On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 03:57:05PM -0400, Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2023 15:46:05 -0400 > Ed Blackman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I suppose that there's no other way of rearranging things (I feel > > like you would have raised it)? The very long keyword makes it hard > > to scan the rest of the file. > > You can abbreviate it to just MAYBE, like this: > > REM Tue --4 MAYBE SATISFY [islarge($T+4)] MSG Contact attendees re > large REM Tue MAYBE SATISFY [islarge($T)] MSG Large meeting > > which has a certain readable appeal to it.
I like it! I actually laughed. > > I'm guessing that the very irregular schedule makes satisfying > > SATISFY difficult. > > Right. If the only large meetings are in the past (ie, if islarge(t) > is only ever true for dates before today()) then the SATISFY clause > will never be satisfied and Remind will issue a diagnostic... unless > you tell it not to with MAYBE-UNCOMPUTABLE. Ah! That explains why it just recently started complaining, when the last announced large meeting passed. Thanks, I think I understand better, and with the ability to abbreviate should make it through until next spring when my responsibility for all the extra parts will end and I can go back to: REM Tue MSG Meeting! with a few OMITs. -- Ed Blackman _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
