Re: Calendar, diary, and diary-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

Stefan> How is diary-mode used?  It's defined and seems to
Stefan> work if I call it manually, but it's not directly used
Stefan> anywhere.  WAIM?

> There are at least two functions that do basically
> (find-file-noselect (diary-check-diary-file) t).  It might be a
> good idea to refactor this, creating a function that returns the
> buffer for the diary file, setting major-mode, etc. when opening.

Yes, that's pretty much what I do, locally, but it's obvious enough that I'd
like to hear how the current code is actually used.

diary-lib.el has many other oddities.  E.g. it passes diary-file through
substitute-in-file-name sometimes, but not always.


        Stefan