From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Diary Mode Help - Cyclic Entries Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:25:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87wsxu4dwg.fsf@escher.local.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182630369 27715 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2007 20:26:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:26:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 22:26:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I2CBK-0001zA-AG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:26:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2CBJ-0002z7-Kb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2CB6-0002yn-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2CB4-0002uj-Cn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2CB4-0002uN-3X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2CB3-0005tE-Ih for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:25:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I2CAh-00053C-H1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:25:29 +0200 Original-Received: from i577bcb87.versanet.de ([87.123.203.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:25:27 +0200 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i577bcb87.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:25:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i577bcb87.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45230 Archived-At: On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:09:22 +0530 "Ankur Jain" wrote: > Could someone help me telling how to create cyclic tasks with time > specification. Say, I want to create a cyclic task that occurs every 3 rd day > viz. 24 June -> 27 June -> 30 June ..... @ 10AM-6PM. > > How can I create it using diary? >>From the Calendar type `i c' (i.e., `i' then SPACE then `c'). For details read the Emacs Info node `Special Diary Entries' (type C-h i m emacs RET m special diary entries RET). > Another thing is, I want to display alerts for appointments. Now, my > appointment group customization allows me to setup alerts, but if I have > multiple appointments say 2 at same time viz. 4pm and 4.05pm, it displays > alert for only 1st appointment (4pm) instead of 2 appointments (4pm & 4.05pm). This appears to be a bug in appt-check; you might want to file a bug report (M-x report-emacs-bug). Steve Berman