[Remind-Fans] Heads up / speak up: Change coming to Remind's parser

Tim Chase remind at tim.thechases.com
Wed Aug 21 13:19:35 EDT 2024


On 2024-08-21 13:05, Remind list wrote:
> In the existing version:
> 
>    This is a line
> 
> is equivalent to:
> 
>    REM MSG This is a line
[snip] 
> In the next release, these types of lines will still be parsed the same
> way, but will issue warnings.

Hah, the only time I "use" this functionality is as a warning to
myself, most frequently indicating that I forgot a trailing backslash

  REM Apr 1 MSG %"April Fools Day%"%_
    Don't get caught!

and suddenly "Don't get caught!" shows up on the calender **every**
day because I forgot to write it as

  REM Apr 1 MSG %"April Fools Day%"%_\
    Don't get caught!

So having more official "um, you sure you didn't do a dumb?" warnings
works well for me. :-)

-tim







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