On 2025-10-28 19:17, Lydia Sobot wrote:
> > # specify times as begin/end
> > # rather than begin/duration
> > FSET betime(b, e) "AT " \
> > + b \
> > + " DURATION " \
> > + (e-b)
>
> I must be missing something obvious, but I put this in my .reminders
> and no matter what I do, Remind complains about "expecting
> end-of-line" either at character 10, or with no character within
> the offending line specified (whether I put it in one line or not,
> it's always the first or only line of the script that is flagged as
> invalid, help?
What version of remind are you running? It should work across a fairly
broad range of versions, but I'm runing 06.01.x on my machines here:
tim@openbsd$ remind --version
06.01.02
tim@freebsd$ remind --version
06.01.02
but I checked out and built code back to 2020-01-01 (as an arbitrary
early-date that felt like its features should be broadly available) and
it still works there.
Did you get all the backslashes and leading plus-signs?
I just tested a dumb/simple example:
$ cat ~/.reminders
FSET betime(b, e) "AT " \
+ b \
+ " DURATION " \
+ (e-b)
REM [betime(7:45am, 8:15am)] MSG Breakfast at [trigtime()] for
[trigduration()]
and it results in
$ rem -q
Reminders for Tuesday, 28th October, 2025 (today):
Breakfast at 07:45 for 00:30
-tim
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