Is there any way for an expression or substitution to access the
values supplied in a FROM/SCANFROM and UNTIL/THROUGH (or the times
provided by the AT & DURATION clauses, or the TAG value)?
I can currently do something like
REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri \
FROM Dec 21 2019 \
UNTIL Jan 5 2020 \
MSG %"Kids on school break%"%
REM Jan 16 2020 \
AT 10:00 \
DURATION 1:30 \
MSG %"Dr. appointment%"%
which puts the MSG on the appropriate weekdays, but was hoping for
some sort of way to reference those dates, something like the
imaginary syntax
# ...
MSF %"Kids on school break from [$From] through [$Until] %"%
# ...
MSF %"Dr. appointment from [time($At)] to [$At + $Duration]%"%
such that
$ rem 2019-12-23
(right in the middle of that range) would produce output something
like
Reminders for Monday, 23rd December, 2019:
Kids on school break from 2019-12-21 through 2020-01-05
Dr. appointment from 10:00am to 11:30am
The only way I've been able to come up with a DRY(ish) solution is
still pretty verbose/ugly, something like
SET WinterBreak2019Start date(2019,12,21)
SET WinterBreak2019End date(2020,1,5)
REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri \
FROM [WinterBreak2019Start] \
UNTIL [WinterBreak2019End] \
MSF %"Kids on school break [WinterBreak2019Start] through
[WinterBreak2019End]%"%
which quickly becomes a royal pain.
Is this some existing functionality I've missed? Or if it doesn't
exist, would it be a worthwhile sort of addition to propose for
consideration?
Thanks!
-tim
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