Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > 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>
Oh man, I should have known not to second-guess Org. Thank you so much for this tip!
