From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Myles English Subject: Re: Anniversaries from BBDB available to calendar and diary? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:44:36 +0000 Message-ID: <87li0a10az.fsf@gmail.com> References: <86ob57r9xd.fsf@gly.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VleU6-0005fz-9L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:44:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VleTy-00029o-JL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:44:50 -0500 Received: from mail-ea0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c01::236]:36806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VleTy-00029E-C3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:44:42 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f182.google.com with SMTP id o10so6540544eaj.27 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 04:44:40 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: <86ob57r9xd.fsf@gly.ath.cx> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Joseph Mingrone Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Joseph, jrm@ftfl.ca writes: > It makes sense to put birthdays and other anniversaries in BBDB as > described in section 10.3.1 of the Org manual. I wonder, did you look at the section of 10.3.1 titled "Anniversaries from BBDB"? > Why repeat information by putting it in the diary when you already > have a contact entry in BBDB for the person? The only problem with > this is that the anniversaries aren't marked in the calendar and don't > show up the diary. Is there away to make the calendar/diary aware of > anniversaries in BBDB? Myles