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Re: [Orgmode] Default date and closing all org buffers


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Default date and closing all org buffers
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:06:34 +0200


On Sep 19, 2007, at 18:48, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:

When I use Org mode to record a TODO, the date is more often than not,
some day in the future. C-c C-s defaults to the current date but can
it be presented as an editable field in the minibuffer?  That way, I
save a few keystrokes.  The same for the C-c C-d deadline option.

I doubt that an editable field will save you keystrokes. You need to look, and
to move the cursor etc.  The Org-mode function that is reading your
input is quite smart, so you rarely need specify a full date. For a full
description read the documentation of the `org-read-date' function.
The following is cut and paste from there:

The prompt will suggest to enter an ISO date, but you can also enter anything
which will at least partially be understood by `parse-time-string'.
Unrecognized parts of the date will default to the current day, month, year,
hour and minute.  For example,
  3-2-5         --> 2003-02-05
  feb 15        --> currentyear-02-15
  sep 12 9      --> 2009-09-12
  12:45         --> today 12:45
  22 sept 0:34  --> currentyear-09-22 0:34
  12            --> currentyear-currentmonth-12
  Fri           --> nearest Friday (today or later)
+4 --> four days from today (only if +N is the only thing given)

I use C-tab to cycle through the buffers.  While in org mode, after
using C-c a a  and having a quick look at the days agenda, I rarely go
back to it, except to close the items.  But I do spend a lot of time
cycling through 4/5 buffers and when I hit the org buffers, the
cycling stops as c-tab is mapped differently in org-mode.

What I'd like, is a configuration to close-all-agenda-files/buffers,
so that one can go back to the default action of c-tab of mine.  In
org-mode I do like the s-tab/c-tab behaviour, except that when cycling
through buffers, it gets in the way; so I think there should be a way
to close/kill all org buffers once you're out of org buffers.

I usually have 6 org files that I put my different action items in.

If you exit the agenda with "x" instead of "q", all buffers that were loaded by the agenda-constructing command will be killed (when the buffer was modified you will be asked if you want to save it). This might already be enough for you?

- Carsten





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