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Detlef Steuer 8ee08b2dda * VERSION 06.02.01 - 2025-11-10 
- BUG FIX: remind: Obey $ParseUntriggered in Calendar Mode.  Before,
  $ParseUntriggered was always being treated as 1 in Calendar Mode.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Fix some buggy interactions between the Options
  dialog and the font chooser.
- TEST FIX: One test was consistently failing under MUSL, and it is
  not clear whether MUSL's or glibc's interpretation is correct.
  Remove that test so all tests pass under MUSL.

OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/utilities/remind?expand=0&rev=134
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Tue Nov 11 22:53:45 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 06.02.01 - 2025-11-10
- BUG FIX: remind: Obey $ParseUntriggered in Calendar Mode. Before,
$ParseUntriggered was always being treated as 1 in Calendar Mode.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Fix some buggy interactions between the Options
dialog and the font chooser.
- TEST FIX: One test was consistently failing under MUSL, and it is
not clear whether MUSL's or glibc's interpretation is correct.
Remove that test so all tests pass under MUSL.
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Mon Nov 3 21:14:53 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 06.02.00 - 2025-11-03
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE: TkRemind: A new "View..." menu lets you choose a
calendar view from the following choices: Entire month, 1 week, 2
weeks or 4 weeks.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The "z" flag for the "-c" option makes Remind
turn reminders with a "Url:" INFO string into clickable hyperlinks.
Note that your terminal must support the escape sequences at
https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
for this feature to work.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: The Print dialog now allows you to preview
(and if you wish, adjust) the command used to print a calendar.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: The Agenda Mode window ("Show Today's
Reminders") has navigation buttons for moving back or forward one
day at a time.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Add many keyboard shortcuts. All pop-up
windows can be closed with Esc or Control-W. Other shortcuts are
documented in the tkremind man page.
- CHANGE: TkRemind: If you hand-edit a reminder in the "Preview
Reminder" dialog box, it is marked as non-editable by TkRemind.
- CHANGE: TkRemind: Remove support for rem2ps. All printing is now
done using rem2pdf.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Improve error reporting if there's extraneous
content after an expression.
- IMPROVEMENT: tests: test-rem was tweaked to allow testing of an
installed Remind installation. This work was done by Jochen
Sprickerhof.
- IMPROVEMENT: rem2pdf: When rendering weekly calendars, reduce the
default size when drawing moons; if a day does not have a moon
indicator, don't leave a big gap before the first reminder entry.
- IMPROVEMENT: rem2pdf: Draw moon phases left-aligned.
- IMPROVEMENT: rem2pdf: For weekly calendars with 4 weeks per page,
make all of the boxes the same height.
- DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENT: remind: Document the INFO strings that
back-ends should strive to support (Url:, Location: and
Description:)
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Bind the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys on the numeric
keyboard for navigation.
- FIX: Don't enable -ffat-lto-objects on FreeBSD.
- BUG FIX: remind: Don't segfault if we can't open a .purged output
file in purge mode.
- BUG FIX: rem2pdf: Make PANGO @x,y positioning consistent between
weekly and monthly calendars. NOTE: If you use absolute PANGO
positioning, you might need to adjust your script because positions
are now relative to the centers of the grid lines.
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Wed Oct 29 11:23:55 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 06.01.08 - 2025-10-27
- BUG FIXES: tkremind: Fix many bugs with modal dialogs: Clicking too fast
to launch them could cause error messages; closing them with the window
manager "close" button rather than "Cancel" could cause errors. Thanks
to Tug Williams for finding these bugs.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: tkremind: The "Print" dialog has a "Show Command"
button that lets you cut-and-paste the command tkremind would have used
for printing. You can then customize it as you like.
- MINOR FIXES: remind: A few silly errors in the man page were fixed.
* VERSION 06.01.07 - 2025-10-23
- IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Add a "help" button that pops up the TkRemind man
page (and offers a browser for all the remind-related man pages.)
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: rem2pdf: Leave less whitespace between the day number and
the entries in a calendar box.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: make test: If hunspell is installed, check the spelling
of *all* man pages. Previously, some were being missed.
- DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENT: WHATSNEW: Make the version numbers in this file
exactly match the ones reported by "remind --version". That is, we say
"06.01.07" instead of "Version 6.1 Patch 7".
* VERSION 06.01.06 - 2025-10-20
- NEW FEATURE: rem2pdf: Add command-line options to set colors of various
parts of the calendar such as the gridlines, the day numbers, etc.
- NEW FEATURE: rem2pdf: Add a command-line option to make the calendar title
into a hotlink to a URL that you supply.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Make the tzconvert() function warn about possibly
invalid time zone names, similar to the warning issued by the TZ keyword.
- IMPROVEMENT: "make test": If spellintian and hunspell are installed,
use them to spell-check and lint the man pages and README.md file.
- PORTABILITY IMPROVEMENT: Make Remind compile on OpenIndiana (a
Solaris derivative.) "make test" fails because of deficiencies in
the Solaris C library, however.
- MINOR FIXES: Fix various spelling errors caught by hunspell.
- BUG FIX: rem2pdf: Correct a bug in the coordinate-tracking of calendar boxes
so that SHADE fills the entire box and absolutely-positioned PANGO items
are positioned correctly.
- MINOR BUG FIX: remind: Suppress spurious debugging output when using
"-dt" flag with a TZ clause.
- MINOR BUG FIX: remind: For the purposes of purge mode, don't consider a
non-constant expression in the *body* of a reminder to be a problem.
- MINOR BUG FIX: remind: Fix a couple of (unlikely-to-be-triggered) memory
leaks.
- MINOR BUG FIX: include/holidays/jewish.rem: Don't leak private
functions and variables to the calling file.
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Thu Oct 9 20:00:55 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 6.1 Patch 5 - 2025-10-09
- BUG FIX: remind: Yet another bug in TZ handling was fixed. I hope this
is the final TZ bug; the test suite has had a large number of TZ tests
added.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: If the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo exists, Remind
warns about time zone names that look invalid. You can override the
warning by prefixing your time zone name with "!" if you want to use
non-file-based time zone names like "UTC+0400".
- MINOR IMPROVEMENTS: A couple of man page typos were fixed.
* VERSION 6.1 Patch 4 - 2025-10-08
- BUG FIX: remind: In calendar mode, reminders that specify a TZ zone
that is *behind* the system time zone could sometimes not show up.
The bug has been fixed; thanks to Jin Chen for reporting it.
- CHANGE: remind: Any time Remind runs another program (for example,
in response to REM ... RUN, the shell() command, the -k option, or
INCLUDECMD) it connects that command's standard input to /dev/null
so that it cannot interfere with the main Remind process's standard
input.
- BUG FIX: remind: Don't set up an inotify file descriptor if we are
not running in Daemon Mode.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: When using readline to read from a
terminal, include the line number in the Remind> prompt.
- IMPROVEMENT: lang/*.rem: Suppress redefined function warnings if you
include one language file and then later on a different one.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Make the output of "make test" slightly more
verbose; color-code the PASS and FAIL results if standard output
refers to a terminal.
- CHANGE: include/holidays/*.rem: Add %"..%" markers and %! %b
suffixes to all reminders. This prevents you from having to use the
msgsuffix() hack if you want advance warning of holidays.
If you *are* using the msgsuffix() hack, you should stop using it!
Just set $DefaultDelta. See include/holidays/README for details.
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Wed Oct 1 08:39:00 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 6.1 Patch 3 - 2025-09-30
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Issue a warning that SCANFROM should be used
with ADDOMIT in cases where Remind detects a movable OMIT.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add $WarningLevel system variable. This lets
you suppress warnings added by new versions of Remind until you have
a chance to update your remind scripts.
- BUG FIX / IMPROVEMENT: include/holidays/*.rem: Simplify the logic
used for moving holidays before/after weekends. Also fixes bugs
found in the logic used to move New Year's Day. Thanks to Nimrod
Levy for pointing out the New Year's Day bug.
- IMPROVEMENT: include/holidays/jewish.rem: This file was reworked by
Nimrod Levy to simplify logic and optionally add the counting of the
Omer.
- BUG FIX: remind: "remind -c" would add an unnecessary blank line for
completely-empty calendar rows if you used the "-w,0,0" option.
This is now fixed. Bug pointed out by Tim Chase.
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Mon Sep 22 13:17:03 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 6.1 Patch 2 - 2025-09-19
- BUG FIX: remind: A reminder on a specific fixed date and time that
uses the TZ feature could erroneously issue a "Can't compute trigger"
error. This has been fixed.
- CHANGE: remind: The default for --max-expr-complexity is 10,000,000
(ten million) instead of unlimited. This should not affect any
real-world Remind scripts.
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Sat Sep 13 07:42:24 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 6.1 Patch 1 - 2025-09-12
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the new --max-expr-complexity=n
command-line argument. It is possible to write expressions that use
enormous amounts of CPU time, such as the following:
FSET fib(n) iif(n <= 2, 1, fib(n-1)+fib(n-2))
SET a fib(100)
That will take essentially forever to execute, but will not hit the
built-in recursion limit. Using a command-line argument of
--max-expr-complexity=1000000 will terminate evaluation in a few
dozen milliseconds on modern hardware, and should not affect
realistic reminder scripts. See the man page for details.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Add UTF-8-aware functions to complement the
byte-aware functions that could give incorrect results by splitting
a UTF-8 character sequence. The correspondence between old and new
functions is:
NON-UTF-8-AWARE UTF-8-AWARE
=============== ===========
strlen mbstrlen
substr mbsubstr
index mbindex
char mbchar
asc codepoint
See the remind(1) man page for details.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: You can use hexadecimal integer constants
like 0xFE12 in expressions. This is mostly useful for using
codepoint() since Unicode code points are often expressed in
hexadecimal.
