From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Niels Giesen Subject: Re: Re: How to display a diary entry in agenda week view only "today" Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:00:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20110411013620.3a20f839@bhishma.homelinux.net> <4DA2ECBC.6040002@diplan.de> <20110411073332.3414cff9@bhishma.homelinux.net> <29483.1302533728@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56397 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q9Ibc-0000dx-UC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9IbW-0007rc-Q2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:44 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:36608) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9IbW-0007rQ-MP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:38 -0400 Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so4615574qyk.0 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:00:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <29483.1302533728@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: Rainer Stengele , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Or something like the following (not bullet-proof I guess): (defmacro test-diary-sexp (date &rest body) `(let ((date ,date)) ,@body)) (test-diary-sexp (calendar-current-date) (org-google-weather "De Bilt" "nl")) ... and in calendar-current-date lies your answer to the format question. I do not know however whether or not `date' is the only variable that is bound dynamically for sexps though; this is something that make me go crazy too, so (better) documentation might be in order for one. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > Suvayu Ali wrote: > >> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:55:24 +0200 >> Niels Giesen wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Rainer Stengele >> > wrote: >> > > Am 11.04.2011 10:36, schrieb Suvayu Ali: >> > >> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:52:52 +0200 >> > >> >> > >> %%(if (calendar-date-equal date (calendar-current-date)) >> > >> (diary-sunrise-sunset)) >> > >> >> > > Perfect, thanks. >> > > >> > > I can find the other functions in calendar.el, >> > > but where is "date" from? >> > > >> > >> > date is a dynamically bound variable at the time of evaluation. >> > >> >> I have a question I have been meaning to ask for a long time. How does >> one test sexps with variables like these? I have tried the scratch >> buffer but it gives errors like "(void-variable date)". I found the only >> way I could test is to put it on one of the agenda files. >> >> Any suggestions? >> > > Bind date explicitly in the scratch buffer and then evaluate: > > (setq date '(4 11 2011)) > > ... > > I think the format is (month day year) but be sure to check. > > Nick > -- http://pft.github.com