Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2015-08-26 at 15:04, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: >> Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Org and the calendar make it fairly easy to enter time ranges, by >>> typing "--" and then the end time or "+" and then the duration. I'd >>> like to do something similar for dates, but it doesn't seem to be >>> supported. Is there an easy way to enter a date range for a scheduled >>> task? >> >> I don't think so. However, in Org, scheduling a task to date A means >> it can start from date A. Scheduling a task to "date A -- date B" >> would be equivalent to scheduling it to date A. >> >> You probably want to do scheduled + deadline, which is supported. > > No, scheduled + deadline is a different use case. The syntax I use, > =SCHEDULED: <2020-01-01>--<2020-01-07>=, is valid, there just isn't an > easy way to enter it. One (of many) use cases: a week long vacation. > This use case is supported by Org since the Agenda helpfully shows > "(1/7)", and "(2/7)", etc. before each entry. Everything else is so > efficient and has shortcuts, including time ranges, I just hoped I was > missing something here. Perhaps it hasn't been implemented yet.
I think what Nicolas means is that, in the sort of use case you're outlining above, you should probably be using a plain timestamp. SCHEDULED means "I'm going to work on this TODO now", in which case a time span doesn't quite make sense -- you start working at the start of the span, and you finish when you toggle the keyword to DONE. For a vacation, a plain timestamp is more appropriate. However! That just begs the question of how to make it easier to enter a date range. That's a question I don't know the answer to -- I suspect there isn't any way but just hitting a couple of hyphens and then "C-c ." again. I suppose Org could help by setting the default date of the end time to something after the start time. Eric
