Re: Daily Diary Display in Emacs emacs24 24.4+1-5

[Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:24:09 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

> I have emacs24, 24.4+1-5 on Debian 8.2 jessie. In the past (e.g. emacs
> 23.4+1-4 on debian 7.x, wheezy), I have had emacs re-display my diary
> every day automatically. This capability does not seem to work on this
> version of emacs.

I *may* have a solution.

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>'s email "Undesirable sh-mode indent"
reminded me to read the news file. Searching on appropriate keywords
produced the following:


    *** The obsolete (since Emacs 22.1) method of enabling the appt
    package by adding `appt-make-list' to `diary-hook' has been removed.
    Use `appt-activate' instead.

So the culprit in my code is here:

        (if ( < emacs-major-version 24) ; emacs 23 or less
            (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
          )

I don't need the version test any more, and the proper code is:

        (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-activate)

I made that change yesterday and evaluated it. It appears this morning
to have worked. If it continues to work correctly, I will call it good.

There are lots of good suggestions in the replies, and I will follow
those up with changes and appropriate testing.



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