- BUG FIX: remind: When truncating a string when executing DUMPVARS or
during debugging of expression evaluation, Remind could sometimes
cut the string in the middle of a UTF-8 sequence. This has been
fixed.
* VERSION 6.1 Patch 0 - 2025-09-08
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE: remind: The TZ keyword lets you specify a time
zone for a REM command. All trigger calculations are performed in
the named time zone.
- DOCUMENTATION: Update README.md to document prerequisites for readline
support.
- DOCUMENTATION: remind.1: Document system variables such as $T that can
have multiple types.
- BUG FIX: remind: If Remind was run interactively ("remind -c -" with
readline support enabled) it would not properly cache the input
file, but would keep asking for interactive input. This has been
fixed.
* VERSION 6.0 Patch 2 - 2025-09-01
- CHANGE: Default $ParseUntriggered to 0 instead of 1. The default
could cause spurious warnings such as "type mismatch" warnings for
untriggered reminders.
- TEST FIX: Explicitly set latitude and longitude in test files.
- BUG FIX: remind: Don't add lines to "readline" history unless they
are actually being read from standard input.
- BUG FIX: remind: On the command-line, make '-i$foo' behave the same
way as '-i$foo=0' as was documented in the man page.
- BUG FIX: remind: Clamp the output of trigger() to "1 January 1990 AT
00:00" if the UTC flag is used, even if it would actually produce a
result in 1989.
- MINOR FIX: remind: Avoid "unused result" compiler warning.
* VERSION 6.0 Patch 1 - 2025-08-19
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add readline support if input is taken from stdin
(ie, "remind -"). This gives you full editing support if you run
Remind interactively.
- BUG FIX: remind: Fix buffer overflow in DUMPVARS command.
Thanks to Jochen Sprickerhof for helping me find this bug.
* VERSION 6.0 Patch 0 - 2025-08-18
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Introduction of TODOs. These are similar
to normal reminders, but (in Agenda Mode) you keep getting reminded
of them even once they are in the past, unless you specifically mark
them as completed.
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE: remind: The --json long option causes Remind to
output JSON in Agenda Mode instead of the normal text output. See
tkremind for an example of how a front-end can use this output.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: The RETURN statement can be used to skip
the rest of the current file. Useful for early exit from an
INCLUDEd file.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Allow the %:, %!, %?, %@ and %#
substitution sequences to be overridden by defining the functions
subst_colon, subst_bang, subst_question, subst_at and subst_hash,
respectively.
- SAFETY IMPROVEMENT: remind: If a function is defined in a context
where RUN is disabled, disable RUN during the evaluation of the
function. Also disable RUN for all subst_XXX callbacks and the
ordx(n) callback.
- MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS: tkremind: TkRemind has been given an overhaul.
The "Show Queue" and "Show Today's Reminders" windows now respect
the color scheme. TkRemind lets you create TODO reminders and
easily mark them completed. You can right-click on a day number
to get a window with Agenda Mode reminders for that day.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Language packs can define an ordx(n)
function that localizes ord(n). If this function is defined, then
ord(n) automatically calls it rather than using its built-in English
localization. Appropriate ordx(n) definitions have been added to
all language packs.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: The %b substitution sequence handles
dates in the past (because of TODOs). The %! sequence considers
both date and time, and can be used with non-timed reminders. The
new %? sequence is similar to %!, but outputs "are" and "were"
instead of "is" and "was". The new %*! and %*? sequences are
similar to %! and %?, but compare the trigger date to realtoday()
instead of to today().
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Downgrade a SPECIAL COLOR... with
out-of-range color values to a normal MSG-type reminder.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: include/lang/nl.rem: Use "eergisteren" for "2
days ago" and "overmorgen" for "in 2 days' time."
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: TkRemind now passes all command-line
options back to Remind.
- TEST IMPROVEMENT: remind: Add --flush option and use it in tests to
have more predictable interleaving of stdout/stderr output.
- BUG FIX: tkremind: In a couple of places, the "eval" command was used
where the intention was to use "catch". I blame Perl...
- BUG FIX: remind: SCANFROM and FROM are separated out internally, and
in the JSON output, the original FROM or SCANFROM value is
preserved, including relative SCANFROMs.
- BUG FIX: tkremind: Remove some extraneous semicolons.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Fix some man-page format directive errors;
tweak wording in several pages.
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Mon Jul 28 19:43:12 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.5 Patch 0 - 2025-07-28
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the PUSH-VARS / POP-VARS commands and the
analogous PUSH-FUNCS / POP-FUNCS commands. These let you localize
changes to variables and functions and help with writing more modular
reminder files.
- INTERNAL CHANGES: Clean up the code following recommendations from
an updated "cppcheck" executable.
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Fri Jul 18 08:07:35 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.4 Patch 2 - 2025-07-16
- MINOR CHANGE: remind: Allow daysinmon() to take a DATE or DATETIME
argument.
- MINOR CHANGE: remind: All functions that want an integer month number
will now also accept a string naming the month.
= UPDATE: include/holidays/chinese-new-year.rem: Add dates for Chinese
New Year for 2051 through 2100.
- BUG FIX: remind: Set trigdate() correctly for a fully-specified
date, even if it's in the past, as the manual documented. Bug
found by Tim Chase.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: rem2html: Document the correct Perl module
prerequisites.
- CODE FIXES: remind: Various minor improvements to the code with
no user-visible changes.
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Mon Jun 16 11:17:47 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.4 Patch 1 - 2025-06-15
- MAJOR BUG FIX: remind: In some circumstances, a REM command could
yield a trigger date after its UNTIL date, rather than recognizing it
as having expired. This has been fixed. Bug found by Ian! D. Allen.
- BUG FIX: rem2pdf: Support the COLOUR special (as well as COLOR).
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Add include/utils/add-html-anchors.rem. You can
INCLUDE this file to get HTML anchors added to every calendar day
by rem2html.
- DOCUMENTATION: Add NOTE-ABOUT-AI.txt
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Wed Jun 4 08:39:43 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.4 Patch 0 - 2025-06-03
- MAJOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Track which expressions and variables
Remind can prove to its satisfaction are "constant" - that is, that
will always have the same value on any Remind run as long as the
files are not edited. This allows "Purge Mode" to purge more
reminders than before.
See the new remind(1) man page section "NON-CONSTANT EXPRESSIONS"
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: add the "nonconst" built-in function (to
force an expression to be interpreted as non-constant), the "const"
function to force an expression to be interpreted as constant, and
the "isconst" function to test if an expression is constant.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Add eval() built-in function that takes a
string argument and evaluates it as an expression. For safety, the
"shell" function is disabled inside an eval().
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: add the "u" debugging flag to warn you if
you set a variable that is not subsequently used.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the trigbase() function and
corresponding $Tb system variable. See the remind(1) man page for
details.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: make value("var", default) evaluate the
second argument lazily: If "var" is defined, then the second
argument is never evaluated.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Add syntax for redefining a function
without issuing a warning. The syntax:
FSET - func(x) expr
is equivalent to:
FUNSET func
FSET func(x) expr
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: include/holidays: Update a bunch of files to use
isany(n, a, b, c) rather than (n == a || n == b || n == c)
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Make $Tu a synonym for triguntil().
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: If coerce() fails, issue a more detailed
error message.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Using Hush mode "-h" with purge mode "-j"
suppresses the normal purge-mode diagnostics about reminders that
might not be purged. Instead, only the "#!P: Expired" purge-mode
lines are emitted.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the catch() built-in function. This lets
you catch errors in expression evaluation. For example:
catch(2/0, "oops") returns "oops". The catcherr() function returns
the error message from the last catch() expression that failed, in
this case "Division by zero".
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Remind can handle dates that require UTC to
Local conversion (and vice-versa) for years greater than 2038, even
on systems with a 32-bit time_t.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Allow the argument to monnum() to be a
string, in which case it's parsed as a month name and the
corresponding month number returned.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Allow the argument to wkdaynum() to be a
string, in which case it's parsed as a weekday name and the
corresponding weekday number returned.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Make the expression parser optimize away
the unary "-" and "!" operators when followed by an integer constant.
- BUG FIX: tests: Don't use the obsolete "tail +2" syntax in test-rem.
Fix courtesy of Dick Marinus.
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Wed May 7 07:32:41 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.3 Patch 7 - 2025-05-06
- IMPROVEMENT: examples/astro: Make moonrise/moonset appear after
sunrise/sunset
- NEW FILES: Add include/solar-eclipses.rem and
include/lunar-eclipses.rem for solar and lunar eclipses
(respectively) in the 21st century.
- NEW SYSTEM VARIABLE: remind: Add $TimetIs64bit system variable,
which is 1 if the built in time_t type is at least 64 bits, and 0
otherwise.
- TEST FIX: "make test" now passes on systems with a 32-bit time_t
type.
- BUG FIX: include/holidays/nl.rem: Use the correct rules for
Koningsdag and Bevrijdingsdag, courtesy of Adrian P. van Bloois.
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Fri Apr 25 21:24:17 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.3 Patch 6 - 2025-04-25
- BUG FIX: remind: Make "remind -s" respect $DefaultColor. Bug found by
Tim Chase.
- DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENT: Make documentation of $SuppressLRM a bit
more prominent
- UPDATE: contrib/remind-conf-mode: Add new functions moonrise,
moonset, etc. to Emacs highlighting file
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: examples/astro: Align output better
- MINOR FIX: src/moon.c: Change C++-style comments to C-style comments
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Mon Mar 24 09:21:36 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.3 Patch 5 - 2025-03-23
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add moonrise, moonset, moonrisedir and moonsetdir
functions. The first two functions calculate the time of the next
moonrise and moonset, and the second two calculate in which direction
the moon will rise or set. See the examples/astro script for examples
of how to use the moonrise/moonset functions.
- CODE CLEANUPS: remind: Some minor code cleanups with no user-visible
effects.
- IMPROVEMENT: Add tests for the astronomical calculation functions.
- UPDATE: Update the included json.c and json.h files to the latest
versions from https://github.com/udp/json-parser
- BUG FIX: remind: The %2 and %@ sequences would print "0:34am" for the
time 00:34, instead of the correct "12:34am". This has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Fix bug that broke the ability to open a text
editor on a reminder from the "Queue..." listing.
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Mon Mar 10 09:37:46 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.3 Patch 4 - 2025-03-09
- BUG FIX: remind: "make test" could fail if Remind was built in a locale
other than "C". This has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: Fix a typo in the remind man page.
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Mon Mar 3 17:35:49 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.3 Patch 3 - 2025-03-03
- NEW FEATURE: remind: If a command spans more than one line (because of
backslash line continuation) output both the starting and ending line
number in error messages.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: In the JSON -pp and -ppp output, include a new key
lineno_start to specify the starting line of a multi-line reminder.
The existing lineno key specifies the ending line; this is maintained
for backward-compatibility.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: include/holidays/misc.rem: Add a few new holidays and
URL INFO strings.
- CHANGE: remind: Issue a warning if a time-related subsitution sequence
is used with a non-timed REM command.
- BUG FIX: remind: Fix a memory leak.
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Mon Feb 10 09:09:16 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.3 Patch 2 - 2025-02-09
- CHANGE: remind: Revert a change to the way "-y" tags are generated that
was introduced in 05.03.01. The change broke a library that depended
on it being generated in the old way.
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Sun Feb 9 10:25:22 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.3 Patch 1 - 2025-02-07
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: When we pop up a timed reminder, make any "Url:"
info string into a clickable link.
- IMPROVEMENT: rem2pdf: Improve the layout of the small monthly calendars.
- BUG FIX: rem2pdf: Add checks for all Perl dependencies.
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Tue Feb 4 16:22:34 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.3 Patch 0 - 2025-02-04
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the "INFO" clause to the REM command. This
is intended for storing additional metadata about an event, such as
the location and a longer description. The intention is to make
Remind <-> iCal conversions preserve as much information as possible.
- NEW FEATURE: rem2html, rem2pdf, tkremind: Add support for the "Url:"
info string that turns reminders into hyper-links. For example,
consider this reminder:
REM 15 INFO "Url: https://foo.example" MSG Foo
The text "Foo" will be made into a link to "https://foo.example"
by rem2html and rem2pdf. If you middle-click it in tkremind, it
will open the URL.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the triginfo() built-in function so a reminder
body can refer to INFO data. Add the %<...> substitution filter as a
shorthand for [triginfo("...")]
- NEW FEATURE: TkRemind: Add "Location" and "Description" fields when
creating a reminder; these are converted to INFO clauses. Also support
a popup window with the extra information when hovering over a reminder
in the calendar display.
- IMPROVEMENT: Update the reminder files included with Remind to add
INFO strings with Wikipedia URLs for various holidays and
astronomical events.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Add the "\xAB" escape sequence for parsing quoted
strings, where "AB" is a pair of hex digits.
- NEW FUNCTION: remind: Add the escape() built-in function that converts
problematic characters within a string to the \-escaped versions.
It's essentially the inverse of how Remind parses a quoted string.
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Thu Jan 23 10:16:29 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.2 Patch 3 - 2025-01-22
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add "TRANSLATE GENERATE" command for generating
a skeleton set of TRANSLATE commands to make it easier to localize
Remind.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add "q" debug flag for tracing calls to _()
or %(...) in the substitution filter; this will help with localizing
reminder files.
- NEW FILES: remind: Add holidays/lgbtq.rem for LGBTQ holidays. Add
country-specific files in holidays/lgbtq/*.rem
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: use "info patchlevel" to display full Tcl/Tk
version.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: The DEBUG command issues a warning if given an
unknown debug flag.
- BUG FIX: remind: "make test" will now succeed even if run between
23:55 and 00:00 UTC. This is done with a new --test flag for remind.
- BUG FIX: remind: Avoid potential buffer overflow if someone supplies
ridiculously-long translations for "am" or "pm".
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Tue Jan 7 08:57:57 UTC 2025 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.2 Patch 2 - 2025-01-06
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The "-p+" option lets you produce weekly calendars;
so far, the rem2pdf and rem2html back-ends support rendering of weekly
calendars.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The $CalType system variable indicates the type of
calendar being produced; its value is one of "monthly", "weekly",
or "none". "none" signifies agenda mode rather than calendar mode.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Warn if a POP-OMIT-CONTEXT matches a
PUSH-OMIT-CONTEXT that is in a different file.
- CHANGE: remind: Split the "-ds" debug option into two separate options:
"-ds" for debugging expression-parsing and "-dh" for printing hash
table statistics on exit.
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Tue Dec 17 09:46:42 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.2 Patch 1 - 2024-12-16
- BUG FIX: remind: Fix a logic error that only showed itself on big-endian
architectures. Found thanks to Debian testing and a notification from
Jochen Sprickerhof.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Dec 16 14:54:52 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.2 Patch 0 - 2024-12-16
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the TRANSLATE command, the _()
built-in function and the %(...) substitution sequence. These allow
you to localize your reminder files more easily. The translation table
is also made available to back-ends like rem2pdf and tkremind,
which they can use as they see fit.
- MINOR FEATURE: tkremind, rem2html: Localize the names of the moon
phases.
- MAJOR CHANGE: remind: Remind used to support compile-time localization
into different languages (French, English, etc.) That compile-time
support has been removed and all localization is now done at run-time.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: In JSON daemon mode (-zj), the front-end can
request translation table entries from the Remind daemon, allowing the
front-end to localize messages.
- UPDATE: Update national holidays following update to upstream Python
library.
- MINOR FEATURE: Add standard include/sun.rem file for sunrise/sunset.
- MINOR FEATURE: The SYSINCLUDE command has been added. The command:
SYSINCLUDE foo/bar.rem
is equivalent to:
INCLUDE [$SysInclude]/foo/bar.rem
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Allow INCLUDE, DO and SYSINCLUDE to include files with
spaces in their names; in this case, you have to put the filename inside
double-quotes.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Refuse to open subdirectories named "*.rem"
under a top-level directory rather than trying and failing with a
confusing error.
- IMPROVEMENT: contrib/remind-conf-mode: Fix a few bugs and choose colors
that are easier on the eyes.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Remind used to have three completely separate
hash table implementations. They have all been replaced with a single
implementation; this new implementation adapts the hash table size based
on the number of entries and is dramatically faster than the old code
when there are a large number of entries.
- MINOR FIXES: remind: Fix typos in comments; use memcpy to copy OMIT
contexts internally.
- BUG FIX: remind: Actually allow the documented 9 levels of INCLUDE
rather than 8.
- BUG FIX: remind: If an INCLUDE statement failed inside an IF statement,
Remind would print spurious errors about unmatched IF/ENDIF. This has
been fixed.
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Fri Nov 22 08:44:53 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.1 Patch 1 - 2024-11-18
- Fix test failure
- VERSION 5.1 Patch 0 - 2024-11-18
- MAJOR IMPROVEMENT: Include holiday files for many countries and
regions, courtesy of the Python "holidays" project:
https://pypi.org/project/holidays/ See include/holidays/README
for usage instructions and important caveats
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Added the $DedupeReminders system variable; see
its documentation in the remind man page for details.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Added the FRENAME command to rename a user-defined
function. See its documentation in the remind man page for use-cases.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Added the $DefaultDelta system variable that
specifies a default (date) delta for reminders that lack one. It is
analogous to the default time delta system variable $DefaultTDelta.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Added a way for the output of msgsuffix() to appear
on the same line as a reminder rather than on the next line. See the
remind man page for details.
- UPDATE: contrib/ical2rem: Update to upstream version 0.8
- DOCUMENTATION FIXES: Many updates and clarifications to the man pages.
- BUG FIX: Fixed configure.ac so that autoreconf works.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Oct 17 07:13:24 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.0 Patch 7 - 2024-10-16
- NEW FEATURE: tkremind: Add option to create a desktop notification when
a queued reminder is triggered. For Tcl/Tk 9.0 or later, uses the native
"tk sysnotify" facility. For earlier versions of Tcl/Tk, executes the
"notify-send" program if possible.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add --print-config-cmd option which prints the
exact ./configure command used to build Remind. This will let you
configure future Remind releases exactly the same way an installed
version was configured.
- UPDATE: include/holidays/ca.rem: Add National Day for Truth and
Reconciliation to Canadian holiday list.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENTS: Update examples/ansitext and examples/astro
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Use HashPJW to hash variable and function
names; make the hash table size a prime rather than a power of two.
This seems to improve hash performance ever so slightly in most cases.
- UPDATE: Update contrib/ical2rem to upstream version 0.7.1
- FIX: tkremind: Make tkremind work with Tcl/Tk 8.5 or higher, including
Tcl/Tk 9.0
- MINOR CHANGE: remind: Add hash table statistics to "-ds" debugging
output. This is probably of no use to anyone except the author of
Remind.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Sep 16 14:44:54 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.0 Patch 6 - 2024-09-16
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Include a file containing the dates of Chinese
New Year through 2050.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add $SuppressImplicitWarnings system variable.
