[Remind-Fans] ADMINISTRIVIA: Name change

2015-04-20 Thread Dianne Skoll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, everyone, I'm the lead author of MIMEDefang, RP-PPPoE and Remind. This is just a heads-up to let you know that I now go by the name "Dianne Skoll", though my email address is still A very short explanation may be found on my w

[Remind-Fans] Remind 03.01.14 is available

2015-04-24 Thread Dianne Skoll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Remind 3.1.14 is available here: https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind There are not a lot of changes; they are summarized below. Regards, Dianne. CHANGES TO REMIND * Version 3.1 Patch 14 - 2014-04-24 o NEW FEATURE: Putting the line

Re: [Remind-Fans] Remind 03.01.14 is available

2015-04-24 Thread Dianne Skoll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 D'oh, Murphy's law... On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:51:56 -0400 Dianne Skoll wrote: > * Version 3.1 Patch 14 - 2014-04-24 That should be 2015-04-24, of course! This was pointed out to me by "hymie!" I will not be releasing a

Re: [Remind-Fans] warn only on the first day of an event

2015-05-17 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sat, 16 May 2015 08:26:57 +0200 Matthias Teege wrote: > FSET cwarn(x) choose(x, 5, 3, 2, 1, 0) > REM 2015-01-01 *1 UNTIL 2015-01-05 WARN cwarn MSG %"event%" > Is it possible to generate warnings only based on the first day of an > event? Remind lacks the concept of multi-day events, so you'd

Re: [Remind-Fans] Translations

2015-05-23 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:24:54 +0100 Dougie Lawson wrote: > There's some "I18N" support in Remind It's not very well implemented, though. You have to pick a language at compile-time and then that's it. If anyone would like to make it truly locale-adaptive, I'd be happy to take patches. It's a p

Re: [Remind-Fans] awkward PRIORITY sort order of timed and non-timed reminders

2015-05-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 24 May 2015 23:36:38 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > I find it very unhelpful that "remind -p" outputs all timed reminders > before all non-timed reminders in calendars, no matter what the > PRIORITY field says. (This isn't mentioned under "PRIORITY" in the > man page.) It's mentioned in

Re: [Remind-Fans] awkward PRIORITY sort order of timed and non-timed reminders

2015-05-26 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 25 May 2015 15:41:18 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: [A lot of suggestions] I like some of your suggestions, but as I'm rather busy at the moment, I doubt I'll have time to work on Remind any time soon. Patches will be welcome and reviewed, though. Regards, Dianne. __

Re: [Remind-Fans] curious parsing of AT clause ignores times

2015-05-27 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 27 May 2015 11:54:56 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > I expected an error message about "more than one time; only using > 23:59": Fixed in git; you can pull down http://git.roaringpenguin.com/Remind.git to get the fix. Regards, Dianne. ___ Remi

Re: [Remind-Fans] need eval() function to expand expressions inside strings

2015-05-27 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 27 May 2015 13:33:30 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > What might work as a future enhancement is an "eval"-like function to > expand embedded expressions inside strings, e.g.: You don't need that. fset text() trigtime() + " My event" REM [date] MSG %"%"[text()] REM [date] SPECIAL HTML [t

Re: [Remind-Fans] curious parsing of AT clause ignores times

2015-05-27 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 27 May 2015 15:04:11 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > Well, yes, but instead of falling back to the previous behaviour of > generating the event with the last time given, you now don't generate > any event at all. Why not continue to generate an event? Because as far as I'm concerned, mul

Re: [Remind-Fans] more public git repository

2015-06-11 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:19:51 +0200 Robin Vobruba wrote: > hey everyone (and especially diane)! :-) Oh, hi! > this is my first post here. > first of all, thanks a lot for remind! i am using it since 2 years > now, and it is the first calendar that i am not too lazy or bored to > use. You're wel

Re: [Remind-Fans] Set 2 hour meeting

2015-06-15 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:33:26 -0700 Lang Hurst wrote: > REM Monday, Wednesday AT 10:00 DURATION 2 MSG CCSS Meeting > But that gives an Ill-formed time error Indeed. DURATION wants to be followed by a TIME, not an INT. REM Monday, Wednesday AT 10:00 DURATION 2:00 MSG CCSS Meeting Regards, Dia

Re: [Remind-Fans] Tkremind doesn't pop up any more.

