Re: Cyclic block event in the diary

[James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> BP25 <bp25@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> I want to make an entry on my diary which is a cyclic block
>> event. Calendar mode provides commands to insert certain commonly used
>> sexp entries. Do you guys agree that there's no way I can combine the
>> commands for cyclic events and for block events?
>
> Depends on what you mean with "combine".  You can combine as you wish
> using Lisp, e.g. with `and' or `or', but that will probably not give you
> the semantics you want.
>
>> Then, how would the Lisp expression look like for my cyclic block
>> event?
>
> So you want a block that repeats in a certain interval, right?  I would
> have to think about how to get this in an easy way, but yes - I don't
> think it would be a trivial combination of predefined functions.
>
> How is the repetition interval defined - something like "every month",
> or more complicated?

Should be as simple as, say:

  %%(and (diary-block 11 1 2024 11 15 2024) (diary-cyclic 2 11 7 2024))

IIUYC.

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