From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Diary Usage Poll (WAS) Re: enhanced diary mode? Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:01:53 -0500 (EST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87lm4bas08.fsf@at_ipipan.waw.pl> Reply-To: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036615881 20684 80.91.224.249 (6 Nov 2002 20:51:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:51:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189X7x-0005Js-00 for ; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:50:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189X5Q-0007Ji-00; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:47:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189WT7-0004bU-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 189WT1-0004ay-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-65-43-209-199.dsl.bcvloh.ameritech.net ([65.43.209.199] helo=heidegger.mousecar.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189WNH-0003Fi-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by heidegger.mousecar.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA6K20g11801; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:02:00 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: heidegger.mousecar.net: ken owned process doing -bs Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-X-Sender: Original-To: "mr.sparkle" In-Reply-To: Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3360 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3360 I used to use emacs' diary, for years in fact, and liked it a lot, but now use gnomecal. I switched because I believe gnomecal will be the dominant calendaring app in Linux, and especially as Linux becomes more popular on the desktop. While it could use some more development, it has a lot of nice and easy to use features. I especially like its ability to pop up reminders, send email, and run any executable, all at a user-designated day/time. This gnomecal also easily handles repeating events, events which repeat only a finite number of times, exceptions to either of these kinds of repeating events, and a variety of others, all by pointing and clicking... this from a guy who generally favors a CLI to a GUI and who's been an emacs devotee since the '80s. I should add a little story. A couple years ago no one at work could agree on which date fell an upcoming holiday (I don't remember just now which holiday it was, but anyway...). People checked published paper calendars, MS calendaring apps, and I used emacs' diary. As it turned out, they were all wrong and emacs was right. So hang on to that app. We still gneed it. Committed gnu guy, ken -- AMD crashes? See http://cleveland.lug.net/~ken/amd-problem/.