Prompts for `C-c .' and `C-c !'

Prompts for `C-c .' and `C-c !'

[François Pinard]

Hi, Org people! :-)

Commands `C-c .' and `C-c !' both insert a time stamp in the buffer, and
the date is prompted in the mini-buffer in the same way for both
commands.  One of them is going to insert <DATE>, the other [DATE].  The
mini-buffer always show <DATE>, like this:

   Date+time [2012-01-23]:   => <2012-01-23 lun>

Could it be:

   Date+time [2012-01-23]:   => [2012-01-23 lun]

when appropriate?  This feedback would be useful (to me at least), in
case I mixed `C-c .' and `C-c !' in my head, and am using the wrong one.

François

Re: Prompts for `C-c .' and `C-c !'

[Bernt Hansen]

pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> Hi, Org people! :-)
>
> Commands `C-c .' and `C-c !' both insert a time stamp in the buffer, and
> the date is prompted in the mini-buffer in the same way for both
> commands.  One of them is going to insert <DATE>, the other [DATE].  The
> mini-buffer always show <DATE>, like this:
>
>    Date+time [2012-01-23]:   => <2012-01-23 lun>
>
> Could it be:
>
>    Date+time [2012-01-23]:   => [2012-01-23 lun]
>
> when appropriate?  This feedback would be useful (to me at least), in

That's probably not worth the effort.  If you use the wrong one just put
point on the [ or < and hit S-up arrow to switch it.

Regards,
Bernt

Re: Prompts for `C-c .' and `C-c !'

[Lolo le 13]

Hi !

If I understood well, I think that the difference between C-c . and C-c ! is that the timestamp is active or not.

<DATE>  is an active date that appear in agenda view. So you have ti use it if you want to see the task scheduled or deadlined.

[DATE] format does not allow the timestamp to interact with agenda view. It is used to indicate date just for information.

Lolo

Le 23/01/2012 17:01, François Pinard a écrit :

> Hi, Org people! :-)
>
> Commands `C-c .' and `C-c !' both insert a time stamp in the buffer, and
> the date is prompted in the mini-buffer in the same way for both
> commands.  One of them is going to insert<DATE>, the other [DATE].  The
> mini-buffer always show<DATE>, like this:
>
>     Date+time [2012-01-23]:   =>  <2012-01-23 lun>
>
> Could it be:
>
>     Date+time [2012-01-23]:   =>  [2012-01-23 lun]
>
> when appropriate?  This feedback would be useful (to me at least), in
> case I mixed `C-c .' and `C-c !' in my head, and am using the wrong one.
>
> François
>

Re: Prompts for `C-c .' and `C-c !'

[Bernt Hansen]

Lolo le 13 <lolole13@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi !
>
> If I understood well, I think that the difference between C-c . and
> C-c ! is that the timestamp is active or not.
>
> <DATE> is an active date that appear in agenda view. So you have ti
> use it if you want to see the task scheduled or deadlined.
>
> [DATE] format does not allow the timestamp to interact with agenda
> view. It is used to indicate date just for information.

You can include inactive timestamps in the agenda with the [ and ] keys.

-Bernt

Re: Prompts for `C-c .' and `C-c !'

[Leo]

On 2012-01-24 00:01 +0800, François Pinard wrote:
> Commands `C-c .' and `C-c !' both insert a time stamp in the buffer, and
> the date is prompted in the mini-buffer in the same way for both
> commands.  One of them is going to insert <DATE>, the other [DATE].  The
> mini-buffer always show <DATE>, like this:
>
>    Date+time [2012-01-23]:   => <2012-01-23 lun>
>
> Could it be:
>
>    Date+time [2012-01-23]:   => [2012-01-23 lun]

I think this is a good suggestion. <> is unconditionally set in
org-time-stamp-custom-formats but it can be fixed by tweaking
org-read-date-display.

Leo

Re: Prompts for `C-c .' and `C-c !'

[Bastien]

Hi François,

pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> Could it be:
>
>    Date+time [2012-01-23]:   => [2012-01-23 lun]
>
> when appropriate?

This is now the case.  

Thanks for the suggestion.

-- 
 Bastien