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

[Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 11:48:28 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:24:09 -0600
> Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I *may* have a solution.

...

>         (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-activate)
> 
> I made that change yesterday and evaluated it. It appears this morning
> to have worked. If it continues to work correctly, I will call it
> good.

No, that is not the solution. For one thing, it toggles appt-activate
every time diary-hook is called, i.e. every time the diary is
displayed. Not what I want.

Also, it appears to do something else. You should be able to move
point in the calendar to a day other than today's date, and hit d, and
get a display in the diary starting with the date where point
is. Somehow, that code shuts that off, and every time you hit d, emacs
display a diary beginning with today's date. Also not what I want.

I now have

      (appt-activate 1) ; http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AppointmentMode

in my .emacs. We will see what that does.

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