[Remind-Fans] a slacker syntax for .reminders ?

[David J Patrick]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:39:27PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> David J Patrick wrote:
> 
> > I've been doing a lot more using vim and vimoutliner, to keep track of
> > everything in .txt files. It would be REALLY NEAT (tm) if I could slap a
> > valid remind line, from the "rem" to the "%" anywhere within an "outlined"
> > text file.
> 
> ugh... I think adding that to Remind itself is a bit hackish.  A preprocessor
> is much nicer/easier:
I had a sneaking suspicion that asking this of remind itself would be a bit
much.
> 
> extract-rem.pl outline.txt | remind ... -
just to be clear; extract.pl does not yet exist, right ? just a
hypothetical usage example.. 
Sounds like a reasonable approach, and I'll see if I can get a local perl-head to
do that but of munging for me. 
> This could even be wrapped in a shell script "rem-outline" or somesuch.
that's what I'll work towards, thanks a bunch.
djp