bug#38859: 26.1: diary-lib: diary-fancy-display

bug#38859: 26.1: diary-lib: diary-fancy-display

[Boruch Baum]

Summary: diary-fancy-display seems not to work.

The original version of this report, reproduced below, received no
response when posted to the emacs-devel mailing list four days ago, so
I'm submitting it to this channel so it doesn't get 'lost'.

----- Forwarded message from Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> -----

Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 14:12:34 -0500
From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
To: Emacs-Devel List <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: emacs calendar: diary-fancy-display
User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716

Clarity for calendar `diary-fancy-display'

ref: [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sexp-Diary-Entries.html
     [2] other documentation

emacs version: GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,
Version 3.24.5) of 2019-09-22, modified by Debian


I'm not sure whether I'm encountering a bug, or just can't understand
the documentation for this feature, or have something configured
improperly.

I have variable `diary-display-function' set to 'diary-fancy-display,
and was expecting that from a Saturday calendar entry, keying the
sequence `i-h-d' (M-x diary-hebrew-insert-entry) would list
hebrew-specific stuff like any current holiday or parasha or
candle-times. All I'm getting is a Hebrew date name. My specific test
case was for gregorian date 12-28-2019.

My reading of ref [1] is that I might need to explicitly insert
some code into the 'diary file'. The diary file seems to be
~/.emacs.d/diary, so I tried inserting the following

  #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  &%%(diary-hebrew-parasha)
  &%%(diary-hebrew-rosh-hodesh)
  &%%(diary-hebrew-sabbath-candles)
  &%%(diary-sunrise-sunset)
  #+END_EXAMPLE

first with and later without the leading ampersands, both times to no
effect. I've read through the docstring for function
`diary-list-sexp-entries', but it hasn't been extra helpful.

I have the following hook definitions set:

 (add-hook 'diary-nongregorian-listing-hook 'diary-hebrew-list-entries)
 (add-hook 'diary-nongregorian-marking-hook 'diary-hebrew-mark-entries)
 (add-hook 'diary-list-entries-hook 'diary-sort-entries t)

The variable `diary-fancy-display-mode-hook' is set to nil.

Finally, what might be a bug is that when killing a calender buffer,
the associated *Holidays* buffer remains. IMNSHO it should be killed
along with the calendar buffer.

Any ideas?

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bug#38859: 26.1: diary-lib: diary-fancy-display

[Glenn Morris]

Boruch Baum wrote:

> I have variable `diary-display-function' set to 'diary-fancy-display,
> and was expecting that from a Saturday calendar entry, keying the
> sequence `i-h-d' (M-x diary-hebrew-insert-entry) would list
> hebrew-specific stuff like any current holiday or parasha or
> candle-times. All I'm getting is a Hebrew date name. My specific test
> case was for gregorian date 12-28-2019.

The insert command is for adding a new diary entry.
It doesn't display existing ones (any more than "i d" does).
I don't know why you would expect it to.
To display the diary, use "d".

>   #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>   &%%(diary-hebrew-parasha)
>   &%%(diary-hebrew-rosh-hodesh)
>   &%%(diary-hebrew-sabbath-candles)
>   &%%(diary-sunrise-sunset)
>   #+END_EXAMPLE

Do that and then press "d" on a relevant day.

> Finally, what might be a bug is that when killing a calender buffer,
> the associated *Holidays* buffer remains. IMNSHO it should be killed
> along with the calendar buffer.

I disagree, but don't feel strongly about it.

Anyway, I see no bug here so am closing this report.