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* Picking a date using M-x calendar UI from elisp
@ 2015-07-21 14:30 Diogo Ramos
  2015-07-21 17:55 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
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From: Diogo Ramos @ 2015-07-21 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Is it possible to use the M-x calendar UI from elisp to let the user
pick a date?



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* Re: Picking a date using M-x calendar UI from elisp
  2015-07-21 14:30 Picking a date using M-x calendar UI from elisp Diogo Ramos
@ 2015-07-21 17:55 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
  2015-07-21 18:05   ` Diogo Ramos
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo @ 2015-07-21 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Diogo Ramos writes:

> Is it possible to use the M-x calendar UI from elisp to let the 
> user pick a date?

You could use org built-in functions:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d" (org-time-string-to-time 
  (org-read-date)))
#+END_SRC

Best,
-- 
Jorge.




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* Re: Picking a date using M-x calendar UI from elisp
  2015-07-21 17:55 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
@ 2015-07-21 18:05   ` Diogo Ramos
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Diogo Ramos @ 2015-07-21 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

>> Is it possible to use the M-x calendar UI from elisp to let the 
>> user pick a date?
>
> You could use org built-in functions:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>   (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d" (org-time-string-to-time 
>   (org-read-date)))
> #+END_SRC

Ah, nice.  Thank you.



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