Re: [O] Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
Hey Jonathan,
thanks for the hints, it works like a charm! As far as I can overlook
this, adding relative dates to the template expansion should not be a
lot of work, basically one just has to add a simple wrapper to
org-read-date. I gave some more thoughts to an appropriate symbol and
the best I could come up with is '_'. I therefore propose the following:
% {EXP}t, %_{EXP}T, %_{EXP}u, %_{EXP}U
in a capture-template inserts an (in-)active date-/timestamp that would
have resulted from manually entering the expression EXP at the
interactive date-/timeprompt.
If no serious objections come up, I will put this on my todo-list.
Best wishes,
Simon
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:56:37 -0500, Jonathan Leech-Pepin
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:42, Simon Campese wrote:
> >
> > Dear community,
> >
> > I want to setup a capture-template that sets a
> > SCHEDULE-property in the future (say one week from today) without any
> > user interaction.
> >
> > Currently, I almost achieve this by inserting the line
> >
> > :SCHEDULED: <%(org-read-date nil nil nil nil nil "+1w")>
> >
> > into my template. When I now call the template, I end up in the
> > date-time-prompt, with "+1w" prefilled, so that manually have to press
> > enter.
> >
> > Maybe it is trivial to call an interactive lisp-function and emulate
> > some keypress, in which case I would be thankful for the code that
> > achieves this (my lisp-skills are limited). Also, one should be able to
> > achieve what I want by using format-time-string and increment the
> > current time, but again my lisp-skills prohibit me from implementing it
> > myself.
>
> A similar question had come up on StackOverflow (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7986935/using-org-capture-templates-to-schedule-a-todo-for-the-day-after-today/7988809#7988809
> ).
>
> My answer there should apply, adjusting the offset from +1d to +1w :
>
> SCHEDULED: %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+1d\"))
>
> Alternately you can include the SCHEDULED: portion within the
> timestamp insertion itself. This example will also include a fixed
> time at which to schedule the item (unneeded in this case I suspect
> but it could be of use elsewhere) :
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+1w 12:00\") t nil
> \"SCHEDULED: \")
>
> > In any case, it might be a good idea to include non-interactive access
> > to relative times in template expansion, so that for example one
> > can state something like %t[+1w] or %{+1w}t in the template to get the
> > date one week from today (one should spend some more time to specify the
> > actual input-format of course...). What do you think?
>
> I agree, adding the ability to automatically have relative dates would
> allow for quicker capture templates if you regularly need to to set
> them with a specific offset.
>
> > Thank you very much,
> >
> > Simon
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan
Re: [O] Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
Thanks Borbus, it works! See my followup to Jonathan's answer on my plans to add relative dates to the template expansion. Best wishes, Simon
Re: [O] Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
Hello,
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:42, Simon Campese wrote:
>
> Dear community,
>
> I want to setup a capture-template that sets a
> SCHEDULE-property in the future (say one week from today) without any
> user interaction.
>
> Currently, I almost achieve this by inserting the line
>
> :SCHEDULED: <%(org-read-date nil nil nil nil nil "+1w")>
>
> into my template. When I now call the template, I end up in the
> date-time-prompt, with "+1w" prefilled, so that manually have to press
> enter.
>
> Maybe it is trivial to call an interactive lisp-function and emulate
> some keypress, in which case I would be thankful for the code that
> achieves this (my lisp-skills are limited). Also, one should be able to
> achieve what I want by using format-time-string and increment the
> current time, but again my lisp-skills prohibit me from implementing it
> myself.
A similar question had come up on StackOverflow (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7986935/using-org-capture-templates-to-schedule-a-todo-for-the-day-after-today/7988809#7988809
).
My answer there should apply, adjusting the offset from +1d to +1w :
SCHEDULED: %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+1d\"))
Alternately you can include the SCHEDULED: portion within the
timestamp insertion itself. This example will also include a fixed
time at which to schedule the item (unneeded in this case I suspect
but it could be of use elsewhere) :
(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+1w 12:00\") t nil
\"SCHEDULED: \")
> In any case, it might be a good idea to include non-interactive access
> to relative times in template expansion, so that for example one
> can state something like %t[+1w] or %{+1w}t in the template to get the
> date one week from today (one should spend some more time to specify the
> actual input-format of course...). What do you think?
I agree, adding the ability to automatically have relative dates would
allow for quicker capture templates if you regularly need to to set
them with a specific offset.
> Thank you very much,
>
> Simon
Regards,
Jonathan
Re: [O] Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
On 25/01/12 16:42, Simon Campese wrote: > I want to setup a capture-template that sets a > SCHEDULE-property in the future (say one week from today) without any > user interaction. > > Currently, I almost achieve this by inserting the line > > :SCHEDULED: <%(org-read-date nil nil nil nil nil "+1w")> > > into my template. When I now call the template, I end up in the > date-time-prompt, with "+1w" prefilled, so that manually have to press > enter. I think what you want is to use the parameter from-string which doesn't ask for a user input at all but just uses that string as if you did input it interactively: (org-read-date nil nil "+1w") -- Borbus.
[O] Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
Dear community,
I want to setup a capture-template that sets a
SCHEDULE-property in the future (say one week from today) without any
user interaction.
Currently, I almost achieve this by inserting the line
:SCHEDULED: <%(org-read-date nil nil nil nil nil "+1w")>
into my template. When I now call the template, I end up in the
date-time-prompt, with "+1w" prefilled, so that manually have to press
enter.
Maybe it is trivial to call an interactive lisp-function and emulate
some keypress, in which case I would be thankful for the code that
achieves this (my lisp-skills are limited). Also, one should be able to
achieve what I want by using format-time-string and increment the
current time, but again my lisp-skills prohibit me from implementing it
myself.
In any case, it might be a good idea to include non-interactive access
to relative times in template expansion, so that for example one
can state something like %t[+1w] or %{+1w}t in the template to get the
date one week from today (one should spend some more time to specify the
actual input-format of course...). What do you think?
Thank you very much,
Simon
