I'm sorry but in Dianne's defence, which I'm sure she doesn't need, the manpage is quite clear:
Under the THE REM COMMAND (line 251) we see: on line 258: | SATISFY | SPECIAL special | PS | and a little further down under the same section on line 303, note the second sentence: ------------------------------ A SPECIAL-type reminder is used to pass "out-of-band" information from Remind to a calendar-producing back-end. It should be followed by a word indicating the type of special data being passed. The type of a special reminder depends on the back-end. For the Rem2PS back-end, SPECIAL PostScript is equiva‐ lent to a PS-type reminder, and SPECIAL PSFile is equivalent to a PSFILE-type reminder. The body of a SPECIAL reminder is obviously dependent upon the back-end. ----------------------------- And starting on line 2921 - all things SPECIAL: OUT-OF-BAND REMINDERS The SPECIAL keyword is used to transmit "out-of-band" information to Remind backends, such as tkremind or Rem2PS. They are used only when piping data from a remind -p line. (Note that the COLOR special is an exception; it downgrades to the equivalent of MSG in remind's normal mode of operation.) I'm a noob, but I can read, you took that one line out of context. On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 02:32:46 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" <idal...@idallen.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:36:52AM -0400, Dianne Skoll wrote: > > In the case of a SPECIAL, the token following the SPECIAL is considered > > to be part of the type specification. > > That's not what the man page says. It says types are one word: > > MSG, MSF, RUN, CAL, SPECIAL, PS and PSFILE > These keywords denote the type of the reminder. > [...] A SPECIAL-type reminder is used [...] > > That says that the type is just the single keyword "SPECIAL". > > I'd prefer that, instead of fixing the man page, you tweak the code to > always make the trigdate() available for SPECIAL. You have to make it > work anyway for "SPECIAL COLOR"; just make the date available for all > SPECIAL without regard for the following word. Then the man page would > be correct. > > If the code can't be fixed, please fix the man page (several places) > to say that "SPECIAL" by itself is not a complete type and that the > word following SPECIAL is required as part of the type specification > and failure to hard-code the word following will make pasting date > expressions fail without warning, but everything else will work fine. > _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind