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Thierry Guillemin | 3 Apr 2011 14:50
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Color coding calendar view (-c)

I am new to Remind.
Remind, which I installed through MacPorts, works perfectly.

To make things even more pleasant and efficient, I would like to color code
my reminders to distinguish between Priorities (or subjects). To do so, I
followed the advice given by James Rifkin :
http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/User:JamesRifkin/defs.rem (bottom of the
page)
and added priorities to my reminders (btw, I have only one .reminders file).

The results differ between :
- the -g view (e.g. : rem -g -q '*15') where it works nicely
- the -c view (e.g. : rem -c+3 -m -b1 -w,3,1) where no colors appear.

Am I missing something ?
Thanks in advance

Thierry
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David F. Skoll | 3 Apr 2011 22:54
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Re: Color coding calendar view (-c)

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 14:50:10 +0200
Thierry Guillemin <tguillemin@...> wrote:

> The results differ between :
> - the -g view (e.g. : rem -g -q '*15') where it works nicely
> - the -c view (e.g. : rem -c+3 -m -b1 -w,3,1) where no colors appear.

> Am I missing something ?

Please check the man page; it contains the info you need.

I would normally offer more help, but I notice you're using Remind on
Mac OS X.  I'd really rather people not run Remind on Apple products,
so I won't help more than saying "Read the manual."

Regards,

David.
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Thierry Guillemin | 4 Apr 2011 21:40
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Color coding calendar view (-c)

I came to Remind through linux.com (http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/55928)
and kmandla.
I then found your original presentation (
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529).
After that, I read what I thought was an updated manual (
http://linux.die.net/man/1/remind).
In none of these 3 texts did I find a mention of Apple.

I downloaded Remind through MacPorts. May I repeat that it works perfectly.

Only after your answer did I dig in the archives (I had only tried "color"…)
where I found your post titled "The Apple stance".

To sum things up :
- I made a mistake (I should have typed "man remind", and of course, when I
did so, I found immediately what I was looking for : rem -c*LC*+2 -m -b1
-w,3,1).
- but I did not commit a sin. I would even go so far as to say that your
reaction is wrong (and I don't mean impolite nor puerile nor quixotic, but
tactically wrong) because and precisely because your analysis is right. I
have a MacBook, but the Terminal.app may become a gate to full Linux, you
see, for me and for others. And programs like Remind most certainly point in
that direction for people who are tired of DisneyWorld.

Nevertheless, sorry if I offended you.

Thierry
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David F. Skoll | 4 Apr 2011 21:45
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Re: Color coding calendar view (-c)

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:40:16 +0200
Thierry Guillemin <tguillemin@...> wrote:

> Nevertheless, sorry if I offended you.

No offense taken.  I'm like the Catholic Church: Hate the sin, but
love the sinners. :)

[You may be right about my tactics being counter-productive, but I
don't think so.  I think most computer users never even think about
issues of control and vendor-lockin until someone forces them to pay
attention.]

Regards,

David.
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David F. Skoll | 6 Apr 2011 13:18
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Re: remind: does not resolve tilde in include file path

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:56:05 -0400
"Kurt B. Kaiser" <kbk@...> wrote:

> If you look at remind's manpage, it appears that the INCLUDE statement
> can be also used with a path relative to the directory of the
> reminders file in which it is found.  See the example in the RUN
> COMMAND section that follows the INCLUDE section.

The man page does not say that.  See the documentation of the
filedir() function.  (If you do use a relative filename, it's relative
to Remind's current working directory.)

The proper way to include a file relative to your home directory is:

     INCLUDE [getenv("HOME")]/some-file

Since Remind already has a way to include a file relative to the current
file and relative to the home directory, I won't be applying any patches
in upstream.

Regards,

David.
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