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 <jdash...@shellworld.net> 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 <jdash...@shellworld.net> > 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. >
