Re: org-calendar-holiday and local holidays

[jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)]

Melleus  writes:

> Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes: 
> 
>> see that local holiday. To fix this, i use M-: to evaluate: 
>> 
>>    (setq calendar-holidays (append calendar-holidays 
>> holiday-local-holidays)) 
> 
> Works perfectly this way, thank you. 
> 
> jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: 
> 
>> They should show up after you restart emacs. 
> 
> I supposed it should. But in fact in does not work.

holidays.el appends holiday-local-holidays to calendar-holidays 
via a defcustom, so if you set holiday-local-holidays in your 
.emacs, restart emacs and the local holidays are not in 
calendar-holidays, it is because you are calling something that 
loads holidays.el before you set holiday-local-holidays.

If you add the code above to your .emacs and later modify your 
configuration and remove or move the part that loads holidays.el, 
then either your code will fail (because calendar-holidays is not 
yet defined) or calendar-holidays will have your local holidays 
twice and they will show twice in your agenda.

I think that you should look for whatever calls holidays.el and 
set holiday-local-holidays before that.

If not, then at least use eval-after-load so that 
calendar-holidays is already defined when the code is run, and 
add-to-list so that the entries do not get added twice if they are 
already there:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (eval-after-load 'holidays
    '(dolist (holiday holiday-local-holidays)
             (add-to-list 'calendar-holidays holiday))
#+END_SRC

Best,
-- 
Jorge.