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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] some planner-appt questions
From: |
Jim Ottaway |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] some planner-appt questions |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:21:08 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Dale Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> On 1/13/06, Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Dale Smith <address@hidden> writes:
>> > I believe you must have the time enabled in your modeline with
>> > (display-time) . I think the appt stuff uses hooks in the display
>> > time functions.
>>
>> > See (info "(emacs) Appointments")
>>
>> Are you sure? I don't see anything about display-time in that info
>> node. And if I start Emacs without reading the initialization files,
>> do (appt-activate 1) without display-time, and add some appointments I
>> get alerts.
> This is some of what is in my info file:
> To enable appointment notification, you must enable the time display
> feature of Emacs, `M-x display-time' (*note Mode Line::). You must
> also add the function `appt-make-list' to the `diary-hook', like this:
> (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
> Adding this text to your `.emacs' file does the whole job:
> (display-time)
> (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
> (diary 0)
>> This is with GNU Emacs 22.0.50.7; perhaps it is different in
>> earlier versions? Or in Xemacs?
> Probably, I'm running GNU Emacs 21.3.1
Oh yes, I have just looked at the 21.4 info files and it has the same
as yours there too.
So, to summarize:
Gnu Emacs < 22 ::
(display-time)
(add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
(diary 0) ; probably only necessary for appointments in the diary file
Gnu Emacs >= 22 ::
(appt-activate 1)
Xemacs ::
(appt-initialize) ; is this correct?
I was thinking that it would probably be best to do whatever is
necessary to initialize the appt system in planner-appt itself
[probably in planner-appt-insinuate]. Would that be a good idea? It
would be very easy to do, as long as the above initialization methods
are correct; and it would save users the bother of having to find out
how to set up appointments correctly.
Regards,
--
Jim Ottaway
Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] some planner-appt questions, Jim Ottaway, 2006/01/13