[Remind-Fans] Omit several days

[Jan Seeger]

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On Thu, 31. Jan, David F. Skoll spammed my inbox with 
> Jan Seeger wrote:
> 
> > It seems like omitting a range of days is not (yet?) possible in
> > remind. I have used the following kludge:
> 
> Omitting a range is not possible.  Your kludge is not a good idea;
> making the OMIT context "float" can yield surprising behaviour.

But since I created a new omit context, this behaviour should be limited to this
context, shouldn't it?

> If you have resigned yourself to using an IF, then why not simplify it:
> 
> IF today() < '2008-02-09' || today() > '2008-02-29'
>     REM Tue +4 -1 MSG DS-Hausaufgaben...
>     REM Mon +4 -1 MSG Info-Hausaufgaben...
> ENDIF
> 
> Or you could even get very tricky:
> 
> REM Tue +4 -1 SATISFY [trigdate() < '2008-02-09' || trigdate() > '2008-02-29'] MSG ...

The problem is I want to be able to easily add new holidays. With this solution,
I'd have to edit the whole expression, whereas with my hack, I could just enter
an additional OMIT [between....].

Regards,
Jan Seeger

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