Re: specific coloring of diary calendar entries

[Alex Schroeder]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Even if people use only colors, it would still be cleaner to specify
> them with syntactic categories rather than putting the colors directly
> into the diary files.  The categories may someday be useful for other
> purposes.  And they allow the priority handling that I suggested
> when one date has two events.
>
> Would you give it a try?

As a start, we could do this as follows:

The word after the colon is checked for facep.  If so, this face is
used, if not, and it is a valid color name, then the color is used.
Later, if somebody feels like implementing categories, that can be
added easily.  I really like the simplicity of the original approach.
Having faces is one level of indirection, but having categories
mapping to faces or colors is even harder to use by a casual user.

Alex.