Re: [O] calendar date adjustments blocked

[Jude DaShiell]

hitting -2 in the date field had no effect, what did work though was 
shift-leftarrow though. On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> 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
> > 
> 
> Thank you - time to hit the books (again). Of all people, I should have
> known better than to post without checking the manual first.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 

Jude <address@hidden>
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