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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>
Subject: [bug] Problem with insert anniversary agenda function (was Re: org-bbdb-anniversaries gives error 'bad sexp')
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:13:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zklioqm9.fsf_-_@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1BB0F19-8CE1-4208-9207-D431F56FDB4E@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:32:47 +0200")

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 13, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
>
>> thanks, got it working now (with some fiddling).
>> 
>> looks like `calendar-date-style' is not honored /at all/, if you don't
>> use YYYY-MM-DD format (as stated in the org-bbdb.el header, admittedly),
>> it just blows up in your face :)
>
> While I think the org-bbdb code could be made more forgiving,
> I strongly feel that calendar-date-style is an evil variable,
> especially if it is applied to input.  One should never rely on it.
>
> my 5c.
>
> - Carsten

Although I am likely to agree with you on this, any interactions with
Emacs's diary requires working with it.  

This reminds me of a problem with the insert anniversary function in the
default agenda view ("i a").  This function ignores the
calendar-date-style and inserts dates in the american style, which of
course means that diary entries are quietly ignored if you have
calendar-date-style set to anything other than 'american...

Not a big deal...  I don't use anniversaries *that* often!

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.391.gfaccb.dirty)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-15 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87wrht82iw.fsf@gmx.co.uk>
2011-05-15 16:02 ` org-bbdb-anniversaries gives error 'bad sexp' Roland Winkler
2011-05-15 16:13   ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-15 16:58   ` Matt Lundin
2011-05-15 17:35     ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-16 14:03       ` Matt Lundin
2011-05-15 18:18     ` Leo
2011-05-16 14:08       ` Matt Lundin
2011-06-12 23:36         ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-06-13  4:40           ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-13 12:27           ` Matt Lundin
2011-06-13 16:15             ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-06-15 14:32               ` Carsten Dominik
2011-06-15 19:13                 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-06-16  8:04                   ` [patch] Problem with insert anniversary agenda function (was Re: org-bbdb-anniversaries gives error 'bad sexp') Eric S Fraga
2011-06-16 12:41                     ` Carsten Dominik
2011-06-20  7:41                       ` Eric S Fraga

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