From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, m.eliachevitch@gmx.net
Subject: Re: Emacs calendar to display nth weekay in month, e.g. every 3rd Wednesday
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:01:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw5ecg0a.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twzxdpfd.fsf@gmail.com> (torys.anderson@gmail.com)
torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
> I accomplish this using Org-mode agenda for all my calendaring (highly recommend it) and lines like the following in an agenda-loaded org file:
>
> ** 8:00-9:00 Ward Council Meeting: 2nd and 4th Sunday
> <%%(diary-float t 0 2)>
> <%%(diary-float t 0 4)>
>
> Does that help? For me, probably 85% of my emacs usage is org-mode (planning, note-taking, powerpoint/doc generation); it ships with emacs, so if you haven't looked into it yet, I would strongly recommend it. They also have a mailing list parallel to this one.
The same thing can be done with the regular calendar. The syntax for
the example Tory gives above would be:
%%(diary-float t 0 2) Ward Council Meeting: 2nd Sunday of the month.
%%(diary-float t 0 4) Ward Council Meeting: 4th Sunday of the month.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-11 20:03 Emacs calendar to display nth weekay in month, e.g. every 3rd Wednesday Michael Eliachevitch
2015-01-11 20:37 ` Tory S. Anderson
2015-01-20 3:01 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
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