Cyclic block event in the diary

Cyclic block event in the diary

[BP25]

Hello!

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? Then, how would the
Lisp expression look like for my cyclic block event? Any help is very
much appreciated.

Re: Cyclic block event in the diary

[Michael Heerdegen]

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?


Michael.

Re: Cyclic block event in the diary

[James Thomas]

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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Re: Cyclic block event in the diary

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net> writes:

> Should be as simple as, say:
>
>   %%(and (diary-block 11 1 2024 11 15 2024) (diary-cyclic 2 11 7 2024))

If the OP wants to restrict a cyclic entry to a certain range, then yes.
I didn't understand what exactly was wished for.  A cyclically repeating
block entry would be another interpretation of the question.


Michael.