Re: org-diary

[Michael Maurer]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 at 17:05, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thursday,  4 Nov 2021 at 16:56, Michael Maurer wrote:
> > I'm curious about this use of a diary-file in combination with
> > org-babel. I'm guessing it outputs only specific items from the
> > diary-file based on some variables? I tried to google this, but
> > couldn't find anything (or maybe I'm speculating wrong).
>
> There may be some fundamental misunderstanding here.  What does
> orb-babel have to do with org mode and the Emacs diary integration?
>
> The Emacs diary & calendar (core Emacs features) allow for elisp sexps
> in the diary file and org-diary is an elisp function that returns
> information in the form that the diary understands.  There is a section
> in the Emacs info manual on the Calendar and the Diary (section 31).
>
> Conversely, the org agenda can make use of Emacs diary expressions as
> well!  But that's another story.
>

Oh. I assumed

#+begin_src elisp
&%%(org-diary :deadline* :timestamp :scheduled*)
#+end_src

is an org-babel code block. But I'll check out that manual section as
well as org-diary.