[emacs-wiki-discuss] RE: Two diary Qs: How do I update diary sections of past pages? and Why is the first line missing?

[Raymond Zeitler]

Well, I figured out the answer to my second question, "Why doesn't
(planner-diary-entries-here) include the date string and the line
following?"

In planner-diary.el, there are two lines of code that move point past
the line of equal signs, effectively skipping the first two lines of the
diary entry.

Here's my "fix" for that, which merely comments out the statements, but
includes two closing parens on the next line:

                 (if (> no-of-days 1)   ; if more than 1 day, show
everything
                     (progn
                       (while (re-search-forward "^=+$" nil t)
                         (replace-match
                          (make-string (length (match-string 0)) ?-)))
                       (point-min))
                   ;; remove date and lots of =s if just for 1 day
                   (progn (goto-char (point-min))
; 02/04/05 RZ Commented out the next two statements so that date will be
included.
;                          (search-forward-regexp "^=+$") ; one or more
=
;                          (1+ (point))
                    ))
                 ;; remove final newline

A more elegant solution would introduce and test a Boolean variable that
the user can set to control whether the date string and subsequent line
of equal signs gets included in the day page.  Perhaps
`planner-diary-include-date-string-in-day-page' might be a good choice?

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Raymond Zeitler <address@hidden>
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:01:04 -0500
From: "Raymond Zeitler" <address@hidden>
Subject: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Two diary Qs: How do I update diary
        sections of     past pages? and Why is the first line missing?
To: <address@hidden>
 
I'm using this release of Planner: "2005.01.28-20.38-stable".  I just
started using diary to get holidays, sunrise/sunset times and lunar
phases added to my day page.

[snip]
Second, the first line of my diary contains "Wednesday, February 2,
2005:  Groundhog Day".  A line of several equal signs follows this.  But
this doesn't show up in my day page.  All I get are the strings returned
from %%(diary-day-of-year), %%(diary-sunrise-sunset) and
%%(diary-phases-of-moon).  Matt Dickerson also complained about this:

"the portion above the dashed line ("Monday, January 10, 2005") no
longer inserts when I do that since I updated planner (`planner-version'
is "2005.01.04-18.46-dev").  If anyone has an idea as how to auto-insert
this (add-hook??) and how to get the "DOW DOM, YYYY" string back I'd be
much obliged."

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