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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>
Cc: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: org-bbdb-anniversaries gives error 'bad sexp'
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:32:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B1BB0F19-8CE1-4208-9207-D431F56FDB4E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87boy14siq.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org>


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

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-15 14:32 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 [this message]
2011-06-15 19:13                 ` [bug] Problem with insert anniversary agenda function (was Re: org-bbdb-anniversaries gives error 'bad sexp') Eric S Fraga
2011-06-16  8:04                   ` [patch] " Eric S Fraga
2011-06-16 12:41                     ` Carsten Dominik
2011-06-20  7:41                       ` Eric S Fraga

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