# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1206602868 0 # Node ID 58366e03a762d0067d980b370a868111d8fbae15 # Parent 50111e15bae94752c9cc5dbaa08fa43b73927fb8 (diary-file): Doc fix. diff -r 50111e15bae9 -r 58366e03a762 lisp/calendar/calendar.el --- a/lisp/calendar/calendar.el Thu Mar 27 06:19:47 2008 +0000 +++ b/lisp/calendar/calendar.el Thu Mar 27 07:27:48 2008 +0000 @@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ "Name of the file in which one's personal diary of dates is kept. The file's entries are lines beginning with any of the forms -specified by the variable `american-date-diary-pattern', by default: +specified by the variable `diary-date-forms', which by default +uses the forms of `american-date-diary-pattern': MONTH/DAY MONTH/DAY/YEAR @@ -343,14 +344,13 @@ number and may be written in full or abbreviated to the final two digits (if `abbreviated-calendar-year' is non-nil). MONTHNAME and DAYNAME can be spelled in full (as specified by the variables -`calendar-month-name-array' and `calendar-day-name-array'), +`calendar-month-name-array' and `calendar-day-name-array'), or abbreviated (as specified by `calendar-month-abbrev-array' and -`calendar-day-abbrev-array') with or without a period, -capitalized or not. Any of DAY, MONTH, or MONTHNAME, YEAR can be -`*' which matches any day, month, or year, respectively. If the -date does not contain a year, it is generic and applies to any -year. A DAYNAME entry applies to the appropriate day of the week -in every week. +`calendar-day-abbrev-array') with or without a period. Case is +ignored. Any of DAY, MONTH, or MONTHNAME, YEAR can be `*' which +matches any day, month, or year, respectively. If the date does +not contain a year, it is generic and applies to any year. A +DAYNAME entry applies to the appropriate day of the week in every week. The European style (in which the day precedes the month) can be used instead, if you execute `european-calendar' when in the @@ -366,10 +366,9 @@ To revert to the default American style from the European style, execute `american-calendar' in the calendar. -A diary entry can be preceded by the character -`diary-nonmarking-symbol' (ordinarily `&') to make that entry -nonmarking--that is, it will not be marked on dates in the calendar -window but will appear in a diary window. +A diary entry can be preceded by the character `diary-nonmarking-symbol' +\(ordinarily `&') to make that entry nonmarking--that is, it will not be +marked on dates in the calendar window but will appear in a diary window. Multiline diary entries are made by indenting lines after the first with either a TAB or one or more spaces. @@ -411,16 +410,8 @@ %%(diary-block 11 1 1990 11 10 1990) Vacation causes the diary entry \"Vacation\" to appear from November 1 through -November 10, 1990. Other functions available are `diary-float', -`diary-anniversary', `diary-cyclic', `diary-day-of-year', -`diary-iso-date', `diary-french-date', `diary-hebrew-date', -`diary-islamic-date', `diary-bahai-date', `diary-mayan-date', -`diary-chinese-date', `diary-coptic-date', `diary-ethiopic-date', -`diary-persian-date', `diary-yahrzeit', `diary-sunrise-sunset', -`diary-phases-of-moon', `diary-parasha', `diary-omer', -`diary-rosh-hodesh', and `diary-sabbath-candles'. See the -documentation for the function `list-sexp-diary-entries' for more -details. +November 10, 1990. See the documentation for the function +`list-sexp-diary-entries' for more details. Diary entries based on the Hebrew, the Islamic and/or the Baha'i calendar are also possible, but because these are somewhat slow, they