Re: appt <--> cal: a partial solution

Uwe Brauer writes: well, there have been a LOT of changes to the whole calendar package in Emacs since then. It might be an interesting experiment to see if your problem got fixed along the way. with a clean fix for Emacs, then it will ultimately be easy to incorporate into the upcoming synch. I have not had the time to try and duplicate your problem report or your fix. Here is appt.el as I currently have it. It is lightly tested at the moment and still has a bit of garbage to get cleaned up. Please let me know if you have any problems. Jeff ;;; appt.el --- appointment notification functions ;; Keywords: calendar ;; Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1994, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Neil Mager <neilm(a)juliet.ll.mit.edu&gt; ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Keywords: calendar ;; This file is part of XEmacs. ;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; ;; appt.el - visible and/or audible notification of ;; appointments from ~/diary file. ;; ;;; ;;; Thanks to Edward M. Reingold for much help and many suggestions, ;;; And to many others for bug fixes and suggestions. ;;; ;;; ;;; This functions in this file will alert the user of a ;;; pending appointment based on their diary file. ;;; ;;; ******* It is necessary to invoke 'display-time' and ******** ;;; ******* 'appt-initialize' for this to work properly. ******** ;;; ;;; A message will be displayed in the mode line of the Emacs buffer ;;; and (if you request) the terminal will beep and display a message ;;; from the diary in the mini-buffer, or you can choose to ;;; have a message displayed in a new buffer. ;;; ;;; Variables of note: ;;; ;;; appt-issue-message If this variable is nil, then the code in this ;;; file does nothing. ;;; appt-msg-countdown-list Specifies how much warning you want before ;;; appointments. ;;; appt-audible Whether to beep when it's notification-time. ;;; appt-display-mode-line Whether to display a countdown to the next ;;; appointment in the mode-line. ;;; appt-announce-method The function used to do the notifications. ;;; 'appt-window-announce do it in a pop-up window. ;;; 'appt-frame-announce do it in a pop-up frame (v19 only) ;;; 'appt-message-announce do it in the echo area. ;;; 'appt-persistent-message-announce do it in the echo area, but make the ;;; messages not go away at the next keystroke. ;;; appt-display-duration If appt-announce-method is set to the function ;;; 'appt-window-announce, this specifies how many ;;; seconds the pop-up window should stick around. ;;; ;;; In order to use this, create a diary file, and add the following to your ;;; .emacs file: ;;; ;;; (require 'appt) ;;; (display-time) ;;; (appt-initialize) ;;; ;;; If you wish to see a list of appointments, or a full calendar, when emacs ;;; starts up, you can add a call to (diary) or (calendar) after this. ;;; ;;; This is an example of what can be in your diary file: ;;; Monday ;;; 9:30am Coffee break ;;; 12:00pm Lunch ;;; ;;; Based upon the above lines in your .emacs and diary files, ;;; the calendar and diary will be displayed when you enter ;;; Emacs and your appointments list will automatically be created. ;;; You will then be reminded at 9:20am about your coffee break ;;; and at 11:50am to go to lunch. ;;; ;;; In order to interactively add or delete items from today's list, use ;;; Meta-x appt-add and Meta-x appt-delete. (This does not modify your ;;; diary file, so these will be forgotten when you exit emacs.) ;;; ;;; Additionally, the appointments list is recreated automatically ;;; at 12:01am for those who do not logout every day or are programming ;;; late. ;;; ;;; You can have special appointments which execute arbitrary code rather than ;;; simply notifying you -- sort of like the unix "cron" facility. The syntax ;;; for this is borrowed from the Calendar's special-date format. If you have ;;; a diary entry like ;;; ;;; Monday ;;; 3:00am %%(save-all-modified-buffers) ;;; ;;; then on monday at 3AM, the function `save-all-modified-buffers' will be ;;; invoked. (Presumably this function is defined in your .emacs file.) ;;; There will be no notification that these "special" appointments are being ;;; triggered, unless the form evaluated produces a notification. ;;; ;;; It is necessary for the entire list after the "%%" to be on one line in ;;; your .diary file -- there may not be embedded newlines in it. This is a ;;; bit of a misfeature. ;;; ;;; This also interacts correctly with Benjamin Pierce's reportmail.el package. ;;; ;;; Brief internal description - Skip this if you are not interested! ;;; ;;; The function appt-initialize invokes 'diary' to get a list of today's ;;; appointments, and parses the lines beginning with date descriptions. ;;; This list is cached away. 