From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tutorial for Emacs Diary Mode for use as a Journal? Date: 21 Jun 2004 19:57:39 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088537355 22953 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:29:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:28:53 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 1BfOHl-0006kf-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:28:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOJR-0007Xf-8c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:30:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news1.uni-leipzig.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de cxO1aEDhxNvhBlz57a3Z5gfcrJuNTdbh9Cz1oPHtb5hHWA1NV7 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123874 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:19236 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19236 rayz@phonon.com (Raymond Zeitler) writes: > 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. There is quite much information about this on the EmacsWiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryJournaling