[Remind-Fans] how to keep .reminders file clean?

[Detlef Steuer]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:30:39 -0500
Paul Pelzl <pelzlpj at eecs.umich.edu> wrote:


> > 
> > maybe adding to the language a DELETE keyword
> > 
> > REM fri AT 07:00 DELETE ONTRIGGER MSG wake up!
> > 
> > It could have options to delete the event when the reminder is
> > triggered, or after a given date, which the user could specify himself,
> > or after a date that can be taken from the UNTIL part of the reminder.
> 
> I would strongly advise against this sort of design.  At the moment
> Remind operates on reminder files in a read-only fashion, which gives me
> a nice, warm, safe feeling.  Moving to a read/write model would vastly
> increase the chance of data loss.

I strongly support the argument of a warm and cosy feeling of read-only access.

Myself keeps reminder files nicely sectioned in 
once/weekly/monthly/yearly events, so it's not too hard to hand-delete
(in vim/emacs or wyrd) expired events.

Detlef

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