I just usually put those in the cal manually, with a date if they have "unusual" recurrences that can;t be denoted by the standard datestamp recurrences . =]
Though for religious holidays like Easter and, I imagine, some lunar based ones, I imagine it might be handy. But honestly, I am surprised people use them anymore. I certainly have managed to avoid them up to now. They feel slightly anachronistic (much like putting in dates without timezones... =] ). D. On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 6:36 PM Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote: > Daryl Manning <da...@wakatara.com> writes: > > > Perhaps a leading question (leading to outrage =p ), but does anybody > even > > use those anymore? > > > > I don't believe I've used them at all in 5 years of using org-mode (and > if > > I did it was most likely because of some arcane older feature which > > required them). > > diary exps is the only available way to limit the number of repetitions > of an even. > > Also, see org-class, which will automatically skips holidays (let's just > ignore the issue with time zones and holidays, please; just accept the > limitation) > > Some real word examples of diary sexps scheduling in the wild: > - https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ :: <%%(diary-float t 6 4)> > - https://emacs-berlin.org/ :: <%%(diary-float t 3 -1)> > > Finally, religious holidays can be defined and Nth weekday before/after > month/date. > > Some people even use diary sexps exclusively. > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode contributor, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92> >
