[Remind-Fans] Bug in msgprefix() + calculated PRIORITY? (was "Filtering output by priority?")

[Tim Chase]

Running with our conversation about post-processing with awk, I think
I may have found a bug:

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$ cat ~/.reminders

FSET msgprefix(x)=x + " " + $DefaultPrio + " "

REM 10 PRIORITY [(($Tm == 7) * 1000) + $DefaultPrio] \
    MSG %"Our [iif($Tm == 7, "anniversary", "mesaversary")]%" \
    [(($Tm == 7) * 1000) + $DefaultPrio]%"%

$ for m in 6 7 8; do rem 2019-${m}-10 ; done
Reminders for Monday, 10th June, 2019:

5000 5000 Our mesaversary     5000
Reminders for Wednesday, 10th July, 2019:

5000 5000 Our anniversary     6000
Reminders for Saturday, 10th August, 2019:

5000 5000 Our mesaversary     5000
---------------------------------------------------

I was expecting to see that 2nd one as

  6000 5000 Our anniversary     6000

Note that the

  [(($Tm == 7) * 1000) + $DefaultPrio]

is correctly calculated as part of the MSG (5000 = $DefaultPrio on
June 10 and Aug 10; and 6000 on July 10) but that same expression's
result doesn't seem to get properly passed to msgprefix() to get
tacked on as the first value.

[context: We do a small "mesaversary" celebration each month on the
day we were married, but when it's a full anniversary, we celebrate
bigger. So I wanted to bump the PRIOIRTY to 6000 for the actual
anniversary, while the "mesaversary" is a more mundane $DefaultPrio]

Is expression-pasting allowed in a PRIORITY clause or is this a bug?

Thanks!

-tim



On 2019-08-24 10:23, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> H
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/24/19 9:09 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to tell remind that I only want to output items of
> > a certain priority (or above a certain priority)? Preferably
> > without touching every one of my 1500+ reminders to add some sort
> > of filter to them?  
> 
> Remind doesn't have that built-in.  Your solution using an external
> filter is best.  You can define variables and functions on the
> command-line, so you could make a wrapper script so you don't need
> to define msgprefix() in your actual .rem files.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dianne.
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