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 <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> 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 > > > > 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 <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.
