[Remind-Fans] why are reminders not editable anymore

[Charles Stroom]

Thanks, but I cannot check this any more.  Because after a computer
restart this night, it seems that everything is now normal again.  But I
will try your solution the next time.

Charles



On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:29:33 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Funnell <robert.funnell at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> 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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> >>
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> >> Charles Stroom
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Charles Stroom
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