Re: Easy entry of date ranges

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 at 11:46, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Org and the calendar make it fairly easy to enter time ranges, by
>>>> typing "--" and then the end time or "+" and then the duration. I'd
>>>> like to do something similar for dates, but it doesn't seem to be
>>>> supported. Is there an easy way to enter a date range for a scheduled
>>>> task?

[...]

> For a vacation, a plain timestamp is more appropriate. However! That
> just begs the question of how to make it easier to enter a date range.
> That's a question I don't know the answer to -- I suspect there isn't
> any way but just hitting a couple of hyphens and then "C-c ." again. I
> suppose Org could help by setting the default date of the end time to
> something after the start time.
>
> Eric

Actually, org is quite smart in this respect.  if you enter a time stamp
and then ask to enter another, org automatically inserts the -- between
the two time stamps.  E.g. try this key sequence to get a time range
that covers 7 days starting today:

  C-c . RET C-c . +6 RET

and you should get: <2015-08-27 Thu>--<2015-09-02 Wed>

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-176-g45abec