[Remind-Fans] how to get rem to give me the times once and only once?

[Daniel A Graham]

The trick is to enclose the message in a %"...%" pair and to leave the time substitution parameter outside, e.g., 
  
REM 20 Mar 2007 at 18:15 MSG %"Meeting%" %3 %

Best,
Dan

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:20:25 +0100, Detlef Steuer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> most probably I´m just not able to correctly read the man page.
> Help! :-)
> 
> My problem:
> 
> I´ve an entry in my dates.remind file
> 20 Mar 2007 at 18:15 MSG Meeting%
> 
> If I now do
> 
> rem "20 Mar 2007" 
> 
> I get
> Meeting 
> 
> and I would like to get
> at 18:15 Meeting
> 
> I know I´d would get that output with
> 20 Mar 2007 at 18:15 MSG %3 Meeting%
> 
> in my reminder file. But then I`ve got the times doubled 
> in the output of i.e.
> rem -c+1  "20 Mar 2007"
> 
> and I would like to have it only once in my week view, too.
> 
> Is there any command line switch or a special way to insert 
> the time of timed events only once for
> rem _and_ rem -c ?
> 
> Thx in advance!
> Detlef
> 
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