2015-06-24 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:23:48 +0200 Charles Stroom wrote: > The problem is that suddenly there is no popup any more to add new > data. When clicking on the existing modifiable data, there is a > popup, so I can edit. I have removed and reinstalled, but that is no > solution. Click on the day nu

Re: [Remind-Fans] Deduplication?

2015-06-26 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:37:17 -0400 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > So I've started playing with having different .reminders files, > primarily, work stuff and home stuff. I don't need my > change-the-passwords-today listed on my home calendar, and I don't > need my dance lessons on my work c

[Remind-Fans] Remind 3.1.15 is released

2015-07-27 Thread Dianne Skoll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've released Remind 3.1.15 at https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind Release notes are below. Regards, Dianne. CHANGES TO REMIND * Version 3.1 Patch 15 - 2015-07-27 BUG FIX: Fix a buffer overflow found by Alexander Keller BUG FIX:

Re: [Remind-Fans] Tkremind problems

2015-07-30 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:43:35 +0200 Roel Wagenaar wrote: > Apparently there is no wm command on a Debian jessie install, > invoking tkremind results in an error message: wm is not a UNIX command. It's a Tk command. I've never seen that error before; under what conditions does it occur? Regards

Re: [Remind-Fans] Tkremind problems

2015-07-30 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:48:38 +0200 Roel Wagenaar wrote: > starting tkremind from a commandline ends up in the given responce. Huh, I cannot duplicate that, even on jessie. Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@lists.roaringpenguin

Re: [Remind-Fans] Tkremind problems

2015-07-30 Thread Dianne Skoll
sie and it has a fresh compiled-from-source Remind 3.1.5. $ remind 2>&1 | head -n 2 REMIND 03.01.15 (English version) Copyright 1992-1998 Dianne Skoll $ ls -l `which remind` - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 170488 Jul 27 15:54 /usr/local/bin/remind $ ls -l `which tkremind` - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root s

Re: [Remind-Fans] Tkremind problems

2015-07-30 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:07:25 +0200 Roel Wagenaar wrote: > Can it be something specific to the debian package, I have never > tryed tkremind before and compile only remind myself, tkremind is the > Debian package. I suppose that could be it, but I would have expected a lot more bug reports by now

Re: [Remind-Fans] regular notification of repeating reminders

2015-09-05 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 13:43:26 +0200 Hendrik Jaeger wrote: > One technology I consistently use since years and expect to be using a > few more decades is E-Mail, so I would like to have remind send me > emails. Since my server runs 24/7 in contrast to my laptop, I ran > remind on my server like this

Re: [Remind-Fans] Custom Header for Postscript Calendar

2015-09-27 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 18:09:52 -0700 Lang Hurst wrote: > Hey, is there anyway to print a custom header on the postscript > calendar? Yes. man rem2ps and look for the "-p" option and the text mentioning the PreCal PostScript procedure. Regards, Dianne. __

Re: [Remind-Fans] rem2html bug

2016-01-15 Thread Dianne Skoll
Hi, > but rem2html does not honor the one-number version, only the > three-number version. This patch fixes it. Thanks for that! I've applied it for the next release. Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@lists.roaringpenguin.com

Re: [Remind-Fans] getting TAGs in: remind -z -k'myCmd "%s"'

2016-02-05 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:14:55 +0100 Robin Vobruba wrote: > i made a patch for this and added some other commits. > to be found here: > https://github.com/hoijui/Remind > what do you think dianne? Thank you! I'll take a look in the next few days. Regards, Dianne.

Re: [Remind-Fans] rem2ps: utf-8 characters, output month

2016-03-07 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:07:53 +0100 Jostein Berntsen wrote: > If I run a command like this the Scandinavian characters are not > displayed correctly in the ps file: > rem -p2 -m | rem2ps -l > rem.ps Yep. Neither Remind nor rem2ps handle UTF-8. In fact, handling UTF-8 in Postscript is extremely

Re: [Remind-Fans] Output all reminders

2016-03-08 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:08:50 +0100 Jostein Berntsen wrote: > I would like to list all reminders, including all the ones from > previous weeks. Is there a way to do this? rem -t -q -r 1990-01-01 If you want to be super-fancy, you can prefix each reminder with its very first trigger date: rem -t

Re: [Remind-Fans] OMIT Weekends...

