Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-12-31 Thread Bastien
Hi Brian, Brian van den Broek writes: > I very much appreciate orgmode's ability to parse the content of a > yank for date and time information while entering a timestamp. I think > it would be even cooler were orgmode able to parse the content of a > selected region and extract the same informa

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-26 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 26 Oct 2011 09:56, "Eric S Fraga" wrote: > > Brian van den Broek writes: > > [...] > > > Various people upthread convinced me that my feature request wasn't > > really worth it. (I do hope it didn't cost you too much time!) So, I > > am content to drop it here :-) > > but did you try a simple

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-26 Thread Eric S Fraga
Brian van den Broek writes: [...] > Various people upthread convinced me that my feature request wasn't > really worth it. (I do hope it didn't cost you too much time!) So, I > am content to drop it here :-) but did you try a simple keyboard macro in the end as suggested by the first response?

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-25 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 24 October 2011 08:00, Bastien wrote: > Hi Brian, > > suvayu ali writes: > >> Ah I see it now, you want the org-timestamp command to work on a >> region. Maybe you can write your own function with lisp if you are >> doing this too often. Should be quite simple to try. > > Please check `org-loo

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-23 Thread Bastien
Hi Brian, suvayu ali writes: > Ah I see it now, you want the org-timestamp command to work on a > region. Maybe you can write your own function with lisp if you are > doing this too often. Should be quite simple to try. Please check `org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region' from latest git rep

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-08 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Brian van den Broek wrote: > 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 yan

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-07 Thread Nick Dokos
Brian van den Broek wrote: > ... > 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", an

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-07 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 7 October 2011 10:12, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Brian, > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Brian van den Broek > 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

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-07 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Brian, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Brian van den Broek 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 understan

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-06 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 6 Oct 2011 21:46, "Achim Gratz" wrote: > > Brian van den Broek writes: > > It wouldn't stun me were orgmode already able to do what I have in > > mind, but trying it and consulting the fine manual didn't suggest that > > it does. > [snip] > > I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to achieve

Re: [O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Brian van den Broek writes: > It wouldn't stun me were orgmode already able to do what I have in > mind, but trying it and consulting the fine manual didn't suggest that > it does. [snip] I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to achieve, but it seems that you could define a keyboard macro for

[O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-06 Thread Brian van den Broek
Hi all, It wouldn't stun me were orgmode already able to do what I have in mind, but trying it and consulting the fine manual didn't suggest that it does. I very much appreciate orgmode's ability to parse the content of a yank for date and time information while entering a timestamp. I think it w

[O] feature suggestion: apply datetime prompt magic to selected region

2011-10-06 Thread Brian van den Broek
Hi all, [Apologies to the mods and to all if this goes through twice; I sent from the wrong gmail tab :-[ ] It wouldn't stun me were orgmode already able to do what I have in mind, but trying it and consulting the fine manual didn't suggest that it does. I very much appreciate orgmode's ability