Hi,
I really am hoping this will become 3.3.1 final. Please test; I assume
a lot of you are stuck at home anyway because of the pandemic. :)
Tarball:
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.01-BETA-3.tar.gz
Signature:
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remin
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.1 is released. It's at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.01.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.01.tar.gz.sig
Release notes follow.
Regards,
Dianne.
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On 2020-03-21 14:32, Andreas Klostermaier wrote:
> I call it "A Beautiful Remind" (abremind) and have advanced so far,
> that is has become my default Remind visualisation. I would like to
> present a little teaser to the remind community:
> https://klostermaier.de/abremind_demo/index.html#to
On 3/22/20 5:02 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> /It looks like dnf wants lower case "json" so I tried # dnf install
> json-devel-3.7.3-1.fc31.x86_64
That's unlikely to work. On Fedora, it's likely to be something
like perl-JSON-Any or something similar.
Regards,
Dianne.
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On 2020-03-30 01:19, Neal Fultz wrote:
> I've added a new function to remind to call the C RNG, to be
> reminded of things at a random date. I guess someone else asked
> about this in 2001?
Huh. I confess I cannot see a use-case for this, and because of various
gotchas, I don't think I'll merge
n 2020-03-31 16:34, Juan F. Meleiro wrote:
> That was just an update. The real issue is the following: I use the
> function msgprefix() as a way to add indentation and markers to
> reminders. It adds three spaces of indentation, the middle of which
> is substituted by '*' or '>' if the event is ha
On 2020-03-31 17:49, Tim Chase wrote:
> You might be able to abuse the fact that remind zero-pads times when
> converting them to strings, meaning you can compare their
> string-versions and you should get the same results
That's clever, and it should work just fine! For my own sanity, I would
f
Hi,
On 2020-05-21 21:03, Jon Fineman wrote:
> remind -f -z5 -k'mail -s "reminder: %s" jjf /dev/null 2>&1'
> ~/reminders
> produces the subject:
> reminder: \\\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\\test\ msg\ today\ at\
> 20\:50\\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\\
> vs
> remind -f -z5 -k'mai
Just a note that defs.rem as shipped with Remind is *not* meant to be copied
as-is into your .reminders file or directory. It's meant as a set of examples
only.
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Hi,
Remind is not really a task-management app. It's more a
calendar/event/reminder tool. It doesn't have any concept of
a task being "To-Do" or "Done".
> I saw that there were several GUIs created for remind, but now it looks that
> etm-dgraham is the latest supported one. Does remind still sh
On 2020-05-31 14:41, Tim Chase wrote:
> I have an annual event that falls on "the Sunday closest to Jan 22nd"
> and wrestled with how to express this.
REM SUN Jan 19 MSG convince yourself that this is correct...
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On 2020-05-31 15:47, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2020-05-31 15:21, Dianne Skoll wrote:
>> On 2020-05-31 14:41, Tim Chase wrote:
>>> I have an annual event that falls on "the Sunday closest to Jan
>>> 22nd" and wrestled with how to express this.
>> REM SUN Jan 19 MSG convince yourself that this is cor
On 2020-07-03 15:07, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
> Any easy way to allow functions to have missing arguments that default
> to empty?
No, but I also don't really see a compelling use-case for this.
Because a Remind function body can only be an expression, it's
pretty awkward to deal with optional argumen
Hi, everyone,
Just a heads-up that there is a bug in TkRemind; it can sometimes fail to
edit reminders related to months 8 and (Aug and September) because it
incorrectly interprets 08 and 09 as invalid octal numbers.
I have a fix in the latest version of git and plan on making a relase
fairly s
On 2020-09-16 19:36, Ed Blackman wrote:
> How would I express a reminder that I want to show every Thursday,
> *except* for the Thursday on the same week as the first Tuesday of
> the month?
The first Tuesday of the month can range from the 1st to the 7th of the
month. The corresponding Thursday
On 2020-09-19 17:46, Ed Blackman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:46:18PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 2020-09-18 17:10, Ed Blackman wrote:
>>> I also want to send myself a reminder the previous Friday when
>>> there's an event on one of those Thursdays. That was trickier, but
>>> this is w
Actually, this is better:
OMIT 26 Nov 2020
REM Thu SKIP SATISFY [$Td<3 || $Td > 9] MSG Thursday thing
REM Fri SATISFY [(day($T+6)<3 || day($T+6)>9) && !isomitted($T+6)] MSG Mail for
[$T+6]
The "meeting" intermediate variable is unnecessary.
