[Remind-Fans] why are reminders not editable anymore

[Robert Funnell]

I don't know what's happening to you, but I thought I would mention 
that I have successfully edited tkremind reminders with a text editor. 
All I've ever had to do to get the revised reminder was to tell 
tkremind to go to a different month and then back again.

- Robert

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, Charles Stroom wrote:

> I thought the trick was to restore the older rem file from the backup.
> However, no reminder in the old file was modifiable any longer.  But
> this is quite annoying, a backup should be able to restore the old
> situation.  What exactly is the origin of this behaviour of
> remind/tkremind and why was this done?
>
> Charles
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:53:01 +0200
> Charles Stroom <charles at stremen.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> Looked up tkremind(1) and it says it's not possible.  No tricks to
>> circumvent this?
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:15:33 +0200
>> Charles Stroom <charles at stremen.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> using tkremind, I modified an existing reminder, but the mod
>>> included an illegal character (was the message).  This was the "["
>>> character, so I edited the rem file (not withstanding the "DO NOT
>>> EDIT" warning) to change the "[", because it was not even visible
>>> in tkremind.
>>>
>>> I restarted tkremind, but it comes up with the message that it had
>>> created an empty 100-tkremind.rem file and new reminders go to this
>>> new file, and while the existing reminders are visible in tkremind,
>>> these cannot be modified any more.  Apparently there is something in
>>> the rem file that inhibits modifications(?), but what?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Charles
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Charles Stroom
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