From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ami Fischman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: how to find old diary entries? Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:08:22 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051575089 26213 80.91.224.249 (29 Apr 2003 00:11:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 02:11:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AIiT-0006oR-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:11:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19AIqs-00028m-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:20:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AIiM-0006aY-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AIgz-0005ep-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:09:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AIfc-0004vc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AIfX-0004rN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:08:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AIeQ-0006Zc-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:07:14 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AIeQ-0006ZT-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:07:14 +0200 Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Q0M3/TEL0nIVH71YLlpdSLDE9U= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13528 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13528 Something I've been wondering about for the last couple of weeks: what do diary-power-users do to keep old .diary entries from piling up? Ideally I'd like a "buttoned" fancy-diary-display of all diary entries that can't match any future date (i.e. either they are plain entries in the past or a sexp that won't match the future at all). Any ideas how to find these entries without having to re-parse the diary files with an eye towards past/future decisions? A "brute force" method would be fine, too, if someone else has already done the work :) If no one has a good (or already-coded) way to do this, is anyone interested in this as a feature of diary-lib.el? (the reason this comes up is that I split up my .diary file into various included files broken down by categories, and scouring them all for old entries is a hassle). Cheers, -- Ami Fischman usenet@fischman.org