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Re: Emacs calendar to display nth weekay in month, e.g. every 3rd Wednes


From: Robert Thorpe
Subject: Re: Emacs calendar to display nth weekay in month, e.g. every 3rd Wednesday
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:01:09 +0000

torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> I accomplish this using Org-mode agenda for all my calendaring (highly 
> recommend it) and lines like the following in an agenda-loaded org file: 
>
> ** 8:00-9:00 Ward Council Meeting: 2nd and 4th Sunday
>    <%%(diary-float t 0 2)>
>    <%%(diary-float t 0 4)>
>
> Does that help? For me, probably 85% of my emacs usage is org-mode (planning, 
> note-taking, powerpoint/doc generation); it ships with emacs, so if you 
> haven't looked into it yet, I would strongly recommend it. They also have a 
> mailing list parallel to this one. 

The same thing can be done with the regular calendar.  The syntax for
the example Tory gives above would be:

%%(diary-float t 0 2) Ward Council Meeting: 2nd Sunday of the month.
%%(diary-float t 0 4) Ward Council Meeting: 4th Sunday of the month.

BR,
Robert Thorpe



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