Re: org-calendar-holiday and local holidays

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

Alexis writes:

> When i scroll down to look at the current value of 
> `calendar-holidays`, however, i see that neither the current 
> value nor the original value makes any reference to the 
> `holiday-local-holidays` variable. And indeed, when i examine my 
> agenda for next Monday, which is a local holiday i've specified 
> in `holiday-local-holidays`, i can't see that local holiday. To 
> fix this, i use M-: to evaluate: 
> 
>    (setq calendar-holidays (append calendar-holidays 
> holiday-local-holidays)) 
> 
> after which the local holiday next Monday appears in my Org 
> agenda.

You do not need to add that, calendar-holidays appends 
holiday-local-holidays when holidays.el is loaded, just restart 
emacs. 

> Given the documentation for the `calendar-holidays` variable, 
> the fact that i need to manually add the value of the 
> `holiday-local-holidays` variable to `calendar-holidays` seems 
> to me like it might be a coding or documentation bug in Emacs 
> .... ?

It is also not a documentation bug, at least in my emacs 
(25.0.50.1) the documentation of calendar-holidays says clearly:

"Note that these variables [`holiday-other-holidays', 
`holiday-general-holidays', `holiday-local-holidays', 
`holiday-christian-holidays', `holiday-hebrew-holidays', 
`holiday-islamic-holidays', `holiday-bahai-holidays', 
`holiday-oriental-holidays' and `holiday-solar-holidays'] have no 
effect on `calendar-holidays' after it has been set (e.g. after 
the calendar is loaded). In that case, customize 
`calendar-holidays' directly."

Best,

-- 
Jorge.