From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11042: 24.0.94; dangerous org manual: parse-time-months and parse-time-weekdays Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:58:42 +0100 Message-ID: <86wr6htni5.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: michael_heerdegen@web.de NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332118426 23494 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2012 00:53:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:53:46 +0000 (UTC) To: 11042@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 19 01:53:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S9Qqz-0004Pa-LC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:53:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9Qqz-0008AG-28 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9Qpr-0000vt-GI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate05.web.de ([217.72.192.243]:53642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9Qpr-0000vE-6q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate05.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2D36B8A4AE for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:52:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from dragon.dragon ([94.218.218.48]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0McWXI-1Rrtwz0PWS-00IV8m; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:52:29 +0100 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:uUdZimhpRhH4FZENYAGJSArS0PngJpKJx9I14GwQ3GG y9GJSdkrvOCsYEd+bxHvJt/2Ya/xHWPxNDUGQ4mNQKEOwTy5Z/ CwJPaT248lASqp2vAf90v+/uZRFNu911bDHVSrFt0j6ShJSWFg OGagUoUV965xLKfq5c4noiN5cZCmnplaS1Y92lyW/6iNuHOTVm pyeyQk1QLRhYuarpCkOICIPCrpGZ9G+NcIbS3hy/K4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:57880 Archived-At: Hi, The org-mode manual under the node "The date/time prompt" tells: "[...] The function understands English month and weekday abbreviations. If you want to use unabbreviated names and/or other languages, configure the variables `parse-time-months' and `parse-time-weekdays'." It doesn't tell how the user can do that. Even worse, `parse-time-months' and `parse-time-weekdays' are not defined as user options and undocumented! After reading the above section in the org manual, users may replace the English names with e.g. German ones in their config. Seems this is not a good idea, as this user question in gnu.emacs.gnus shows: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.gnus/browse_thread/thread/8dde85b5ff3ab454/a02ddb878bfa1eb9 BTW1: maybe a better solution would be to define own variables for this purpose in org, instead of letting users change variables in parse-time.el. BTW2: In my version of parse-time.el, the unabbreviated month and weekdays are already available. Michael In GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.2.3) of 2012-03-12 on zelenka, modified by Debian (emacs-snapshot package, version 2:20120312-1) Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11104000 Configured using: `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.0.94/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.0.94/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--without-compress-info' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-imagemagick=yes' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2''