kaushal Modi]

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On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:31 AM Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> wrote:

>
> Apologies to the list for practically spamming this recently, but it
> seems directly relevant:
>
> https://github.com/abo-abo/tiny


+1 for tiny :)

When I discovered it, I went a bit overboard and wrote a helper fn
(modi/tiny-helper in here[1]) so that I don't have to remember the tiny
syntax. I still use tiny from time to time.

[1]:
https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/master/setup-files/setup-tiny.el
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Kaushal Modi

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Re: counter macro in dates?

[Adam Porter]

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

> +1 for tiny :)
>
> When I discovered it, I went a bit overboard and wrote a helper fn
> (modi/tiny-helper in here[1]) so that I don't have to remember the
> tiny syntax. I still use tiny from time to time.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/master/setup-files/setup-tiny.el

That's very cool.  Do you think Oleh would add it to Tiny?

Re: counter macro in dates?

[Kaushal Modi]

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On Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 9:46 PM Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> wrote:

>
> That's very cool.  Do you think Oleh would add it to Tiny?
>

Good question. I'll open an issue on that repo. When I wrote this, I wasn't
too good with git, creating branches or submitting PR's.

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Kaushal Modi

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Re: counter macro in dates?

[Kaushal Modi]

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On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 9:46 PM Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> wrote:

>
> That's very cool.  Do you think Oleh would add it to Tiny?
>

PR submitted :) https://github.com/abo-abo/tiny/pull/9
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Kaushal Modi

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