From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rayz@phonon.com (Raymond Zeitler) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Tutorial for Emacs Diary Mode for use as a Journal? Date: 21 Jun 2004 09:31:44 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088537316 22837 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:28:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:28:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfOHB-0006gk-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:28:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOIr-00078E-EF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:30:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.148.37.134 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1087835505 30504 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2004 16:31:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:31:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123872 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19233 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19233 I'm a fan of Emacs 21.2 (running under Windows) and interested in keeping a personal journal. I was wondering if there are others who use Emacs to compose and read their journals. I'm aware of calendar mode and the diary facility, but I'm not comfortable with it. For instance, when I invoke "C-u i b" to insert a block diary entry, I can easily create the entry on the current date. But then when I invoke "d" on that date to view the diary entry, I get only the first line of text. (I have auto-fill-mode turned on when visiting the diary file.) I'm sure there are other programs out there for journal writers, but what could be better than Emacs? Besides, I like the fact that ~/diary is plain text. Thanks in advance for any ideas or recommendations you can give me. For my real email addy, replace rayz with rzeitler.