[Remind-Fans] Don't show popups for some reminder entries

[Paul Pelzl]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:31:38AM +0100, Martin Stubenschrott wrote:
> I have running:
> 
> remind -z -k'xmessage -title "reminder" %s &' ~/.reminders
> 
> in my background, however I have some recurring items in my .reminders file, 
> which I don't want to popup this dialog every time.
> 
> Is there an easy way to add some tag to the REM entry do not show this 
> reminder? or do I need to wrap the xmessage call in a script which decides 
> whether to show or not show the popup?
> 
> Thanks for the great remind program/wyrd frontend.

Hi Martin,

You have the option of specifying a reminder by using CAL in place of
the MSG keyword.  From the manpage (which maybe could be worded a bit
more clearly here):

   "A CAL-type reminder is used only to place entries in the calendar
   produced when Remind is run with the -c, -s or -p options."

Such reminders will show up in Wyrd just as usual (because Wyrd grabs
its reminder data by running "remind -s"), but the reminders will not be
triggered by your popup-generating process.

Paul