From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-bbdb-birthday reminder
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:36:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u9gnf45.fsf@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871tf89qh8.fsf@fastmail.fm
Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> I'm using org-bbdb-anniversaries to use the bbdb-anniversaries. At the
>> moment, it only displays the birthdays of the day. How can I generate a
>> reminder for a few days before the actual birthday ?
>
> This is not possible at the moment with bbdb-anniversaries.
>
> For advanced reminders of birthdays and the like, you could use a
> diary-sexp:
>
> %%(diary-remind '(org-anniversary 1996 8 20) -7) Someone turns %s
>
org-bbdb-anniversaries depends on having a dynamically bound variable
called 'date' in the format (month day year) and produces the list
of anniversaries for that particular date. Instead of doing
%%(org-bbdb-anniversaries)
you could do
%%(let ((date '(9 1 2015))) (org-bbdb-anniversaries))
which produces the anniversaries for 2015-09-01,
no matter what the current date is. That's silly of
course but you could take advantage of it as follows:
you could define your own function and do
%%(my-anniversaries)
org-bbdb-anniversaries produces a list of strings, one string for each
anniversary falling on the given date. So your function
would have to calculate the list of dates that it wants anniversaries
for, and for each date d in that list calculate the list of
anniversaries for that date:
(let ((date d)) (org-bbdb-anniversaries))
probably annotating each string in the resulting list with the date of
the anniversary and accumulating it in a single list, which it would
then return.
Obviously lots of details are missing - nevertheless, I hope it helps
a bit.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-13 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-29 13:41 org-bbdb-birthday reminder Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-12 20:55 ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-13 1:36 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2015-08-13 6:35 ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-13 13:07 ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-14 0:26 ` Nick Dokos
2015-08-14 14:30 ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-15 18:24 ` Julien Cubizolles
2015-08-16 17:25 ` [PATCH] Allow early-warning anniversaries in agends [was: Re: org-bbdb-birthday reminder] Nick Dokos
2015-08-17 9:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-17 16:42 ` Nick Dokos
2015-08-17 16:57 ` Rasmus
2015-08-17 17:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-10-06 15:11 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-07 19:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-10-13 15:54 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-14 23:21 ` Nick Dokos
2015-08-16 13:46 ` org-bbdb-birthday reminder Bastien Guerry
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