[Remind-Fans] remind configuration mode for emacs

[Shelagh Manton]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:46:23 +0100
Henrik Grindal Bakken <hgb at ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I remember people asking for one of these on this list. 
> >
> > As I had a few days on hand and have always wanted to try my hand at
> > writing a mode. I wrote one for remind.
> >
> > It has only been tested on GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu,
> > GTK+ Version 2.11.6). But I don't really anticipate any problems as
> > there are no surprising code. I suppose it might not be very useful
> > for those who use emacs-nox. But, such as it is.
> >
> > There is one skeleton script (rem-skel) for entering a simple REM
> > line in a configuration file. The keybinding for it is "\C-cr"
> 
> Looks useful.  One thing I'd like to see is a simple way to enter the
> date.  I find myself quite often wanting to add an event that occurs
> later the same day, so a quick short-hand for entering today's date
> could be useful, perhaps.  I don't know if emacs has an interface to
> timespec stuff, like for example the one at(1) and similar commands
> use.
> 
> Just typing in 'next friday', 'tomorrow', or 'in four days' could be
> useful.
> 
> 
It's possible, I'll try to work out how to do in the next few days.
It will than be a default setting, so when you ret to ignore the
skeleton question, it will put it in for you. would this be useful? Or
perhaps not. Perhaps a little today script? I'll see if *that* is
possible within a skeleton.

Shelagh

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