Brian van den Broek <brian.van.den.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > Say I have a buffer with the following contents: > > <------> > Some text in a buffer with orgmode enabled. > > Blah blah, Tuesday at 3pm blah blah September 19, 2003, 14:00-15:00 blah blah > <------> > > As it is now, if I kill the text "Tuesday at 3pm", and with cursor > where I killed hit C-u C-c . to invoke org-time-stamp with prefix > argument, and then yank the just killed text into the resulting > prompt, and repeat for the text "Sept. ... 15:00", I get > > <------> > Some text in a buffer with orgmode enabled. > > Blah blah, <2011-10-11 Tue 15:00> blah blah <2003-09-19 Fri > 14:00-15:00> blah blah > <------> > > (the exact way the org-time-stamp command interprets the text is a > function of the date that it is run and of the value of > org-read-date-prefer-future, and possibly other variables, too.) > > What I was suggesting was it would be cool and a small time-saver if I > could select the text "Tuesday at 3pm" and hit C-u C-c . and have the > region replaced with the stamp <2011-10-11 Tue 15:00>, entirely > bypassing the kill and yank steps. (Achim correctly suggested that > what I want to do could be done with a keyboard macro. I still think > it would be neat.)
So we are talking about saving two keystrokes: not worth it in my opinion for interactive use (unless you have a bunch of things to do, as you apparently did - macros or a wrapped org-time-stamp assigned to some key is probably the best solution for that). The reason why I don't think that anything more needs to be done in org, is that the major time waster here is *not* the two extra keystrokes: it's selecting the region(s) to cut/paste - I don't see any way to improve that. Nick
