Creating a cyclical entry with a set number of repeats

[Dennis Kibbe]

Hallo Group,

I teach a class on Tuesday and Thursday evenings that lasts for eight
weeks. A cyclical entry in the diary seems the obvious way to list this
event but consulting the Emacs Manual and the Lisp Reference Manual
doesn't show a way of creating a cyclical entry that doesn't repeat
forever.

Any ideas on how to do this or is there a better way?

dennisk

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[Edward M. Reingold]

>>>>> "DK" == Dennis Kibbe <den...@sahuaro.us> writes:

DK> Hallo Group, I teach a class on Tuesday and Thursday evenings that
DK> lasts for eight weeks. A cyclical entry in the diary seems the obvious
DK> way to list this event but consulting the Emacs Manual and the Lisp
DK> Reference Manual doesn't show a way of creating a cyclical entry that
DK> doesn't repeat forever.

DK> Any ideas on how to do this or is there a better way?

You need a diary sexp:

&%%(and (memq (calendar-day-of-week date) '(2 4))
(diary-block 11 1 2009 12 31 2009)) Teach class

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