Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Trouble with cyclic diary and planner-appt-forthcoming

[Seth Falcon]

Hi Jim,

Thank you for the quick response.

Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> writes:
> Have you set planner-appt-forthcoming-look-at-cyclic-flag? 

Yes, it is set to T

> There is another thing that might cause some confusion: the number of
> days includes the current day [so that the appointment list is for a
> whole week]; this means that the default setting of 7 doesn't reach as
> far as next Wednesday.
>
> Could this be what is happening for you too?  What happens if you give
> 8 as a prefix argument, or set planner-appt-forthcoming-days to
> something > 7?

Aha!  Yes, using a prefix arg, I get the reminder for Wed.  The
strange thing is that with p-a-f-days set to 7, I was seeing entries
for Thursday 04.13 (both a scheduled appt task and a task entered in
the diary).

Here's what I get w/ no prefix (edited to make it readable and remove
task specifics):

Thu 2006.04.06 |   9:45 |       | # foo
               |  11:00 | 12:00 | # meeting
               |  13:00 | 14:00 | # another meeting
Mon 2006.04.10 |   9:00 | 10:00 | # Remind for call
Thu 2006.04.13 |   9:00 | 10:30 | # staff meeting
               |   9:00 | 17:00 | # course

Any idea why things are showing up on the 13th.  Shouldn't that be out
of range?  With days sets to 7 I would expect seeing appts through the
11th or 12th (not sure where it starts counting from).

Hmm, so my problem is mostly solved.  Ironically, my question is now
inverted:
 
Why are some things showing up past 7 days?  Any ideas?

Thanks very much for the pointers.  I'm feeling much more confident
that the forthcoming stuff is doing the right thing and will let me
know when I have an appointment coming soon :-)

+ seth







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