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 <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 5.11.2011, at 03:03, Nick Dokos wrote: >>> >>>> Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> 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 <jdash...@shellworld.net> > 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. >
