Re: How come planner-cyclic can't work ?

John Sullivan <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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> abo <lilyphysik@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> John Sullivan Ð'µÀ:
>>> abo <lilyphysik@xxxxxxx> writes:
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>>>   
>>>> planner-cyclic-diary-file "~/.emacs.d/.diary")
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> Is that your regular diary file? You probably don't want that. 
>>> planner-cyclic
>>> isn't for appointments -- it's for recurring tasks. I would think you would
>>> want a separate cyclic diary file with just the recurring tasks in it.
>>> What is it you are trying to do exactly?
>>>
>>>   
>> I use planner-appt to remind me the appointments written in .diary, and to 
>> show
>> the contents of that file every Monday,Tuseday and so on. following the
>> instructions in planner-appt.el,I add the configuration in my .emacs,I 
>> restart
>> my emacs and call "planner-appt-show-alerts" functions, but none is shown in
>> alerts buffer.Nothing happens when the time of appointment is coming.I don't
>> know how to settle this problem.
>
> I'm confused. What does this have to do with planner-cyclic?
>
> What versions of planner, muse, and emacs are you using? What OS?
>
> Have you read the parts of the manual about planner-appt and planner-cyclic?
>
> As a first step, since it sounds like you are not using planner-cyclic at all,
> I would suggest removing all variables and references to it from your .emacs
> and trying again.

planner-appt uses planner-cyclic-diary-file to find schedule
appointments. A line in that file such as 

Monday @12:00 lunch

in planner-cyclic-diary-file ought to add a schedule entry on Mondays,
and set up an appointment alert. It appears to work for me as intended;
I have suggested some things for the original poster to try in a
separate post.


Regards,

-- 
Jim Ottaway