From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lecodesportif@eml.cc Subject: Re: Using properties for diary-anniversaries Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:17:19 -0800 Message-ID: <1295961439.28177.1417118385@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1295793360.20637.1416756473@webmail.messagingengine.com><7298.1295831795@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org><1295857674.26398.1416871253@webmail.messagingengine.com> <26027.1295879818@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47036 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Philw-00046d-Fj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:17:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Philu-0006Jl-PC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:17:24 -0500 Received: from new1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.221]:56386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Philu-0006Ic-HT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:17:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <26027.1295879818@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Cc: Nick Dokos , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:36 -0500, "Nick Dokos" wrote: > Yes, sorry: I figured that I had answered the wrong question after I > sent it, but I was too tired to fix my mistake at that time. However, I > could not make your formulation work for me at all. I still don't > understand how it could possibly work: afaict, org-entry-get returns the > birthday as a string, "5 4 1900", the read returns the month as a > number, 5, and diary-anniversary should blow up because it needs at least > two > arguments (a month and a day) - and it does in my case. You're probably right, there was a typo in my example. The below text is corrected, I had forgotten the parantheses for the date! * John :PROPERTIES: :Name: John :Birthday: (5 4 1900) :END: %%(apply 'diary-anniversary (read (org-entry-get nil "Birthday"))) John Does this work for you? > Be that as it may, re. filling in the name, I don't know how to do it > and I'm not sure that it can be done: the string after the function call > is scanned for %d but no other evaluation is done. org just passes the > string along and all of that work is done in diary-anniversary whose > doc string says: > > ,---- > | The diary entry can contain `%d' or `%d%s'; the %d will be replaced > | by the number of years since the MONTH, DAY, YEAR, and the %s will > | be replaced by the ordinal ending of that number (that is, `st', > | `nd', `rd' or `th', as appropriate). The anniversary of February 29 > | is considered to be March 1 in non-leap years. > `---- Yes, it may require hacking diary-anniversary. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service