'diary' is invoked in such a way so as to ;;; not pop up a window displaying the diary buffer. ;;; ;;; The function appt-check is run from the 'loadst' process (or the 'wakeup' ;;; process in emacs 18.57 or newer) which is started by invoking display-time. ;;; It checks this cached list, and announces as appropriate. At midnight, ;;; appt-initialize is called again to rebuild this list. ;;; ;;; display-time-filter is modified to invoke appt-check. ;;; ;;; TO DO: ;;; ;;; o multiple adjacent appointments are not handled gracefully. If there ;;; is an appointment at 3:30 and another at 3:35, and you have set things ;;; up so that you get a notification twenty minutes before each appt, ;;; then a notification should come at 3:10 for the first appt, and at ;;; 3:15 for the second. Currently, no notifications are generated for an ;;; appointment until all preceding appointments have completely expired. ;;; ;;; o If there are two appointments at the same time, all but the first are ;;; ignored (not announced.) ;;; ;;; o Appointments which are early enough in the morning that their ;;; announcements should begin before midnight are not announced until ;;; midnight. ;;; ;;; o There should be some way to mark certain appointments as "important," ;;; so that you will be harassed about them even after they have expired. ;;; Code: ;; Make sure calendar is loaded when we compile this. (require 'calendar) (provide 'appt) ;;; XEmacs only (defcustom appt-check-time-syntax nil "*Whether all diary entries are intended to begin with time specifications. Appt will beep and issue a warning message when encountering unparsable lines." :type 'boolean :group 'appt) ;;;###autoload (defcustom appt-issue-message t "*Non-nil means check for appointments in the diary buffer. To be detected, the diary entry must have the time as the first thing on a line." :type 'boolean :group 'appt) (defcustom appt-msg-countdown-list '(20 15 10 5 3 1) "*A list of the intervals in minutes before the appointment when the warnings will be given. That is, if this were the list '(5 3 1), then a notification would be given five minutes, three minutes, and one minute before the appointment." :type '(repeat integer) :group 'appt) ;;;###autoload (defcustom appt-message-warning-time 12 "*Time in minutes before an appointment that the warning begins." :type 'integer :group 'appt) ;;;###autoload (defcustom appt-audible t "*Non-nil means beep to indicate appointment." :type 'boolean :group 'appt) ;;;###autoload (defcustom appt-visible t "*Non-nil means display appointment message in echo area." :type 'boolean :group 'appt) ;;;###autoload (defcustom appt-display-mode-line t "*Non-nil means display minutes to appointment and time on the mode line." :type 'boolean :group 'appt) (defcustom appt-announce-method 'appt-window-announce "*The name of the function used to notify the user of an impending appointment. This is called with two arguments, the number of minutes until the appointment, and the appointment description list. Reasonable values for this variable are 'appt-window-announce, 'appt-message-announce, or 'appt-persistent-message-announce." :type 'function :group 'appt) ;;;###autoload (defcustom appt-msg-window t "*Non-nil means display appointment message in another window." :type 'boolean :group 'appt) ;;;###autoload (defcustom appt-display-duration 10 "*The number of seconds an appointment message is displayed." :type 'integer :group 'appt) ;;;###autoload (defcustom appt-display-diary t "*Non-nil means to display the next days diary on the screen. This will occur at midnight when the appointment list is updated." :type 'boolean :group 'appt) (defvar appt-time-msg-list nil "The list of appointments for today. Use `appt-add' and `appt-delete' to add and delete appointments from list. The original list is generated from the today's `diary-entries-list'. The number before each time/message is the time in minutes from midnight.") (defconst appt-max-time 1439 "11:59pm in minutes - number of minutes in a day minus 1.") (defvar appt-disp-frame nil "If non-nil, frame to display appointments in.") (defvaralias 'appt-disp-screen 'appt-disp-frame)  ;;; Announcement methods (defun appt-message-announce (min-to-app appt) "Set appt-announce-method to the name of this function to cause appointment notifications to be given via messages in the minibuffer." (message (if (eq min-to-app 0) "App't NOW." (format "App't in %d minute%s -- %s" min-to-app (if (eq 1 min-to-app) "" "s") (car (cdr appt)))))) (defun appt-persistent-message-announce (min-to-app appt) "Set appt-announce-method to the name of this function to cause appointment notifications to be given via messages in the minibuffer, but have those messages stay around even if you type something (unlike normal messages)." (let ((str (if (eq min-to-app 0) (format "App't NOW -- %s" (car (cdr appt))) (format "App't in %d minute%s -- %s" min-to-app (if (eq 1 min-to-app) "" "s") (car (cdr appt))))) (in-echo-area-already (eq (selected-window) (minibuffer-window)))) (if (not in-echo-area-already) ;; don't stomp the echo-area-buffer if reading from the minibuffer now. (save-excursion (save-window-excursion (select-window (minibuffer-window)) (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)) (insert str)))) ;; if we're reading from the echo-area, and all we were going to do is ;; clear the thing, like, don't bother, that's annoying. (if (and in-echo-area-already (string= "" str)) nil (message "%s" str)) )) (defcustom appt-display-interval 3 "*Number of minutes to wait between checking the appointment list." :type 'integer :group 'appt) (defvar appt-buffer-name " *appt-buf*" "Name of the appointments buffer.") (defvar appt-frame-defaults nil) (defvaralias 'appt-screen-defaults 'appt-frame-defaults) (defun appt-frame-announce (min-to-app appt) "Set appt-announce-method to the name of this function to cause appointment notifications to be given via messages in a pop-up frame." (let () (save-excursion (set-buffer (get-buffer-create appt-buffer-name)) (erase-buffer) ;; set the mode-line of the pop-up window (setq modeline-format (concat "-------------------- Appointment " (if (eq min-to-app 0) "NOW" (concat "in " (format "%s" min-to-app) (if (eq min-to-app 1) " minute" " minutes"))) ". (" (let ((h (string-to-int (substring (current-time-string) 11 13)))) (concat (if (> h 12) (format "%s" (- h 12)) (format "%s" h)) ":" (substring (current-time-string) 14 16) (if (< h 12) "am" "pm"))) ") %-")) (insert (car (cdr appt))) (let ((height (max 10 (min 20 (+ 2 (count-lines (point-min) (point-max))))))) ;; If we already have a frame constructed, use it. If not, or it has ;; been deleted, then make a new one (if (and appt-disp-frame (frame-live-p appt-disp-frame)) (let ((s (selected-frame))) (select-frame appt-disp-frame) (make-frame-visible appt-disp-frame) (set-frame-height appt-disp-frame height) (sit-for 0) (select-frame s)) (progn (setq appt-disp-frame (make-frame)) (set-frame-height appt-disp-frame height) ) ) ;; make the buffer visible in the frame ;; and make the frame visible (let ((pop-up-windows nil)) (pop-to-buffer (get-buffer appt-buffer-name) nil appt-disp-frame) (make-frame-visible appt-disp-frame)) ) ) ) ) (defalias 'appt-screen-announce 'appt-frame-announce) ;;; To display stuff in the mode line, we use a new variable instead of ;;; just adding stuff to the display-time-string -- this causes less ;;; flicker. (defun appt-display-mode-line (min-to-app) "Add an appointment annotation to the mode line." (setq appt-mode-line-string (if (and appt-display-mode-line min-to-app) (if (eq 0 min-to-app) "App't NOW " (concat "App't in " (format "%s" min-to-app) (if (eq 1 min-to-app) " minute " " minutes "))) "")) ;; make sure our variable is visible in global-mode-string. (cond ((not appt-display-mode-line) nil) ((null global-mode-string) (setq global-mode-string (list "" 'appt-mode-line-string))) ((stringp global-mode-string) (setq global-mode-string (list global-mode-string 'appt-mode-line-string))) ((not (memq 'appt-mode-line-string global-mode-string)) (setq global-mode-string (append global-mode-string (list 'appt-mode-line-string))))) ;; force mode line updates - from time.el (save-excursion (set-buffer (other-buffer))) (set-buffer-modified-p (buffer-modified-p)) (sit-for 0))  ;;; Internal stuff (defun appt-diary-entries () "Return an updated list