Re: How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?

[Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>]

On 2011-11-09, at 00:06 , Nick Dokos wrote:

> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the explanation. Is there also an equivalent solution by just adjusting .emacs?
>> 
>> 
> 
> If you are going to use emacs extensively, you probably should read the
> emacs reference manual and maybe the emacs lisp introduction as
> well.
> 
> M-x foo RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating
> 
> (foo)
> 
> which is a call to function foo. (foo) is the more general mechanism: it
> works for any lisp function, M-x foo works iff foo is a command (aka an
> "interactive" function). The form (foo) can be added to .emacs.
> 
> load-library is a command that takes an argument: the name of the library
> to load. See its doc string for details. M-x load-library RET diary RET
> is entirely equivalent to evaluating
> 
> (load-library "diary")
> 
> This calls the function load-library with the string argument "diary".
> This form can be added to .emacs. Alternatively, you can use the
> require form that I posted:
> 
> (require 'diary)

I obtain (also for (load-library "diary") ):
File error: Cannot open load file, diary

I assume I'm missing some diary.el (?). 

I'm wondering why diary is needed anyway? Julien does not specifically mention it:
http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html

Cheers,

Marius


> 
> Note that load-library takes a string as argument, whereas require takes
> a symbol.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
>> On 2011-11-08, at 23:33 , Jambunathan K wrote:
>> 
>>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary)
>>> 
>>> There is a universal solution to this problem
>>> 
>>> M-x load-library RET diary TAB
>>> 
>>> and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them
>>> in turn.
>>> 
>>> Note that in the above load-library you are using "diary" because it is
>>> the "prefix" of function (or variable) which reported as void.
>>> 
>>> The load-library call unvoids the void things.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>