Seth Falcon wrote: > Hi Phil, > > I've got things half-working the way I want so I will share some > thoughts... > > I'm using planner-appt to manage appointments. I like this approach > because entering a task and entering an appointment are the same > hot-key --- I only have to remember one way of making a "reminder".
Okay, I'll take a look at this. I thought planner-appt just did pop ups to remind you of impending meetings. > I have a '* Schedule' section and appointments are nicely collected > there (though they also appear in my task list). > > Recently I have tried the planner-cyclic setup because I need to be > reminded about recurring appointments. I think it is working. > >> Firstly, my diary cylic file tells me about selective display, >> and suggests I remove it with "s" in Calendar. But this actually >> takes me to the diary file, rather than diary.cyclic-tasks. > > Me too! (the only way I could edit the file was using vi!) Excellent! Emacs' legendary usability comes to fore. Haven't seen anything like this since the days of Emacs 19, when esc-esc produced a "please do not push this button again" error. > I found M-x show-all-diary-entries (bound to C-c C-s), but it just > shows me the contents of ~/.diary not ~/.diary.cyclic-tasks. > > I don't know whether it makes sense to have more than one diary file. > Seems to me that Emacs things there can only be one, but is happy to > put other files in the cryptic editing mode without giving you a way > to turn it off :-( I think M-x set-selective-display should work in this case. As I said, diary's UI should be heavily retired. As a backend, it looks okay, but it's got a really horrible interface. > If you set the diary-file variable to your cyclic-tasks file, then C-c > C-s does display entries (yay!). Wey, hey! > Anyhow, if you would like details on my config, let me know. Yeah, that would be good. I'm just getting to the point of moving of the Exchange server that I was forced onto a while back. Back to Gnus for email (unless you have been forced to use outlook, you have no idea how good this is going to feel!). But I lose calendaring, and I can't face going back to sunbird. Currently, it's planner or bust for me. Cheers Phil _______________________________________________ emacs-wiki-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-wiki-discuss