Setting this to 1 suppresses the warnings "Unrecognized command;
interpreting as REM" and "Missing REM type; assuming MSG"
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add --print-tokens command-line argument. This
simply prints all of Remind's built-in tokens, functions, and system
variables. It's designed to help people who are writing editor
add-ons for syntax highlighting.
- CHANGE: remind: allow '12:34' to be parsed as a TIME constant. This
matches DATEs and DATETIMEs which are enclosed in single-quotes.
(The quotes are optional for TIME constants, however.)
- IMPROVEMENT: Improve many error messages and warnings.
- UPDATE: contrib/ical2rem: Update to upstream version 0.7
- IMPROVEMENT: contrib/remind-conf-mode: Improve the Emacs
remind-conf-mode package. Add new keywords and make comment
highlighting correct.
- FIX: remind man page: Remove note saying REM can be omitted.
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Mon Sep 9 13:20:52 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.0 Patch 5 - 2024-09-02
* CHANGE: remind: When using the "-c" option and with the SHADE special
enabled, shade the entire calendar box including the line containing the
day number.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Better error messages when diagnosing certain
errors in expressions.
* IMPROVEMENT: include/holidays/jewish.rem: Remove unnecessary _h()
function definition.
* BUG FIX: remind: In a couple of spots when we parsed a character, we did
not check for an error return. This has been fixed.
* BUG FIX: remind: Fix edge-case bugs in "remind -c" output formatting.
* BUG FIX: make test: Fix a test that was broken for all of September 2024.
* BUG FIX: remind: Fix a couple of potential file-descriptor leaks.
* BUG FIX: contrib/ical2rem.pl: Replace "SCHED _sfun" with "+15" to
hard-code 15-minutes advance warning rather than using an undefined
scheduling function. If this is not what you want, you should edit
ical2rem.pl to suit your taste; it's not officially part of Remind and
is meant more as a starting point for you to customize than a finished
product.
* DOCUMENTATION FIX: Remove obsolete info from Remind man page.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Sep 9 12:58:49 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.0 Patch 4 - 2024-08-29
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: When checking if a SATISFY expression refers to the
trigger date, look recursively at any user-defined functions it calls.
This reduces spurious warnings.
* CHANGE: remind: Allow any type to be used as the test argument for IIF.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind man page: Clarify how various types are treated
in boolean context.
* VERSION 5.0 Patch 3 - 2024-08-28
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Preserve newlines ("%_" sequences) in calendar
mode in most cases. See the remind man page for details.
* IMPROVEMENT: rem2pdf: rem2pdf can now produce PostScript and
Encapsulated PostScript output in addition to PDF and SVG.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Emit warnings if a subst_XXX function takes the
wrong number of arguments, or for custom sequences, if the function
is not defined.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Emit warnings if WARN/SCHED/OMITFUNC functions
do not reference their argument.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Allow strings to be used with logical
operators. The empty string "" is considered false and all other
strings are considered true.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Emit warnings for lines that are implicitly
treated as REM commands; add warnings for REM commands that are
implicitly treated as MSG-type reminders.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Add an optional fourth argument to the built-in
ampm() function that specifies not to suppress a leading zero in the
hour component.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: If a SATISFY expression is not constant and
doesn't reference the trigger date somehow, issue a warning.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Add a warning if a user-defined function is
redefined. If you do have a use-case that requires you to redefine
a function, simply FUNSET it first before FSETting it for the second
time.
* DOCUMENTATION FIX: Clarify man pages and remove some information that
has become incorrect as Remind has evolved.
* BUG FIX: Fix typos in man pages
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Jul 26 17:00:43 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.0 Patch 2 - 2024-07-26
* IMPROVEMENT: Remind: Revamp how ONCE works. You can now set a
special variable $OnceFile to be the path to a timestamp file. The
ONCE directive uses this timestamp file to track when it was last
run rather than the access date of the main reminder script. This
is more reliable because it doesn't rely on the atime of a file
(which might not be maintained accurately) and is not affected if
you edit your reminder script.
* CHANGE: Taking input from stdin no longer implies the "-o" option; ONCE can
work if you set $OnceFile
* CHANGE: Any of the -c, -n, -p and -s options implicitly enable the
-o option. As before, specifying a repeat factor *N or a date that
is not today on the command-line also implies -o.
* MINOR NEW FEATURE: Rem2PDF: Add the "--svg" command-line option to produce
SVG output rather than PDF.
* MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Remind: Improve the storage efficiency of short
string constants in compiled expression trees.
* MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Remind: Remove some obsolete macro definitions
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Jun 10 09:44:53 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.0 Patch 1 - 2024-06-08
* MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Add short-circuit evaluation to the isany() function,
which now only evaluates those arguments absolutely necessary to determine
the result.
* BUG FIX: Mark weekno() as a non-constant function (the zero-argument form
depends on external conditions.)
* BUG FIX: Fix a couple of memory leaks.
* BUG FIX: Don't rely on support for unnamed function parameters; this caused
compilation failures with older versions of gcc.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Jun 6 15:05:04 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 5.0 Patch 0 - 2024-06-06
* MAJOR CHANGE: The expression evaluation engine has been completely replaced
with a new one that splits parsing and evaluating into two separate steps.
It also features short-circuit evaluation of &&, ||, iif() and choose().
This should speed up expression-heavy reminder files.
NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY: In expressions with side-effects, the short-circuit
evaluation might change the result you get. For example, consider
running the following file through: remind file.rem 2024-06-04
SET a trig("Mon +7") || trig("Thu +7")
MSG trig = [trig()]
Older Remind versions will output:
trig = 2024-06-06
whereas this version outputs:
trig = 2024-06-10
because the second part of the "||" expression is not evaluated. The vast
majority of Remind expressions do not have side-effects and should yield
the same results as before.
The newer expression engine also permits recursive functions, but
these are not recommended. Still, if you want to, you can do:
fset factorial(n) iif(n <= 1, 1, n*factorial(n-1))
and it will work for values of n that don't cause integer overflow.
* IMPROVEMENT: If there's an unmatched PUSH-OMIT-CONTEXT, print the
filename and line number containing it.
* IMPROVEMENT: If there's an IF with a missing ENDIF, print the filename
and line number of the IF statement.
* NEW FEATURE: Add EXPR OFF command to completely disable expression
evaluation. Useful if you INCLUDE files that you don't expect to
contain expressions and may come from slightly untrustworthy sources.
* NEW FEATURE: Add $ExpressionTimeLimit system variable to enforce a
maximum limit on how long evaluating an expression is allowed to take.
* NEW FEATURE: Add --max-execution-time=n command-line option to terminate
Remind if it runs for more than n seconds.
* CHANGE: Make the command-line option "-ifoo" equivalent to "-ifoo=0"
* CHANGE: Permit a literal [ in a reminder by using the sequence [[
The old ["["] still works.
* BUG FIX: In "purge" mode, Remind would sometimes purge reminders with
a relative "SCANFROM" which haven't actually expired. This has been fixed.
* BUG FIX: Disallow something like: FSET func(x, x) expr
which shouldn't have been allowed in the first place.
* BUG FIX: Replace leading spaces with tabs in Makefiles (per Emanuele Torre
and Tim Chase)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Apr 30 08:41:56 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.3 Patch 7 - 2024-04-29
* IMPROVEMENT: build.tk: Add a note if build.tk obtains default settings
from an existing Remind installation.
* IMPROVEMENT: configure: Pass all args to AC_INIT including the Remind
home page. Remove some unused autoconf cruft.
* IMPROVEMENT: Use standard C library versions of strdup, strcasemp and
strncasecmp where available, rather than using our own versions.
* MINOR FEATURE: remind: Make $Tt a synonym for trigtime().
* BUG FIX: remind: Make sure shellescape() doesn't mangle UTF-8 characters
with high-bits set.
* BUG FIX: remind: Don't rely on undefined behavior of "%" operator in
the ord() built-in function.
* BUG FIX: remind: Do not clear out trigtime() unnecessarily. Before,
you could not write things like the following; now you can:
REM Tue AT 11:30 DURATION 0:30 MSG Thing 1
REM Tue AT [trigtime()+trigduration()] DURATION 1:00 MSG Thing 2
REM Tue AT [trigtime()+trigduration()] DURATION 0:45 MSG Thing 3
for successive reminders that should be moved as a block if the time of
the first one changes.
* BUG FIX: Don't update trigdate() or trigtime() while parsing a REM
statement... only when actually computing the trigger.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Apr 10 12:10:06 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.3 Patch 6 - 2024-04-02
* NEW FILE: Add [$SysInclude]/holidays/pt.rem - Portuguese holidays, courtesy
of Joop Kiefte.
* BUG FIX: remind: Fix compile error on systems that don't support inotify(7).
* BUG FIX: remind: Fix test failures on FreeBSD. On FreeBSD, you have to copy
the result of getenv() or else a subsequent setenv() can change the stored
value.
* VERSION 4.3 Patch 5 - 2024-04-01
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Use inotify to detect reminder file changes
even in regular daemon mode (-zn where n>0).
* INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS: Rearrange and refactor some code.
* FIXES: Various fixes and improvements to man pages.
* BUG FIX: remind: Handle queued "SPECIAL COLOR" reminders correctly.
