From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Appt - How to quit displaying notifications? Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:19:25 -0400 Message-ID: <6910.1346948365@alphaville> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9eno-0006Ke-63 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:19:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9eng-0007pl-Md for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:19:35 -0400 Received: from g4t0015.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.18]:17780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9eng-0007pc-Fp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:19:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Nathan Neff of "Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:32:37 CDT." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nathan Neff Cc: emacs-orgmode Nathan Neff wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using org-agenda-to-appt to warn me about upcoming > appointments. I'm fine with the default warning time of 12 minutes, but > I would like to turn off the subsequent reminders that happen every > three minutes. > > I'd like a reminder to occur 12 minutes before the appointment, then at the time > of the appointment. I found the appt-display-interval variable which > is 3 minutes, but this is > described as "Number of minutes to wait between checking the > appointment list.", which is > not /quite/ the same thing as a "Snooze". > Where did you see that? It probably needs some changes. C-h v appt-display-interval RET says ,---- | appt-display-interval is a variable defined in `appt.el'. | Its value is 3 | | Documentation: | Interval in minutes at which to display appointment reminders. | Once an appointment becomes due, Emacs displays reminders every | `appt-display-interval' minutes. You probably want to make | `appt-message-warning-time' be a multiple of this, so that you get | a final message displayed precisely when the appointment is due. | | Note that this variable controls the interval at which | `appt-display-message' is called. The mode line display (if active) | always updates every minute. `---- > I guess I'll just send the appt-display-interval to 11 minutes or > something like that. Is that what > everyone else does to avoid getting appt messages popping up every 3 minutes? > Just setting appt-display-interval and appt-message-warning-time equal to (say) 12, should work fine, afaict - but I have not tried it. Nick PS A propos of nothing, one strangeness that I have observed is that at least the *final* notification (and maybe all of them) is one minute late, but I haven't chased it down yet.