On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Hi Jude,
> dunno if I understood exactly what you did.
> AFAIK, when org-mode reads in dates, you can just edit the text in the
> minibuffer. No need to use or even switch to the calendar buffer.
> In addition, you can use shift together with the arrow keys to "move" in
> the calendar buffer and hit enter to pick a date, without leaving the
> minibuffer.
> If you don't want the calendar to pop up at all, evaluate
> (setq org-read-date-popup-calendar nil)
> Hope that helps,
> Michael.
> > I don't use a mouse when running any computer since I can't see to point
> > with it and not all the screen readers necessarily support use of the
> > mouse. Aside from that, I have a major fine motor deficit. I was able in
> > org-mode to bring up the calendar with the current date highlighted.
> > Unfortunately, I didn't need the current date. Hitting control-b twice
> > inside the calendar had no effect and just dumped the current date into my
> > org-mode table. Is there any way to let calendar know no rodent is
> > available and take input from keyboard? This behavior happens with emacs
> > 24.x in debian I don't know how many past versions also had this problem.
