http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2910 <pre>Hi Guys, I had remind set up and working with both general reminders and time specific reminders. I'd get a popup at the start of the day with all the general reminders and then another popup just before an event, reminding me to do something right then. Well, I had to do a reintall and thought that I had everything back in place. It seems I don't. My general reminders are working fine. I can't get any timed reminders to popup. If I run the commands listed below the first command works as it should. The second command does not. Specifically when I hit return in the terminal, I get nothing. No command prompt, just blank. Does anyone have an idea of what could cause this? remind ~/Reminder-files/reminders-general | gxmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16" -fg "#231" -bg yellow -wrap -title "Don't Forget'" -file - remind -z '-kgmessage -buttons "OK:1" -default "OK" -center -font "serif 16" -fg "#000" -bg "yellow" -wrap -title "HEY!" %s &amp;' ~/Reminder-files/timedreminders -- Thank you, John </pre> John Niendorf 2013-05-10T08:26:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2906 <pre>Is there a way I can disable the permission checking when I run remind? I don't see a way in the manfile... -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com </pre> fREW Schmidt 2013-05-01T01:52:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2894 <pre>Hello all, I use remind to manage a simple todo list (in addition to its normal usage) and I am looking for a way to skip todo entries when displaying the calendar overview with -c. At the moment I'm using the following workaround: FSET todo() trigger(iif($CalMode, '2000-01-01', realtoday())) REM [todo()] MSG - Todo entry % Is there a cleaner way to exclude them from the calendar but still list them when running remind? Regards Simon </pre> Simon Ruderich 2013-04-27T22:38:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2892 <pre>Hi all, I'm trying (as an excercise mostly) to figure out how to represent my payday in remind. The way payday works at my company is that it is the fourth weekday of the month. So to be clear, in June of this year that would end up being the 6th. Do I have to use a user defined function for this? I don't see a way to do it with the ... less programmatic syntax, as - goes backwards and + means something else entirely. -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com </pre> fREW Schmidt 2013-04-27T21:15:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2879 <pre>Hi, I have been using remind for a few days and I really enjoy it. I like the output of: remind -gaaad -b1 -ms+1 But I would like rather to get the 7 next days STARTING from today (rather than starting from the beginning of the current week). Of course, I could use -s+2 and parse the output with some external script or call several time remind with -a with various 'today date', but I am pretty sure there is a way to get the expected behaviour from the command line. Do you see what I could do? Regards, B. </pre> baruchel-KK0ffGbhmjU< at >public.gmane.org 2013-03-23T12:18:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2878 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all, I've put Remind 3.1.13 up at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind Changelog is fairly small... Regards, David. * Version 3.1 Patch 13 - 2013-03-22 - - BUG FIX: Sunrise/Sunset calculations greatly improved thanks to John McGowan. Accuracy should now be within a couple of minutes in most places. - - BUG FIX: Allow specification of margins as low as 0 points in rem2ps, courtesy of Jonathan Kamens. - - BUG FIX: Permit compilation with gcc 2.95 (which doesn't allow variable declarations after non-declaration statements in a block.) - - BUG FIX: Several minor documentation errors corrected courtesy of Simon Ruderich. - - BUG FIX: Spurious test harness failure was fixed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFRTLbTwYQuKhJvQuARAkjaAJ4x2aEakwnOwdx+IZi+3wc+0rKfMQCdG/sk Hw3VU+4DGmF3MpMUtIg0Hjc= =uLSU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </pre> David F. Skoll 2013-03-22T19:53:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2876 <pre>--- Hello, I think it's unnecessary to warn the user about an issue which can't happen (anymore). Regards Simon man/remind.1 | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/remind.1 b/man/remind.1 index 0801d60..486797e 100644 --- a/man/remind.1 +++ b/man/remind.1 &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt; -237,10 +237,7 &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt; pops up a window and displays its invocation arguments. You could use: to have all of your \fBMSG\fR-type reminders processed using xmessage. .PP A word of warning: It is very easy to spawn dozens of xmessage processes -with the above technique. So be very careful. Also, the \fIcmd\fR is passed -as an argument to \fBsprintf()\fR. If you use formatting directives other -than %s, or use more than one %s directive, there's a good chance that -you'll crash \fBRemind\fR. Finally, because all shell and whitespace +with the above technique. So be very careful. Because all shell and whitespace characters are escaped, the program you execute with the \fB\-k\fR option must be prepared to handle the entire message as a single argument. .RE </pre> Simon Ruderich 2013-03-15T17:05:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2872 <pre>Hallo remind fans, I'm using remind for a long time, but I've a problem now. How do I get a message on the first