Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Why is it when I try putting a date in this table using the calendar I get no date entered when in a blank field and hear the message: Before first headline at position 376 in buffer medlog.org How are you trying to insert the date? This error is usually produced because some function is trying to do an org-back-to-heading, i.e. the function does not expect the table to be at top level. In particular, C-c C-d (org-deadline) and C-c C-s (org-schedule) *want* a headline and insert the scheduling information after the headline, not in the table. OTOH, I tried entering a date into a table at top level with C-c . which is bound to org-time-stamp, and the date gets inserted with no error (and S-RET also works to increment the date in subsequent rows as Michael Brand mentioned) Org-mode version 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-577-gb0a051 @ /home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/) Nick First I try with c-c c-d that didn't get me into the calendar. Next I try with c-c . and that got me into the calendar and on current date. Unfortunately, c-b c-b failed to move me two days back from the current date. This is with emacs 24.x on debian. When org-read-date pops up a calendar, you are not in the calendar, you are in the minibuffer with the prompt. You can select previous dates by using something like -2 or you can use a set of calendar commands that are bound to keys in the minibuffer. In particular, you can move the cursor in the calendar to the previous day with S-Left. There are similar keys for moving forward/backward through days, weeks, months and 3-month periods. All of these are documented in the manual: (info (org)The date/time prompt) AFAICT, you cannot go into the calendar: you can switch buffers, but even so the calendar buffer does not seem to recognize any keys. Not entirely sure that I've got this right (and I certainly don't understand what's going on), but it seems to be a correct description of the behavior. Nick --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash The minibuffer is read only when I try to type -2 and S-left generates some symbols like = and [ but does not change the highlighted date.
Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Why is it when I try putting a date in this table using the calendar I get no date entered when in a blank field and hear the message: Before first headline at position 376 in buffer medlog.org How are you trying to insert the date? This error is usually produced because some function is trying to do an org-back-to-heading, i.e. the function does not expect the table to be at top level. In particular, C-c C-d (org-deadline) and C-c C-s (org-schedule) *want* a headline and insert the scheduling information after the headline, not in the table. OTOH, I tried entering a date into a table at top level with C-c . which is bound to org-time-stamp, and the date gets inserted with no error (and S-RET also works to increment the date in subsequent rows as Michael Brand mentioned) Org-mode version 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-577-gb0a051 @ /home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/) Nick First I try with c-c c-d that didn't get me into the calendar. Next I try with c-c . and that got me into the calendar and on current date. Unfortunately, c-b c-b failed to move me two days back from the current date. This is with emacs 24.x on debian. When org-read-date pops up a calendar, you are not in the calendar, you are in the minibuffer with the prompt. You can select previous dates by using something like -2 or you can use a set of calendar commands that are bound to keys in the minibuffer. In particular, you can move the cursor in the calendar to the previous day with S-Left. There are similar keys for moving forward/backward through days, weeks, months and 3-month periods. All of these are documented in the manual: (info (org)The date/time prompt) AFAICT, you cannot go into the calendar: you can switch buffers, but even so the calendar buffer does not seem to recognize any keys. Not entirely sure that I've got this right (and I certainly don't understand what's going on), but it seems to be a correct description of the behavior. Nick --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash The minibuffer is read only when I try to type -2 and S-left generates some symbols like = and [ but does not change the highlighted date. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash When I did c-c . and got current date with surrounding virtual calendar months, I noticed the cursor was positioned to the left of the = sign on line 25. When I moved it to the right of the = sign I was able to key in -2 and then I hit enter and this time the date moved back two days! Thanks much for the help provided. I don't have to use Windows or excel for this task now.
Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: The minibuffer is read only when I try to type -2 and S-left generates some symbols like = and [ but does not change the highlighted date. When I did c-c . and got current date with surrounding virtual calendar months, I noticed the cursor was positioned to the left of the = sign on line 25. When I moved it to the right of the = sign I was able to key in -2 and then I hit enter and this time the date moved back two days! Thanks much for the help provided. I don't have to use Windows or excel for this task now. Is line 25 the minibuffer? And when you say the = sign, is that part of the live display of what org thinks you mean? There is an ASCII arrow = followed by the current candidate for a date (I believe that's an overlay: when I try to move to the right, my cursor skips all the way to the right after the live display). I'm not sure what's going on in your case, but in my case, I press C-c . -2 RET and it works: I don't have to move the cursor anywhere before I type the -2. Nick
Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: The minibuffer is read only when I try to type -2 and S-left generates some symbols like = and [ but does not change the highlighted date. When I did c-c . and got current date with surrounding virtual calendar months, I noticed the cursor was positioned to the left of the = sign on line 25. When I moved it to the right of the = sign I was able to key in -2 and then I hit enter and this time the date moved back two days! Thanks much for the help provided. I don't have to use Windows or excel for this task now. Is line 25 the minibuffer? And when you say the = sign, is that part of the live display of what org thinks you mean? There is an ASCII arrow = followed by the current candidate for a date (I believe that's an overlay: when I try to move to the right, my cursor skips all the way to the right after the live display). I'm not sure what's going on in your case, but in my case, I press C-c . -2 RET and it works: I don't have to move the cursor anywhere before I type the -2. Nick --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash There is a sign followed by an = sign and I ended up moving to the right of the = sign and then was able to key things in. I think what runs on this system is emacs in non-graphical mode.
Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: There is a sign followed by an = sign and I ended up moving to the right of the = sign and then was able to key things in. I think what runs on this system is emacs in non-graphical mode. The sign follows the = sign (reading from left to right): it's supposed to be an ASCII arrow (actually an implication sign: = ). I tried emacs -nw in an xterm and emacs on the console. In all cases C-c . -2 RET works for me with no mucking around with the cursor. Nick
[O] things I don't understand about tables
Why is it when I try putting a date in this table using the calendar I get no date entered when in a blank field and hear the message: Before first headline at position 376 in buffer medlog.org | date | sugar | weight | cystalic | diastalic | exercise | notes| |--+-+--++-++--| | 18 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11| 10 | 40 | | | | || | | | | | | || | | | | | | || | | | I almost need two separate tables one with dates and notes and the other with dates and other fields but would need to link both tables on the date field. When I tried reading what I wrote in an earlier version of this table, all I could find on the screen was dollar signs. Lines went beyond emacs line width so I'll need to find out how to have amacs shut off the dollar sign display and show content instead if I can get the rest of this figured out. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Why is it when I try putting a date in this table using the calendar I get no date entered when in a blank field and hear the message: Before first headline at position 376 in buffer medlog.org How are you trying to insert the date? This error is usually produced because some function is trying to do an org-back-to-heading, i.e. the function does not expect the table to be at top level. In particular, C-c C-d (org-deadline) and C-c C-s (org-schedule) *want* a headline and insert the scheduling information after the headline, not in the table. OTOH, I tried entering a date into a table at top level with C-c . which is bound to org-time-stamp, and the date gets inserted with no error (and S-RET also works to increment the date in subsequent rows as Michael Brand mentioned) Org-mode version 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-577-gb0a051 @ /home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/) Nick
Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Why is it when I try putting a date in this table using the calendar I get no date entered when in a blank field and hear the message: Before first headline at position 376 in buffer medlog.org How are you trying to insert the date? This error is usually produced because some function is trying to do an org-back-to-heading, i.e. the function does not expect the table to be at top level. In particular, C-c C-d (org-deadline) and C-c C-s (org-schedule) *want* a headline and insert the scheduling information after the headline, not in the table. OTOH, I tried entering a date into a table at top level with C-c . which is bound to org-time-stamp, and the date gets inserted with no error (and S-RET also works to increment the date in subsequent rows as Michael Brand mentioned) Org-mode version 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-577-gb0a051 @ /home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/) Nick --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash First I try with c-c c-d that didn't get me into the calendar. Next I try with c-c . and that got me into the calendar and on current date. Unfortunately, c-b c-b failed to move me two days back from the current date. This is with emacs 24.x on debian.
Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Why is it when I try putting a date in this table using the calendar I get no date entered when in a blank field and hear the message: Before first headline at position 376 in buffer medlog.org How are you trying to insert the date? This error is usually produced because some function is trying to do an org-back-to-heading, i.e. the function does not expect the table to be at top level. In particular, C-c C-d (org-deadline) and C-c C-s (org-schedule) *want* a headline and insert the scheduling information after the headline, not in the table. OTOH, I tried entering a date into a table at top level with C-c . which is bound to org-time-stamp, and the date gets inserted with no error (and S-RET also works to increment the date in subsequent rows as Michael Brand mentioned) Org-mode version 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-577-gb0a051 @ /home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/) Nick First I try with c-c c-d that didn't get me into the calendar. Next I try with c-c . and that got me into the calendar and on current date. Unfortunately, c-b c-b failed to move me two days back from the current date. This is with emacs 24.x on debian. When org-read-date pops up a calendar, you are not in the calendar, you are in the minibuffer with the prompt. You can select previous dates by using something like -2 or you can use a set of calendar commands that are bound to keys in the minibuffer. In particular, you can move the cursor in the calendar to the previous day with S-Left. There are similar keys for moving forward/backward through days, weeks, months and 3-month periods. All of these are documented in the manual: (info (org)The date/time prompt) AFAICT, you cannot go into the calendar: you can switch buffers, but even so the calendar buffer does not seem to recognize any keys. Not entirely sure that I've got this right (and I certainly don't understand what's going on), but it seems to be a correct description of the behavior. Nick
