Re: Defaulting to fancy diary display

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>     The only advantage of the simple display is that you can edit the
>     diary file directly.
>
> I think this is a fundamental advantage. 

I agree that it is _an_ advantage (perhaps the only one) of the simple
display. I already said, however, that I think it is not a good default.

It will be as simple as 

(setq diary-display-function 'diary-simple-display)

for those like yourself who wish to keep using this.

> I wish we could implement the other features of fancy diary display
> while preserving this.

Sorry, but I see no way to do this.


Leo wrote:

> Maybe even consider making diary-simple-display obsolete.

No.