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
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 jonathan.leechpe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:42, Simon Campese emacs-orgm...@campese.de 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.
Re: [O] Non-interactive insertion of future-dates
Hello, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:42, Simon Campese emacs-orgm...@campese.de 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