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Re: [O] “Fuzzy” times (“evening”, “morning”, “night”…)
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Ken Mankoff |
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Re: [O] “Fuzzy” times (“evening”, “morning”, “night”…) |
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Sat, 08 Dec 2018 10:19:06 -0800 |
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On 2018-12-08 at 09:47 -0800, Leo Gaspard <address@hidden> wrote:
> However, I think it may be a good idea to allow eg. this kind of
> timestamps:
> <2018-02-04 Tue evening> That would be handled as though it
> was eg. <2018-02-04 Tue 18:00-22:00> (which would be configurable), so
> that it would be both semantically correct (the time is still fuzzy)
> and correctly displayed (eg. on an agenda)
> [...]
> What do you think about this idea? Is there a better way to do what
> I'm trying to do with current tools?
I think this would be a neat feature. But as a first pass which can work
immediately, what about using one of the multiple text expansion packages that
are Org-agnostic to achieve this: Yasnippets or abbrev mode, for example?
This doesn't maintain the "semantics (time still fuzzy)", but does let you
define and enter time ranges in a simpler way.
-k.