Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Trouble with cyclic diary and planner-appt-forthcoming

[Jim Ottaway]

>>>>> Seth Falcon <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> I've recently setup planner-appt to ready cyclic diary entries.  It is
> _mostly_ working.  But it makes me nervous to rely on it.

> Today, I find that planner-appt-forthcoming-update seems to be
> skipping an entry that I think it should display from the cyclic diary
> file.

> Can someone please take a quick look and see if I'm missing something
> obvious?

> Here's the diary file:

> # -------------------
> &%%(diary-float t 1 2) #A0 _ @9:00 10:00 Remind all for Conference Call on Wed

> &%%(diary-float t 3 2) #A0 _ @9:00 10:00 Conference Call

> &%%(diary-float t 4 2) #A0 _ @19:00 21:00 Meeting at F

> %%(diary-block 4 12 2006 4 14 2006) #A0 _ @9:00 17:00 Course

> %%(diary-block 8 2 2006 8 4 2006) #A0 _ @9:00 17:00 Conference

> wed #A0 _ @10:30 11:30 Other Conference call
> # -------------------

> In my forthcoming appts section, I see an entry on Monday for "Remind all for
> Conference Call on Wed" (this is awesome!)  But the call itself
> doesn't show (this worries me!).

It appears to work for me.  I tested it with these two lines added to my
cyclic diary file:

&%%(diary-float t 1 2) #A0 _ @9:00 10:00 Remind all for Conference Call on Wed
&%%(diary-float t 3 2) #A0 _ @9:00 10:00 Conference Call

I get appointments for next Monday and next Wednesday.

Have you set planner-appt-forthcoming-look-at-cyclic-flag? 

There is another thing that might cause some confusion: the number of
days includes the current day [so that the appointment list is for a
whole week]; this means that the default setting of 7 doesn't reach as
far as next Wednesday.

Could this be what is happening for you too?  What happens if you give
8 as a prefix argument, or set planner-appt-forthcoming-days to
something > 7?


-- 
Jim Ottaway