-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Allegedly, on Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:38:16PM -0500, Paul M Foster stated: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:14:24PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > > Martin Walk wrote: > > > how do you keep your .reminders file clean:
Hi, first post to the list :-) I'm keen to get some tips on this also... > > > how do you remove expired one-time reminders from the file? I've been using the 'wyrd' ncurses front-end to remind, and I am liking it :-) I have just been removing one-offs manually by pressing 'X'. > > > is there a mechanism for that in remind or do you have to do it > > > manually? > > > > You have to do it manually. Ancient (2.x) versions of Remind had an > > option to purge expired reminders. However, with 3.x and Remind's > > expression mechanism, there is in general no way for Remind to know > > for sure that a reminder has expired and will never reappear. > > > > I'm trying to figure out a nice way to do this... any ideas? > > I keep reminders in a variety of files by subject, *if* they are > recurring reminders. However, *one-time* reminders go in a one-time > reminder file, and can be purged as needed. Most events I have are > recurring, so the one-time file is smaller by far. > > Paul > -- > Paul M. Foster Is there an efficient method for editing each of the different subject files you are keeping? I use Vim so I suppose I could just edit the main ~/.reminders file, and have the other files referenced as 'includes', and invoke them with Ctrl-W f as needed. Or is there an easier way to manage this? Thanks, Raymond - -- "Be Nice, or Leave - By Order of the Management" (Sign above door, Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield) GPG Fingerprint: 2E4D 8605 DD48 E80F F893 1C02 B65D 86D9 3B3C 0E03 Encrypted E-mail Preferred | google ron paul <<<<<<<<<<<< Bush-whacked 2004! Try to relax and enjoy the Chaos :-) >>^ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnQfhtl2G2Ts8DgMRAm0/AKDESuCMZ4oLmLNUo2tzBRKLTje5FACfWuSn NH9NSK6WkxyrlDKRvWsZync= =q4qI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