2016-03-08 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:14:06 -0800 (PST) Shibu Narayanan wrote: > I have my reminders setup using cron to run once a day and send the > output by email to my office address. Since I do not check my email > on weekends(Sat,Sun), I have given the below line in the reminder > file to skip weekends.

Re: [Remind-Fans] Output all reminders

2016-03-08 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:26:09 +0100 Jostein Berntsen wrote: > >rem -t -q -r '-imsgprefix(x)=$T+" "' 1990-01-01 > That works fine, thanks. Is it possible to get the date for each > entry in front as in the output from this command? > rem -b2 -n Yes... rem -t -b2 -n 1990-01-01 You can combine -

Re: [Remind-Fans] OMIT Weekends...

2016-03-09 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 01:18:21 -0800 (PST) Shibu Narayanan wrote: > But my query was how to have the "OMIT SAT SUN" as a global setting, > so that I do not have to specify it for every Reminder. I believe I told you how to do what you need. Regards, Dianne. ___

Re: [Remind-Fans] rem on date but not a weekend (just before in that case)

2016-03-29 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:29:53 -0600 Dave Parker wrote: > A) How would I generate a reminder, say on the 12th of any month, but > show it on the friday if the 12th landed on a Saturday or Sunday? REM 12 OMIT SAT SUN BEFORE MSG woo-woo. The "BEFORE" is the key! Regards, Dianne. _

Re: [Remind-Fans] Skip remind in certain years

2016-05-05 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 5 May 2016 11:58:18 +0200 Roel Wagenaar wrote: > How can I skip reminds in the years it is not wanted? > In the Netherlands liberationday is only once in every five years a > public holiday. This will issue a reminder only in years that are a multiple of 5: REM 6 June SATISFY [($Ty % 5)

Re: [Remind-Fans] colors in the "today" view?

2016-05-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 23 May 2016 10:11:28 -0400 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Is there a way to apply the SPECIAL COLOR entries to the single-day > view? No, not really... sorry. You can use ANSI escape sequences as in the #COLORS section of examples/defs.rem in the Remind source distribution, but tha

Re: [Remind-Fans] best way to handle a list of dates

2016-05-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 25 May 2016 08:29:55 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:33:36PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: Now there's a blast from the past... > I'm looking for a way to shorten this so that I only code the MSG and > SPECIAL lines once, not a dozen times each: Unfortunately,

Re: [Remind-Fans] missing advance warning of repeating events

2016-05-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 25 May 2016 11:38:42 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > How can I get *all* the advance notices that lie within 99 days? You can't, with just one reminder. That's not how the Remind algorithm works... see https://www.roaringpenguin.com/files/download/remind-oclug.pdf for a short presentatio

Re: [Remind-Fans] printing a month from tkremind

2016-06-07 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 11:39:55 +0200 Charles Stroom wrote: > I use tkremind to print the month schedule. Normally no problem, > however the month of May spans over 6 lines of dates (the 1st of May > is a Sunday and occupies the 1st row in its own) and this month does > not fit the paper size If yo

Re: [Remind-Fans] printing a month from tkremind

2016-06-09 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 12:57:12 +0200 Charles Stroom wrote: > Sorry for the latish reply, but no, it still doesn't fit. Hmm, ok. Then you will have to invoke rem2ps by hand and reduce one or more of the font sizes with the -s[thed] option. rem2ps is kind of dumb and doesn't have font metrics built

Re: [Remind-Fans] SPECIAL, trigdate(), and expression pasting

2016-06-12 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 03:13:25 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > This one-line reminder file "r" gives an error message because > trigdate() is not set and the subtraction has mixed types: > > REM SPECIAL [ "COLOR 66 66 66 " + iif( (trigdate()-today()) == 0, > "FOO", "BAR" ) ] As per the man page:

Re: [Remind-Fans] SPECIAL, trigdate(), and expression pasting

2016-06-13 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 02:32:46 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > I'd prefer that, instead of fixing the man page, you tweak the code to > always make the trigdate() available for SPECIAL. Unfortunately, I have no time to work on Remind at the moment. Regards, Dianne. ___

Re: [Remind-Fans] SPECIAL, trigdate(), and expression pasting

2016-06-13 Thread Dianne Skoll
Hi, everyone, Let's end this thread. My bottom line is this: Yes, there are very likely tons of edge-cases in Remind because the parser is hand-rolled and was written when I was quite a newbie programmer. Unless these edge-cases can be shown to cause real-world problems, however, such as being s

Re: [Remind-Fans] an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't.

