Re: Daily Diary Display in Emacs emacs24 24.4+1-5

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:24:09 -0600 Charles Curley 
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

> I have emacs24, 24.4+1-5 on Debian 8.2 jessie. In the past (e.g. emacs
> 23.4+1-4 on debian 7.x, wheezy), I have had emacs re-display my diary
> every day automatically. This capability does not seem to work on this
> version of emacs.
>
> Relevant portions of my .emacs (watch for wrapping):
[...]
>       (setq appt-activate 1 ; http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AppointmentMode

`appt-activate' is a function, not a variable, and the above line should
be (appt-activate 1) (which is also what that Emacswiki page shows).

>       ;; Also from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AppointmentMode
>       (defun diary-save-hook ()
>         "Stuff to do when saving the diary files."
>         (appt-initialize))

There is no function (or variable) `appt-initialize' in GNU Emacs;
according to the above Emacswiki page, there is such a function in
XEmacs.

Perhaps these issues are causing your problem (though I don't see how
the above code could ever have worked in GNU Emacs).

Steve Berman