Re: [O] things I don't understand about tables

[Jude DaShiell]

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>
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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.