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From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
Subject: Re: can't get appointments working
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"Alfredo Buttari" <alfredo.buttari@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I'm trying to convert items in my org files into appointments. As far
> as my understanding goes, org-agenda-to-appt has to be run every time
> I start emacs so I added these lines to my .emacs file:
>
> (setq appt-display-format 'window)
> (setq appt-display-duration 30)
> (setq appt-audible t)
> (setq appt-display-mode-line t)
> (appt-activate 1)
> (org-agenda-to-appt)
>
>
> but when I start emacs appt-time-msg-list has value nil. However if I
> run org-agenda-to-appt manually right after emacs startup, then I get
> the message "1 event added for today" and the variable
> appt-time-msg-list contains the appropriate values.
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> thanks
>
> alfredo


Are you calling the above code before org-mode has been loaded?  You
can look through the Messages buffer to see what happens at startup...