Re: remind and pda's

Remind 3.1.9 is released

Hi, everyone,

Remind 3.1.9 is available at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

Significant changes since 3.1.8 (from docs/WHATSNEW) follow.

Regards,

David.

CHANGES TO REMIND

Version 3.1 Patch 9 - 2010-06-20

MAJOR ENHANCEMENT: New "purge mode" to delete expired reminders.  See
the PURGE MODE section of the remind man page.

ENHANCEMENT: Support DURATION in TkRemind.  Thanks to Marek Marczykowski.

BUG FIX: Don't change the order of PS and PSFILE reminders.  Bug found
by John McGowan.

BUG FIX: "REM 1990-01-01 SATISFY 1" would yield a spurious parse error
in earlier versions of Remind.

BUG FIX: Yom HaShoah is moved to Thursday if it would normally fall on
a Friday.  Thanks to Jonathan Kamens for pointing this out.

Remove reminders at vacation days

I have added my vacation days to remind by using this code:

--> 

FSET between(x,a,b)     (x>=a && x <=b)

FSET vacation_2010(x) ( 0 \
|| between(x, '2010-6-30', '2010-7-05' )\
|| between(x, '2010-7-11', '2010-7-26' )\
|| between(x, '2010-8-30', '2010-9-09' )\
|| between(x, '2010-10-01', '2010-10-09' )\
    )

FSET vacation(x) ( vacation_2010(x))
REM SATISFY [ vacation(today()) ] MSG Vacation
REM mon thu wed tue fri SKIP \
AT 7:45 DURATION 8:00 \
SATISFY [!vacation(today())] \

<--

I have checked the manual, but I could not find a way to remove 
recurring events from the days when I have vacation. Could you tip me on 
how to achieve this?

Jostein

Re: Remove reminders at vacation days

Jostein Berntsen wrote:

> I have added my vacation days to remind by using this code:

It's far too complex.  You are abusing Remind; you need to follow
the Remind Zen.  Also, the SKIP keyword does not work without an OMIT, so
using it in your example is pointless.  I would do it this way:

# The following needs Remind >= 3.1.8
REM 2010-06-30 *1 UNTIL 2010-07-05 MSG Vacation
REM 2010-07-11 *1 UNTIL 2010-07-26 MSG Vacation
REM 2010-08-30 *1 UNTIL 2010-09-09 MSG Vacation
REM 2010-10-01 *1 UNTIL 2010-10-09 MSG Vacation

FSET vacation_2010(x) (evaltrig("2010-06-30 *1 UNTIL 2010-07-05") == x) || \
                      (evaltrig("2010-07-11 *1 UNTIL 2010-07-26") == x) || \
                      (evaltrig("2010-08-30 *1 UNTIL 2010-09-09") == x) || \
                      (evaltrig("2010-10-01 *1 UNTIL 2010-10-09") == x)

REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SKIP \
    OMITFUNC vacation_2010 \
    AT 7:45 DURATION 8:00 MSG Work

Regards,

David.

Re: Remove reminders at vacation days

On 21.06.10,08:43, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> 
> > I have added my vacation days to remind by using this code:
> 
> It's far too complex.  You are abusing Remind; you need to follow
> the Remind Zen.  Also, the SKIP keyword does not work without an OMIT, so
> using it in your example is pointless.  I would do it this way:
> 
> # The following needs Remind >= 3.1.8
> REM 2010-06-30 *1 UNTIL 2010-07-05 MSG Vacation
> REM 2010-07-11 *1 UNTIL 2010-07-26 MSG Vacation
> REM 2010-08-30 *1 UNTIL 2010-09-09 MSG Vacation
> REM 2010-10-01 *1 UNTIL 2010-10-09 MSG Vacation
> 
> FSET vacation_2010(x) (evaltrig("2010-06-30 *1 UNTIL 2010-07-05") == x) || \
>                       (evaltrig("2010-07-11 *1 UNTIL 2010-07-26") == x) || \
>                       (evaltrig("2010-08-30 *1 UNTIL 2010-09-09") == x) || \
>                       (evaltrig("2010-10-01 *1 UNTIL 2010-10-09") == x)
> 
> REM Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SKIP \
>     OMITFUNC vacation_2010 \
>     AT 7:45 DURATION 8:00 MSG Work
> 

Thanks, I have upgraded remind to v.3.1.9 and entered this code in the 
.reminders file, but it did not remove my recurring reminders at f.ex.  
2010-07-01. This is an example of my reminders:

REM Thursday +1 AT 12:00 DURATION 1:00 MSG R....

Jostein

Re: Remove reminders at vacation days

Jostein Berntsen wrote:

> Thanks, I have upgraded remind to v.3.1.9 and entered this code in the 
> .reminders file, but it did not remove my recurring reminders at f.ex.  
> 2010-07-01. This is an example of my reminders:

Right; you need the "SKIP OMITFUNC vacation_2010" clause on your
reminders to do that.

Regards,

David.

Re: Remove reminders at vacation days

On 21.06.10,09:26, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, I have upgraded remind to v.3.1.9 and entered this code in the 
> > .reminders file, but it did not remove my recurring reminders at f.ex.  
> > 2010-07-01. This is an example of my reminders:
> 
> Right; you need the "SKIP OMITFUNC vacation_2010" clause on your
> reminders to do that.
> 

That worked great, thanks!

Jostein

controlling the outpur of -s

Hi,

I've just discovered remind and I think I've finnaly managed to set up
my national holidays (will post on 43folders-wiki soon) and
got started with my first catch-all rem-file.

At the moment I list my appointments by issuing:
remind -s+2 -b1 -m .reminders 

I have two question relating to this:
1) I seem to recall that it was possible to config remind to read all
rem-files from a certain directory so that I could just do "remind
-s+2 -b1 -m", how do I do that?
2) The output is almost perfect (I want to incorporate the
wekk-nr-thing I saw in the mail archive) but I wonder if I can reformat
it so that:
------------
2010/06/22 * peradm 60 900 15:00-16:00 appointment-text-consorship
2010/06/23 * peradm 120 780 13:00-15:00 appointment-text-consorship
2010/06/24 * ps 120 720 12:00-14:00 appointment-text-consorship
2010/06/25 * ps 120 660 11:00-13:00 appointment-text-consorship
2010/06/26 * * * * appointment-text-consorship
2010/06/29 * ps 120 720 12:00-14:00 appointment-text-consorship
2010/07/01 * peradm 60 540 09:00-10:00 appointment-text-consorship
------------
becomes:
------------
Tue 2010-06-22 15:00-16:00 [peradm]  appointment-text-consorship 
Wen 2010-06-23 13:00-15:00 [peradm]  appointment-text-consorship 
Thu 2010-06-24 12:00-14:00 [ps]      appointment-text-consorship 
Fri 2010-06-25 11:00-13:00 [ps]      appointment-text-consorship 
Sat 2010-06-26 *           *         appointment-text-consorship 
Tue 2010-06-29 12:00-14:00 [ps]      appointment-text-consorship
Thu 2010-07-01 09:00-10:00 [ps]      appointment-text-consorship
------------

Hoping to become a devoted follower,
Tomas

Print calendar

I have tried getting rem2ps to print a month calendar, and also print æ, 
ø, å characters correctly. This is the command I have tried: 

rem -c+m -b1 -p | rem2ps -l -sd 10 -se 7 -m A4 | lpr

This output looks pretty good, but it cuts the border and some of the 
text at the left side, and the Scandinavian characters are not printed 
correctly. Does anyone have any tips on how to use rem2ps for this?

Jostein

Re: controlling the outpur of -s

tsr.offentlig@... wrote:

> 1) I seem to recall that it was possible to config remind to read all
> rem-files from a certain directory so that I could just do "remind
> -s+2 -b1 -m", how do I do that?

If you invoke "remind" as "rem", it assums ~/.reminders.  So:

   rem -s+2 -b1 -m

> 2) The output is almost perfect (I want to incorporate the
> wekk-nr-thing I saw in the mail archive) but I wonder if I can reformat
> it so that:

> 2010/06/22 * peradm 60 900 15:00-16:00 appointment-text-consorship

> becomes:

> Tue 2010-06-22 15:00-16:00 [peradm]  appointment-text-consorship

That is a job for Perl.

Regards,

David.