Re: calendar-date-style

[Pingouin <gerald.jean@dgag.ca>]

Thanks to both, Tim and Glen, your comments are invaluable and highly
appreciated.

I think there is a problem between "recentf-mode" and "calendar",
maybe?  Here is what I tried.

1.-- Renamed my .emacs so Emacs will start without any customization.
2.-- Re-started Emacs.
3.-- M-x load-library <enter> calendar <enter>
4.-- M-x customize-variable <enter> calendar-date-style <enter>
5.-- Changed the value from "american" to "iso", any value give the
same result.
6.-- Pushed the "Save for future sessions" button.
7.-- Got the following error in the mini-buffer.

Symbol's function definition is void: recentf-expand-file-name

And, of course, nothing is written to .emacs file.

8.-- Now, in the same session I turned off "recentf-mode".
9.-- Did the customize-variable thing again.
10.-- This time Emacs creates a new .emacs file and writes the
customization to it.

I had been using "recentf-mode" for many versions of Emacs without
problems, I had not changed my .emacs when upgrading to 23.1;
something must have gotten broken somewhere?

Now, I am going to turn to your advice Tim and try to start cleanly
with the rewritten calendar.

Thanks again to both,

Gérald

On Mar 4, 7:12 pm, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> Pingouin <gerald.j...@dgag.ca> writes:
> > Hello,
>
> > I recently upgraded to Emacs-23.1.1.  I have an issue with calendar-
> > date-style.  In calendar I always used "european" date style, all my
> > appointments and meetings are set up with this style; I had the line
> > (setq european-calendar-style t) in my .emacs, that did the trick but
> > now Emacs-23 complains telling me this is an obsolete variable; it
> > tells me to use "calendar-date-style" instead, but the doc says:
>
> > |______________
> > Setting this variable directly does not take effect (if the
> > calendar package is already loaded).  Rather, use either
> > M-x customize or the function `calendar-set-date-style'.
> > |______________
>
> > In .emacs I tried to use the function "calendar-set-date-style" every
> > way I could think of but with no luck!  Please an example!
>
> > I also tried to set "calendar-date-style" through M-x customize, as
> > suggested.  After setting it to "european", clicking the "Save for
> > future sessions" button yielded the following error:
>
> > |--------------------------------
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function recentf-expand-file-name)
>
> A few suggestions -
>
> 1. Have a look at the etc/NEWS file for the version of emacs your
> running. You will find that a lot of the calendar subsystems have been
> re-written. You will also find that you may not need to change the date
> style anymore as calendar is now using ISO date formats by default,
> eliminating the silly european/us date kformat confusion. The mode has
> been extensively re-worked and I'd recommend starting from scratch -
> throw away all your previous settings.
>
> 2. You could just set the variable directly via setq in your .emacs
> file. It just has to be set before you 'require' any calendar functions
>
> 3.The error you get with customize is either a bug or it is due to
> something configured locally. I'm only guessing, but it may be something
> in your customize section that is from earlier customizations and is
> breaking things now. The error is related to recentf mode, which I think
> is an optional mode that needs to be loaded/configured by the user. My
> bet is you have something screwed up in how this is configured.
>
>  I'd try temporarily moving your .emacs to the side,
> creating a blank .emacs and trying again. If it works, you know its
> something doddgy in your .emacs If it doesn't work, log a bug.
>
> You don't indicate how you have tried to call the
> calendar-set-date-style function, but something like
>
> (calendar-set-date-style 'european)
>
> should work.
>
> Tin
>
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