Dear Kyle and all, Thanks for following up! Sorry it's taken me so long to reply.
Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> writes: > Testing that against the cases in your initial report, I believe it > leads to the same results as your patch, so here's a cleaned-up version. I confirm that this cleaned up version works for me and gets the same results for my test cases. I think it should be applied (modulo one nitpick below). Are you willing to apply it, Kyle? I don't have commit rights myself. > -- >8 -- > Subject: [PATCH] capture: Fix handling of time range for :time-prompt > > * lisp/org-capture.el (org-capture-set-target-location): Bind > org-end-time-was-given around the org-read-date call to get a return > value that uses the start time rather than doing custom adjustment of > the return value. > > If org-capture-set-target-location detects that the answer to > org-read-date has a time range, it strips the end time from the answer > and calls org-read-date-analyze again. (org-read-date already calls > it underneath.) The regexp it uses, however, can easily match a date, > leading to a bogus result. > > org-read-date-analyze is already capable of processing the time range > in a way that matches org-capture-set-target-location's intent: when > org-end-time-was-given is bound, org-read-date-analyze splits off the > end value of the range and stores it in org-end-time-was-given. Drop > the custom logic and let org-read-date-analyze handle the range. > > Reported-by: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> > Ref: https://orgmode.org/list/87h7obh4ct.fsf@aquinas > --- > lisp/org-capture.el | 35 +++++++++++++++-------------------- > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/lisp/org-capture.el b/lisp/org-capture.el > index f40f2b335..d7b69f228 100644 > --- a/lisp/org-capture.el > +++ b/lisp/org-capture.el > @@ -1025,28 +1025,23 @@ (defun org-capture-set-target-location (&optional > target) > (time-to-days org-overriding-default-time)) > ((or (org-capture-get :time-prompt) > (equal current-prefix-arg 1)) > - ;; Prompt for date. > - (let ((prompt-time (org-read-date > - nil t nil "Date for tree entry:"))) > + ;; Prompt for date. Bind `org-end-time-was-given' so > + ;; that `org-read-date-analyze' handles the time range > + ;; case and returns `prompt-time' with the start value. > + (let* ((org-time-was-given nil) > + (org-end-time-was-given nil) > + (prompt-time (org-read-date > + nil t nil "Date for tree entry:"))) > (org-capture-put > :default-time > - (cond ((and (or (not (boundp 'org-time-was-given)) > - (not org-time-was-given)) > - (not (= (time-to-days prompt-time) (org-today)))) > - ;; Use 00:00 when no time is given for another > - ;; date than today? > - (apply #'encode-time 0 0 > - org-extend-today-until > - (cl-cdddr (decode-time prompt-time)))) > - ((string-match "\\([^ ]+\\)-[^ ]+[ ]+\\(.*\\)" > - org-read-date-final-answer) > - ;; Replace any time range by its start. > - (apply #'encode-time > - (org-read-date-analyze > - (replace-match "\\1 \\2" nil nil > - org-read-date-final-answer) > - prompt-time (decode-time prompt-time)))) > - (t prompt-time))) > + (if (and (or (not org-time-was-given)) Nitpick: (or (not org-time-was-given)) is equivalent to (not org-time-was-given) > + (not (= (time-to-days prompt-time) (org-today)))) > + ;; Use 00:00 when no time is given for another > + ;; date than today? > + (apply #'encode-time 0 0 > + org-extend-today-until > + (cl-cdddr (decode-time prompt-time))) > + prompt-time)) > (time-to-days prompt-time))) > (t > ;; Current date, possibly corrected for late night > > base-commit: 9e8215f4a5df7d03ac787da78d28f69a4c18e7d3 As for this: > The original change came in b61ff117b (org-capture.el: > Set a correct time value with file+datetree+prompt, 2012-09-24), and I > believe the related thread is > <https://orgmode.org/list/20120923194954.GE25237@boo.workgroup/T/#u>. Thanks for the reference to this thread. I would like to be able to do exactly what Gregor mentioned there: - be prompted when capturing for the date and time / time range of the event/appointment. - record the event/appointment in a date tree under the date entered at the prompt - have a timestamp with the full time information entered at the prompt appear in the resulting heading In short: enter the full date and time information *once*, and use this both to place the entry in the datetree and to give it a timestamp. As far as I can tell, that is not fully possible today, even with this patch. The reason is that time *range* information entered at the prompt generated by :time-prompt gets thrown away. The reason for *that* is that org-read-date is called with t as its to-time argument (the second argument), so that the date is returned in Emacs' internal time representation, which doesn't represent ranges. Bastien's recommended solution back then was to use %^t and %^T in the capture template instead of %t and %T. The problem with that is that it requires entering the date twice: once at the prompt generated by :time-prompt, and once at the prompt to replace the %^T in the template. Could we instead save, say, :start-time and :end-time values in org-capture-plist after the :time-prompt, and use them to populate %T, %U, etc. in the template? This seems like the right solution to me, but it might require modifying org-read-date, which is a hairy piece of code. What do others think about this? Should I come up with a patch for this, or is there a different solution that the community and maintainers would prefer? -- Best, Richard