Regards,
Dianne.
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On 2020-09-25 19:53, Jens Mueller wrote:
> rem mon SKIP SATISFY [isomitted(trigdate()+1)] msg Bridging day
> rem fri SKIP SATISFY [isomitted(trigdate()-1)] msg Bridging day
That won't work.
One reason it can fail is if there are no omitted days around today
or at any point in the future. Try th
Hi, again...
On 2020-09-25 20:05, Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
> On 2020-09-25 19:53, Jens Mueller wrote:
>> rem mon SKIP SATISFY [isomitted(trigdate()+1)] msg Bridging day
>> rem fri SKIP SATISFY [isomitted(trigdate()-1)] msg Bridging day
> One reason it can fail
On 2020-10-02 09:22, Tim Chase wrote:
> I have a monthly event but sometimes life interferes causing it
> to either get bumped back/forward or even cancelled.
If there's no algorithmic way to make that decision, then I think...
> Currently the only way I've been able to do it is to SKIP
> every O
On 2020-10-10 07:01, remind-f...@trodman.com wrote:
> How about adding
> noon_solar() ?
> Right now, might I be able to do the math all in remind, and bisect the
> sunrise(),sunset() interval?
Yep. I believe solar noon is defined as halfway between sunrise and
sunset, so this will do the t
The following statements:
> ## Western RANDOM PICK ON GOOGLE MAP
> SET LatDeg(58) ## -58.421753 58°25'18.3"W
> SET LatMin(25)
> SET LatSec(18.3)
> ## Southern
> SET LongDeg(-34) ## -34.632117 34°37'55.6"S
> SET LongMin(-37)
> SET LongSec(-55.6)
... have no effect. Or at least, not the *de
On 2020-10-12 13:38, B. William wrote:
> OK, I made the changed in the ".reminders_moonsun" file:
> SET $LatDeg 58
> SET $LatMin 25
> SET $LatSec 18
> SET $LongDeg -34
> SET $LongMin -37
> SET $LongSec -55
Buenos Aires is at latitude 34 deg 36 min 13 sec South, and longitude
58 deg 22 min 54 sec
On 2020-10-12 15:55, Steve Jones wrote:
> Can we add a line to the man page that states that the numbers
> aren't what you'll get from a search engine, maybe something along
> the lines of 'The longitude will have the opposite sign of what you
> see on a map - if google gives you -80.1234, you sho
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:30:04 -0400
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Is Remind compatible with Fedora 33? (Fedora33, 64bit, XFCE) I have
> been unable to install it, get an error, the last few lines are:
> tar: remind-03.03.01/www/fullmoon.png: Cannot open: File exists
You are most likely un-tarring it in a
Hi, all,
Remind has never handled UTF-8/Unicode particularly well, but I've
pushed a fix for one annoying problem... incorrect formatting of the
calendar with Unicode zero-width combining characters.
The first screenshot is Remind 3.3.1 in a UTF-8 terminal with LC_ALL
set to en-US.utf-8; the seco
Hi again,
To be clear: The previous output was generated with
"remind -cl test.rem"
Also, these fixes will do nothing for TkRemind or PostScript
output, unfortunately. :(
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On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:47:35 +0100
Paul Kopp wrote:
> The cyrillic and hebrew characters work like a charm, nice work!
> However, color escape sequences from SPECIAL COLOR still cause
> malformed calendar output.
Hmm... I cannot replicate that. Could you attach your test file?
The attached tes
Hi, Paul,
> I just noticed that it wasn't the color escape sequences but some
> tabs that messed up the calendar - my bad.
Ah, thank you. I have pushed a fix for that into my git repo;
commit a5c9b07052bb21ef3efa773cb797e1129bdda708 in
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/git/Remind.git/
In
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 21:30:59 -0500
"Merell L. Matlock, Jr." wrote:
> Month/day of week (at the top) and 'button bar' (at the bottom) have
> the right color; when I first start tkRemind, it flashes the right
> color (#928374), then reverts to #D9D9D9.
TkRemind is (alas) not really designed to be t
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.2 is released. It's at
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.02.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.02.tar.gz.sig
Release notes follow.
Regards,
Dianne.
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Oh, one more thing... if you like console-based programs, I have a
cute little hack I wrote a while pack and finally packaged up. It's a
terminal-mode calculator written in Perl. That one's here:
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/perleval/
Regards,
Dianne.
