[Remind-Fans] front-end integration question

[David F. Skoll]

Paul Pelzl wrote:

> I'm working on a console front-end for Remind.  [...]

> ... spawn an editor and automatically move to the REM line which
> defines the reminder.

> I'm a bit stuck on this one.  I had planned to simply look at the
> reminder's MSG value and pass that to the editor's search function to
> get to the right line.  Unfortunately, the substitution filter makes
> that problematic.  Is it possible to disable the substitution filter?

No.

> Or is there some better way of getting at the reverse mapping I'm looking
> for?

There's no reliable way.  Check out how "tkremind" does it.  It adds
tags to reminders and gets at them that way.  Untagged reminders, however,
cannot be edited with tkremind.

Because Remind is highly programmable, the kind of reverse-mapping
you're after is pretty much impossible.  Similarly, it's relatively
straightforward to write a translator from other calendar formats to
Remind, but nightmarish to go the other way around.

Regards,

David.