Re: [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2010-01-01 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: Carsten Dominik writes: can you point out exactly where in the documentation this is located? ,[ (info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda") ] | * Birthdays and similar stuff | #+CATEGORY: Holiday | %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; speci

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Ben Finney
Memnon Anon writes: > ,[ (info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda") ] > | * Birthdays and similar stuff > | #+CATEGORY: Holiday > | %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names > | #+CATEGORY: Ann > | %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Dec 30, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Benjamin Andresen wrote: Hey Carsten, Carsten Dominik writes: Hi Benjamin, can you point out exactly where in the documentation this is located? Sure. org-mode/doc/org.text Line: 6643 I wouldn't know how to phrase it, but maybe a link to (info "(emacs)Speci

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Memnon Anon
Carsten Dominik writes: > can you point out exactly where in the documentation this is located? ,[ (info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda") ] | * Birthdays and similar stuff | #+CATEGORY: Holiday | %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names | #+CATEGORY: Ann

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Benjamin Andresen
Hey Carsten, Carsten Dominik writes: > Hi Benjamin, > > can you point out exactly where in the documentation this is located? Sure. org-mode/doc/org.text Line: 6643 I wouldn't know how to phrase it, but maybe a link to (info "(emacs)Special Diary Entries") where this behaviour is explained is

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Benjamin, can you point out exactly where in the documentation this is located? Thanks. - Carsten P.S. Emacs calendar is great, but changing function call arguments depending on calendar style was a truly braindead decision. On Dec 30, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Benjamin Andresen wrote:

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Benjamin Andresen
Memnon Anon writes: > Probably related to these settings in my .emacs: > > (setq european-calendar-style t) ; obsolete! > (setq calendar-date-style 'european) ;(info "(emacs)Date Formats") > > Do you have these set, too? Thanks! If I set it to european, it works. Should the documentation

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Memnon Anon
Benjamin Andresen writes: > This works: > %%(diary-anniversary 12 30 1984) Arthur Dent is %d years > ^ ^ ^ > M D Y > This doesn't: > %%(diary-anniversary 30 12 1984) Arthur Dent is %d years > ^ ^ ^ > D

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Benjamin Andresen
Hey Carsten, Carsten Dominik writes: > On Dec 30, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Andresen wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Benjamin Andresen writes: >> >>> I used to do it the way it was done in the manual: >>> >>> (info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda") >>> under Calendar/Diary integration >>> >>> %%(diary-an

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Dec 30, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Andresen wrote: Hey, Benjamin Andresen writes: I used to do it the way it was done in the manual: (info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda") under Calendar/Diary integration %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old Hi Benjamin, curre

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Memnon Anon
Benjamin Andresen writes: >> %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old > I can't for the life of me get this to work. > I tried emacs 22.1, 22.3, emacs 23.1 and the current CVS head. [...] > Does anyone have this working? Works fine here. %%(diary-anniversary 10 1 1960)

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Benjamin Andresen
Hey, Benjamin Andresen writes: > I used to do it the way it was done in the manual: > > (info "(org)Weekly/daily agenda") > under Calendar/Diary integration > > %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old I can't for the life of me get this to work. I tried emacs 22.1, 22

[Orgmode] Re: Date calculations

2009-12-30 Thread Benjamin Andresen
Hey, Fredrik writes: > I'm using a normal org-file as my contact register so I easier can > link tasks to a specific person. I have also added events as birthdays > to each contact but is there some way I can make them show up in the > agenda with some yearly calculations? > > For example a simp