2016-07-20 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:58:05 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: > OMIT May 1 > REM May 1 AFTER OMIT Sun MSG Workers Day > REM May 1 2010 *7 AFTER OMIT Sun Tue Wed Thu Sat MSG Dustbin day > (no, I don't know why I didn't just put 'Mon") The problem is that on May 2, the Workers Day trigger date will b

Re: [Remind-Fans] an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't.

2016-07-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:36:09 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: > Studied this until my brain swims, I can see no reason for it not > moving now. I can see nothing else wrong in all other REMs and OMITs > that might for some reason interfere with this. Help! The issue here is that you want a holiday o

Re: [Remind-Fans] an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't.

2016-07-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:48:03 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: > 1: If the holiday falls on a Sunday, then it moves to the Monday This is done as follows: # Figure out the date of the holiday. We scan back from # 30 days to make sure we always get *this* year's holiday # rather than *next* year's

Re: [Remind-Fans] SINCE verb

2016-07-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:54:26 -0400 Ted Rolle wrote: > I keep getting this error: 'Undefined function: `SINCE' There is no built-in function "since". What made you think there is one? Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@lists.ro

Re: [Remind-Fans] an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't.

2016-07-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:26:11 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: > Great, it works and Dustbin Day moves to the Friday. Good! > Another member of the diaspora! I left as a child (11 yrs old) and have lived in Newfoundland and Ontario, Canada, so there's no trace of ZA in my accent... unless I want th

Re: [Remind-Fans] SINCE verb

2016-07-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:55:39 + "Theodore M Rolle, Jr." wrote: > I have it in more .rem files than coincidence explains. The definition I posted earlier probably is floating around the Internet. But it is not (and never has been) built into Remind. Regards, Dianne. _

Re: [Remind-Fans] an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't.

2016-07-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:08:58 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: > and I can see the issue, if I put Fri 6 May as another public holiday > then this of course does not get skipped and we again have Dustbin Day > on a public holiday now on the Friday (when the Dustbin men would just > get another day off

[Remind-Fans] OT: Newfie South African (was Re: an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't._

2016-07-21 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:21:01 -0300 Sector11 wrote: > OMG you were an imported Newfie for a while? > Friendliest Canucks goin'. Oh, me son! I done a standup bit on dis very t'ing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UNLAoioJ2k Regards, Dianne. ___ Remi

Re: [Remind-Fans] patch -- ISO8601 timestamps

2016-07-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:39:18 -0400 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > I know that work on Remind has stalled if not ended. It never ends. But yes, I haven't had much time lately. > But if you should be making any changes, I would recommend that you > adjust the way Remind expects/prints time/

Re: [Remind-Fans] patch -- ISO8601 timestamps

2016-07-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
OK, here's a patch. It makes Remind accept -mm-dd@hh:mm or -mm-ddThh:mm on input. On output, there's a system variable called $DateTimeSep that defaults to '@'. You can set it to 'T' instead: SET $DateTimeSep "T" and then DATETIMEs are output in ISO 8601 format. Regards, Dianne.

Re: [Remind-Fans] patch -- ISO8601 timestamps

2016-07-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 12:34:12 -0300 Sector11 wrote: > So if I'm happy with the old format - it's a do nothing thing? Yes. Backward-compatibility is my religion! Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@lists.roaringpenguin.com http:/

Re: [Remind-Fans] patch -- ISO8601 timestamps

2016-07-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:42:58 -0400 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:37:24AM -0400, Dianne Skoll wrote: > > Backward-compatibility is my religion! > And that religion does *not* need a sunset([dq_date]) function. :-) R&#

Re: [Remind-Fans] REM v CAL

2016-07-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:34:22 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: > I can't figure out the essential difference between a MSG and a CAL! Your example is neither. It's a SPECIAL: > REM Feb 13 2017 SPECIAL COLOR 156 0 156 MSG %"RU Start term 1%" %b% As soon as Remind sees SPECIAL, the rest of the line