* BUG FIX: remind: Preserve the value of $DefaultColor that was in effect
when a reminder was queued; restore it before issuing the queued reminder.
* VERSION 4.3 Patch 4 - 2024-03-25
* NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the new "multitrig" function, which is how "trig"
should have worked in the first place. See man page for details.
* IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Make errors in your reminders file stand out more
prominently.
* IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: If you click on an error in the "Errors..." popup,
tkremind will open a text editor on the offending file and line.
* IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Format the "Queue..." output better and make queue
items clickable; clicking on a queue item opens a text editor on the
corresponding file and line.
* IMPROVEMENT: Add a standard [$SysInclude]/moonphases.rem file to display
moon phases on your calendar.
* IMPROVEMENT: Clean up the demo code in www/ and add PDF output.
* BUG FIX: tkremind: Correctly handle filenames containing spaces and other
characters that tend to confuse the shell.
* BUG FIX: tkremind: Raise dialog boxes after errors so that they
remain visible.
* CLEANUP: tkremind: Remove some dead code.
* VERSION 4.3 Patch 3 - 2024-03-18
* IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Update icon to include a white border so it shows
up better on dark backgrounds.
* IMPROVEMENT: C code: Fix a number of cppcheck static-analysis warnings.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: Update the "-zj" protocol to include a queue-id for
each queued reminder and add the DEL client command to delete a specific
item from the queue. Used by tkremind to implement "don't remind me about
this again today."
* MINOR NEW FEATURE: Add a "-ds" debugging flag to print out expression-parsing
stack high-water marks on exit. This esoteric feature is of no use to
anyone but the Remind author.
* IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Stop using the deprecated tk_dialog command in favor
of the newer tk_messageBox command.
* IMPROVEMENT: remind: In server mode, try to minimize redraws by
consuming inotify events until at least 0.2s elapses without an
event appearing.
* BUG FIX: tkremind: The "Don't remind me about this again today" feature
was unreliable and only worked for reminders created with TkRemind itself.
It has been made more reliable and works with any reminder.
* BUG FIX: remind: Make it a syntax error if a local OMIT in a REM statement
is not followed by at least one weekday name.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Mar 6 14:08:39 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
-
VERSION 4.3 Patch 2 - 2024-03-01
- BUG FIX: remind: Fix a logic error when implementing the RUN command in
server mode. As it turns out, the error is harmless, but it's best to do
things correctly.
- BUG FIX: The Makefile would install the tkremind.png and tkremind.desktop
files in the wrong location. This has been fixed.
* VERSION 4.3 Patch 1 - 2024-02-29
- BUG FIX: tests: "make test" could fail because of a bad test. This
has been fixed. There are no actual code changes to any of the programs
in Remind compared to 04.03.00.
* VERSION 4.3 Patch 0 - 2024-02-29
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: If Remind is compiled on a system that supports
inotify, then in server mode (-z0 or -zj) it monitors the reminders file
and restarts itself if it detects a change, and also notifies the client.
Moving inotify support directly into Remind means that tkremind no longer
has to invoke a separate inotifywait process.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Set the CLOEXEC flag on files we open so we
don't leak file descriptors to programs that we run. While I don't
think there's a security issue here (any program you run can do
anything as your userid anyway) it's best to be clean and tidy.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Add localization for the Catalan language, courtesy
of Eloi Torrents.
- IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Add a .desktop file and icon so TkRemind can be
integrated into the desktop menu system, courtesy of Eloi Torrents.
- CHANGE: Add a new server mode with the "-zj" flag. This is just
like "-z0" except it uses JSON messages to communicate with the
client rather than an ad-hoc protocol. The "-z0" mode is still
supported, but is deprecated.
- CHANGE: In server mode (-z0 or -zj) any RUN-type reminders, or message
commands of the "-kcommand" type are run with standard input and standard
output connected to /dev/null. NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY: If you previously
relied on RUN-type reminders to pop up reminders in TkRemind, they no
longer do. If you want this, you'll have to get the command that you
run to pop up its own window with "xmessage" or something similar.
- IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Make the "Go to date..." dialog non-modal.
- CHANGE: remind: Allow the argument to easterdate() and
orthodoxeaster() to be omitted, in which case it defaults to
today().
- BUG FIX: Miscellaneous man page fixes.
- BUG FIX: Fix a leap-year edge-case. The reminder: REM 29 MSG whatever
was not triggered on Feb 29 of leap years.
- BUG FIX: rem2html: Make the version of rem2html track the version of
Remind. Noted by Ian! D. Allen.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Feb 6 15:51:27 UTC 2024 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 9 - 2024-02-04
- CHANGE: remind: Do not attempt to guess terminal background color on
startup. Only obtain it as needed. This can prevent mojibake from
appearing on terminals that don't support the color query escape
sequence.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Add new system variables $NumFullOmits,
$MaxFullOmits, $NumPartialOmits and $MaxPartialOmits.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Issue a warning if someone OMITs every possible date.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: In several error messages complaining about limits
being exceeded, include the actual limit in the error message. Clarify
the man page regarding limits on the number of OMITs.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: The expression STRING * INT or INT * STRING
is now accepted and yields a string that is INT concatenations of the
origina STRING. In this case, INT must be non-negative and the total
string length can't exceed $MaxStringLen.
- DOCUMENTATION: Add "Astronomical Algorithms" by Jean Meeus to bibliography.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Update address of the Free Software Foundation in the
license file.
- DOCUMENTATION: Note that rem2ps is deprecated and will not received any
new features. Further development will happen on rem2pdf.
- BUG FIX: Preserve the filename() and priority context for queued reminders.
Previously, the filename information was lost and the priority was
coming from uninitialized memory (yikes!). bug found by Alexander
Möller.
- BUG FIX: build.tk: Various minor improvements.
- BUG FIX: remind: In server mode, if we de-queue a reminder without
triggering it, issue a "NOTE queued %d" message to update the
client's notion of the queue size.
- BUG FIX: tkremind: Fix typo found by Lorenzo Bazzanini.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Dec 15 09:23:57 UTC 2023 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 8 - 2023-12-14
- NEW FEATURE: Add the $MaxLateMinutes system variable. This suppresses
a queued time reminder if the current time is more than $MaxLateMinutes
past the trigger time. (This typically only occurs if the computer
has been suspended/hibernated and then resumed.)
- IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: If an error occurs during printing, catch it
and change the Queue... button to Errors... (the same way errors in
reminder files are handled.)
- IMPROVEMENT: rem2html: add the --utf8 flag to set the HTML charset to
UTF-8.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENTS: Refactor some of the C code; use symbolic exit
statuses and file descriptors for stdin/stdout/stderr where possible.
- BUG FIX: configure.in: Use better option detection so we don't use the
unsupported option -ffat-lto-objects if compiling with clang instead of gcc.
- BUG FIXES: Many fixes to man pages, some by Jochen Sprickerhof
- MINOR BUG FIX: If Remind puts itself in the background, only close
stdout/stderr if they are not associated with a terminal. If
we close a descriptor, dup /dev/null onto it.
- MINOR BUG FIX: Catch SIGCONT when running in daemon/background mode.
This forces the select() call to be interrupted so we can update the
sleep time. This really only matters if the computer or the background
Remind process is suspended and then resumed.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Oct 9 18:39:05 UTC 2023 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 7 - 2023-10-09
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: On 32-bit systems, attempt to use a 64-bit time_t
if the C library supports that. This lets Remind work properly with
dates after 2038 in the few cases it has to call mktime() internally.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Attempt to obtain the terminal background
color using an OSC sequence. This normally only happens if standard
output is a terminal, but can be forced with the '-@..,t' option.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Add "--version" long option to print out
Remind's version and exit.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Use a higher-resolution PNG image for
the icon.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind-conf-mode.el: Update highlighting rules
courtesy of Bill Benedetto
- MINOR CHANGE: Make AT optional. If we encounter a TIME in a REM
command, implicitly begin an AT clause.
- DOCUMENTATION: Many minor fixes and improvements courtesy of Dan Jacobson.
- BUG FIX: Make "-w0" set the calendar width based on standard output
rather than setting it to zero and causing an infinite loop.
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Tue Sep 12 20:12:40 UTC 2023 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 6 - 2023-09-12
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The "nonomitted()" function takes an optional
extra INT argument called "step". See man page for details. Also
allows the "start" argument to be greater than the "end" argument,
in which case they are effectively swapped.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The "slide()" function takes an optional extra
INT argument called "step", similar to "nonomitted()". See man page
for details.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Added the $ParseUntriggered system variable;
see the man page for details. You almost certainly will never need
to use this.
- NEW FILE: holidays/ie.rem: Added Irish holidays, courtesy of
Amy de Buitléir.
- CHANGE: remind: The "-tn" option sets all REM statement deltas to
++n rather than adding n to any existing REM statement's delta.
Additionally, the corresponding system variable $DeltaOffset has
been renamed to $DeltaOverride.
- NEW OPTION: remind: Add the "-tz" option to explicitly set all
REM statement deltas to zero.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: remind: various documentation improvements.
- BUG FIX: Correct some errors in Italian localization, courtesy of
Emanuele Torre
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Apr 11 13:40:47 UTC 2023 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 5 - 2023-04-11
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: If someone uses OMIT yyyy-mm-dd UNTIL yyyy-mm-dd
give a better error message suggesting THROUGH instead of UNTIL.
- BUG FIX: remind: The fix for the combination of ADDOMIT and SATISFY that
appeared in version 04.02.00 was not complete; the bug has finally been
properly fixed.
- BUG FIX: remind: Remove an unnecessary #include <sys/file.h>.
