On 7 October 2011 10:12, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Brian van den Broek > <brian.van.den.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It just seemed that since orgmode parse text yanked into the dt prompt, it >> would be in keeping with the general spirit of the mode to parse selected >> text, too. But, as I said, it isn't a big deal. > > I don't quite understand this, are you saying when I yank text into an > org buffer it converts any random time stamp like information into > proper org format timestamps? So if I were to kill the following text > from some buffer, > > some random time stamp 2011/10/07 > > and yank it into an org buffer, it will be converted to > > some random time stamp <2011-10-07> > > I have been using org for quite sometime, but I don't think there is > any such feature. And if there was, I would say that's too intrusive > to assume I want every time information to be stored as timestamps. Or > on the other hand, do you mean that the text doesn't change but the > text face does? I would think that is a fontlocking issue. > > If I am misunderstanding, could you please illustrate with a small example?
Hi Suvayu and all, It is clear that I've not been clear. I'll explain and then let it go. :-) Say I have a buffer with the following contents: <------> Some text in a buffer with orgmode enabled. Blah blah, Tuesday at 3pm blah blah September 19, 2003, 14:00-15:00 blah blah <------> As it is now, if I kill the text "Tuesday at 3pm", and with cursor where I killed hit C-u C-c . to invoke org-time-stamp with prefix argument, and then yank the just killed text into the resulting prompt, and repeat for the text "Sept. ... 15:00", I get <------> Some text in a buffer with orgmode enabled. Blah blah, <2011-10-11 Tue 15:00> blah blah <2003-09-19 Fri 14:00-15:00> blah blah <------> (the exact way the org-time-stamp command interprets the text is a function of the date that it is run and of the value of org-read-date-prefer-future, and possibly other variables, too.) What I was suggesting was it would be cool and a small time-saver if I could select the text "Tuesday at 3pm" and hit C-u C-c . and have the region replaced with the stamp <2011-10-11 Tue 15:00>, entirely bypassing the kill and yank steps. (Achim correctly suggested that what I want to do could be done with a keyboard macro. I still think it would be neat.) The reason that I suggested it is that I'd tried it, half-expecting it to work. It seems to me that orgmode is pretty good at making my life easier and this is a (very small) way in which it could, but doesn't currently. Certainly, if I am killing text to yank into the datetime prompt, there is a high likelihood that what I really want to do is to replace that text with a timestamp that org derives from it. So, why not enable that in one swell foop? I hope that has made my suggestion clear. I'm sorry I was unclear earlier and thus created a bit of noise. Best, Brian vdB
