[Remind-Fans] standalone OMIT with weekdays?

[Dianne Skoll]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:37:18 -0500
Tim Chase via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

>   OMIT Sat Sun

Remind has never supported that syntax, I'm afraid.

>   REM 8 OMIT Sat Sun BEFORE MSG Event

That's how I would do it.

> It looks like I can create a weekday-nudge helper function to reduce
> the verbosity a bit:

I would not do it that way.  I'd put the OMIT Sat Sun inline.

>   FSET wd() "OMIT Sat Sun BEFORE"
>   REM 8 [wd()] MSG Event

If you are going to do it that way, why not a variable instead of a
function?

SET wd "OMIT Sat Sun BEFORE"
REM 8 [wd] MSG Event

Regards,

Dianne.