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Re: [O] calendar date adjustments blocked


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [O] calendar date adjustments blocked
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 18:56:21 +0100

On 5.11.2011, at 18:23, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> hitting -2 in the date field had no effect,

Bernt means typing into the minibuffer "-2" and then hitting RET

- Carsten

> what did work though was 
> shift-leftarrow though. On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Nick Dokos wrote:
> 
>> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5.11.2011, at 03:03, Nick Dokos wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jude DaShiell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I needed to enter information for two dates in org-mode and went into 
>>>>> calendar using c-c+! and got the current date as expected then hit c-b to 
>>>>> move the date to yesterday and pointer remained on today's date.  So I 
>>>>> ended up hitting <cr> on today's date and editing it in the actual org 
>>>>> file and filling the rest of my entry in after it.  Then I repeated the 
>>>>> operation for today and entered today's information.  I was a bit 
>>>>> surprised that the date was locked like that once calendar mode was 
>>>>> entered but managed a workaround anyway.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I guess your problem is that the calendar is indeed popped up, but the 
>>>> cursor
>>>> is still in the daytime prompt in the minibuffer. As Bernt points out, 
>>>> typing
>>>> -2 at that point gets you to the right date.
>>>> 
>>>> The calendar seems to be for inveterate mouser users, not keyboard
>>>> types: even if I C-x o to the calendar window, the cursor ends up not on
>>>> today's date but off to the right somewhere and I get an error message:
>>>> 
>>>> ,----
>>>> | Error in post-command-hook (org-read-date-display): (buffer-read-only 
>>>> *Calendar*)
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>> Not sure what's going on there: I expected that after I switched windows
>>>> to the Calendar, my cursor would be on today's date.
>>> 
>>> The popup calender in Org is a special construct that hijacks key presses
>>> so that all control can be done from the minibuffer, without switching to 
>>> the
>>> calender buffer itself.  This has side effects if you try to move
>>> into the calendar buffer window anyway.
>>> 
>>> Bernt showed one way to specify the date.  You can also click on the date
>>> to get it selected immediately.  Or you can use S-left twice to get the date
>>> selected with the shadow cursor in the calendar window.  There are more
>>> key presses that manipulate the calendar window from the minibuffer, see
>>> 
>>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Creating-timestamps.html#Creating-timestamps
>>> 
>> 
>> Thank you - time to hit the books (again). Of all people, I should have
>> known better than to post without checking the manual first.
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> 
> 
> Jude <address@hidden>
> When people ask do you believe in Numerology, the proper reply for me at
> least is do you believe in a hammer?  The proper answer for me for both
> questions is no, they're both tools and to be used under appropriate
> circumstances.
> 




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