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Re: [O] [feature request] More flexible repeats
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Dave Abrahams |
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Re: [O] [feature request] More flexible repeats |
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Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:58:24 -0400 |
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on Sat Sep 24 2011, Eric Abrahamsen <eric-AT-ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24 2011, Dave Abrahams wrote:
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> [...]
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>> I think the basic parts of such a language might be:
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>> - predicates, e.g. Mon,Wed,Fri; the first week of each month; the first
>> tuesday of the month
>> - periods, e.g. 1 month
>> - repetitions, e.g. 5 times
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> Looks like you're coming up on the crontab syntax :)
Good point. I don't need a fancy syntax if I can express it with elisp,
of course. Maybe enabling that would be a good first step.
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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com