Is there a CALENDER reminder in emacs or a gnu tool or in unix

Is there a CALENDER reminder in emacs or a gnu tool or in unix

[gnuist006]

Suppose I want to be reminded in emacs or on shell window on a certain day
two day before and then 1hr before it?

I also want to be able to keep a record of these in non-proprietary program
or format. This excludes "microsoft lookout". I understand that the
"outlook express" is a depreciated version of "outlook" which does have the
calender functionality but it is not clear if the format is proprietary or
not.

Thanked

Re: Is there a CALENDER reminder in emacs or a gnu tool or in unix

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

In article <b00bb831.0209281106.30436a0@posting.google.com>, gnuist006 wrote:
> Suppose I want to be reminded in emacs or on shell window on a certain day
> two day before and then 1hr before it?

    man at
 
> I also want to be able to keep a record of these in non-proprietary program
> or format.

    cmd="echo <your_reminder_command> | at <when_you_want_it_to_run>"
    $cmd
    echo "$cmd" >> your_record_file

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Re: Is there a CALENDER reminder in emacs or a gnu tool or in unix

[Kai Großjohann]

gnuist006@hotmail.com (gnuist006) writes:

> Suppose I want to be reminded in emacs or on shell window on a certain day
> two day before and then 1hr before it?

Emacs has a Calendar and a Diary feature, details see the Emacs info
file.

It can remind you some minutes before the appointment, so that can be
changed to 1h I'm sure.  But I don't know about two days earlier,
that might require some hacking.

kai
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Re: Is there a CALENDER reminder in emacs or a gnu tool or in unix

[Robert Marshall]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:

> Emacs has a Calendar and a Diary feature, details see the Emacs info
> file.
> 
> It can remind you some minutes before the appointment, so that can
> be changed to 1h I'm sure.  But I don't know about two days earlier,
> that might require some hacking.

C-h v number-of-diary-entries
      appt-message-warning-time

Robert
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Re: Is there a CALENDER reminder in emacs or a gnu tool or in unix

[Kai Großjohann]

Robert Marshall <spam@capuchin.co.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:
>
>> Emacs has a Calendar and a Diary feature, details see the Emacs info
>> file.
>> 
>> It can remind you some minutes before the appointment, so that can
>> be changed to 1h I'm sure.  But I don't know about two days earlier,
>> that might require some hacking.
>
> C-h v number-of-diary-entries
>       appt-message-warning-time

Ah, yes.  Maybe it is easiest to just put (diary) in ~/.emacs, then
you see the diary entries.

kai
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Re: Is there a CALENDER reminder in emacs or a gnu tool or in unix

[Oliver Scholz]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> gnuist006@hotmail.com (gnuist006) writes:
>
>> Suppose I want to be reminded in emacs or on shell window on a certain day
>> two day before and then 1hr before it?
>
> Emacs has a Calendar and a Diary feature, details see the Emacs info
> file.
>
> It can remind you some minutes before the appointment, so that can be
> changed to 1h I'm sure.  But I don't know about two days earlier,
> that might require some hacking.

FWIW, reading the commentary section of planner.el by John Wigley, I
think that this package provides some means to do this. AFAICU you
need a external tool called "remind" and it works together with
calendar and diary.

But I have not installed and tried it myself. (I always wanted to do
it, though ... I think, I need a program that reminds me of such tasks
...)

    -- Oliver

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Re: Is there a CALENDER reminder in emacs or a gnu tool or in unix

[Wojtek Walczak]

Dnia 28 Sep 2002 12:06:21 -0700, gnuist006 napisał(a):
> Suppose I want to be reminded in emacs or on shell window on a certain day
> two day before and then 1hr before it?
Maybe it'll help you. It's untested, I wrote it two minutes ago ;)
You need atd and perl. On my system at sends results of its work to
a mailbox, so I'm finding reminding notes on there.
Code is here: <http://hacker.pl/gminick/pliki/reminder.txt>
It asks you about three things:
1) time
2) date
3) task
It calcuates everything by its own.

How does it looks? 
% perl reminder.pl
Hour (hh:mm): 20:30
Date (mm/dd/yy): 12/31/2002
Task: c.u.p meeting!!!
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 23 at 2002-12-29 20:30
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 24 at 2002-12-31 19:30
% _

Real date of meeting is 20:30, 12/31/2002.
So, as you wanted, you'll be reminded on
20:30, 2002-12-29 -- two days before
and on
19:30, 2002-12-31 -- an hour before

HTH :)

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