Appt - How to quit displaying notifications?

Appt - How to quit displaying notifications?

[Nathan Neff]

Hello,

I'm using org-agenda-to-appt to warn me about upcoming
appointments.  I'm fine with the default warning time of 12 minutes, but
I would like to turn off the subsequent reminders that happen every
three minutes.

I'd like a reminder to occur 12 minutes before the appointment, then at the time
of the appointment.  I found the appt-display-interval variable which
is 3 minutes, but this is
described as "Number of minutes to wait between checking the
appointment list.", which is
not /quite/ the same thing as a "Snooze".

I guess I'll just send the appt-display-interval to 11 minutes or
something like that.  Is that what
everyone else does to avoid getting appt messages popping up every 3 minutes?

Thanks,
--Nate

Re: Appt - How to quit displaying notifications?

[Nick Dokos]

Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm using org-agenda-to-appt to warn me about upcoming
> appointments.  I'm fine with the default warning time of 12 minutes, but
> I would like to turn off the subsequent reminders that happen every
> three minutes.
> 
> I'd like a reminder to occur 12 minutes before the appointment, then at the time
> of the appointment.  I found the appt-display-interval variable which
> is 3 minutes, but this is
> described as "Number of minutes to wait between checking the
> appointment list.", which is
> not /quite/ the same thing as a "Snooze".
> 

Where did you see that? It probably needs some changes.

C-h v appt-display-interval RET says

,----
| appt-display-interval is a variable defined in `appt.el'.
| Its value is 3
| 
| Documentation:
| Interval in minutes at which to display appointment reminders.
| Once an appointment becomes due, Emacs displays reminders every
| `appt-display-interval' minutes.  You probably want to make
| `appt-message-warning-time' be a multiple of this, so that you get
| a final message displayed precisely when the appointment is due.
| 
| Note that this variable controls the interval at which
| `appt-display-message' is called.  The mode line display (if active)
| always updates every minute.
`----


> I guess I'll just send the appt-display-interval to 11 minutes or
> something like that.  Is that what
> everyone else does to avoid getting appt messages popping up every 3 minutes?
> 

Just setting appt-display-interval and appt-message-warning-time equal
to (say) 12, should work fine, afaict - but I have not tried it.

Nick

PS A propos of nothing, one strangeness that I have observed is that at
   least the *final* notification (and maybe all of them) is one minute
   late, but I haven't chased it down yet.