Re: Headline generation as in diary?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> No, not necessarily.  I have entries like this:
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 1981 03 17) Somebody's birthday (%d years)
>
> and the agenda view shows "Somebody's birthday (19 years)"; the actual
> heading for this entry is ignored.

Where in an entry do you specify such specifications?

> However, I don't know if other diary- functions work the same way.

Yes, the interesting part then is: when does org behave like this, and
can this behavior be forced?

> > Or do I miss something?  How to other people deal with things
> > like...garbage collection?
>
> I use the org-recur [1] package for this.  Very nice for repeating
> events.

> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://github.com/m-cat/org-recur

Thanks for the hint, I'll have a look.


Michael.