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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Leo Gaspard <orgmode@leo.gaspard.io>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: “Fuzzy” times (“evening”, “morning”, “night”…)
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 10:19:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm5vkhk5.fsf@geus3064linuxwsm.geus.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zw3j4g8.fsf@llwynog.ekleog.org>


On 2018-12-08 at 09:47 -0800, Leo Gaspard <orgmode@leo.gaspard.io> wrote:
> However, I think it may be a good idea to allow eg. this kind of
> timestamps:
>         <2018-02-04 Tue evening> That would be handled as though it
> was eg. <2018-02-04 Tue 18:00-22:00> (which would be configurable), so
> that it would be both semantically correct (the time is still fuzzy)
> and correctly displayed (eg. on an agenda)
> [...]
> What do you think about this idea? Is there a better way to do what
> I'm trying to do with current tools?


I think this would be a neat feature. But as a first pass which can work immediately, what about using one of the multiple text expansion packages that are Org-agnostic to achieve this: Yasnippets or abbrev mode, for example?

This doesn't maintain the "semantics (time still fuzzy)", but does let you define and enter time ranges in a simpler way.

  -k.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-08 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-08 17:47 “Fuzzy” times (“evening”, “morning”, “night”…) Leo Gaspard
2018-12-08 18:19 ` Ken Mankoff [this message]
2018-12-09 17:00   ` Leo Gaspard
2018-12-09 19:42 ` Richard Lawrence
2018-12-10  7:55   ` Leo Gaspard

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