From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lawrence mitchell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Diary functions Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:17:55 +0100 Organization: funfunfun Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87fzwn1g0i.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031316265 17540 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2002 12:44:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:44:25 +0000 (UTC) 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 17nITI-0004Yd-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:44:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17nIUw-0006Nk-00; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 08:46:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!m28-mp1.cvx1-a.swa.dial.ntli.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: m28-mp1.cvx1-a.swa.dial.ntli.net (213.105.228.28) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1031314850 58914823 213.105.228.28 (16 [97657]) X-No-Yes: No Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.90 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7MTp2bb9Cdh++ZwTp4QwGxx/RpI= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104538 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:1097 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1097 Keith O'Connell wrote: > I have just taken to using the calendar/diary combination in emacs and > am pleasently surprised that it is all I need and that the various > solutions I have used up till now have been overkill! :-) > However, I have hit a small snag. The local lug meets on the first > Tursday of the month. How does one set a repeating entry for these > regular, yet irregular types of events? You probably want to read the section in the Emacs Lisp manual entitled "Sexp Entries and the Fancy Diary Display", which points in the direction of the function `diary-float'. An online version of this manual is available at: . -- lawrence mitchell