Re: Daily Diary Display in Emacs emacs24 24.4+1-5

[Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:44:11 +0200
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
> writes:
> 
> > I have emacs24, 24.4+1-5 on Debian 8.2 jessie.
> > In the past (e.g. emacs 23.4+1-4 on debian 7.x,
> > wheezy), I have had emacs re-display my diary every
> > day automatically. This capability does not seem to
> > work on this version of emacs.
> >
> > Relevant portions of my .emacs ...
> 
> That code is very disorganized. Try to clean it up.
> Consider moving it all to file of its own, e.g.,
> my-calendar.el and then `load' it from .emacs.

Yeah, I know it's disorganized. I've been using emacs since version
19.x, and across that many version, it just metastasizes.

> 
> You don't mention which part of the code doesn't work
> - as for me, I don't even have a "system-is-desktop"
> function, which is the first line of your code - I'm
> on

Sorry about that. "system-is-desktop" is a function local to my network
which looks at the host name, and returns t or nil depending on whether
I consider the computer a desktop machine or a server.

I don't think it's a matter of the current code not working (as far as I
know). It's a matter what used to work no longer does so. Since I have
not changed my code going from 23 to 24, that suggests the problem is
somewhere in emacs.




> 
>     GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
>     Version 3.14.5) of 2015-03-07 on trouble, modified
>     by Debian
> 
> but it might be a package thing rather.
> 
> Anyway, what is it that you want to happen? You write
> "I have had emacs re-display my diary every day
> automatically." Literally, that sounds like you have
> Emacs on 24/7 and you want it to automatically update
> the diary every 24 hours.

Exactly. I leave my desktops on 24/7 whenever I can.

> But more likely (since you
> mention "desktop") you want Emacs to bring up the
> diary on startup. Or? Which is it?
> 
> In general, instead relying on such wild-west code, do
> what you want interactively, with M-x (and shortcuts),
> then, when you get it to work, replicate what you just
> did in code. It shouldn't be like several pages!

I can get it to do what I want manually. M-x diary does it. I suspect
there's a hook in there somewhere to which I should be adding some code
which ultimately calls diary.

What I don't know is, what used to tell emacs to run diary every night?
That is what is no longer working.



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