Re: calendar-goto-iso-week

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Emilio Lopes wrote:
 > Detlev Zundel writes:
 >>However I repeatedly have to check the date for a calendar
 >>week while being on the phone and then I want to type (and
 >>visually parse) as few as possible so I still think the
 >>separate function has value on its own.
 >
 > Yes, that was my motivation too. It's very common in Germany
 > to refer to calendar weeks when making appointments or
 > talking about deadlines.

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From: Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
Subject: calendar-goto-iso-week
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:42:15 +0200
Message-ID: <r3hdqmqa48.fsf@tiscali.de>

But I think a better solution is simply to provide a default day when
calendar-goto-iso-date reads the date, just like it already provides a
default year:

From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
Subject: Re: calendar-goto-iso-week
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:01:41 -0600
Message-ID: <413646C5.4030607@yahoo.com>

 >>And to be honest, I didn't even realize I was able to
 >>achieve this goal with 'calendar-goto-iso-date' as I was
 >>never able to deduce this from the function name without
 >>checking the actual code.
 >
 > It is somewhat unfortunate that one can't find
 > `calendar-goto-iso-date' using an apropos search with
 > "calendar.*week", but I can't suggest a better name either.

(defalias 'calendar-goto-iso-week-start 'calendar-goto-iso-date)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers