Re: getting nndiary to work

[Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:

> What I've been missing with nndiary is a good step-by-step example
> that explains how to use it.

  Maybe I should re-read the documentation again, and see if I can come
up with a quick start section. I'm still using it (for birthdays) but I
must admit I haven't touched the code in years.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I really want to spend anymore time on
it. At the time I wrote it, making a new backend for this facility was a
convenient way to go, but now I have another idea, which presumably is
much more difficult to implement:

the idea is that the "diary behavior" should not depend on any backend
at all. Ideally, you want any article to behave in a diary-fashion, so
you add the proper set of extra headers[1] to the article and then, it
pops up as new from time to time, according to your reminder settings,
whether it be from nnml, gmail, nntp, whatever.


Footnotes: 
[1]  not even the current X-Diary ones. Maybe something more cal-like.

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