From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Timers for weekly events
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 01:23:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86cyn0udz7.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzh8153t.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen via's message of "Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:37:58 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions." wrote:
> Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:
>
>> > No - please see (info "(emacs) Appointments").
>>
>> So, my understanding so far of this approach is...
>>
>> 1) create repeating diary entry for the required time and day of week
>> 2) attach elisp to it that calls desired function, saves state, etc.
>> 3) the appointment reminder system causes the diary entry to be
>> display X number of minutes before the appointment.
You can check for the 'min-to-app' argument to be "0" at the exact time.
>> This causes the attached elisp to be executed.
> What do you mean by "attaching elisp" - where is this mentioned?
No this was my idea :)
Regards,
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-26 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-26 16:23 Timers for weekly events Christopher Howard
2024-07-26 16:37 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-07-26 19:53 ` James Thomas [this message]
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2024-07-26 15:01 Christopher Howard
2024-07-26 16:01 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-07-24 21:28 Christopher Howard
2024-07-24 17:35 Christopher Howard
2024-07-24 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-24 23:44 ` James Thomas
2024-07-24 16:28 Christopher Howard
2024-07-24 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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