bug#422: 23.0.60; buggy diary-float function?

bug#422: 23.0.60; buggy diary-float function?

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

The documentation does not explicitly tell it's possible to do this:

      &%%(diary-float 11 4 4) American Thanksgiving

The 11 specifies November (the eleventh month), the 4 specifies Thursday
(the fourth day of the week, where Sunday is numbered zero), and the
second 4 specifies the fourth Thursday (1 would mean "first," 2 would
mean "second," -2 would mean "second-to-last," and so on).  The month
can be a single month or a list of months.  Thus you could change the
11 above to `'(1 2 3)' and have the entry apply to the last Thursday of
January, February, and March.  If the month is `t', the entry applies
to all months of the year.

    Each of the standard sexp diary entries takes an optional parameter
specifying the name of a face or a single-character string to use when
marking the entry in the calendar.  Most generally, sexp diary entries
can perform arbitrary computations to determine when they apply.  *note
()Sexp Diary Entries::.

so I thought it would work, but I am told it does not work to prepare  
diary entries for all Thursdays of a particular month:

Bad sexp at line 3 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 4 t) [14 times]
Bad sexp at line 4 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 t 3) [92 times]
Bad sexp at line 5 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 '(1 2 3 4 5) 1) [92 times]
Bad sexp at line 6 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 '(0 1 2 3 4) 0) [92 times]

I used lines #3 and #4 because some calendar functions swap arguments  
when used in European mood.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
  of 2008-06-15 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version  
11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '-- 
with-dbus' '--with-libotf' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--enable- 
locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs/caml:/Library/Application Support/Emacs:/sw/ 
share/emacs21/site-lisp/elib' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/freetype219/ 
lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/qt4-x11/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/ 
usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb - 
gfull -H -Wno-pointer-sign -bind_at_load -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 - 
mtune=7450 -mno-powerpc64 -O0 -mpim-altivec -ftree-vectorize -fno- 
crossjumping' 'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -I/usr/local/ 
include -idirafter /usr/X11R6/include' 'LDFLAGS=-bind_at_load - 
dead_strip -multiply_defined suppress -L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/sw/lib -L/ 
usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
   show-paren-mode: t
   display-time-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   global-auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   column-number-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t


--
Greetings

   Pete

Zukunft statt Zustand!

bug#422: marked as done (23.0.60; buggy diary-float function?)

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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; buggy diary-float function?
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:07:12 +0200
Message-ID: <64501F46-CD51-4BDC-B6DC-E0E34B3F6E8B@Freenet.DE>

Hello!

The documentation does not explicitly tell it's possible to do this:

      &%%(diary-float 11 4 4) American Thanksgiving

The 11 specifies November (the eleventh month), the 4 specifies Thursday
(the fourth day of the week, where Sunday is numbered zero), and the
second 4 specifies the fourth Thursday (1 would mean "first," 2 would
mean "second," -2 would mean "second-to-last," and so on).  The month
can be a single month or a list of months.  Thus you could change the
11 above to `'(1 2 3)' and have the entry apply to the last Thursday of
January, February, and March.  If the month is `t', the entry applies
to all months of the year.

    Each of the standard sexp diary entries takes an optional parameter
specifying the name of a face or a single-character string to use when
marking the entry in the calendar.  Most generally, sexp diary entries
can perform arbitrary computations to determine when they apply.  *note
()Sexp Diary Entries::.

so I thought it would work, but I am told it does not work to prepare  
diary entries for all Thursdays of a particular month:

Bad sexp at line 3 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 4 t) [14 times]
Bad sexp at line 4 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 t 3) [92 times]
Bad sexp at line 5 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 '(1 2 3 4 5) 1) [92 times]
Bad sexp at line 6 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 '(0 1 2 3 4) 0) [92 times]

I used lines #3 and #4 because some calendar functions swap arguments  
when used in European mood.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
  of 2008-06-15 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version  
11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '-- 
with-dbus' '--with-libotf' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--enable- 
locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs/caml:/Library/Application Support/Emacs:/sw/ 
share/emacs21/site-lisp/elib' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/freetype219/ 
lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/qt4-x11/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/ 
usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb - 
gfull -H -Wno-pointer-sign -bind_at_load -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 - 
mtune=7450 -mno-powerpc64 -O0 -mpim-altivec -ftree-vectorize -fno- 
crossjumping' 'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -I/usr/local/ 
include -idirafter /usr/X11R6/include' 'LDFLAGS=-bind_at_load - 
dead_strip -multiply_defined suppress -L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/sw/lib -L/ 
usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
   show-paren-mode: t
   display-time-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   global-auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   column-number-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t


--
Greetings

   Pete

Zukunft statt Zustand!





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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>
Cc: 422-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#422: 23.0.60; buggy diary-float function?
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:35:27 -0400
Message-ID: <t663sa9keo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Bad sexp at line 3 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 4 t) [14 times]
> Bad sexp at line 4 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 t 3) [92 times]
> Bad sexp at line 5 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 '(1 2 3 4 5) 1) [92 times]
> Bad sexp at line 6 in ~/diary: (diary-float 6 '(0 1 2 3 4) 0) [92 times]

The documentation says the MONTH parameter can be a list or t.
It does not say that any of the other parameters can be.

You could use eg:

%%(and (= (calendar-day-of-week date) 4)
        (= (calendar-extract-month date) 6)) Thursday in June