[Remind-Fans] OMIT not working for holidays

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Sep 12 10:03:57 EDT 2012


On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:06:43 -0500
Jeff Gipson <jeffagipson at gmail.com> wrote:

> A newbie error. Adding SKIP worked.  Thanks. I'll re-read the areas
> of the manual for OMIT and SKIP, however, I've seen examples that use
> SKIP in a different place from the REM command syntax diagram. Where
> is the correct place for SKIP? Are there two places, on for global
> OMITs and one for local OMITS?

Remind uses a horrible hand-written parser.  It's not too fussy about
where you put the SKIP as long as it's before the MSG and not in a place
that makes no sense (for example, REM UNTIL SKIP 2012-12-31 MSG ... will
not parse.)

Regards,

David.



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