Nothing needed that and it broke compilation on FreeBSD.
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 4 - 2023-03-15
- NEW FEATURE: Remind: Add "htmlescape" and "htmlstriptags" built-in
functions.
- NEW FEATURE: Rem2PDF: Add the "--wrap, -y" option to ensure that no
printed calendar takes up more than 5 rows. If a calendar would normally
require 6 rows, wrap it so the last day or two appear on the first
row instead of on a sixth row.
- NEW FEATURE: Remind: Improve the -k option to allow specification of
separate commands for immediately-issued vs. queued reminders. For
example:
remind '-kcmd1 %s' '-k:cmd2 %s' ...
will use "cmd1" for immediately-issued reminders and "cmd2" for queued
ones. If you only use '-k:cmd2 %s' then immediately-issued reminders
are simply printed as usual rather than being passed to a command.
- IMPROVEMENT: Remind: Make "SPECIAL MSG" the same as just "MSG" and
the same for MSF, RUN, PS and PSFILE. This effectively lets you use
expression-pasting to determine the type of a REM command; see the
remind(1) man page for details.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: If "make test" fails, output up to 200 lines of diff
so we can see immediately what failed.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Fix some typos; fix TkRemind syntax description.
- TEST FIX: Make tests run reliably regardless of local machine's time zone.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Don't crash if local installation of Tk lacks the
-underlinefg configuration option.
- BUG FIX: examples/defs.rem: Fix up US Thanksgiving example.
- BUG FIX: include/holidays/us.rem: Add logic for US holidays that are
observed on a Friday if the holiday is a Saturday, or on a Monday if the
holiday is a Sunday.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Don't cut off MOON text at the first white-space
character.
- BUG FIX: Remind: prevent functions defined on the command-line (as in
remind '-if(x)=whatever') from segfaulting.
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Fri Feb 10 19:28:53 UTC 2023 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 3 - 2023-02-10
- NEW FEATURE: Remind: add the orthodoxeaster() function to return the
date of Orthodox Easter.
- IMPROVEMENT: Add Greek language support courtesy of JeiEl.
- IMPROVEMENT: Add Greek holiday file courtesy of JeiEl.
- IMPROVEMENT: Fix the Perl code (rem2pdf, rem2html) to silence Perl::Critic
warnings
- IMPROVEMENT: Many internal code tweaks to eliminate many cppcheck
static analysis warnings.
- DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENT: Clarify the distinction between a "time"
and a "duration" as suggested by Ian! D. Allen.
- BUG FIX: Remind: Fix incorrect interaction between sortbanner() and
MSF-type reminders. Bug found by Tim Chase.
- BUG FIX: examples/defs.rem: Fix the calculation of US Tax Day as per
Tavis Ormandy and Tim Chase. Also fixed in include/holidays/us.rem
- BUG FIX: Remind: Add missing #include <fcntl.h> to funcs.c
- BUG FIX: Remind: Fix undefined integer-overflow behavior in built-in abs()
function. Pointed out on IRC by "ubitux".
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Mon Jan 2 09:24:28 UTC 2023 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 2 - 2023-01-01
- NEW FEATURE: Remind: Add the NOQUEUE modifier to the REM statement for
explicitly telling Remind not to queue a timed reminder.
- NEW FEATURE: Remind: Add soleq() function to return the DATETIME of
solstices and equinoxes. See $SysInclude/seasons.rem for an example
of how to use the function.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Update examples/astro to include solstices and equinoxes.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Provide better error indication if showing today's
reminders fails on startup.
- BUG FIX: Remind: Refuse to read world-writable directories.
- BUG FIX: Tests depended on the actual date of the test run. This has
been fixed.
- INTERNAL CHANGE: Remind: Change inappropriately-named "Julian" variables
to "DSE" (= Days Since Epoch) since they weren't really holding true
Julian dates.
- INTERNAL CHANGE: Add "SPDX-License-Identifier" tags to most files.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Dec 16 08:57:42 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 1 - 2022-12-15
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: If "Extra Remind Options" contains -m, make
TkRemind start the calendar with Monday instead of Sunday.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Sample files: Add French holidays courtesy of
Clément Bœsch.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: A few performance fixes, likely not even noticeable in
most cases.
- MINOR FIXES: Fix misleading comments in the source code.
- MINOR FIX: Remove a bunch of dead code in the moon-phase routines.
- MINOR FIX: Remove unnecessary %"...%" markers in holidays/us.rem
- MINOR FIX: Don't use the -ffat-lto-objects if we're compiling with Clang.
- MINOR FIX: Remind: Fix a broken printf-format string (need to double up on %
to get a literal % in the output.)
- BUG FIX: Make test suite pass regardless of the date on which it is run.
D'oh!!!
- BUG FIX: Make sure the banner gets printed each time through a "*N"
command-line option loop.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Oct 14 15:39:42 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.2 Patch 0 - 2022-10-14
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Allow weekdays to be globally-omitted. For example:
OMIT Saturday Sunday
globally-omits all Saturdays and Sundays.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add ansicolor() built-in function to make it easier
to colorize reminders on the terminal. Suggested by Tim Chase.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add several special variables related to the color
mode: $UseVTColors, $UseBGVTColors, $Use256Colors, $UseTrueColors and
$TerminalBackground. Based on a suggestion by Tim Chase.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add utctolocal() and localtoutc() built-in functions.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add timezone() built-in function.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add trigtags() function per suggestion from Tim Chase.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The $AddBlankLines system variable controls whether or
not a blank line is added after each reminder.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The built-in functions columns() and rows() return the
width and height of the terminal (in character positions) respectively.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The built-in function columns("string") returns the
number of columns occupied by "string" on the terminal, taking into account
double-width Unicode characters and zero-width ANSI escape sequences.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: You can add custom substitution sequences of the form
%{name} or %*{name} that end up calling the function subst_name and using
its return value as the replacement for the substitution sequence.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the FUNSET command to undefine a user-defined
function.
- NEW FILES: Add standard include files holidays/jewish.rem and
ansitext.rem (the latter defines standard ANSI escape codes for
changing text attributes such as bold, underline, etc.)
- NEW EXAMPLES: add examples/alignmemt.rem, examples/ansitext and
examples/astro
- BUG FIX: remind: Make MSF correctly format UTF-8 text and text with
embedded ANSI color-changing codes.
- BUG FIX: remind: Make ADDOMIT actually work correctly in a SATISFY-type
REM command. Bug found by Gunther Reißig
- BUG FIX: Convert documentation files and src/lang.h to UTF-8. Patch
from Jochen Sprickerhof.
- BUG FIX: Fix tests in non-UTF-8 locales.
- BUG FIX: Fix a few problems with the include/holidays/us.rem file.
- BUG FIX: remind: Fix an ancient logic error in DBufPutc that hurt
performance.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Clean up code and remove some dead code.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Sep 28 15:06:04 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.1 Patch 0 - 2022-09-25
- NEW FEATURE: remind: "remind -c" now supports the MOON special, printing
the moon phases in the calendar if the locale supports UTF-8 encoding.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: "remind -c" now supports the SHADE special. Works
best with the 256-color extended XTerm palette or 24-bit true-color
terminal escape sequences.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: "remind -c" now supports the WEEK special.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: The new "stdout()" function returns a string describing
where stdout is going. Examples of return values are "TTY" if remind's
output is going to terminal, "FILE" if it's redirected to a plain file,
or "PIPE" if it's going to a pipe. See the man page for all the details.
- NEW FEATURE: Add the "-wt" option to set the calendar width to the terminal
width even if standard output is a pipe. Useful for situations like this:
remind -wt -c .reminders | less -R
- CHANGE: "make install" now no longer strips debugging symbols from the
remind and rem2ps executables. Use "make install-stripped" if you want
them stripped.
- CHANGE: remind: "remind -c" highlights today's date in bold, if
colors are enabled.
- CHANGE: Dump string values with control characters escaped.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Document behavior of DO and filedir() with respect
to symbolic links.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Add home page link to man pages. Suggested by Ian! D.
Allen.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Make date in man pages actually be the release date.
Include Remind version in man pages. Also suggested by Ian! D. Allen.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Fix inaccuracy in how string constants were documented.
- BUG FIX: Makefiles: Pass CFLAGS at link-time so link-time optimization
actually happens. Pointed out by Zolan Puskas.
- BUG FIX: If the first REM command to trigger was a RUN command, the banner
would not print. This has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: replace deprecated 'fgrep' with 'grep -F' (Jochen Sprickerhof)
- BUG FIX: make "make test" depend on "make all" (Jochen Sprickerhof)
- BUG FIX: make "REM ... SATISFY ... MSG foo" respect $DefaultColor. Bug
reported by Gunther Reißig.
- BUG FIX: Don't consider IFTRIG true if we could not compute a trigger date.
Bug noted by Gunther Reißig
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Aug 19 07:52:25 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.0 Patch 3 - 2022-08-16
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: add plain_body and calendar_body JSON keys in -pp...
output.
- BUG FIX: tkremind: Don't create empty files called '&1' when creating
a new reminder.
- BUG FIX: remind: Don't call signal-unsafe functions from signal handler
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Aug 2 21:54:06 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.0 Patch 2 - 2022-08-02
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Allow more forms of OMIT as per Ian D. Allen!'s request:
OMIT Month [THROUGH Month]
OMIT Day Month [THROUGH Day Month]
OMIT Day Month Year [THROUGH Day Month Year]
- BUG FIX: Make $T behave as documented, exactly like trigdate(). $T would
return '1989-12-31' rather than 0 if the trigger date was not valid.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Fix resizing bug for a calendar with 6 rows.
- DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENT: Improve TkRemind documentation; document use
of inotifywait if available.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Jun 4 13:52:17 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.0 Patch 1 - 2022-06-03
- IMPROVEMENT: Add $SuppressLRM system variable to suppress the UTF-8
Left-to-Right mark in "remind -c" output.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Document the "q" sub-option to the "-p" option.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Apr 5 18:53:29 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 4.0 Patch 0 - 2022-04-04
- MAJOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Remind output can effectively be
translated into other languages at run-time. A number of system
variables let you translate English words to another language, and a
mechanism for altering the substitution filter at run-time lets you
translate its output so the results are idiomatic. See the man page
sections "RUN-TIME SUPPORT FOR OTHER LANGUAGES", "RUN-TIME
MODIFICATION OF THE SUBSTITUTION FILTER" and "LANGUAGE PACKS".
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the pad() built-in function
- NEW FEATURE: tkremind: Day numbers can be displayed left-aligned,
centered or right-aligned.
- IMPROVEMENT: contrib/remind-conf-mode: The Emacs syntax-highlighter
has been updated with the latest system variables and functions
and has been made case-insensitive.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind, rem2ps: Use link-time optimization with gcc if
possible.
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Print better diagnostics when errors occur inside
a user-defined function. We now show the stack trace to make it easier
to figure out where the error actually is.
- CHANGE: Add a "q" sub-option to the "-p", "-pp", and "-ppp" options.
This causes Remind *not* to remove the %"...%" marker sequence from
remind bodies.
- BUG FIX: rem2pdf: Make rem2pdf respect the --prefix ./configure flag.
Loosely based on patch by Jonathan Kamens.
- BUG FIX: tkremind: Fix the "-m" flag, which was broken in 03.04.00.
- BUG FIX: Fix the overflow-detection functions so they work with link-time
optimization. The previous versions would be optimized away.
- BUG FIX: Warn if the arguments to the "-@" option are out of range.
Problem noted by Ian! D. Allen.
- BUG FIX: Always interpret $Latitude and $Longitude input values in the
"C" locale. (We do accept localized input, but warn.)
- BUG FIX: Fix many spelling mistakes caught by Jens Schleusener
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Mar 26 18:00:17 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- remind-nostrip.patch removed, no longer needed
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sun Mar 20 21:22:30 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- nostrip-patch removed, does no longer apply, and no longer needed
- Version 3.4 Patch 2 - 2022-03-14
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add syntactic sugar to simplify some common
types of reminders. See "SYNTACTIC SUGAR FOR REM" in the remind
man page. Based on suggestions from Ian! D. Allen.
- CHANGE: examples/defs.rem: The examples file has been updated to use
the newer syntactic sugar.
- CHANGE: remind: Always parse the body of REM statements to catch
expression errors. In the past, something like:
REM 2025-01-02 MSG [1/0]
would not cause a division-by-zero error except on 2025-01-02. Now,
the error is always caught. NOTE POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: There may
be edge-cases when formerly-valid remind scripts now trigger errors.
However, this is pretty unlikely.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the "trig" function to allow more
expressiveness when creating triggers. See man page for details.
- IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: Tweak the calendar display; improve ability to
customize colors, including supplying two built-in themes. Based on
patch and suggestion from Paulo (last name unknown).
- IMPROVEMENT: tkremind: TkRemind handles errors in reminders scripts
much more unobtrusively. Instead of popping up a modal dialog box
with almost-unreadable error output, it discreetly notifies you of
errors with a button that lets you view the specific error messages
in a more readable format.
- IMPROVEMENT: examples/remind.vim: Update list of keywords in vim syntax
highlighting file.
- IMPROVEMENT: contrib/remind-conf-mode: Update the list of keywords,
functions and variables in the Emacs syntax-highlighting file. Also make
it match them case-insensitively.
- CHANGE: remind: Increase $MaxSatIter default to 1000 instead of 150.
Computers are much faster than when I first wrote remind and they
can handle this higher limit easily. The higher limit also enables
certain reasonable reminders that failed in the past because of the
low SATISFY iteration limit.
- CHANGE: remind: The "||" operator now returns the value of the first
non-zero operand rather than just returning 1 or 0. Similarly, "&&"
returns 0 if either operand is false or the value of the last
operand if both operands are true.
NOTE POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Remind scripts that depend on ||
and && always returning exactly one of 1 or 0 may need
adjustment.
- CHANGE: The || and && operators can accept any non-STRING type as long
as both operands have the same type. The "false" values are defined
as follows; true values are any other value:
INT: 0
TIME: 00:00
DATE: '1990-01-01' (the Remind epoch)
DATETIME: '1990-01-01@00:00' (the Remind epoch)
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Issue diagnostics if an UNTIL or THROUGH date
is earlier than any possible trigger date, as well as an UNTIL date
with a fully-specified date and no repeat ("*N"). Suggestion from
Ian! D. Allen.
- BUG FIX: tkremind: If the same moon phase appeared twice in a month,
TkRemind would not display the first occurrence correctly. This has
been fixed.
- BUG FIX: rem2pdf: Fix typos in the man page.
- BUG FIX: remind: The IF command documentation didn't reflect how it
actually worked; now it does.
- BUG FIX: remind: Use correct UNTIL/THROUGH keyword in error message.
- BUG FIX: rem2pdf: Correct the calculation that warns about an over-full
calendar box. Problem noted by Jonathan Kamens.
- BUG FIX: remind: The "remind -c" output would sometimes be incorrect if
scripts with double-wide characters were used. This has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: remind: The "remind -c" output would sometimes be incorrect
if right-to-left scripts were used in reminders. This has been fixed.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Feb 23 19:37:21 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 3.4 Patch 1 - 2022-02-23
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Support the INSTALL_BASE environment variable for
installing rem2pdf in a non-standard location like your home directory.
This is passed in to rem2pdf's Makefile at build and install time.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: ./configure: Add --disable-perl-build-artifacts flag
to avoid installation of perllocal.pod and .packlist files.
- BUG FIX: tkremind: If the system date rolls over, update the display
to correctly highlight the current date. This worked in older versions
of Remind, but was broken by 03.04.00.
- BUG FIX: rem2pdf: The small calendar font would sometimes be scaled
incorrectly so the small calendar overflowed the box. This has been
fixed.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sun Feb 13 17:39:19 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- VERSION 3.4 Patch 0 - 2022-02-10
- MAJOR CHANGE: Remind and its helpers (except for rem2ps) fully support
UTF-8. If your system locale is a UTF-8 locale and your terminal
can handle UTF-8 encoding, you can enjoy full Unicode support in Remind.
- NEW FEATURE: Added a rem2pdf Remind-to-PDF converter. It can handle
the full UTF-8 character set and features a new PANGO special reminder
type that lets you format the text in the PDF calendar (by changing the
font size, color, underlining, etc.)
- NEW FEATURE: remind: New system variables $Sunday through $Saturday
and $January through $December let you set weekday and month names
to whatever you like, permitting you to produce calendars in your
local language, even if it's not one of the languages Remind supports
by default.
- NEW FEATURE: tkremind: If rem2pdf installed, TkRemind offers you the
choice of PDF or PostScript output in the Print dialog.
- CHANGE: remind: Increase the number of allowed "full OMITs" from 500
to 1000.
- CHANGE: Remove the annoying code that slowed compilation and running
on Windows and Mac OS X. I believe the point has been made and free
OSes have enough of a critical mass that the annoyances are
counter-productive.
- CLEANUP: remind: C source code: Replace the LAT_DEG, LAT_MIN,
LAT_SEC and LON_DEG, LON_MIN, LON_SEC macros with DEFAULT_LATITUDE
and DEFAULT_LONGITUDE.
- CLEANUP: remind: C source code: Remove various unused or obsolete macros.
- BUG FIXES: Minor fixups to groff source and Makefiles courtesy of
Jochen Sprickerhof.
- BUG FIX: Properly support formatting of double-wide characters in the
terminal mode "remind -c" calendar.
- BUG FIX: rem2html: Document how to highlight today with a red border
- BUG FIX: rem2html: Generate and install a man page for rem2html
- BUG FIX: remind: Get rid of LAT_DEG/LAT_MIN/LAT_SEC and
LON_DEG/LON_MIN/LON_SEC macros in favour of DEFAULT_LATITUDE and
DEFAULT_LONGITUDE.
- IMPROVEMENT: All localized languages now use UTF-8 exclusively.
Support for old character encodings like ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2
has been dropped since modern UNIXes have pretty much standardized
on UTF-8.
- CHANGE: remind: Non-English versions of remind *no longer* accept
non-English month- and weekday-names in trigger specifications. This
was a misfeature. NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Jan 25 18:18:20 UTC 2022 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 12 - 2022-01-24
- UPDATE: rem2html: Use JSON::MaybeXS instead of JSON::Any, since JSON::Any
is deprecated. NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY: If you don't have JSON::MaybeXS
installed, you'll need to install it before trying to install or update
rem2html
- NEW FEATURE: Add a DO command. This is just like INCLUDE, but relative
paths are interpreted relative to the directory containing the current
file. That is:
DO somefile.rem
is equivalent to:
INCLUDE [filedir()]/somefile.rem
- NEW FEATURE: Add the $DefaultTDelta system variable and associated
-tt[N] command-line option to set a default time delta for timed
reminder without an explicit +N delta.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Store .tkremindrc in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tkremindrc
or $HOME/.config/tkremindrc as per the XDG Base Directory Specification.