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 09:17:39 +0100
Martin Ziemer wrote:
[...]
> I can fix it by adding "global TwentyFourHourMode" to the top of the
> procedure ShowTodaysReminders.
Oh, that's embarrassing.
> Should i package the version with a diff or is there another way to
> get tkremind going?
I will rel
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.3 is released. It's at
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.03.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.03.tar.gz.sig
This release consists of just one bug fix; relea
On Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:27:45 -0500
hy...@nasalinux.net wrote:
> /home/hymie/.reminders.d/dancelesson(353): Can't compute trigger
This is because of a change intoduced in Remind 3.3.0 (I believe).
See the man page and the MAYBE-UNCOMPUTABLE keyword for the way to
avoid this error message.
Regards
You can increase the font size like this:
In your ~/.Xresources file (create it if you don't already have one)
add this line:
Tkremind*font: Arial 18
Then run: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
And then fire up tkremind. The text will be very much bigger.
Regards,
Dianne.
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 11:59:01 -0500
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> "[root@WS-1 bobg]# dnf hwtprovides tcllib
Was that a typo? "dnf whatprovides tcllib", perhaps?
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On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:08:14 -0600
Tim Chase wrote:
> REM +1 FROM Aug 17 2020 MSG ...
[ on 17 Aug, only shows that day's reminder and not the one for 18th, etc.]
> I expected to see 2 entries on each day, one for the actual event and
> one for the next day's pre-notice.
Remind's algorithm doe
Hi, all,
I pushed a nice little feature onto
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/git/Remind.git/
If the "inotifywait" program is available (meaning you're probably on Linux),
TkRemind will use it to monitor ~/.reminders and will react very quickly
to changes in the file/directory. This lets
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 17:12:45 -0500
Jonathan Kamens via Remind-fans wrote:
> [...] because rem2ps doesn't indicate in the PostScript what
> size the page is. The attached (simple) patch fixes this.
Oh, thank you. I will include that patch. I've actually been hacking
at rem2ps just today for othe
On Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:24:45 +0100
Paul Kopp wrote:
> When scheduling a reminder like this:
>
> REM 2021-01-01 THROUGH 2021-01-08 AFTER MSG Test
>
> with an OMIT on the last day:
>
> OMIT 2021-01-08
Weeelll... I guess it's a bug, but maybe it's a feature. :)
THROUGH -mm-dd is simply
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.4 is released. It's at
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.04.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.04.tar.gz.sig
Release notes follow.
Regards,
Dianne.
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:44:38 -0500
Jonathan Kamens via Remind-fans wrote:
> Also my page size patch?
Ugh, yes! Sorry; I forgot to document that.
I'll add it to the release notes (for next time).
o BUG FIX: rem2ps: Call setpagedevice to set page size
Based on a patch from Jonathan Kamens
Re
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.5 is released. It's at
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.05.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.05.tar.gz.sig
In this release, TkRemind received a lot of care
Hi, All,
I thought I'd make an "Introduction to Remind" video. Finally got
around to finishing it... and it weighs in at about 52 minutes... yikes!
Anyway, for those with long attention spans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SNgvsDvx7M
Regards,
Dianne.
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:32:33 -0800
Isaac Good wrote:
> I have no idea what's going on here other than remind seems to be
> skipping some hebrew dates.
Indeed.
> Is there a bug here?
Nope. If you look at the output of:
msg [hebmon('2000-02-15')]
you get:
Adar A
That's because
Following up, also see the remind(1) man page that describes the
optional "jahr" and "aflag" arguments to hebdate(), which modifies
how it handles Adar dates in Hebrew leap years.
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Hi,
Someone asked me off-list if there was an IRC channel for Remind.
There wasn't, so I made one. The channel is at OFTC; see
https://oftc.net/ for info on how to connect. The channel is called
#remind and I will hang out on there as "dfs".
Cheers!
Regards,
Dianne.
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Hi, all,
Sorry to spam the list with this, but...
As of April 19th, I will be launching my new venture, Skoll Software
Consulting. I've quit my job and will take a month off before April
19th.
Anyway... if you could use my expertise, or know anyone who could,
please let me know. My services ar
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:53:07 +0100
Stacy Harper via Remind-fans wrote:
> I got a ~/.rem file that looks like
>
> RUN OFF
> INCLUDE [filedir()]/.rem.d
> RUN ON
> I also got this ~/.rem.d folder which is kept in sync in all my
> devices with syncthing.
