From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Picking a date using M-x calendar UI from elisp Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:55:40 -0400 Message-ID: <87io9dfl9f.fsf@yale.edu> References: <871tg1wpl6.fsf@example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437501269 13096 80.91.229.3 (21 Jul 2015 17:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:54:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 19:54:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHbkD-0003yM-E7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:54:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHbkC-0003vR-U1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42897) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHbjy-0003pj-PG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHbjv-0007FN-KJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHbjv-0007Ds-Dl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHbjt-0003od-E0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:54:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:angoWkE0e5fkp4hkcTwQ5OFVTzg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105904 Archived-At: 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.