Re: other diary blog entries

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

    > On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:30:34 +0100 Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> wrote:
    >> Hello,
    >> 
    >> I have two diaries, main and other, with the line #include
    >> "~/path/to/other" at the top of main. If I am in Calendar and I
    >> mark several days using 'm' then I can insert for example a block
    >> diary using 'ib', along the lines for example as %%(diary-cyclic
    >> 1 2021 06 22) 15:00 Coffee. The diary entry is saved to main, but
    >> I want to have it saved to other. How can I achieve this without
    >> a manual cut-and-paste? Am I restricted to whatever is the value
    >> of the 'diary-file variable', which is main in my case?

    > The function `diary-make-entry', which is called by all the diary
    > item insertion commands, does accept an optional argument for a
    > diary file other than `diary-file'.  However, all the item
    > insertion commands omit this argument; I don't know why.  You
    > could advise or redefine the insertion commands to accept the file
    > argument.  But it might also be a worthwhile feature request to
    > make the standard commands accept it.

Thank you for information and suggestion. I'll look at this further -
when time allows.

Thanks again.

Best wishes, Colin.