Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] some planner-appt questions

[Jim Ottaway]

>>>>> Dale Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> On 1/13/06, Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Dale Smith <address@hidden> writes:
>> > I believe you must have the time enabled in your modeline with
>> > (display-time) .  I think the appt stuff uses hooks in the display
>> > time functions.
>> 
>> > See (info "(emacs) Appointments")
>> 
>> Are you sure?  I don't see anything about display-time in that info
>> node.  And if I start Emacs without reading the initialization files,
>> do (appt-activate 1) without display-time, and add some appointments I
>> get alerts.

> This is some of what is in my info file:

>    To enable appointment notification, you must enable the time display
> feature of Emacs, `M-x display-time' (*note Mode Line::).  You must
> also add the function `appt-make-list' to the `diary-hook', like this:

>      (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)

> Adding this text to your `.emacs' file does the whole job:

>      (display-time)
>      (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
>      (diary 0)


>> This is with GNU Emacs 22.0.50.7; perhaps it is different in
>> earlier versions? Or in Xemacs?

> Probably, I'm running GNU Emacs 21.3.1

Oh yes, I have just looked at the 21.4 info files and it has the same
as yours there too.

So, to summarize:

Gnu Emacs < 22 ::
  (display-time)
  (add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
  (diary 0) ; probably only necessary for appointments in the diary file

Gnu Emacs >= 22 ::
  (appt-activate 1)

Xemacs ::
  (appt-initialize) ; is this correct?

I was thinking that it would probably be best to do whatever is
necessary to initialize the appt system in planner-appt itself
[probably in planner-appt-insinuate].  Would that be a good idea? It
would be very easy to do, as long as the above initialization methods
are correct; and it would save users the bother of having to find out
how to set up appointments correctly.

Regards,

-- 
Jim Ottaway