Re: [Remind-Fans] REM v CAL

2016-07-27 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:31:15 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: > Still, I don't like any of the options facing me. I can only have > colour on the calendar at the expense of seeing all those comments in > a command-line remind. I cannot have a 'SPECIAL COLOR rrr ggg bbb CAL' > entry. You can, in a wa

Re: [Remind-Fans] Alternate week reminder

2016-07-28 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:30:11 -0400 (EDT) "-dan d." wrote: > As the subject suggests, there is an event every other week on the > same weekday, is there a way to do this? Well, sure. REM 2016-07-28 *14 MSG Every second Thursday Regards, Dianne. ___ R

Re: [Remind-Fans] $LongMin positive or negative

2016-07-28 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:03:59 +0100 Conor Matthew wrote: > My Longitude is -1.5 > $LongDeg is -1 > Is $LongMin 30 or -30 ? As per the man page: Note that all three components should have the same sign: All positive for Western longitudes and all negative for Eastern longitudes. Regards, Dianne

Re: [Remind-Fans] time of new moon is different in remind and Emacs

2016-07-28 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:02:41 +0100 Conor Matthew wrote: > The time of new moon is different in remind and Emacs, although they > are very close. Yes, not surprising. Remind is probably accurate to within +/- 10 minutes. Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-f

Re: [Remind-Fans] sunrise() and sunset() are 1 hour behind

2016-07-28 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:03:25 +0100 Conor Matthew wrote: > However sunrise() and sunset() are 1 hour behind. I get the correct results. Anyone else in the UK able to try this? Are your sunrise/sunset results off by an hour? > Also, sunrise() and sunset() are slightly different from the values

Re: [Remind-Fans] Alternate week reminder

2016-07-29 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:53:26 -0400 (EDT) "-dan d." wrote: > Thanks Dianne, No problem. Please don't Cc: me if you reply to the list, though... if you do that, I receive two copies of the email. > I assume the year/date sets a starting reference for each subsequent > 2nd thursday? Yes. > Howw

Re: [Remind-Fans] sunrise() and sunset() are 1 hour behind

2016-07-29 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:16:13 +0100 Dougie Lawson wrote: > So we need to know whether remind is using dawn (0°), civil (6°), > nautical (12°) or astronomical (18°) twilight as the sun's angle for > its calculations. It uses civil (6°) for sunset. Regards, Dianne. __

Re: [Remind-Fans] SATISFY and/or setting variables in REM

2016-08-02 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:03:07 -0400 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > So here's my next question. Is there a way to set a variable as the > "action" taken by a REM statement? Because in theory [1], this kind > of thing might work: Nope, sorry. Repetition is the only way for something like th

Re: [Remind-Fans] %_ (newline) doesn't work in Tkremind

2016-08-05 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:08:57 +0100 Conor Matthew wrote: > newline %_ doesn't work in Tkremind Or indeed, in any calendar mode... that was deliberate. Maybe I'll come up with a way to do it. Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@l

Re: [Remind-Fans] Android version of remind

2016-08-15 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:19:09 +0100 Conor Matthew wrote: > Are there plans to make an Android version of remind? That would mean rewriting it in Java, I assume? So no. No plans on my part. Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@li

Re: [Remind-Fans] how to get the next single reminder?

2016-09-02 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 18:51:00 -0600 Dave Parker wrote: > I know that "remind -n '(remind file)' will give a list of all the > next reminders for each item in the file, but how do I get just the > next single (timed) reminder that is set to come up? (or set of > reminders if there are multiple at th

Re: [Remind-Fans] Strange schedule

2016-09-04 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 20:20:15 -0400 Theodore M Rolle Jr wrote: > Seven days on, five days off, starting whenever it starts and > continuing on and on and on. Assuming the first ON day is Sept 1 2016: REM MSG [iif((trigdate() - '2016-09-01') % 12 < 7, "ON", "Off")] Regards, Dianne. ___

Re: [Remind-Fans] show recurrent REMinder only FROM today in calendars

2016-10-13 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:53:09 +0200 John wrote: > REM Friday FROM [today()] MSG Work at DT Won't work... instead use: REM Friday FROM [realtoday()] MSG Work at DT See the man page regarding the difference between today() and realtoday(). Regards, Dianne. __

Re: [Remind-Fans] Timed events

2016-11-07 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:04:57 -0500 (EST) "Dan D." wrote: > Looking at the man page I see one can schedule events to be triggered > by remind by an entry in the .reminders file. I not sure I fully > understand the syntax. If I want some shell script to run the same > time each day at 6:00 am., wh