> The issue is : As some files present in r
On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:01:29 +0200
Stacy Harper via Remind-fans wrote:
> * How do you display the reminder at time when using "remind -q .rem"
> ?
You would have to run another instance of Remind without the -q flag for
it to alert you at the specific time.
> * The daemon re-read the reminder f
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.6 is released. It's at
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.06.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.06.tar.gz.sig
This is a minor release; release notes follow.
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:45:51 -0400
aalin...@riseup.net wrote:
> What I want is to be reminded of something on the Thursday following
> the third Wednesday of the month. The closest I've managed is:
> REM 1 Thursday --14 MSG Appointment
You are over-thinking it. Here is the solution:
REM Thu 16
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:48:49 -0700
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote:
> It's also interesting when you realize then that such a day must
> always fall on the 16th through 22nd, so you can just AND together
> the 16-22 range and the Thursday condition.
Yup. But Remind is significantly more efficient at
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:53:52 +0900
taekoocair--- via Remind-fans wrote:
> Nifty. I'd actually be quite interested in hearing about the technical
> underpinnings of Remind.
Hmm... :) I started writing Remind when I was a newbie, so I'm not
particularly proud of some bits of the code, but other bi
Hi,
So... I was looking over NextSimpleTrigger and I found a bug that has
probably been present in Remind for 25+ years. :)
Remind currently gives the wrong answer:
$ echo "Sun 29 Feb MSG foo" | remind -dt - 1 feb 2021
-(1): Trig = Sunday, 7 March, 2021
The fixed version:
$ echo "Sun 29 Feb MS
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 23:45:49 -0400
Justin Alcorn wrote:
> The wiki at Roaringpenguin doesn't have any edit options. Do you have
> edit access?
I just checked, and apparently I do; I've updated the ical2rem page to
point to Github.
Long-term, I should probably migrate the wiki onto my own server
Hello,
I've moved the Remind wiki onto my server since I no longer control
www.roaringpenguin.com. I've edited most of the pages on the old wiki
with a note pointing to the new wiki.
The new wiki is here: https://dianne.skoll.ca/wiki/Remind
It is locked down. If you would like to have an acco
Hi, Jochen,
> could you update the description of my python-remind library to:
> A library and command line tools (rem2ics, ics2rem) to convert
> between Remind and iCalendar.
Done, thank you.
Regards,
Dianne.
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Hi, all,
I've posted another video... a bit shorter, at around 23 minutes.
This one delves into the Remind source code, showing how the Remind
algorithm is actually implemented. Hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pebgo8fFLQI
Regards,
Dianne.
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:21:26 +0900
taekoocair--- via Remind-fans wrote:
> Very cool! That was exceedingly accessible. Your code is quite tidy,
> too!
Oh good; glad you liked the video. I'm reasonably proud of the code,
although given its age and my newbieness when I first started Remind,
there
Hi, Remind folk!
I've recently quit my job and am working as a contract developer.
Almost all the work I get is on proprietary software, sadly. I've
created a donation page on Liberapay to help fund my open-source work.
If you'd like to help fund Remind (or any of my other open-source
projects) o
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.7 is released. It's at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.07.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.07.tar.gz.sig
This is a bug release; release notes follow.
Re
Hi,
I'd ask list posters to please avoid posting HTML and use plain-text only.
Thanks!
On Tue, 11 May 2021 07:23:46 -0400
LarryD wrote:
> I have been trying to find a way to attach a file (at least text
> only) to any "REM" I add. The reason for the additional file is that
> I often need more i
On Tue, 11 May 2021 11:24:18 -0400
LarryD wrote:
> The problem with long lines in the title is that it clogs up the
> display and then other events get lost.
Right, so you delimit the bit you want to show up in the calendar with %"%".
For example:
REM Fri MSG %"Zoom Meeting%" %b and here are a
On Sun, 23 May 2021 13:33:17 +0200 (CEST)
Julien Michielsen wrote:
> For a long time I used remind on my computer. I noticed a version of
> remind with a nicer output: wxremind".
According to http://people.duke.edu/~dgraham/wxRemind/
"wxRemind is no longer being actively maintained."
