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

[Dianne Skoll]

Hi,

The problem is that when Remind parses the PRIORITY argument, the trigger algorithm has not yet run, so $Tm is not yet set to anything useful. It's whatever the previously-calculated trigger month is.

Regards,

Dianne.

PS: sorry for top-posting; I'm replying from my phone.

On August 24, 2019 5:49:09 PM EDT, Tim Chase <remind at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>Running with our conversation about post-processing with awk, I think
>I may have found a bug:
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>$ 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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