On Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 at 11:46, Eric Abrahamsen 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?
[...] > 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 Actually, org is quite smart in this respect. if you enter a time stamp and then ask to enter another, org automatically inserts the -- between the two time stamps. E.g. try this key sequence to get a time range that covers 7 days starting today: C-c . RET C-c . +6 RET and you should get: <2015-08-27 Thu>--<2015-09-02 Wed> -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-176-g45abec
