Let's say I have this: <2011-09-15 Thu>--<2011-09-16 Fri>
and I put my cursor over this and press C-c C-y my minibuffer will spit out 1 day. I would like a command that does the same thing if i execute it over just <2011-09-16 Fri>. Sometimes I'm interested in how much time there is left to a specific appointment. Best Regards /Alexander On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > Alexander Wingård <alexander.wing...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I really would want to have a command that given the cursor is over a >> timestamp would output the time-range from the current time to that >> timestamp. >> > > Can you please provide an example? I can interpret this > in a couple of different ways and I'm not sure what you > want. > > Also, when you say "output", do you mean that the function > should return e.g. a string representation of whatever it is > you want? Or print the result in the minibuffer? > Or insert it in the buffer you are editing? (and, if the last, > where?) > > Nick >