Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] some planner-appt questions

[Dale Smith]

On 1/13/06, Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> Dale Smith <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I believe you must have the time enabled in your modeline with
> > (display-time) .  I think the appt stuff uses hooks in the display
> > time functions.
>
> > See (info "(emacs) Appointments")
>
> Are you sure?  I don't see anything about display-time in that info
> node.  And if I start Emacs without reading the initialization files,
> do (appt-activate 1) without display-time, and add some appointments I
> get alerts.

This is some of what is in my info file:

   To enable appointment notification, you must enable the time display
feature of Emacs, `M-x display-time' (*note Mode Line::).  You must
also add the function `appt-make-list' to the `diary-hook', like this:

     (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)

Adding this text to your `.emacs' file does the whole job:

     (display-time)
     (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
     (diary 0)


> This is with GNU Emacs 22.0.50.7; perhaps it is different in
> earlier versions? Or in Xemacs?

Probably, I'm running GNU Emacs 21.3.1

-Dale