File: appt.el.html

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 his/her diary file. This package is documented in the Emacs manual.

To activate this package, simply use (appt-activate 1). A diary-file with appointments of the format described in the documentation of the function appt-check is required. Relevant customizable variables are also listed in the documentation of that function.

Today's appointment list is initialized from the diary when this package is activated. Additionally, the appointments list is recreated automatically at 12:01am for those who do not logout every day or are programming late. It is also updated when the diary-file (or a file it includes) is saved. Calling appt-check with an argument (or re-enabling the package) forces a re-initialization at any time.

In order to add or delete items from today's list, without changing the diary file, use appt-add and appt-delete.

Brief internal description - Skip this if you are not interested!

The function appt-make-list creates the appointments list which appt-check reads.

You can change the way the appointment window is created/deleted by setting the variables appt-disp-window-function and appt-delete-window-function. For instance, you could be set them to functions that display appointments in pop-up frames, which are lowered or iconified after appt-display-interval minutes.

Defined variables (17)

Defined functions (13)

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