Package: emacs
Version: 46.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I have used emacs' appointment capability extensively for years. It
notifies the user of an appointment on jessie (emacs 23) but does not
do so on wheezy (emacs 24).
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
On both jessie and wheezy with identical .emacs files, I open the
calendar ("M-x calendar") and inserted an appointment about 15 minutes
in the future (. i d ), and saved the diary file.
* What was the outcome of this action?
On wheezy, at 12 minutes before the appointment time, emacs started
displaying a notification window and showed the appointment in the
mode line (an option), as it is supposed to. On Jessie, no
notification window or mode line.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected both to produce a notification, as Jessie did.
* Other:
I have several machines with Jessie. On one the end-of-buffer warning
is audible, on another it is not. I believe this is a separate issue.
Relevant portion of .emacs:
--------------------------------------------------
;; Calendar stuff:
(if (system-is-desktop)
(progn
;; ---great bit of code from Jeff Miller to highlight
appointments in red on modeline---
;; per http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AppointmentMode
(defface appt-face
'((t (:foreground "red" :background "white")))
"Face to indicate a current appointment."
:group 'appt)
(defadvice appt-disp-window (before appt-hilite-more activate)
(when appt-mode-string
(put-text-property 1 (- (length appt-mode-string) 1)
'face 'appt-face appt-mode-string)))
(defadvice appt-check (after appt-hilite activate)
(when appt-mode-string
(put-text-property 1 (- (length appt-mode-string) 1)
'face 'appt-face appt-mode-string)
(force-mode-line-update)))
;; ---------------------------------
;; (seq appt-display-mode-line t) ; explicitly enable it.
;; set my home co-ordinates for sunrise/sunset calculations
(setq calendar-latitude 43.6)
(setq calendar-longitude -108.2)
(setq calendar-location-name "Thermopolis, Wyo")
(calendar) ; fire up the calendar display.
(setq show-trailing-whitespace nil)
;; (setq cal-tex-diary t)
;; (setq cal-tex-rules t)
(if (> emacs-major-version 22)
(progn
(calendar-mark-holidays)
(diary-mark-entries)
(other-window 1) ; Now switch to the main window on this
frame. ;; Set a vector for the number of days in advance to show
;; appointments. Then turn the diary mode on.
(setq diary-number-of-entries [2 3 3 3 3 5 2])
;; Add the appointment generator to the diary hook.
(if ( < emacs-major-version 24) ; emacs 23 or less
(add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
)
;; (add-hook 'diary-display-function 'diary-fancy-display)
(setq diary-display-function 'diary-fancy-display)
)
(progn
(mark-calendar-holidays)
(mark-diary-entries)
(other-window 1) ; Now switch to the main window on this
frame. ;; Set a vector for the number of days in advance to
show ;; appointments. Then turn the diary mode on.
(setq number-of-diary-entries [2 3 3 3 3 5 2])
;; Add the appointment generator to the diary hook.
(if ( < emacs-major-version 24) ; emacs 23 or less
(add-hook 'diary-hook 'appt-make-list)
)
;; (add-hook 'diary-display-hook 'fancy-diary-display)
)
)
;; If this is non-nil, Emacs rings the terminal bell for
appointment ;; reminders. The default is t.
;; (setq appt-audible nil)
;; (if (< emacs-major-version 23)
(diary)
;; )
)
)
;; end calendar/diary stuff
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