repeating within a range

repeating within a range

[Austin Frank]

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Hello!

I'd like to specify that an event repeats weekly, but only for a month.
Ideally, I'd also be able to specify a time for the weekly event.  Is
there currently a way to say "this event happens every Thursday in July
From 17:00-19:00"?

Given the new time range syntax from 4.78, I wonder if something like
the following might work

<2007-07-06--2007-26-31 17:00--19:00 +1w>

I changed the time range to also use -- as the range indicator to
provide some consistency across the date and time specifications.  It's
fine with me if that changes back to 17:00-19:00.

Another option would be to use a diary sexp.  I'm not aware of a
built-in diary function that accomplishes the above goal, but if anyone
can show me how to do this with a <%%()> timestamp I'd really appreciate
it.

Thanks,
/au

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Re: repeating within a range

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Austin,

this is not supported, and I do not have plans to put it in.  You
can either directly insert the several dates explicitly,
or define a repeating date and then just delete it once it is over.

If you really need this functionality,
I think it would be relatively easy to hack this, using a diary sexp
entry.  Start with either diary-cyclic, or with diary-float, add 
additional
arguments for the end date, and then see how dates are handled and
change the function to deal with the end date.

Hope this helps.

- Carsten


On Jun 23, 2007, at 20:59, Austin Frank wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'd like to specify that an event repeats weekly, but only for a month.
> Ideally, I'd also be able to specify a time for the weekly event.  Is
> there currently a way to say "this event happens every Thursday in July
> From 17:00-19:00"?
>
> Given the new time range syntax from 4.78, I wonder if something like
> the following might work
>
> <2007-07-06--2007-26-31 17:00--19:00 +1w>
>
> I changed the time range to also use -- as the range indicator to
> provide some consistency across the date and time specifications.  It's
> fine with me if that changes back to 17:00-19:00.
>
> Another option would be to use a diary sexp.  I'm not aware of a
> built-in diary function that accomplishes the above goal, but if anyone
> can show me how to do this with a <%%()> timestamp I'd really 
> appreciate
> it.
>
> Thanks,
> /au
>
> -- 
> Austin Frank
> http://aufrank.net
> GPG Public Key (D7398C2F): http://aufrank.net/personal.asc
> _______________________________________________
> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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