Re-submitting my earlier patch. Please ignore the earlier one.
> Comments:
> Support for specifying the duration in absolute minutes could be
> useful in some cases. (In my case, I was trying to plug in the
> duration of a BBC production specified in minutes - for eg 92 min,
> 116 min, 205 min etc).
> Related bugs:
> 1. While trying to specify time range as '2:00-3:00' I see the
> following message - 'Error in post-command-hook: (parse-error not
> an integer 3:)'. The corresponding calendar entry gets created
> though.
> 2. Is there support for agenda to wrap around the day. For example
> how would the following entries be interpreted 23:00+2:00,
> 3:00+48. Just curious.
>From ddc86808233b21f72bb544f5ebfdde5e5db115f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:41:07 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Org Manual: Document time range spec at the date/time prompt
* org.texi (The date/time prompt): Document specification of time
ranges.
TINYCHANGE
---
doc/org.texi | 10 ++++++++++
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index 13af2df..4938f48 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -5212,6 +5212,16 @@ The function understands English month and weekday
abbreviations. If
you want to use unabbreviated names and/or other languages, configure
the variables @code{parse-time-months} and @code{parse-time-weekdays}.
+You can specify a time range by giving start and end times or by giving a
+start time and a duration (in HH:MM format). Use '-' or '--' as the separator
+in the former case and use '+' as the separator in the latter case. E.g.
+
+...@example
+11am-1:15pm --> 11:00-13:15
+11am--1:15pm --> same as above
+11am+2:15 --> same as above
+...@end example
+
@cindex calendar, for selecting date
@vindex org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt
Parallel to the minibuffer prompt, a calendar is popped u...@footnote{if
--
1.7.0.4
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