of appointments for today." (let ((list-diary-entries-hook '(appt-make-list)) (diary-display-hook 'ignore) (diary-list-include-blanks nil)) ;; this will set appt-time-msg-list. (diary 1) appt-time-msg-list)) (defun appt-initialize () "Read your `diary-file' and remember today's appointments. Call this from your .emacs file, or any time you want your .diary file re-read (this happens automatically at midnight to notice the next day's appointments). The time must be at the beginning of a line for it to be put in the appointments list. 02/23/89 12:00pm lunch Wednesday 10:00am group meeting" (install-display-time-hook) (let ((n (length (appt-diary-entries)))) (cond ((= n 0) (message "no appointments today.")) ((= n 1) (message "1 appointment today.")) (t (message "%d appointments today." n))))) (defun appt-beep (&optional final-p) (cond ((null appt-audible) nil) ((numberp appt-audible) (let ((i appt-audible)) (while (> i 0) (beep) (setq i (1- i))))) ((consp appt-audible) (let ((i (car appt-audible)) (j (cdr appt-audible))) (if (consp j) (setq j (car j))) (while (> i 0) (if (fboundp 'play-sound) (beep nil (if final-p 'appt-final 'appt)) (beep)) (sleep-for j) (setq i (1- i))))) (t (beep)))) (defvar appt-disp-window-function 'appt-disp-window "Function called to display appointment window.") (defvar appt-delete-window-function 'appt-delete-window "Function called to remove appointment window and buffer.") (defvar appt-mode-string nil "String being displayed in the mode line saying you have an appointment. The actual string includes the amount of time till the appointment.") (defvar appt-prev-comp-time nil "Time of day (mins since midnight) at which we last checked appointments.") (defvar appt-now-displayed nil "Non-nil when we have started notifying about a appointment that is near.") (defvar appt-display-count nil) (defun appt-check () "Check for an appointment and update the mode line and minibuffer if desired. Note: the time must be the first thing in the line in the diary for a warning to be issued. The format of the time can be either 24 hour or am/pm. Example: 02/23/89 18:00 Dinner Thursday 11:45am Lunch meeting. Appointments are checked every `appt-display-interval' minutes. The following variables control appointment notification: `appt-issue-message' If t, the diary buffer is checked for appointments. `appt-message-warning-time' Variable used to determine if appointment message should be displayed. `appt-audible' Variable used to determine if appointment is audible. Default is t. `appt-visible' Variable used to determine if appointment message should be displayed in the mini-buffer. Default is t. `appt-msg-window' Variable used to determine if appointment message should temporarily appear in another window. Mutually exclusive to `appt-visible'. `appt-display-duration' The number of seconds an appointment message is displayed in another window. `appt-disp-window-function' Function called to display appointment window. You can customize appt.el by setting this variable to a function different from the one provided with this package. `appt-delete-window-function' Function called to remove appointment window and buffer. You can customize appt.el by setting this variable to a function different from the one provided with this package. appt-msg-countdown-list Specifies how much warning you want before appointments. appt-display-mode-line Whether to display a countdown to the next appointment in the mode-line. appt-announce-method The function used to do the notifications. 'appt-window-announce to do it in a pop-up window, 'appt-message-announce or 'appt-persistent-message-announce to do it in the echo-area. This function is run from the `loadst' or `wakeup' process for display-time. Therefore, you need to have `(display-time)' in your .emacs file." (let* ((min-to-app -1) (new-time "") (prev-appt-mode-string appt-mode-string) (prev-appt-display-count (or appt-display-count 0)) ;; Non-nil means do a full check for pending appointments ;; and display in whatever ways the user has selected. ;; When no appointment is being displayed, ;; we always do a full check. (full-check (or (not appt-now-displayed) ;; This is true every appt-display-interval minutes. (= 0 (mod prev-appt-display-count appt-display-interval)))) ;; Non-nil means only update the interval displayed in the mode line. (mode-line-only (and (not full-check) appt-now-displayed))) (when (or full-check mode-line-only) (save-excursion ;; Get the current time and convert it to minutes ;; from midnight. ie. 12:01am = 1, midnight = 0. (let* ((now (decode-time)) (cur-hour (nth 2 now)) (cur-min (nth 1 now)) (cur-comp-time (+ (* cur-hour 60) cur-min))) ;; At the first check in any given day, update our ;; appointments to today's list. (if (or (null appt-prev-comp-time) (< cur-comp-time appt-prev-comp-time)) (condition-case nil (progn (if (and view-diary-entries-initially appt-display-diary) (diary) (let ((diary-display-hook 'appt-make-list)) (diary)))) (error nil))) (setq appt-prev-comp-time cur-comp-time) (setq appt-mode-string nil) (setq appt-display-count nil) ;; If there are entries in the list, and the ;; user wants a message issued, ;; get the first time off of the list ;; and calculate the number of minutes until the appointment. (if (and appt-issue-message appt-time-msg-list) (let ((appt-comp-time (car (car (car appt-time-msg-list))))) (setq min-to-app (- appt-comp-time cur-comp-time)) (while (and appt-time-msg-list (< appt-comp-time cur-comp-time)) (setq appt-time-msg-list (cdr appt-time-msg-list)) (if appt-time-msg-list (setq appt-comp-time (car (car (car appt-time-msg-list)))))) ;; If we have an appointment between midnight and ;; 'appt-message-warning-time' minutes after midnight, ;; we must begin to issue a message before midnight. ;; Midnight is considered 0 minutes and 11:59pm is ;; 1439 minutes. Therefore we must recalculate the minutes ;; to appointment variable. It is equal to the number of ;; minutes before midnight plus the number of ;; minutes after midnight our appointment is. (if (and (< appt-comp-time appt-message-warning-time) (> (+ cur-comp-time appt-message-warning-time) appt-max-time)) (setq min-to-app (+ (- (1+ appt-max-time) cur-comp-time)) appt-comp-time)) ;; issue warning if the appointment time is ;; within appt-message-warning time (when (and (<= min-to-app appt-message-warning-time) (>= min-to-app 0)) (setq appt-now-displayed t) (setq appt-display-count (1+ prev-appt-display-count)) (unless mode-line-only (if appt-msg-window (progn (setq new-time (format-time-string "%a %b %e " (current-time))) (funcall appt-disp-window-function (number-to-string min-to-app) new-time (car (cdr (car appt-time-msg-list)))) (run-at-time (format "%d sec" appt-display-duration) nil appt-delete-window-function)) ;;; else (if appt-visible (message "%s" (car (cdr (car appt-time-msg-list))))) (if appt-audible (beep 1)))) (when appt-display-mode-line (setq appt-mode-string (concat " App't in " (number-to-string min-to-app) " min. "))) ;; When an appointment is reached, ;; delete it from the list. ;; Reset the count to 0 in case we display another ;; appointment on the next cycle. (if (= min-to-app 0) (setq appt-time-msg-list (cdr appt-time-msg-list) appt-display-count nil))))) ;; If we have changed the mode line string, ;; redisplay all mode lines. (and appt-display-mode-line (not (equal appt-mode-string prev-appt-mode-string)) (progn (force-mode-line-update t) ;; If the string now has a notification, ;; redisplay right now. (if appt-mode-string (sit-for 0))))))))) ;;(defun appt-window-announce (min-to-app appt) ;; "Set appt-announce-method to the name of this function to cause appointment ;;notifications to be given via messages in a pop-up window. The variable ;;appt-display-duration controls how long this window should be left up." (defun appt-disp-window (min-to-app new-time appt-msg) "Display appointment message APPT-MSG in a separate buffer." (require 'electric) ;; Make sure we're not in the minibuffer ;; before splitting the window. (if (equal (selected-window) (minibuffer-window)) (if (other-window 1) (select-window (other-window 1)) (if window-system (select-frame (other-frame 1))))) (let* ((this-buffer (current-buffer)) (this-window (selected-window)) (appt-disp-buf (set-buffer (get-buffer-create appt-buffer-name)))) (if (cdr (assq 'unsplittable (frame-parameters))) ;; In an unsplittable frame, use something somewhere else. (display-buffer appt-disp-buf) ;; (unless (or (special-display-p (buffer-name appt-disp-buf)) ;; (same-window-p (buffer-name appt-disp-buf))) ;; By default, split the bottom window and use the lower part. (appt-select-lowest-window) (split-window) ;;) (pop-to-buffer appt-disp-buf)) (setq mode-line-format (concat "-------------------- Appointment in " min-to-app " minutes. " new-time " %-")) (erase-buffer) (insert appt-msg) (shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer (get-buffer-window appt-disp-buf t)) (set-buffer-modified-p nil) (raise-frame (selected-frame)) (select-window this-window) (if appt-audible (beep 1)))) (defun appt-delete-window () "Function called to undisplay appointment messages. Usually just deletes the appointment buffer." (let ((window (get-buffer-window appt-buffer-name t))) (and window (or (eq window (frame-root-window (window-frame window))) (delete-window window)))) (kill-buffer appt-buffer-name) (if appt-audible (beep 1))) (defun appt-select-lowest-window () "Select the lowest window on the frame." (let ((lowest-window (selected-window)) (bottom-edge (nth 3 (window-pixel-edges)))) (walk-windows (lambda (w) (let ((next-bottom-edge (nth 3 (window-edges w)))) (when (< bottom-edge next-bottom-edge) (setq bottom-edge next-bottom-edge lowest-window w))))) (select-window lowest-window)))  ;;; Interactively adding and deleting appointments ;;;###autoload (defun appt-add (new-appt-time new-appt-msg) "Add an appointment for the day at NEW-APPT-TIME and issue message NEW-APPT-MSG. The time should be in either 24 hour format or am/pm format." (interactive "sTime (hh:mm[am/pm]): \nsMessage: ") (if (string-match "[0-9]?[0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\\(am\\|pm\\)?" new-appt-time) nil (error "Unacceptable time-string")) (let* ((appt-time-string (concat new-appt-time " " new-appt-msg)) (appt-time (list (appt-convert-time new-appt-time))) (time-msg (cons appt-time (list appt-time-string)))) (setq appt-time-msg-list (nconc appt-time-msg-list (list time-msg))) (setq appt-time-msg-list (appt-sort-list appt-time-msg-list)))) ;;;###autoload (defun appt-delete () "Delete an appointment from the list of appointments." (interactive) (let* ((tmp-msg-list appt-time-msg-list)) (while tmp-msg-list (let* ((element (car tmp-msg-list)) (prompt-string (concat "Delete " (prin1-to-string (car (cdr element))) " from list? ")) (test-input (y-or-n-p prompt-string))) (setq tmp-msg-list (cdr tmp-msg-list)) (if test-input (setq appt-time-msg-list (delq element appt-time-msg-list))))) (appt-check) (message "")))  (eval-when-compile (defvar number) (defvar original-date) (defvar diary-entries-list)) ;;;###autoload (defun appt-make-list () "Create the appointments list from todays diary buffer. The time must be at the beginning of a line for it to be put in the appointments list. 02/23/89 12:00pm lunch Wednesday 10:00am group meeting We assume that the variables DATE and NUMBER hold the arguments that `list-diary-entries' received. They specify the range of dates that the diary is being processed for." ;; We have something to do if the range of dates that the diary is ;; considering includes the current date. (if (and (not (calendar-date-compare (list (calendar-current-date)) (list original-date))) (calendar-date-compare (list (calendar-current-date)) (list (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (+ (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian original-date) number))))) (save-excursion ;; Clear the appointments list, then fill it in from the diary. (setq appt-time-msg-list nil) (if diary-entries-list ;; Cycle through the entry-list (diary-entries-list) ;; looking for entries beginning with a time. If ;; the entry begins with a time, add it to the ;; appt-time-msg-list. Then sort the list. (let ((entry-list diary-entries-list) (new-time-string "")) ;; Skip diary entries for dates before today. (while (and entry-list (calendar-date-compare (car entry-list) (list (calendar-current-date)))) (setq entry-list (cdr entry-list))) ;; Parse the entries for today. (while (and entry-list (calendar-date-equal (calendar-current-date) (car (car entry-list)))) (let ((time-string (substring (prin1-to-string (cadr (car entry-list))) 1 -1))) (while (string-match "[0-9]?[0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\\(am\\|pm\\)?\\(.*\n\\)*.*" time-string) (let* ((appt-time-string (match-string 0 time-string))) (if (< (match-end 0) (length time-string)) (setq new-time-string (substring time-string (+ (match-end 0) 1) nil)) (setq new-time-string "")) (string-match "[0-9]?