Thanks for the quick answer (and solution)!
Mat
On 2025-05-12 13:55 Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <remind-fans@lists.skoll.ca>
wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2025 10:30:46 +0200
> Mathieu via Remind-fans <remind-fans@lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
>
>> It seems that `INCLUDE/` does not allow expanding `~/` or `$HOME` or other
>> variables, and therefore can only support absolute paths with
>> the user name hardcoded if files to include are located in a home
>> subdirectory.
>
> Remember: In Remind, you can use expression-pasting (almost) anywhere on
> a line, so something like:
>
> INCLUDE [getenv("HOME")]/.reminders
>
> should do the trick.
>
>> and things like `INCLUDE /usr/share/remind/holidays` cannnot be used
>> either on immutable distributions whereby the Remind installation
>> directory will contain a unique hash.
>
> That's what SYSINCLUDE is for. You need Remind version >= 05.02.01 for
> that command.
>
> You can make much more complex tests that search for a file and choose
> the first one that's readable. See this file for a more complex search
> example. It searches for a language file based on the settings of
> various environment variables:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/dskoll/remind/-/blob/master/include/lang/auto.rem
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
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