[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: sachawiki: 2004.08.25

[Sacha Chua]

Daniel Barral <address@hidden> writes:

> I redefine planner-name-regexp. I don't allow incomplete dates day
> and I still haven't cared about completing

Hmm. I use incomplete dates fairly frequently, but this
should be relatively easy to add to your system.

The downside of mm.dd.yyyy is that a string sort over items with
different years no longer neatly sorts everything, but one can get
around that with another read, I suppose.

> I'm not familiar with defvar//defcustom issues - ir order for all
> this to work (setq european-calendar-style t) has to be placed in
> .emacs BEFORE the custom. Maybe I've chosen a weird way of defining
> these two regexps.

Hmmm, maybe an eval after load. Or you could reinitialize the
variable in planner-mode, if you want...

> Q - why do you use defvar for one and defcustom for the other one?)

Defcustom's for user-visible options.

> This is enough for basic usage being careful to introduce complete
> day.month.year names, and with most of the gotos, except
> planner-get-previous-existing-day and ...-next-..., working ok.

Nifty... =)

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