[Remind-Fans] Please test git HEAD (soon to be 3.3.0) was Re: Using SPECIAL COLOR in the agenda view?

W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. robert.funnell at mcgill.ca
Tue Jan 28 08:36:51 EST 2020


On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, Dianne Skoll wrote:

> On 2020-01-25 18:41, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. wrote:
>
>> The new JSON output, and the resulting reverse-engineering by
>> TkRemind, sound great. I don't have time to check now but I want to
>> ask a question about it before I forget. When I start using the new
>> TkRemind, will my .reminders file have a mix of the old-style (with
>> ugly (your word) comment blocks) and new-style reminders? Will the old
>> style continue to be supported? I have a clunky and limited TCL script
>> that puts TKTAG's into .reminders. Should it continue to work?
>
> The new TkRemind will ignore the option blocks, and in fact will delete
> them if it has to rewrite the reminders file.
>
> You can use TKTAGs in reminders as long as the lines you add match
> this regular expression:
>
>     ^REM TAG TKTAG[0-9]+
>
> Be aware that if you delete a reminder from within TkRemind, it will
> renumber the TKTAGs on existing reminders.  So if you need a stable TKTAG
> as an identifier, you're out of luck.  If this is a problem, let me know
> and I'll figure out a way around this.

This all sounds fine. My script is write-only so it seems that it 
should continue to work.

Thank you for the quick response and the great tool.

- Robert




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