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Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-annivers
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Marius Hofert |
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Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries? |
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Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:17:30 +0100 |
Okay, I assume it's (require 'diary-lib) then.
On 2011-11-09, at 00:13 , Marius Hofert wrote:
>
> On 2011-11-09, at 00:06 , Nick Dokos wrote:
>
>> Marius Hofert <address@hidden> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
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- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, (continued)
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Jambunathan K, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Jambunathan K, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?,
Marius Hofert <=
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Jonathan Leech-Pepin, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/08
- Re: [O] How to set up anniversaries/birthdays with org-contacts-anniversaries?, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/08