day of month repeating every 3 months? I thank you all for your help in advance. Volker Wolfram </pre> Volker Wolfram 2013-03-07T10:04:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2848 <pre>Hello Remind fans, I've just pushed out version 1.4.6 of Wyrd, a curses-based front-end for Remind. You can find it at http://pessimization.com/software/wyrd/ . (Alternatively, bleeding-edge OCaml users should be able to "opam install wyrd" when the package is merged in a day or two.) This is a maintenance release which fixes some corner-case crash bugs and addresses a build problem with the recently-released OCaml 4.0. The full changelog follows. Enjoy, Paul ------------------------------------------------------- 2013-02-02 Release 1.4.6: * Fixed a failure to quote filenames in the editor commands provided by the default wyrdrc. * Fixed a crash when the terminal is resized while wyrd is executing an external editor or browser. (In some environments, this would happen every time a reminder file is edited.) * Fixed 'configure' errors when compiling with OCaml 4. * Added Oasis metadata. * Added automatic refresh of the display when reminder files are modified. * Added a backtrace printout for unhandled exceptions. * Fixed a parallel-make race conditoin resulting from integration of upstream ocaml-curses. * Fixed a crash when the terminal is resized. * Fixed some crashes which could be triggered by pressing arrow keys or entering non-printable characters from the "quick add" entry field. </pre> Paul Pelzl 2013-02-03T04:49:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2844 <pre> I have to NFS servers, both with the same problem: [bobg&lt; at &gt;box7 ~]$ /usr/bin/tkremind /mnt/BOX48/notecase/notecase/stuff.ncd TkRemind Copyright (C) 1996-1998 David F. Skoll Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Roaring Penguin Software Inc. Error in startup script: Reminders for Friday, 1st February, 2013 (today): child process exited abnormally while executing "exec -keepnewline $Remind -g -q -r $ReminderFile 2&gt;/dev/null" (procedure "ShowTodaysReminders" line 25) invoked from within "ShowTodaysReminders" (procedure "main" line 19) invoked from within "main" (file "/usr/bin/tkremind" line 2936) I recently upgraded from Fedora 17 to 18 one one computer, I replaced F-18 with Scientific Linux 6.3 on this one, both protest "Can't write reminder file "mnt/BOX48/rem/reminders" The server seems to be mounted and I can "ls" the files: [bobg&lt; at &gt;box7 ~]$ ll /mnt/BOX48/notecase/notecase/stuff.ncd -rw-rw-r--. 1 bobg bobg 1095795 Feb 1 12:18 /mnt/BOX48/notecase/notecase/stuff.ncd Setting SELinux to permissive does not seem to make any difference. It looks like the remind file is damaged ... I don't know that this is enough information to work with but I am lost at this point. Any suggestion what to look at next will be appreciated. Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7 Scientific Linux 6.3 </pre> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA 2013-02-01T23:53:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2842 <pre>Hi, I noticed that after upgrading the remind software from 03.01.07 to 03.01.12 a while ago, the reported sunset times shifted by 6 minutes. The times have never exactly matched other sources (such as the NOAA.gov / usno.navy.mil websites, among others), but the latest version is further off than before. As an example, running "remind -arqh" with the following input file: SET $LatDeg 39 SET $LatMin 42 SET $LatSec 0 SET $LongDeg 104 SET $LongMin 54 SET $LongSec 0 banner % msg Sunset [today()]: [sunset()] % produces the following results: * Remind 03.01.07: Sunset 2013-01-27: 17:12 * Remind 03.01.12: Sunset 2013-01-27: 17:18 * usno.navy.mil (same date): 17:14 Any explanations or suggestions for a patch/fix would be greatly appreciated. Glenn </pre> Glenn 2013-01-27T20:17:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2840 <pre>Hello, Test Setup: echo 'REM [trigger(realtoday())] AT 23:00 DURATION 2:00 MSG Test' &gt; test.rem remind -c+1 test.rem i wonder if it is possible to display the event on both days Thanks. Regards, Hauke </pre> Hauke Löffler 2013-01-24T20:01:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2839 <pre>Hello, I can't write on http://www.roaringpenguin.com/wiki/index.php/Remind_Include_Files i love remind and the idea of having a public repo for common include files so i started: https://github.com/haukeloeffler/remind-includes is there an official one? please feel free to contribute to: https://github.com/haukeloeffler/remind-includes/blob/master/unofficial-holiday.rem :-) Regards, Hauke </pre> Hauke Löffler 2013-01-24T20:02:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2837 <pre>I like that I can us rem2ps to format a printed Remind calendar in different sizes and formats. Does anyone know of a way to print a monthly view, landscape, 11x8.5, divided over two pages, such as you would find in a monthly planner? If I just print a monthly calendar in landscape mode and cut it in half and put it in a "Junior" sized binder, the lack of a center margin cuts the fourth day in half. What I need is a margin between the fourth day of the week and the fifth day, plus an extra "day" of space on the end for notes or small calendars. Example at: http://www.ataglance.com/images/70250X_XL_1.png Thanks, and Happy New Year. </pre> John David Thacker 2013-01-01T01:06:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2834 <pre>first i want to express my gratitude to david skoll for creating this useful and fun application. i have been using remind for the