Craig Earls <ender...@gmail.com> writes:

> I have been very slowly working on exactly that for a long time. I
> keep dithering on how to represent that kind of recurrence. So, since
> you are the first to ask, what would you like it to look like?

Cron has been around for ages and is just about as expressive as you can
get -- maybe something based on that?

> I was think of something like:
> <anchor date>+ perodicity
> For example every o
> Third Monday starting on 2014-07-14 would be:
> 2014-07-14+3w
>
> I have thought of other ways and all have merits. What would you
> like. Keep in mind the requirement for specifying a starting point 
>
> On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Richard Cobbe <
> rco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     (Please forgive me if this is a duplicate post -- I'm fairly new
>     to Google groups, and my first attempt apparently went off into
>     the ether rather than showing up on this list.)
>    
>     I'm trying to transition from GnuCash to ledger, and I'm looking
>     for an equivalent to GnuCash's scheduled transactions.  I see
>     from the ledger-mode manual that there's some support for this
>     feature in Emacs, and I've played around with it and figured out
>     how to do simple things, like scheduling a transaction to run
>     every month on the 13th, say, by supplying a date in the form [*/
>     */13].
>    
>     Is there a way to schedule a transaction to run every other
>     Monday?  I don't see how to fit that into the date syntax that's
>     described in the manual.  I took a quick look at
>     ledger-schedule.el, and ledger-schedule-descriptor-regex appears
>     to support more expressive date specifications than just [*/*/
>     13], but it's going to take me a while to figure out what's going
>     on here.  In particular, ledger-schedule-constrain-day appears
>     not to support all of the possible options that the regex appears
>     to allow.
>    
>     Ledger 3.0.3-20140608 on MacOS 10.9.4, for what it's worth.  Oh,
>     and Emacs 24.3.1.
>    
>     Thanks!
>    
>     Richard
>    
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