Re: Time range between now and timestamp

["Alexander Wingård" <alexander.wingard@gmail.com>]

Wonderful, thanks alot!

I can already see this becoming of great use to me.

Best Regards /Alexander

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> Alexander Wingård <alexander.wingard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Here is one way to do it:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun aw/org-evaluate-time-range (&optional to-buffer)
>  (interactive)
>  (if (org-at-date-range-p t)
>      (org-evaluate-time-range to-buffer)
>    ;; otherwise, make a time range in a temp buffer and run o-e-t-r there
>    (let ((headline (buffer-substring (point-at-bol) (point-at-eol))))
>      (with-temp-buffer
>        (insert headline)
>        (goto-char (point-at-bol))
>        (re-search-forward org-ts-regexp (point-at-eol) t)
>        (if (not (org-at-timestamp-p t))
>            (error "No timestamp here"))
>        (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
>        (org-insert-time-stamp (current-time) nil nil)
>        (insert "--")
>        (org-evaluate-time-range to-buffer)))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> There are probably better implementations; also, you might be able to advise
> o-e-t-r, instead of writing a new function, which would have the advantage
> of preserving the key binding.
>
> AFAICT, the above works with dates in the past as well, but it always gives
> the absolute value of the difference.
>
> Nick
>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>> > Alexander Wingård <alexander.wingard@gmail.com> 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
>> >
>>
>