From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alexander_Wing=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Time range between now and timestamp Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:46:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <064758C1-8D27-4647-A3C2-AB35FB8C6215@gmail.com> <5509.1316097429@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4DCr-0002XI-VI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:46:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4DCn-0000Iq-VG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:46:25 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:43035) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4DCn-0000Ii-Ql for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:46:21 -0400 Received: by wwp14 with SMTP id 14so3027475wwp.30 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:46:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5509.1316097429@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> 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: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Let's say I have this: <2011-09-15 Thu>--<2011-09-16 Fri> and I put my cursor over this and press C-c C-y my minibuffer will spit out 1 day. I would like a command that does the same thing if i execute it over just <2011-09-16 Fri>. Sometimes I'm interested in how much time there is left to a specific appointment. Best Regards /Alexander On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > Alexander Wing=E5rd wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I really would want to have a command that given the cursor is over a >> timestamp would output the time-range from the current time to that >> timestamp. >> > > Can you please provide an example? I can interpret this > in a couple of different ways and I'm not sure what you > want. > > Also, when you say "output", do you mean that the function > should return e.g. a string representation of whatever it is > you want? Or print the result in the minibuffer? > Or insert it in the buffer you are editing? (and, if the last, > where?) > > Nick >