From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tutorial for Emacs Diary Mode for use as a Journal? Date: 21 Jun 2004 18:08:43 +0100 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. 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 1088537362 22977 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:29:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:29:05 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 1BfOHw-0006lt-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:29:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOJc-0007f7-Kw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:30:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsr1.ipcore.viaginterkom.de!news-peer1!btnet!zen.net.uk!demorgan.zen.co.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1087837723 11731 130.88.198.228 (21 Jun 2004 17:08:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:08:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123875 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:19237 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19237 >>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Zeitler writes: Raymond> I'm a fan of Emacs 21.2 (running under Windows) and Raymond> interested in keeping a personal journal. I was wondering Raymond> if there are others who use Emacs to compose and read their Raymond> journals. Raymond> I'm aware of calendar mode and the diary facility, but I'm Raymond> not comfortable with it. For instance, when I invoke "C-u Raymond> i b" to insert a block diary entry, I can easily create the Raymond> entry on the current date. But then when I invoke "d" on Raymond> that date to view the diary entry, I get only the first Raymond> line of text. (I have auto-fill-mode turned on when Raymond> visiting the diary file.) Raymond> I'm sure there are other programs out there for journal Raymond> writers, but what could be better than Emacs? Besides, I Raymond> like the fact that ~/diary is plain text. Raymond> Thanks in advance for any ideas or recommendations you can Raymond> give me. Raymond> For my real email addy, replace rayz with rzeitler. record-mode. It's on sourceforge I think. Phil