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* Bug with diary-float ?
@ 2008-04-25 14:20 Brian Adkins
  2008-04-25 18:16 ` Peter Dyballa
  2008-04-25 22:59 ` Edward M. Reingold
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Brian Adkins @ 2008-04-25 14:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

I have the following line in my diary file:

%%(diary-float t 0 5) 09:30-10:00 The Event

It does correctly show the event for the 5th Sunday of months that have
5 Sundays, but it also shows on the 1st Sunday of a month following a
month with only 4 Sundays :) Apparently the check to see if the computed
day is still in the same month is missing or incorrect.

Is this a known bug? I looked at the code in diary-lib.el, but my newbie
elisp skills are not up to the task - that is one big hairy function.

Brian Adkins


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* Re: Bug with diary-float ?
@ 2008-04-25 22:59 Edward M. Reingold
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Edward M. Reingold @ 2008-04-25 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs; +Cc: 873apakocu.fsf, Glenn Morris, emacs-devel

>>>>> "BA" == Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> writes:

    BA> I have the following line in my diary file: %%(diary-float t 0 5)
    BA> 09:30-10:00 The Event

    BA> It does correctly show the event for the 5th Sunday of months that
    BA> have 5 Sundays, but it also shows on the 1st Sunday of a month
    BA> following a month with only 4 Sundays :) Apparently the check to see
    BA> if the computed day is still in the same month is missing or
    BA> incorrect.

    BA> Is this a known bug? I looked at the code in diary-lib.el, but my
    BA> newbie elisp skills are not up to the task - that is one big hairy
    BA> function.

A bug in the documentation.  The documentation reads

  Floating diary entry--entry applies if date is the nth dayname of month.
  Parameters are MONTH, DAYNAME, N.  MONTH can be a list of months, the
  constant t, or an integer.  The constant t means all months.  If N is
  negative, count backward from the end of the month.

  An optional parameter DAY means the Nth DAYNAME on or after/before MONTH DAY

But it should really say

  Floating diary entry--entry applies if date is the nth dayname on or after
  the first of month.  Parameters are MONTH, DAYNAME, N.  MONTH can be a list
  of months, the constant t, or an integer.  The constant t means all months.
  If N is negative, count backward from the end of the month.

  An optional parameter DAY means the Nth DAYNAME on or after/before MONTH DAY

-- 

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