[0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\\(am\\|pm\\)?" time-string) (let* ((appt-time (list (appt-convert-time (match-string 0 time-string)))) (time-msg (cons appt-time (list appt-time-string)))) (setq time-string new-time-string) (setq appt-time-msg-list (nconc appt-time-msg-list (list time-msg))))))) ;; XEmacs feature (if appt-check-time-syntax (while (string-match "\n*\\([^\n]+\\)$" time-string) (beep) (message "Unparsable time: %s" (substring time-string (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))) (sit-for 3) (setq time-string (substring time-string (match-end 0))))) (setq entry-list (cdr entry-list))))) (setq appt-time-msg-list (appt-sort-list appt-time-msg-list)) ;; Get the current time and convert it to minutes ;; from midnight. ie. 12:01am = 1, midnight = 0, ;; so that the elements in the list ;; that are earlier than the present time can ;; be removed. (let* ((now (decode-time)) (cur-hour (nth 2 now)) (cur-min (nth 1 now)) (cur-comp-time (+ (* cur-hour 60) cur-min)) (appt-comp-time (car (car (car appt-time-msg-list))))) (while (and appt-time-msg-list (< appt-comp-time cur-comp-time)) (setq appt-time-msg-list (cdr appt-time-msg-list)) (if appt-time-msg-list (setq appt-comp-time (car (car (car appt-time-msg-list)))))))))) (defun appt-sort-list (appt-list) "Simple sort to put the appointments list APPT-LIST in order. Scan the list for the smallest element left in the list. Append the smallest element left into the new list, and remove it from the original list." (let ((order-list nil)) (while appt-list (let* ((element (car appt-list)) (element-time (car (car element))) (tmp-list (cdr appt-list))) (while tmp-list (if (< element-time (car (car (car tmp-list)))) nil (setq element (car tmp-list)) (setq element-time (car (car element)))) (setq tmp-list (cdr tmp-list))) (setq order-list (nconc order-list (list element))) (setq appt-list (delq element appt-list)))) order-list)) (defun appt-convert-time (time2conv) "Convert hour:min[am/pm] format to minutes from midnight." (let ((conv-time 0) (hr 0) (min 0)) (string-match ":\\([0-9][0-9]\\)" time2conv) (setq min (string-to-int (match-string 1 time2conv))) (string-match "[0-9]?[0-9]:" time2conv) (setq hr (string-to-int (match-string 0 time2conv))) ;; convert the time appointment time into 24 hour time (cond ((and (string-match "pm" time2conv) (< hr 12)) (setq hr (+ 12 hr))) ((and (string-match "am" time2conv) (= hr 12)) (setq hr 0))) ;; convert the actual time ;; into minutes for comparison ;; against the actual time. (setq conv-time (+ (* hr 60) min)) conv-time)) (defvar display-time-hook-installed nil) (defun install-display-time-hook () (unless display-time-hook-installed ; only do this stuff once! (unless (boundp 'display-time-hook) ; Need to wrapper it. (defvar display-time-hook nil "*List of functions to be called when the time is updated on the mode line.") (let ((old-fn (if (or (featurep 'reportmail) ;; old reportmail without a provide statement (and (fboundp 'display-time-filter-18-55) (fboundp 'display-time-filter-18-57))) (if (and (featurep 'itimer) ; XEmacs reportmail.el (fboundp 'display-time-timer-function)) 'display-time-timer-function ;; older reportmail, or no timer.el. (if (string-match "18\\.5[0-5]" (emacs-version)) 'display-time-filter-18-55 'display-time-filter-18-57)) ;; othewise, time.el (if (and (featurep 'itimer) (fboundp 'display-time-function)) ; XEmacs 'display-time-function 'display-time-filter)))) ;; we're about to redefine it... (fset 'old-display-time-filter (symbol-function old-fn)) (fset old-fn (lambda (&rest args) ;; ...here's the revised definition "Revised version of the original function: this version calls a hook." (apply 'old-display-time-filter args) (run-hooks 'display-time-hook))))) (setq display-time-hook-installed t) (if (fboundp 'add-hook) (add-hook 'display-time-hook 'appt-check) (setq display-time-hook (cons appt-check display-time-hook))) )) ;defvar appt-timer nil ; "Timer used for diary appointment notifications (`appt-check').") ;(unless appt-timer ; (progn ; (setq appt-timer (make-itimer)) ; (set-itimer-fun ; (defvar appt-timer nil ; "Timer used for diary appointment notifications (`appt-check').") ; (unless appt-timer ; (progn ; (setq appt-timer (make-itimer)) ; (set-itimer-function appt-timer 'jeffie) ; (set-itimer-value appt-timer 10) ; (set-itimer-restart appt-timer 10) ; )) ; (setq blah 0) ; (defun jeffie () ; (message "hi jeffie %d" blah) ; (setq blah ( 1+ blah )) ; ) ; (activate-itimer appt-timer) ;;; appt.el ends here -- Jeff Miller jmiller(a)cablespeed.com