Re: [Orgmode] Properties and dates in column view

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Chris, this i a useful idea, I am putting it in.

Thanks, also for spotting erros in the documentation.

- Carsten

On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:58 PM, Chris Randle wrote:

> Hi Carsten
>
> Sorry for calling you Gerrit earlier (brain failure), and also for so
> many posts from me today. I've started to implement properties and
> column view in my Org-mode file.
>
> I have an entry like this:
>
> * Copy of bank form
>  SCHEDULED: <2008-09-17 Wed>
>  :PROPERTIES:
>  :EXPIRES:  [2008-10-12 Sun]
>  :END:
>  Sent original back to NW
>
>
> If not a lot of trouble, is it possible to:
>
> 1) have the column view recognise properties that are an active/ 
> inactive
> date stamp so that S-Left/S-Right will decrement/increment the date?
>
> 2) Have the 'e' edit recognise that the property value is a date stamp
> and use the date editor?
>
> I noticed that the SCHEDULED and DEADLINE inbuilt properties behave  
> this
> way already and thought that it would be useful to have other date
> properties behave the same way.
>
> I think that the suggested behaviour above should apply only if no
> allowed values have been set for that particular property.
>
> Also, I noticed in the documentation (Section 7.5.2 Using column view)
> page 50 of the PDF, that the comment for S-M-Right says "Insert a new
> column, to the right of the current column". When I try that it  
> inserts
> to the left. My feeling is, thinking about the keystroke's parallel in
> table mode, that the behaviour is correct but the documentation should
> say "...to the left...".
>
> --
> Chris Randle
> Windows XP SP3 - GNU Emacs 22.1.1 - Org-mode 6.06b
>
>
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