Re: [Remind-Fans] Timed events

2016-11-07 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 19:26:13 -0500 Justin Alcorn wrote: > Why would you use Remind instead of cron for a script to run each day > at 6:00am ? That is a good question. Cron is the more appropriate way to do that. Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mail

Re: [Remind-Fans] Timed events

2016-11-08 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 11:45:56 -0500 Justin Alcorn wrote: > Cron is straightforward and is the appropriate tool. Lots of examples > out there. Yes. I am so sad Remind was ported to the Mac. :P Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@

[Remind-Fans] OT: Bad Apple! Bad! (was Re: Timed events)

2016-11-09 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:31:50 -0500 (EST) "Dan D." wrote: > I'm curious about your thinking on the mac comment, can you expand > please. My anti-Apple stance is pretty well-known in open-source circles. http://dianne.skoll.ca/blog/2010-05-18-anti-apple.html Regards, Dianne.

Re: [Remind-Fans] Timed events

2016-11-09 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:36:49 -0500 Jack Baty wrote: > Unfortunately, things are not yet equal, at least for me. I'm very > happy to have Remind available on my Mac, so thanks to Dianne for > accommodating those of us who have chosen a different path. I'm like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I iss

Re: [Remind-Fans] -a -a and future day reminders

2016-12-09 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:36:45 -0700 John Harrigan wrote: > When I run 'remind -q -h -a -a test.rem *10' after 10:00am on Friday > I don't see anything. That's because *10 causes Remind to loop, setting it's notion of "today" to Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, ... And because it's after 10:00,

Re: [Remind-Fans] -a -a and future day reminders

2016-12-09 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 18:49:47 -0300 Sector11 wrote: > Remind has a 'faketime' built in! Awesome! > Can it fake dates too? Yes. remind foo.rem 1 Jan 2017 will set today() to '2017-01-01' However, realtoday() will still be the correct date as returned by the computer's clock. Regards,

Re: [Remind-Fans] Countdown message that only includes weekdays

2016-12-28 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 20:01:56 -0300 Sector11 wrote: > REM 2017-01-30 +45 OMIT Sat Sun MSG Report due %x That doesn't omit holidays and weekends in the 45-day count. If I understand the Op correctly, he wants a message every 45 days, where you do NOT count holidays or weekends in the 45-day cycle

Re: [Remind-Fans] Countdown message that only includes weekdays

2016-12-28 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:07:21 -0300 Sector11 wrote: > I tried what you posted - it doesn't show on "Today" that a report is > due in x days. The other two are my feeble attempt: :( That's an easy fix; just add a "+3" for three days' advance warning or "+100" for a countdown every day. FSET goo

Re: [Remind-Fans] Countdown message that only includes weekdays

2016-12-28 Thread Dianne Skoll
My final remarks. A reminder that happens every 45 weekdays is exactly the same as one that happens every 63 days. Convince yourself of that. HOWEVER: Holidays mess things up. If those aren't counted, then yes, the horribly complicated mess is needed. :) Regards, Dianne. _

Re: [Remind-Fans] Countdown message that only includes weekdays

2017-01-04 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 12:10:04 -0400 Scott Hatcher wrote: > So, for instance, if we have a deadline of 2017-01-01, and we call > the new substitution "%B", the reminder would look like: > REM 2017-01-01 +45 MSG Deadline: ABC report due in %B working days Oh, that's a piece of cake. REM 2017-01-01

Re: [Remind-Fans] user functions

2017-01-05 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:14:10 -0500 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Can a user-defined function return and process a full REM command? No, unfortunately. But wouldn't it be easier to just do: REM 2017-01-11 *7 SKIP SATISFY [lesson_num('2017-01-11') <= 8] MSG E Coast / Night Club You don't

Re: [Remind-Fans] Every day at that day's sunrise?

