Relative timer: failure to reset times in active region

Relative timer: failure to reset times in active region

[Alan E. Davis]

I took some notes on a video this morning, using a relative timer.  I
wasn't able to start until several minutes into the video.  Then,
later, I went back and started from the beginning, starting the timer
pretty much on time.  Now I have to reset all the times in the
original notes from this morning.

I found this in the documentation for the relative timer:

`C-c C-x 0'
     Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer.  By
     default, the timer is reset to 0.  When called with a `C-u'
     prefix, reset the timer to specific starting offset.  The user is
     prompted for the offset, with a default taken from a timer string
     at point, if any, So this can be used to restart taking notes
     after a break in the process.  When called with a double prefix
     argument `C-c C-u', change all timer strings in the active region
     by a certain amount.  This can be used to fix timer strings if the
     timer was not started at exactly the right moment.

When I tried this on the original notes, the function
"outline-up-heading" is invoked.  Is there a typo in the docs?

Alan

Re: Relative timer: failure to reset times in active region

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> I took some notes on a video this morning, using a relative timer.  I
> wasn't able to start until several minutes into the video.  Then,
> later, I went back and started from the beginning, starting the timer
> pretty much on time.  Now I have to reset all the times in the
> original notes from this morning.
>
> I found this in the documentation for the relative timer:
>
> `C-c C-x 0'
>     Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer.  By
>     default, the timer is reset to 0.  When called with a `C-u'
>     prefix, reset the timer to specific starting offset.  The user is
>     prompted for the offset, with a default taken from a timer string
>     at point, if any, So this can be used to restart taking notes
>     after a break in the process.  When called with a double prefix
>     argument `C-c C-u', change all timer strings in the active region
>     by a certain amount.  This can be used to fix timer strings if the
>     timer was not started at exactly the right moment.
>
> When I tried this on the original notes, the function
> "outline-up-heading" is invoked.  Is there a typo in the docs?


Prefix means, C-u before the other keys, C-u C-c C-x 0
I guess you tries C-c C-u   ?

- Carsten
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