diary-lib.el how about adding diary-schedule

[Gijs Hillenius]

Hello

On the emacs wiki¹ I found a useful bit of code that allows adding an
weekly appointment in the diary file between two dates. Something that I
can't do with diary-block or diary-cyclic.

The code on the wiki seems out of date, so I reworked it a tiny bit.


Example:

%%(diary-schedule 15 7 2020 30 6 2021 3) 14:00 some weekly meeting



(defun diary-schedule (m1 d1 y1 m2 d2 y2 dayname)
  "Schedule diary entry.
Entry applies if date is between, or on one of, two dates on
DAYNAME.  The order of the input parameters changes according to
`calendar-date-style' \(e.g. to D1, M1, Y1, D2, M2, Y2 in the
European style)."
  (let ((date1 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
                  (diary-make-date m1 d1 y1)) )
        (date2 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
                  (diary-make-date m2 d2 y2)))
        (d (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian date)))
    (if (and 
         (<= date1 d) (<= d date2) (= (calendar-day-of-week date) dayname))
        entry)))



Would it be useful to add this to diary-lib.el?




1) https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiaryMode