Re: Non-startup auto-reminder from calendar?

[Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>]

Christopher Balz wrote:

> When Emacs is started up, it of course displays any calendar (.diary)
> entries.
> 
> Since I usually just hibernate my machine (thank goodness I don't
> start up a lot since I use iswitch and eieio with a large desktop of
> buffers), the above feature isn't of much use to me.  What is needed,
> I'm sure by more people than just myself, is an Emacs calendar feature
> that will display the day's goings-on say at 9:00 a.m. daily.

File: emacs,  Node: Appointments,  Next: Daylight Savings,  Prev: Diary,  Up: 
Calendar/Diary

Appointments
============

    If you have a diary entry for an appointment, and that diary entry
begins with a recognizable time of day, Emacs can warn you, several
minutes beforehand, that that appointment is pending.  Emacs alerts you
to the appointment by displaying a message in the mode line.

    To enable appointment notification, you must enable the time display
feature of Emacs, `M-x display-time' (*note Mode Line::.).  You must
also add the function `appt-make-list' to the `diary-hook', like this:

      (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)

...

    Emacs updates the appointments list automatically just after
midnight.  This also displays the next day's diary entries in the diary
buffer, unless you set `appt-display-diary' to `nil'.


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<a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>