[Remind-Fans] how to keep .reminders file clean?

[Paul Pelzl]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:07:54PM -0500, Javier Rojas wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:14:24PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > You have to do it manually.  Ancient (2.x) versions of Remind had an
> > option to purge expired reminders.  However, with 3.x and Remind's
> > expression mechanism, there is in general no way for Remind to know
> > for sure that a reminder has expired and will never reappear.
> > 
> > I'm trying to figure out a nice way to do this... any ideas?
> 
> maybe adding to the language a DELETE keyword
> 
> REM fri AT 07:00 DELETE ONTRIGGER MSG wake up!
> 
> It could have options to delete the event when the reminder is
> triggered, or after a given date, which the user could specify himself,
> or after a date that can be taken from the UNTIL part of the reminder.

I would strongly advise against this sort of design.  At the moment
Remind operates on reminder files in a read-only fashion, which gives me
a nice, warm, safe feeling.  Moving to a read/write model would vastly
increase the chance of data loss.

Paul