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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Headline generation as in diary?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:18:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kohh6el.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zh697ctp.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:10:10 +0100")

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> No, not necessarily.  I have entries like this:
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 1981 03 17) Somebody's birthday (%d years)
>
> and the agenda view shows "Somebody's birthday (19 years)"; the actual
> heading for this entry is ignored.

Where in an entry do you specify such specifications?

> However, I don't know if other diary- functions work the same way.

Yes, the interesting part then is: when does org behave like this, and
can this behavior be forced?

> > Or do I miss something?  How to other people deal with things
> > like...garbage collection?
>
> I use the org-recur [1] package for this.  Very nice for repeating
> events.

> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://github.com/m-cat/org-recur

Thanks for the hint, I'll have a look.


Michael.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-01 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-01 14:34 Headline generation as in diary? Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-01 15:10 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-01 15:18   ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2020-09-01 15:28     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-01 16:10     ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-01 16:17       ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-01 16:51         ` Robert Horn
2020-09-01 21:56       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-02  6:54         ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-02 13:45           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-02 15:00             ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-02 22:51               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-03  7:14                 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-03 13:14                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-03 13:35                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-03 14:01                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-03 15:31                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-03 17:01                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-03 18:04                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-03 18:37                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-03 14:06                       ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-03 14:46                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-09-03 15:17                           ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-03 15:34                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-10-28 17:12 ` Michael Heerdegen

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