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Subject: Re: How to display a diary entry in agenda week view only "today"
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Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:55:24 +0200
>> Niels Giesen <niels.giesen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Rainer Stengele
>> > <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> wrote:
>> > > Am 11.04.2011 10:36, schrieb Suvayu Ali:
>> > >> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:52:52 +0200
>> > >>
>> > >> %%(if (calendar-date-equal date (calendar-current-date))
>> > >> (diary-sunrise-sunset))
>> > >>
>> > > Perfect, thanks.
>> > >
>> > > I can find the other functions in calendar.el,
>> > > but where is "date" from?
>> > >
>> >
>> > date is a dynamically bound variable at the time of evaluation.
>> > 
>> 
>> I have a question I have been meaning to ask for a long time. How does
>> one test sexps with variables like these? I have tried the scratch
>> buffer but it gives errors like "(void-variable date)". I found the only
>> way I could test is to put it on one of the agenda files.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>
> Bind date explicitly in the scratch buffer and then evaluate:
>
> (setq date '(4 11 2011))

Wouldn't a 
(let ((date '(4 11 2011)))
  <your text sexp goes here>)

be better so date isn't permanently bound?

-Bernt