Thanks, but I cannot check this any more. Because after a computer restart this night, it seems that everything is now normal again. But I will try your solution the next time.
Charles On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:29:33 -0400 (EDT) Robert Funnell <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know what's happening to you, but I thought I would mention > that I have successfully edited tkremind reminders with a text > editor. All I've ever had to do to get the revised reminder was to > tell tkremind to go to a different month and then back again. > > - Robert > > On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, Charles Stroom wrote: > > > I thought the trick was to restore the older rem file from the > > backup. However, no reminder in the old file was modifiable any > > longer. But this is quite annoying, a backup should be able to > > restore the old situation. What exactly is the origin of this > > behaviour of remind/tkremind and why was this done? > > > > Charles > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:53:01 +0200 > > Charles Stroom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Looked up tkremind(1) and it says it's not possible. No tricks to > >> circumvent this? > >> > >> Charles > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:15:33 +0200 > >> Charles Stroom <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> using tkremind, I modified an existing reminder, but the mod > >>> included an illegal character (was the message). This was the "[" > >>> character, so I edited the rem file (not withstanding the "DO NOT > >>> EDIT" warning) to change the "[", because it was not even visible > >>> in tkremind. > >>> > >>> I restarted tkremind, but it comes up with the message that it had > >>> created an empty 100-tkremind.rem file and new reminders go to > >>> this new file, and while the existing reminders are visible in > >>> tkremind, these cannot be modified any more. Apparently there is > >>> something in the rem file that inhibits modifications(?), but > >>> what? > >>> > >>> Thanks, Charles > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Charles Stroom > >>> email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the > >>> "no-spam.") _______________________________________________ > >>> Remind-fans mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > >>> Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Charles Stroom > >> email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
