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lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li> writes:

> Keith O'Connell wrote:
> 
> > I have just taken to using the calendar/diary combination in emacs and
> > am pleasently surprised that it is all I need and that the various
> > solutions I have used up till now have been overkill!   :-)
> 
> > However, I have hit a small snag. The local lug meets on the first
> > Tursday of the month. How does one set a repeating entry for these
> > regular, yet irregular types of events?
> 
> You probably want to read the section in the Emacs Lisp manual
> entitled "Sexp Entries and the Fancy Diary Display", which points
> in the direction of the function `diary-float'.  An online
> version of this manual is available at: <URL: http://www.gnu.org/
> manual/elisp-manual-21-2.8/html_chapter/elisp_39.html#SEC675>.

This was *exactly* what I was after, and a whole heap of other
functions as well!! :-) Thank you very much for that. I am well
pleased

Keith
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