past few months as my sole scheduling tool. i have reviewed the source code and help files but still don't quite get how to add events based on the hebrew calendar. specifically i am interested in adding the anniversary date of my parents' deaths and also the major jewish holidays. i am requesting some specific examples that i can cut and paste and slightly edit as needed into my .reminders file. -Abner </pre> Abner Gershon 2012-12-17T16:23:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2832 <pre>I am using "%_" to start a new line in my reminder, ex.: "REM Jan 01 2013 MSG Dinner with mother-in-law %_Buy Pepto-Bismol" When I run "remind -h reminders '*50'" (for instance) the reminders are on two lines, but when I output to rem2ps with something like: "remind -p12 reminders | rem2ps -e &gt; calendar.ps", the new line disappears and the reminders are on the same line. Maybe this is a rem2ps question rather than a remind question, but how can I get a new line on my calendar? Remind is awesome. Thanks to all the developers. </pre> John David Thacker 2012-12-14T21:34:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2829 <pre>I would like to have a counter that increments for each event. Say, I have 10 skating lessons over a period of time with OMITs for each triggered event I would like to display the following messages: Skating Lesson 1 Skating Lesson 2 . . . Skating Lesson 10 but I haven't been able to increment the variablefrom one event to the next. I have looked at man remindwith respect fset and expr but I couldn't make anything that works. If this is possible how should I do it? </pre> Roger 2012-12-09T11:09:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2815 <pre> Greetings. Long-time semi-power Remind user with a new problem. A friend (Jeff) and I each hold parties on alternating Fridays. That was an easy reminder: rem 20 oct 2006 skip *14 msg party night Now I need to cut back my parties. His party will continue to be held on the same alternating-Fridays that it's always been. My party will be either the first Friday or the second Friday of each month, whichever is not Jeff's night. So I'm looking for a way to (*) calculate (but not display) the nights of Jeff's party (*) check the first Friday of the month (*) if it doesn't match Jeff's party, then it's my party (*) othewise, check the second Friday There's probably an easier way to describe the pattern, which I don't see, which might help figuring out my calculations easier. For example (*) check the first 2 Fridays of each month (Friday where date &lt;15) (*) skip Jeff's Friday or something else that I don't see. Any help you guys can offer would be appreciated. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hymie-+8YWjbpDLNvX9hvRLAZ2HmZy7eGcjJgl&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> hymie! 2012-12-02T14:31:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2824 <pre>Greetings fellow penguins; I'm generating html (via cron every 10 minutes) using the provided rem2html script. I noticed the rem-default.css stylesheet contains a td.rem-today class. However, the HTML (which does use other classes in this file) does not use this class. I was hoping to change the background color of the TODAY cell to light yellow, so it stands out a little on the white background. Also, it would be fantastic if there were td.rem-past and td.re-future classes so that calendar days that have passed might be a shade darker. </pre> Jeff Gipson 2012-12-04T20:15:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2822 <pre> So I'm playing around with Tags, and trying to decide if they will do anything for me or not. Anyway, the man page says: -y Causes Remind to synthesize a tag for any reminder that lacks a TAG clause. but given this command rem 31 dec tag birthday msg dad turns [since(1946)] remind -s1 -y tells me 2012/12/31 * birthday,__syn__98535ac0ce14beb3f47803a94750357d * * dad turns 66 The point is -- remind -y synthesizes a tag for *all* reminders, not just the ones that lack a TAG clause. Is this a bug? or a feature? or a mistake in the documentation? or just my misunderstanding? Thanks. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hymie-+8YWjbpDLNvX9hvRLAZ2HmZy7eGcjJgl&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> hymie! 2012-12-04T00:08:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general/2815 <pre> Greetings. Long-time semi-power Remind user with a new problem. A friend (Jeff) and I each hold parties on alternating Fridays. That was an easy reminder: rem 20 oct 2006 skip *14 msg party night Now I need to cut back my parties. His party will continue to be held on the same alternating-Fridays that it's always been. My party will be either the first Friday or the second Friday of each month, whichever is not Jeff's night. So I'm looking for a way to (*) calculate (but not display) the nights of Jeff's party (*) check the first Friday of the month (*) if it doesn't match Jeff's party, then it's my party (*) othewise, check the second Friday There's probably an easier way to describe the pattern, which I don't see, which might help figuring out my calculations easier. For example (*) check the first 2 Fridays of each month (Friday where date &lt;15) (*) skip Jeff's Friday or something else that I don't see. Any help you guys can offer would be appreciated. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hymie-+8YWjbpDLNvX9hvRLAZ2HmZy7eGcjJgl&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> hymie! 2012-12-02T14:31:44 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.calendars.remind.general