Charles Choi 최 민수

Wanting to know how many days it will take to reach a date is so human. Here's a post to show how you can do this in Emacs.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/computing-days-until-with-emacs.html

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Computing Days Until with Emacs

A recent Mastodon post showing the days until the next U.S. election got me to wonder, “how can I compute that in Emacs?” Turns out, this is trivial with the Org mode function...

Apr 8 at 11:09pmWeb
Show threadViiru2d ago

@kickingvegas TIL. I had no idea Org had such a function, but of course it does..

Inspired by this I whipped up a quick embark action for calling it on an Org timestamp:

(defun viiru/embark-timestamp-to-now (ts)
"Display and kill difference between timestamp and today."
(interactive "sTimestamp: ")
(let ((res (format "%d" (org-timestamp-to-now ts))))
(message "Difference is %s days" res)
(kill-new res)))

(defvar-keymap embark-org-timestamp-map
:doc "Embark actions for org timestamps."
:parent embark-general-map
"t" #'org-toggle-timestamp-type
"d" #'viiru/embark-timestamp-to-now)

(add-to-list 'embark-keymap-alist '(org-timestamp . embark-org-timestamp-map))

#TIL #emacs #orgmode

Show threadFFFluoride1d ago
@kickingvegas thats neato