From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lowell Gilbert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Past appointments Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:30:47 -0400 Message-ID: <44k4fa3x7s.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301937644 21974 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 17:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:20:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 19:20:40 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6nS7-00045a-Bo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:20:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6lDh-0007sk-BX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:57:33 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:30:48 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kiyNNyKa3iWe0r0MUdq0qggp7w8= Original-Lines: 29 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.92.78.145 Original-X-Trace: sv3-zgKp64WZU5hMjfd0EmKWxV1YsRUGSo8byMWOi2yOT1reeW4qgbtFiRWcLmCnq0dai7xho/9Q8dg26jJ!DiXj2U0vxkE2nrs8Bg5/YbarG4QiD5oq92A/RB3eVKGykri52rwEjmu8MxNXsoOc/NcxJW6TdFqk!eVa15uBP2g== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2220 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186490 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:80608 Archived-At: Bastian Ballmann writes: > I am searching for the feature that appt alerts me on past appointments > that I may have missed. > Any hint or link or elisp snippet on how to do that? > TIA && have a nice day! In the past, I have used fancy diary entries to display for a particular day but after that, continue displaying until I removed them. An example I have sitting around: ================================================================ &%%(let ((dayname (calendar-day-of-week date)) (year (nth 2 date)) (day (nth 1 date)) (month (nth 0 date))) (and (= month 4) (>= day 22) (= year 2010) (equal (calendar-current-date) date))) pick up suit &Apr 22, 2008 5pm suit is ready ================================================================ These days, though, I use org-mode, which has better support for tracking events (as opposed to dates). I still use diary for things like birthdays. I think there are some other scheduling packages around with other capabilities, but I can't find any pointers at this moment.