Re: diary display won't initialise correctly?

[Kester Clegg]

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> writes:

[...]

> > (add-hook 'calendar-move-hook (lambda () (view-diary-entries 4)))
> > (add-hook 'list-diary-entries-hook 'sort-diary-entries t)
> > (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
> > (add-hook 'mark-diary-entries-hook 'mark-included-diary-files)
> > (add-hook 'diary-display-hook 'fancy-diary-display)
> > (setq number-of-diary-entries 7)
> 
> 
> Why 7 instead of 4?

I was playing around, of course!  :-)

[...]

> (defadvice view-diary-entries (before number-of-diary-entries activate)
>    "If ARG is not specified, display `number-of-diary-entries' instead of 1."
>    (if (and (interactive-p)
>          (null current-prefix-arg))
>        (ad-set-arg 0 number-of-diary-entries)))

Thanks for that, seems to work fine - so is defadvice the standard way
to get a hook into something before it runs?  What made you take that
route?

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Kester Clegg                            Dept. of Computer Science,
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