On Tue, 25 May 2021 06:11:13 -0400
Allan Wind wrote:
> I would like to run remind (3.1.16) every day at 20:00 via and
> have it tell me of me about any reminders that is coming up in the
> next 24 hours. Here is what I tried so far:
Remind is not really designed to show events over a time perio
On Tue, 25 May 2021 10:18:11 -0400
Allan Wind wrote:
[I missed this]
> What is the time argument used for then? Just curious.
Mostly debugging. It's used when you want to test a reminder and
lie to it about the current time.
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Dianne.
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On Tue, 25 May 2021 10:18:11 -0400
Allan Wind wrote:
> Query two days and having to manually filter out 50% is not great
> for me.
Patches happily accepted. :)
You could probably also do something with the JSON output of
"remind -ppp2", but that would require a fair bit of
programming.
> Sure
Hi, everyone,
I messed up my mail filter and a couple of Remind-Fans messages
were delayed. Sorry about that. I also accidentally set
the list to hide sender addresses. That should be fixed
too, I hope... we'll see when this message goes out.
Regards,
Dianne.
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:25:14 -0400
Eben King via Remind-fans wrote:
> I would like a way to schedule an event so that it shows up in
> tkremind (RUN doesn't) and runs a program (MSG doesn't).
You can get part of a RUN to show up in TkRemind with the %"%" quotes.
For example:
REM Mon AT 12:45 R
Hi, all,
I've set up a self-hosted Gitea instance and moved the official
Remind git repo there. The Remind git repo is now at:
https://git.skoll.ca/Skollsoft-Public/Remind
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:40:32 -0500
Tim Chase via Remind-fans wrote:
> Over on Mastodon I was recently asked how to put an event on "every
> other weekend". This is what I came up with:
> REM Sat Sun SATISFY ((abs($T - date(2021,7,10)) % 14) < 2)
> IF trigvalid()
> REM [$T] MSG Every oth
On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:16:23 -0400
Eben King via Remind-fans wrote:
> Hi people. When I run tkremind, it runs remind -z0 and then kills it
> when tkremind exits. How can I make this not happen? If I kept
> tkremind up all the time it wouldn't be a bad thing, but I don't.
> When it's up alarms
On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:37:18 -0500
Tim Chase via Remind-fans wrote:
> OMIT Sat Sun
Remind has never supported that syntax, I'm afraid.
> REM 8 OMIT Sat Sun BEFORE MSG Event
That's how I would do it.
> It looks like I can create a weekday-nudge helper function to reduce
> the verbosity a bi
On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:39:15 +0200
Wolfgang Kroener via Remind-fans wrote:
> I upgraded remind from 03.01.16 to 03.03.01 (Debian buster ->
> bullseye).
> Function names with fset have to be shorter, but that was easy.
Really? I don't remember making that change. I thought I *increased*
the ma
Hi,
I upgraded my main machine from Debian 10 to 11, which uninstalled
Mailman. :(
I had to install Mailman from source. Just testing that list traffic
still works; please ignore.
Regards,
Dianne.
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Hi, everyone,
I've implemented a new feature in Remind that I think could be really
cool. If you'd like to test it, please clone
https://git.skoll.ca/Skollsoft-Public/Remind and build from master.
The new feature is a command called INCLUDECMD. This executes a shell command
and interprets the o
On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 08:38:25 -0500
Tim Chase wrote:
> Is there documentation on how shell-escaping/quoting should be
> handled? E.g.
Basically, everything after INCLUDECMD is passed to popen(3), which means
it's handed to the shell. So looking at your example:
> SET x "a b"
> INCLUDECMD pr
Hi,
> I could see needing to escape them in remind, to allow for
> command-continuation such as
> INCLUDECMD printf 'REM %s\n' [x] \
> c d e
No. there's no need to escape them in Remind. Remind does
command-continuation very early on. However, your example above will
fail because Remind
On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 11:00:21 -0400
Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
> No. there's no need to escape them in Remind. Remind does
> command-continuation very early on. However, your example above will
> fail because Remind will include a literal newline in what it passes
> to
On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 11:00:21 -0400
Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
[Tim Chase]
> > If everything is passed literally, are there any helper
> > shellescape() functions that can be used for quoting args, ensuring
> > that they don't get munged when lexed by the shell?
On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 12:24:43 -0400
Jonathan Kamens via Remind-fans wrote:
> My holidays.rem which I snarfed from somewhere semi-official long,
> long ago has this in it:
>
> SET Week_1 1
> ...