2017-01-13 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:07:36 -0500 Nathaniel Filardo wrote: > REM AT [sunrise()] RUN ... That will work as you expect it to... it'll run the command at sunrise every day, with the sunrise time being the correct time for that day. Regards, Dianne. ___

Re: [Remind-Fans] PATCH for astronomical/nautical twilight

2017-01-19 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:53:18 -0600 Stephen Morgan wrote: > I've written a quick patch to allow Remind to calculate astronomical > and nautical twilight, in addition to the existing civil twilight. If > other people find it useful or at least inoffensive, I hope it could > be incorporated into Rem

Re: [Remind-Fans] PATCHES for moon illumination and moonrise/set times

2017-02-07 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:49:36 +1100 Stephen Morgan wrote: > I've written a couple of patches to add some moon-related > functionality to remind. The first is a simple patch to create the > moonillum function, which gets the percentage of the moon's surface > which is illuminated at a given time. T

Re: [Remind-Fans] PATCHES for moon illumination and moonrise/set times

2017-02-07 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 14:50:11 -0500 Justin Alcorn wrote: > Wait. I think Stephen's concern might be warranted. That's a huge > jump - is it new libraries being pulled in? Are those libraries > maintained and do they have any potential security vulnerabilities? I don't know yet. https://github.c

Re: [Remind-Fans] Different message every N days with OMITs

2017-02-09 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 22:55:26 -0500 Ed Blackman wrote: > I'm using remind to help me train for a race. I train every N days > (currently every other day, but would like a generic solution for > future training), with a different set of activities to do each > time. Sometimes I can't train on a gi

Re: [Remind-Fans] TkRemind error msg: bad window path name

2017-03-17 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:22:57 -0400 (EDT) Robert Funnell wrote: > bad window path name ".mod" I've seen this happen occasionally if you click buttons like mad; I think there's a race condition somewhere where a window is before a button callback has a chance to execute. It should not affect norm

Re: [Remind-Fans] an OMIT holiday moves forward Sun to Mon, Monday things that should move forward don't.

2017-04-17 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:30:30 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: > It occured to me that the Easter OMIT lines were the issue, and > putting the two lines above _after_ the Easter OMIT lines solved the > issue. > I thought that the lines were not order sensitive. Is this a special > Easter thing? The

Re: [Remind-Fans] how to check which files are currently being monitored

2017-11-23 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:45:54 -0700 Dave Parker wrote: > My thought for trouble shooting is to see if a certain file is > currently being monitored in -z daemon mode. Is this possible? Is > there a command to report which files are currently being monitored? The only file that Remind monitors i

Re: [Remind-Fans] Android version of remind

2018-04-06 Thread Dianne Skoll
Hi, > Are there plans to make an Android version of remind? I don't have any such plans. You can run the Linux version under the various Linux-chroot-on-Android apps. Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mailing list Remind-fans@lists.roaringpenguin.com

Re: [Remind-Fans] Moving trash day around when holidays occur on weekdays before

2018-04-08 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:21:51 -0500 Tim Chase wrote: > Is there some way to scan backwards for any OMITs that occur during > the weekdays on/prior to a given trigger-date? I had to solve this *exact* problem. Here's my solution: #==

Re: [Remind-Fans] Moving trash day around when holidays occur on weekdays before

2018-04-09 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 12:31:41 -0300 Sector11 wrote: > Awesome! The power of Remind never ceases to amaze me. :) > KUDOS! Dianne Thanks. It is powerful, but alas it's sometimes pretty opaque/twisted/convoluted... Regards, Dianne. ___ Remind-fans mai

Re: [Remind-Fans] Yom Hazikaron / Yom Ha'atzmaut in defs.rem isn't quite correct

2018-04-19 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:39:51 -0400 Jonathan Kamens wrote: > The definitions for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut in the defs.rem > that ships with remind should read as follows: [snip] > The needed changes are shown in bold. Thanks! I've corrected it in git. > Also, the defs.rem on the remi

Re: [Remind-Fans] Getting a reminder *after* an event?

2018-08-29 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:47:08 -0500 Tim Chase wrote: > I have a series of events and want to have a reminder appear the day > *after* the event to trigger followup. Assuming > REM Sep 9 2018 [magic here?] REM %"Follow up%"% > I'm looking for the magic that lets me keep the "Sept 9 2018" date >

Re: [Remind-Fans] How to get reminders every 2 years?

2018-09-24 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 19:59:08 -0300 Sector11 wrote: > One can also test this with "faketime" You could, but there's a much easier way: Just supply a date on the Remind commandline. SYNOPSIS remind [options] filename [date] [*rep] [time] [snip] If you do supply a date on the