Re: [O] calendar date adjustments blocked

[Carsten Dominik]

On 5.11.2011, at 11:30, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Is it just the calendar or other things that use pop ups in emacs?


Just the calendar, and only when called from an Org-mode command
that prompts the user for a date.

- Carsten

> On Sat, 
> 5 Nov 2011, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 5.11.2011, at 03:03, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> 
>>> Jude DaShiell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I needed to enter information for two dates in org-mode and went into 
>>>> calendar using c-c+! and got the current date as expected then hit c-b to 
>>>> move the date to yesterday and pointer remained on today's date.  So I 
>>>> ended up hitting <cr> on today's date and editing it in the actual org 
>>>> file and filling the rest of my entry in after it.  Then I repeated the 
>>>> operation for today and entered today's information.  I was a bit 
>>>> surprised that the date was locked like that once calendar mode was 
>>>> entered but managed a workaround anyway.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I guess your problem is that the calendar is indeed popped up, but the 
>>> cursor
>>> is still in the daytime prompt in the minibuffer. As Bernt points out, 
>>> typing
>>> -2 at that point gets you to the right date.
>>> 
>>> The calendar seems to be for inveterate mouser users, not keyboard
>>> types: even if I C-x o to the calendar window, the cursor ends up not on
>>> today's date but off to the right somewhere and I get an error message:
>>> 
>>> ,----
>>> | Error in post-command-hook (org-read-date-display): (buffer-read-only 
>>> *Calendar*)
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> Not sure what's going on there: I expected that after I switched windows
>>> to the Calendar, my cursor would be on today's date.
>> 
>> The popup calender in Org is a special construct that hijacks key presses
>> so that all control can be done from the minibuffer, without switching to the
>> calender buffer itself.  This has side effects if you try to move
>> into the calendar buffer window anyway.
>> 
>> Bernt showed one way to specify the date.  You can also click on the date
>> to get it selected immediately.  Or you can use S-left twice to get the date
>> selected with the shadow cursor in the calendar window.  There are more
>> key presses that manipulate the calendar window from the minibuffer, see
>> 
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Creating-timestamps.html#Creating-timestamps
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> - Carsten
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Jude <address@hidden>
> When people ask do you believe in Numerology, the proper reply for me at
> least is do you believe in a hammer?  The proper answer for me for both
> questions is no, they're both tools and to be used under appropriate
> circumstances.
>