[Remind-Fans] Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is Available

Tue Oct 11 22:12:11 EDT 2022

I'm also testing out the new version. But haven't tested the new
features. I will soon!

Best,

Julio

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>    1. Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is Available (Dianne Skoll)
>    2. Re: Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is Available (Andreas Klostermaier)
>    3. Prerequisites (was Re: Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is Available)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:36:54 -0400
> From: Dianne Skoll <dianne at skoll.ca>
> To: Users of Remind <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca>
> Subject: [Remind-Fans] Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is Available
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> Hi,
>
> Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is available in git.  You can directly download a
> tarball from Debian's github machine:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/dskoll/remind/-/archive/04.02.00-BETA-1/remind-04.02.00-BETA-1.tar.gz
>
> This release has a whole bunch of fixes and new features, so please test.
> I'm very interested to see if someone can break the MSF-formatting fixes
> that have been added.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
>
> CHANGES TO REMIND
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> * VERSION 4.2 Patch 0 - 2022-??-??
>
> - NEW FEATURE: remind: Allow weekdays to be globally-omitted.  For example:
>
>        OMIT Saturday Sunday
>
>   globally-omits all Saturdays and Sundays.
>
> - NEW FEATURE: remind: Add ansicolor() built-in function to make it easier
>   to colorize reminders on the terminal.  Suggested by Tim Chase.
>
> - NEW FEATURE: remind: Add several special variables related to the color
>   mode: $UseVTColors, $UseBGVTColors, $Use256Colors, $UseTrueColors and
>   $TerminalBackground.  Based on a suggestion by Tim Chase.
>
> - NEW FEATURE: remind: Add utctolocal() and localtoutc() built-in functions.
>
> - NEW FEATURE: remind: Add timezone() built-in function.
>
> - NEW FEATURE: remind: Add trigtags() function per suggestion from Tim Chase.
>
> - BUG FIX: remind: Make MSF correctly format UTF-8 text and text with
>   embedded ANSI color-changing codes.
>
> - BUG FIX: remind: Make ADDOMIT actually work correctly in a SATISFY-type
>   REM command.  Bug found by Gunther Rei?ig
>
> - BUG FIX: Convert documentation files and src/lang.h to UTF-8.  Patch
>   from Jochen Sprickerhof.
>
> - BUG FIX: Fix tests in non-UTF-8 locales.
>
> * VERSION 4.1 Patch 0 - 2022-09-25
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> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:34:38 +0200
> From: Andreas Klostermaier <andreas at klostermaier.de>
> To: Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Remind-Fans] Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is Available
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> Am 10.10.22 um 23:36 schrieb Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans:
>
> > Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is available in git.
>
> I am running the new version without problems, have not tried any of the new features, though.
>
>
> Had these two errors on make:
>
> ---
> Not installing rem2html; missing JSON::MaybeXS
>
> rem2html-Docs say: "rem2html requires the Perl modules `JSON::Any' and `Getopt::Long'.  It
> will not be installed unless you have those modules as well as Perl
> itself."
>
> I have Perl installed on Ubuntu, but don't know which modules are missing and how to install them. I do not need rem2html, but maybe the installation notes could be more explicit?
>
>
> ---
> Not installing rem2pdf; missing Pango
>
> I was missing libpango-perl and libcairo-perl after a fresh install of Ubuntu. Added them from the repos and rem2pdf works fine now. Those prerequisites should maybe be mentioned in the general README as well.
>
>
> lg
> Andreas
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:05:01 -0400
> From: Dianne Skoll <dianne at skoll.ca>
> To: remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca
> Subject: [Remind-Fans] Prerequisites (was Re: Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1
> 	is Available)
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> On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:34:38 +0200
> Andreas Klostermaier via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I was missing libpango-perl and libcairo-perl after a fresh install
> > of Ubuntu. Added them from the repos and rem2pdf works fine now.
> > Those prerequisites should maybe be mentioned in the general README
> > as well.
>
> I've added the list of prerequisites in this commit:
> https://salsa.debian.org/dskoll/remind/-/commit/603228b944f6ade78d1954e08c04e74bbfd7b9c6
>
> I run Debian, so I only know which Debian/Ubuntu packages satisfy the
> prerequisites.  If anyone knows the equivalent RPM/dnf package names,
> please let me know and I'll add those to the README.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
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