[emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop] Emacspeak Web Wizards: Obtaining Context From The Calendar

["T. V. Raman" <noreply-comment@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Emacspeak implements a number of smart URLs in module emacspeak-url-template.el --- see earlier post on Web Command Line. Many of these smart URLs prompt the user for the date, e.g. you can use smart URL NPR On Demand to play archived NPR shows.

The most intuitive means of specifying a date is of course using a calendar that functions as a date-picker, and Emacs has a very powerful built-in calendar. Emacspeak ties these two together by arranging for commands that prompt for a date to use the current date in the Emacs Calendar as the default. So the easiest way to play NPR Morning Edition for Monday, January 2, 2006 is to do the following:

• Switch to the Emacs Calendar and move to the desired date Monday January 2, 2006 by pressing gd.
• Invoke the NPR On Demand smart URL by pressing C-e u RET NPR RET
• Specify the program code for Morning Edition by pressing me RET
• Hit enter to pick the default date that is offered in the minibuffer.
• Sit back and listen ...

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Posted by T. V. Raman to emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop at 1/22/2006 11:06:04 AM

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