> FSET _back(days)TRIGGER(TODAY()-days)
> FSET _trig()TRIGGER(TRIGDATE
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.8 is released. It's at
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.08.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.08.tar.gz.sig
This release contains both bugfixes and new feat
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 04:20:23 -0400
"Ian! D. Allen via Remind-fans" wrote:
> But it doesn't work with my web calendar, because my Apache server
> runs all PHP code as "www-data" and remind turns RUN OFF when the
> owner of the .reminder file (me) doesn't match the user running
> remind (www-data).
Hi again,
I forgot... reading from stdin assumes that /home/idallen/.reminders
is a file and not a directory. If it *is* a directory, you could make
a file like /home/idallen/.reminders-top that looks something like
this:
INCLUDECMD cmd1
INCLUDECMD cmd2
# Pull in .remind
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 04:20:23 -0400
"Ian! D. Allen via Remind-fans" wrote:
> It Would Be Nice If remind had a "trust" option to say "if the owner
> of the remind file matches XXX, trust it and don't disable RUN or
> shell()"
I thought this was a nice idea, so I added it. Remind already uses all
t
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 04:20:23 -0400
"Ian! D. Allen via Remind-fans" wrote:
> It Would Also Be Helpful if the "trust" option allowed -u to work to
> set the right environment variables without implying -r
I missed this. I've implemented this also.
remind -uidallen-- disables RUN
remind -u
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 17:18:23 -0400
Justin Alcorn via Remind-fans wrote:
> Anyway... https://github.com/jbalcorn/ical2rem
Yep, thanks! I do link to that from the Remind home page.
Regards,
Dianne.
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 21:43:29 -0400
"Paul M. Foster via Remind-fans" wrote:
> I didn't see the beginning of this thread. But I built a PHP
> application to display a calendar based on your reminders file. See
> https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster/calendar . You're welcome to download,
> use and make c
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 22:51:47 -0400
Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
> > https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster/calendar .
> Oh, that looks like a very interesting project!
Hmm... unfortunately, it doesn't work. models/calendar.mdl.php
is referencing a nonexistent global variable
Hi,
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 23:56:43 -0400
"Paul M. Foster via Remind-fans" wrote:
> I just downloaded the package, unzipped it, and located it under my
> local PHP web server.
Oh! I just cloned the git repo and ran from master. I can't find any
zip files on the gitlab site; can you point me to w
Hi, everyone,
Remind 3.3.9 is released. It's at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.09.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.09.tar.gz.sig
This release contains both bugfixes and new feat
Hi,
It seems I inadvertently broke Mailman, at least the web pages.
Those have been fixed; now just testing the list itself.
Apologies for the noise.
Regards,
Dianne.
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Hi,
Sorry for the spam sent by Andrei Silov's auto-responder. I have
unsubscribed him from the list.
Regards,
Dianne.
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:15:15 -0500
"Paul M. Foster via Remind-fans" wrote:
> There's a rather complicated formula for deriving the U.S.
> Thanksgiving holiday in the Remind wiki. The holiday is on the 4th
> Thursday in November every year. From my read of the remind
> algorithm, it seems as thoug
Hi,
I'm preparing Remind 3.3.10 for release. If anyone would like to test
out the git version prior to the release, please do so... it can be
cloned from https://git.skoll.ca/Skollsoft-Public/Remind
Below is an excerpt from WHATSNEW. I know the ADDOMIT keyword is
kind of a hack... it would have
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:09:17 -0500
Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
> REM Mon 1 Sep SCANFROM [back(7)] ADDOMIT MSG Labour Day
Ugh, sorry. That should be:
REM Mon 1 Sep SCANFROM -7 ADDOMIT MSG Labour Day
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Dianne.
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:10:56 -0800
Edward Shapard via Remind-fans wrote:
> Contents of "test.rem":
> > REM 20 NOV 2021 AT 13:00 DURATION 90 MSG Meeting
> Running `remind -s1 test.rem` yields:
> > 2021/11/20 * * 1995 780 1:00pm-10:15pm+1 Meeting
> > 2021/11/21 * * 1335 0 12:00am-10:15pm Meeting
On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 17:40:26 -0500
Michael DeBusk via Remind-fans wrote:
> In my reminders file is the following:
> REM 2021-11-29 +7 MSG Report due %c%
> REM 2021-11-30 +7 MSG Doctor appointment %c%
> I would expect the first to begin notifying me starting on the 22nd;
> however, I started seei
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