I thought the trick was to restore the older rem file from the backup. However, no reminder in the old file was modifiable any longer. But this is quite annoying, a backup should be able to restore the old situation. What exactly is the origin of this behaviour of remind/tkremind and why was this done?
Charles On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:53:01 +0200 Charles Stroom <[email protected]> wrote: > Looked up tkremind(1) and it says it's not possible. No tricks to > circumvent this? > > Charles > > > > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:15:33 +0200 > Charles Stroom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > using tkremind, I modified an existing reminder, but the mod > > included an illegal character (was the message). This was the "[" > > character, so I edited the rem file (not withstanding the "DO NOT > > EDIT" warning) to change the "[", because it was not even visible > > in tkremind. > > > > I restarted tkremind, but it comes up with the message that it had > > created an empty 100-tkremind.rem file and new reminders go to this > > new file, and while the existing reminders are visible in tkremind, > > these cannot be modified any more. Apparently there is something in > > the rem file that inhibits modifications(?), but what? > > > > Thanks, Charles > > > > > > > > -- > > Charles Stroom > > email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") > > _______________________________________________ > > Remind-fans mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > > Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind > > > -- > Charles Stroom > email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
