From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@potorti.it>
Cc: 54210@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54210: 27.1; appt-add checks for bad data only at end
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:21:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8wxiwhm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nP21g-00GbQl-3r@tucano.isti.cnr.it> ("Francesco Potortì"'s message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:54:47 +0100")
>>>>> On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:54:47 +0100, Francesco Potortì <pot@potorti.it> said:
Francesco> appt-add asks the user for three parameters:
Francesco> - time (a time string)
Francesco> - message (a string)
Francesco> - minutes (a number)
Francesco> if the time string is badly formatted (for example if it is "8" rather
Francesco> than "8.00") appt-add barfs. That's ok, but it barfs only after all
Francesco> three parameters have been read. It should barf immediately after
Francesco> submitting the wrong parameter.
Francesco> Maybe I'll find the time to look at it and propose a patch, but since
Francesco> I don't know, I prefer reporting it now.
Aha, a learning opportunity (for me :-) )
How about this (I canʼt find a `read-time-of-day', unless org has one hidden
away somewhere):
diff --git a/lisp/calendar/appt.el b/lisp/calendar/appt.el
index ebdafb438e..6a3ea7c356 100644
--- a/lisp/calendar/appt.el
+++ b/lisp/calendar/appt.el
@@ -510,10 +510,12 @@ appt-add
Optional argument WARNTIME is an integer (or string) giving the number
of minutes before the appointment at which to start warning.
The default is `appt-message-warning-time'."
- (interactive "sTime (hh:mm[am/pm]): \nsMessage: \n\
-sMinutes before the appointment to start warning: ")
- (unless (string-match appt-time-regexp time)
- (user-error "Unacceptable time-string"))
+ (interactive (list (let ((time (read-string "Time (hh:mm[am/pm]): ")))
+ (unless (string-match appt-time-regexp time)
+ (user-error "Unacceptable time-string"))
+ time)
+ (read-string "Message: ")
+ (read-string "Minutes before the appointment to start warning: ")))
(and (stringp warntime)
(setq warntime (unless (string-equal warntime "")
(string-to-number warntime))))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-01 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 12:54 bug#54210: 27.1; appt-add checks for bad data only at end Francesco Potortì
2022-03-01 14:21 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-03-01 14:31 ` Francesco Potortì
2022-03-01 14:40 ` Robert Pluim
2022-04-05 16:11 ` Robert Pluim
2022-03-03 23:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
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