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From: reingold@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: New calendar.el
Message-ID: <4300060@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Dec 89 01:38:29 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!reingold    Dec 25 15:14:00 1989


The first three responses to this message contain, respectively, the files
calendar.el, diary.el, and holidays.el.  These files are also available by
anonymous ftp to a.cs.uiuc.edu in pub/calendar.  You need all three of them
for the calendar to work properly.

Here are some of the highlights, compared to the old calendar.el in prior
postings to this news group:

    * All known bugs have been fixed.

    * There is now an "include" mechanism to enable `shared diary files'.

    * Diary entry styles are now controlled by a list of patterns, so that
      European-style dates are now an option.  (But the form of the patterns
      no longer permits a DAY entry--you must use the `*'.)

    * Two-digit abbreviated years are now acceptable in diary entries.

    * Added the `C' calendar command for the ISO commercial calendar.

    * Added the `D' calendar command to give the day in the Gregorian year
      (current day's number and the number of days remaining).

    * Display style of dates is now controlled by a pattern.

    * The Hebrew calendar functions have been rewritten to make them
      much faster; this makes holiday determination much faster.

    * The holiday determination is now much more general.

    * The code has been split into three files: the calendar stuff is in the
      main file, calendar.el; the diary stuff is in diary.el; the holiday
      stuff is in holiday.el.

    * A diary hook example has been added that shows how to get sorted diary
      entries in the fancy diary buffer.