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Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables
From: |
Jude DaShiell |
Subject: |
Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:38:15 -0500 (EST) |
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Jude DaShiell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > The minibuffer is read only when I try to type -2 and S-left generates
> > > some symbols like = and [ but does not change the highlighted date.
> > >
> >
> > When I did c-c . and got current date with surrounding virtual calendar
> > months, I noticed the cursor was positioned to the left of the = sign on
> > line 25. When I moved it to the right of the = sign I was able to key in
> > -2 and then I hit enter and this time the date moved back two days!
> > Thanks much for the help provided. I don't have to use Windows or excel
> > for this task now.
> >
>
> Is line 25 the minibuffer? And when you say the = sign, is that part of the
> "live display" of what org thinks you mean? There is an ASCII arrow =>
> followed
> by the current candidate for a date (I believe that's an overlay: when I try
> to move to the right, my cursor skips all the way to the right after the "live
> display").
>
> I'm not sure what's going on in your case, but in my case, I press
>
> C-c . -2 RET
>
> and it works: I don't have to move the cursor anywhere before I type the -2.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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jude <address@hidden>
Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
There is a > sign followed by an = sign and I ended up moving to the right
of the = sign and then was able to key things in. I think what runs on
this system is emacs in non-graphical mode.
- [O] things I don't understand about tables, Jude DaShiell, 2012/11/12
- Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables, Nick Dokos, 2012/11/12
- Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables, Jude DaShiell, 2012/11/12
- Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables, Nick Dokos, 2012/11/13
- Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables, Jude DaShiell, 2012/11/13
- Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables, Jude DaShiell, 2012/11/13
- Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables, Nick Dokos, 2012/11/13
- Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables,
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- Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables, Nick Dokos, 2012/11/13