Re: create emails from dairy entries

[Kevin Rodgers]

reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> > > I find appt-display-format in emacs manual with index search.  One hit
> > > only...but looking for further descriptions with `M-x apropos
> > > appt-display-format   or `C-h v appt-display-format'
> > >
> > > shows no-match.. perhaps I need to have some specific package loaded?

In retrospect, yes: you need to have appt loaded.

> > > Further the emacs manual at `39.11 Appointments':
> > >
> > > Doesn't contain enough information for me to figure out how to do
> > > this.  I say `for me', that is, it may have plenty enough info for
> > > someone more knowledgeable.
> > Do what I did: read the source (calendar/appt.el.gz)
>
> You mean what you did after years and years (How mamy? 20 more?)  of
> learning and using emacs and lisp?

Yep, 25 years.

> Looking thru appt.el at all the hits with appt-display-format does not
> help in any way.

Sure it does: Its doc string explains that it can be set to 1 of 3
values (window, echo, nil).  And the appt-display-message function
runs the function bound to appt-disp-window-function when
appt-display-message is set to window.

> appt-display-format doesn't even appear in calendar.el

Yes, but `C-h v appt-display TAB TAB' shows appt-display-diary among
*Completions*, and selecting that displays *Help* with a link to
appt.el.  Follow that link, then you can `C-s appt-display-format
C-s C-s C-s ...'.

> But thanks for your input.

You're welcome.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA