From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rayz@phonon.com (Raymond Zeitler) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tutorial for Emacs Diary Mode for use as a Journal? Date: 22 Jun 2004 11:07:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088537506 23468 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:31:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:31:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfOKO-00072W-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:31:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOM4-0001Ic-Qr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:33:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.148.37.134 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1087927687 7829 127.0.0.1 (22 Jun 2004 18:08:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123886 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19247 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19247 Thanks, but most of these are clients for web-based journals. By "personal journal," I meant one that doesn't reside on a remote, public server. Also records-mode didn't install for me properly, and seems to have been abandoned. For now I'll edit separate text files and use my file manager to maintain them. Mathias Dahl wrote in message news:... > rayz@phonon.com (Raymond Zeitler) writes: > > > I'm a fan of Emacs 21.2 (running under Windows) and interested in > > keeping a personal journal. I was wondering if there are others who > > use Emacs to compose and read their journals. > > > > I'm aware of calendar mode and the diary facility, but I'm not > > comfortable with it. For instance, when I invoke "C-u i b" to insert > > a block diary entry, I can easily create the entry on the current > > date. But then when I invoke "d" on that date to view the diary > > entry, I get only the first line of text. (I have auto-fill-mode > > turned on when visiting the diary file.) > > > > I'm sure there are other programs out there for journal writers, but > > what could be better than Emacs? Besides, I like the fact that > > ~/diary is plain text. > > > > Thanks in advance for any ideas or recommendations you can give me. > > > > For my real email addy, replace rayz with rzeitler. > > There is quite much information about this on the EmacsWiki: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryJournaling