using remind with dropbox

I'd like to be able to run remind at home in daemon mode and be able to add
a reminder for home from my computer at work by changing the file there and
having dropbox change the file automatically at home.  When I try to get
remind started with the remind file not in a root file it says there's an
error "can't access file".  I don't totally understand all that's written in
the man page, but I get the impression that (maybe) you can only run remind
from the root directory.

Other than that, maybe I'm using the wrong quotes or something... here's
what I'm trying:

remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16"
-fg "#46f" -bg "#000000" -fg "#20E834" -wrap -title "here is a reminder for
you" %s &' "/home/david/Dropbox/Main Documents/.homereminders-popups"

I've tried with single quotes and the quote thingie to the left of the "1"
key.  Is it the space I have in the folder name? (It would be a real
headache to change that as I have all sorts of references to it elsewhere)

Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dave

Re: using remind with dropbox

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Dave Parker wrote:

Moin,

> remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16"
> -fg "#46f" -bg "#000000" -fg "#20E834" -wrap -title "here is a reminder for
> you" %s &' "/home/david/Dropbox/Main Documents/.homereminders-popups"

I don't know much about gmessage syntax. I think you have to place 
the single quote after the -k. I use:

pkill remind; remind -z -k'echo %s | accat' $HOME/.reminders &

in my startscript.

Matthias

Re: using remind with dropbox

On 03/01/2011 11:42 AM, Dave Parker wrote:
> I'd like to be able to run remind at home in daemon mode and be able to add
> a reminder for home from my computer at work by changing the file there and
> having dropbox change the file automatically at home.  When I try to get
> remind started with the remind file not in a root file it says there's an
> error "can't access file".  I don't totally understand all that's written in
> the man page, but I get the impression that (maybe) you can only run remind
> from the root directory.
>
> Other than that, maybe I'm using the wrong quotes or something... here's
> what I'm trying:
>
> remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16"
> -fg "#46f" -bg "#000000" -fg "#20E834" -wrap -title "here is a reminder for
> you" %s&' "/home/david/Dropbox/Main Documents/.homereminders-popups"
>
> I've tried with single quotes and the quote thingie to the left of the "1"
> key.  Is it the space I have in the folder name? (It would be a real
> headache to change that as I have all sorts of references to it elsewhere)
>

try
ln -s "/home/david/Dropbox/Main Documents/.homereminders-popups"   ~/.homereminders-popups

remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16"
  -fg "#46f" -bg "#000000" -fg "#20E834" -wrap -title  "here is a reminder for
  you" %s&' ~/.homereminders-popups

using remind with dropbox

Sorry Reid, spelled your name wrong, and also missed replying to the users
group (I'm more used to google groups)

Matthias, I wasn't sure if your focus was on the single quote or the "accat"
command.  The way I showed actually did work the way I had it, but only if
the remind file was in the home folder (so I didn't think it was an issue of
the quote).  It took me a while to find any referrence to "accat" but it
seems to be used with some kind of engineering thing called Ansys, to
"Concatenate multiple areas in preparation for mapped meshing".  Is that
what you were referring to?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Parker <cedardocster@...>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Remind-Fans] using remind with dropbox
To: Reid.Thompson@...

Thanks Ried,

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@...>wrote:

>
> try
> ln -s "/home/david/Dropbox/Main Documents/.homereminders-popups"
> ~/.homereminders-popups
>
>
> remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif
> 16"
>  -fg "#46f" -bg "#000000" -fg "#20E834" -wrap -title  "here is a reminder

Re: using remind with dropbox

Okay, I figured it out:  spaces in filenames / filepaths really are evil.  I
was able to put the file further up the directory tree but still in dropbox
where there are no spaces in the folder names and it works.

Thanks both of you for your suggestions and David (another thread) for
revealing the problems with spaces.

Remind and Exchange Web Services.

Hello all, 

I hacked together a simple script that pulls a data out of Exchange Web
Services, and creates remind entries over a time period. 

The attached script stores the current month's worth in a file YYMM (like
1103). I then include this file from my main calender. 

This is just one of the pieces of glue that I use to glue my shared home
calendar (distributed version control systems work quite well for sharing
calendars) with my work calendar. 

TODO:
    - the EWS perl module doesn't do timezones yet
    - EWS autodiscovery should be possible
    - a better way to do auth

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use EWS::Client;
use DateTime;

my $ews = EWS::Client->new({
    server      => 'x.x.x.x', # <- get this from autodetect.xml, when that fails, from webmail properties. 
    username    => 'me',
#    use_negotiated_auth => 'True', 
    # passwd set $ENV{EWS_PASS}

Re: Remind and Exchange Web Services.

On 10 March 2011 06:29, <jack-remind@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I hacked together a simple script that pulls a data out of Exchange Web
> Services

Are you prepared to disclose what "Exchange Web Services" is and why
I'd need a script to extract data from it?

--
http://twitter.com/DougieLawson
http://facebook.com/DougietheIMSman

Re: Remind and Exchange Web Services.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:46:58 +0000
Dougie Lawson <dl1ims@...> wrote:

> Are you prepared to disclose what "Exchange Web Services" is and why
> I'd need a script to extract data from it?

The DESCRIPTION section of
http://search.cpan.org/~oliver/EWS-Client-1.103620/lib/EWS/Client.pm
makes it pretty clear.

Regards,

David.

Patch to add THROUGH keyword to remind.vim

The attached patch adds the THROUGH keyword to the example remind.vim
syntax file.

-- 
Mark Knoop

The attached patch adds the THROUGH keyword to the example remind.vim
syntax file.

--

-- 
Mark Knoop

Re: Patch to add THROUGH keyword to remind.vim

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:51:05 +0000
Mark Knoop <mark@...> wrote:

> The attached patch adds the THROUGH keyword to the example remind.vim
> syntax file.

Thank you.  I've applied it and it will be in the next release.

Regards,

David.