- BUG FIX: remind: Make the shell() built-in function respect
$MaxStringLen
- BUG FIX: Use size_t to track the size of dynamic buffers rather than int.
This permits Remind to read in files with lines longer than 1GB and to
consume more than 1GB of output from the shell() command, both of which
will surely be massively useful. (The old limit was 1GB rather than 2GB
because of details of the dynamic buffer resizing algorithm.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Dec 30 15:20:00 UTC 2021 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 11 - 2021-12-30
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Save the print dialog settings so they persist.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Show queue in sorted order.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Pass "-r" flag to inotifywait
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Draw moon phases with Tk canvas items rather than
using PNG images. This lets them change color along with other TkRemind
preferences.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Underline editable reminders when the pointer enters
them; fire up the editor with either Button-1 or Button-3 for
non-TkRemind-generated reminders.
- NEW FUNCTION: Remind: Add the isany() built-in function.
- IMPROVEMENT: rem2html: Add class names indicating number of rows in calendar
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: In -z0 mode, sleep with higher precision to ensure we
wake as close to possible to each 1-minute boundary.
- IMPROVEMENT: rem2html: Coalesce table.rem-cal CSS into one block. Thanks
to Ian! D. Allen for pointing this out.
- IMPROVEMENT: examples/defs.rem: Modernize the examples and get rid of some
cruft.
- CHANGE: Add $Latitude and $Longitude system variables. Deprecate
$LatDeg, $LatMin, $LatSec, $LongDeg, $LongMin and $LongSec.
- CHANGE: Test: Add "dump $" to test.rem.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Nov 30 15:04:45 UTC 2021 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- Changes to remind
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 10 - 2021-11-30
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Apply window and text colors to all GUI elements
including buttons and status labels.
- NEW FEATURE: The new ADDOMIT keyword can shorten reminder files.
The command:
REM ...whatever... ADDOMIT MSG Foo
behaves identically to:
REM ...whatever... SATISFY 1
IF trigvalid()
OMIT [trigdate()] MSG Foo
ENDIF
For example, Labour Day can be displayed and omitted as follows:
REM Mon 1 Sep SCANFROM -7 ADDOMIT MSG Labour Day
- UPDATE: Update contrib/remind-conf-mode to latest release
- CHANGE: The parser does not auto-convert numbers 90-99 to 1990-1999. This
was messing up things like "DURATION 90". It also means you can no longer
abbreviate the years 1990-1999 as 90-99.
- BUG FIX: Various documentation fixes
- BUG FIX: When switching users with the "-u" option, call initgroups()
to properly set group membership list.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Oct 15 07:30:07 UTC 2021 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- rem2html is included, cleanup of specfile
- CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 9 - 2021-10-14
- NEW FEATURE: Add "-+username" option to tell Remind to trust files owned by
"username" and allow RUN directives in them. Idea courtesy of Ian! D. Allen
- NEW FEATURE: Add "-u+username" variant to tell Remind to switch users to
"username" without disabling RUN directives. Idea courtesy of Ian! D. Allen
- CHANGE: rem2html: rem2html has been moved out of the www/ directory into
its own rem2html/ directory. If your system has the prerequisites
(namely Perl, Getopt::Long and JSON::Any) then rem2html will be installed
by "make install".
- CHANGE: Remove "cm2rem". It was about 20 years obsolete.
- CHANGE: rem2html: Use inline data: URL images for moon images by default,
thus producing a completely stand-alone HTML file.
- CHANGE: Remove unnecessary spaces from "remind -pp" JSON output.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Various man page fixes and tweaks.
- BUG FIX: rem2html: Tweak the default CSS stylesheet; more rational
handling of rem2html command-line options.
- BUG FIX: remind: "remind -c" would sometimes highlight *two* days as
"today"; this has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: Add a missing #ifdef...#endif and remove a C99-ism. This once again
allows Remind to be compiled with some very old C compilers.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Sep 14 06:33:59 UTC 2021 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 8 - 2021-09-13
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add INCLUDECMD command
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add shellescape() built-in function
- BUG FIX: tkremind: TkRemind would sometimes fill in incorrect initial
values for the reminder-editing form if you clicked on a TkRemind-created
reminder to edit it. This has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: tkremind: Get back better error messages from Remind if you
try to create a reminder with an invalid date specification.
- BUG FIX: remind: Catch integer overflow if we try to evaluate $IntMin * -1
- DOC UPDATES: remind: Minor man page fixes
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Tue May 11 08:50:47 UTC 2021 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 7 - 2021-05-10
- MINOR FIX: Refuse to run "make test" as root --- it would fail
anyway with an obscure message.
- BUG FIX: Remind would sometimes compute incorrect trigger date for:
REM Tue 29 Feb MSG ...
- BUG FIX: Remind would sometimes compute incorrect trigger date for
a date spec like: Tue 31 2021 MSG ...
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Tue Mar 30 21:48:24 UTC 2021 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 6 - 2021-03-30
- test/test.rem: Change local to en_US.utf-8 only if current locale
is not a UTF-8 locale.
- MINOR CHANGE: Remind's arithemtic operators (+, -, *, /) give errors
on overflow rather than silently giving the wrong answer.
- MINOR CHANGE: Add $IntMin and $IntMax system variables.
- DOCUMENTATION FIX: Document that TkRemind now requires Tcl/Tk version
8.5 or newer.
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Fri Jan 22 08:16:00 UTC 2021 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- update to remind 3.3.5
- CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 5 - 2021-01-21
- NEW FEATURE: tkremind: Add ability to change fonts and colors from
within TkRemind "Options" dialog.
- CHANGE: tkremind: TkRemind now requires Tcl/Tk 8.5 or newer.
- CHANGE: tkremind: You can specify the location of the options
file on the command-line if you want to use one other than ~/.tkremindrc
- CLEANUP: tkremind: Remove "Apply Options" from Options dialog; we only
need "Save Options".
- DOC FIX: Add missing release note in 3.3.4 notes regarding
setpagedevice patch
- DOC FIX: tkremind: Document shortcut keys.
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Tue Jan 12 15:50:42 UTC 2021 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- update to remind 3.3.4
- CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 4 - 2021-01-12
- NEW FEATURE: If "inotifywait" is installed, TkRemind uses it to refresh
the calendar display right away when the reminders file/directory is updated.
This makes TkRemind react almost instantly if external tools are editing
or updating reminders.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: rem2ps has a new '-x' option; this puts the day numbers
on the top-left of the day's box instead of the top-right.
- MINOR FIXES: A typo in remind.1 was fixed; additional comments regarding
UNTIL were added.
- BUG FIX: rem2ps: Call setpagedevice to set page size
Based on a patch from Jonathan Kamens
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Mon Nov 9 13:47:55 UTC 2020 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- update to remind 3.3.3
- CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 3 - 2020-11-09
- BUG FIX: Fix startup crash in TkRemind if "Show Today's Reminders on
Startup" is enabled (which, unfortunately, is the default.) Bug reported
by Martin Ziemer.
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Sun Nov 8 21:21:33 UTC 2020 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- update to remind 3.3.2
- CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 3.3 Patch 2 - 2020-11-08
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: Add MAYBE-UNCOMPUTABLE keyword; see the man page
and discussion at
https://dianne.skoll.ca/pipermail/remind-fans/2020/003745.html
- CHANGE: TkRemind always invokes Remind with the "-itkremind=1" option,
even when printing. NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY: This is a behavior change!
When you print from TkRemind, we also invoke Remind with "-itkprint=1"
so you can detect that PostScript is being generated.
- CHANGE: The maxmimum length of a variable name has been increased from
16 characters to 64 characters. Modern computers have plenty of memory.
- BUG FIXES: Minor documentation updates, typo fixes, clarifications, etc.
- BUG FIX: Fix calendar-drawing alignment errors when displaying UTF-8
strings with zero-width combining characters and strings with tabs.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind would mess up placement of the WEEK special if invoked
with the "-m" option. This has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind would sometimes fail with an error message when editing
a reminder; this is because it was interpreting months 08 and 09 as
illegal octal numbers. This has been fixed.
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Fri Mar 20 19:49:55 UTC 2020 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- update to remind 3.3.1
- CHANGE: For overlapping multi-day events, issue a reminder for the
most *recent* event rather than the earliest event. NOTE
INCOMPATIBILITY: This is a behavior change!
- CHANGE: Do not convert 90-99 to 1990-1999 when parsing numbers to
recognize years. NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY: This is a behavior change!
- CHANGE: Revert change to -y option that included filename and line
number in the hash.
- CHANGE: Retain newlines (produced by %_) in JSON output.
- FIX: Document $FormWidth system variable
- FIX: Highlight today's date in "remind -c" output
- FIX: Eliminate compiler warnings on Ubuntu 18.04.
- IMPROVEMENT: Allow times to be specified either in 24-hour mode
(HH:MM or HH.MM) or AM/PM mode (HH:MMam; HH:MMpm, etc.)
- IMPROVEMENT: Allow DURATION to be specified as a time (1:30) or a
number of minutes (90).
- IMPROVEMENT: If terminal size can be determined, set $FormWidth to
terminal width - 8; if not, set $FormWidth to 72.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: Add the "ampm()" built-in function.
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Sat Feb 1 11:46:46 UTC 2020 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- update to remind-3.3.0
- FIX: rem2ps: Add a %%PageBoundingBox: document structuring convention
comment.
- FIX: rem2ps: Ignore unknown SPECIAL-type reminders.
- IMPROVEMENT: In calendar mode ("-c" option), Remind automatically adjusts
the width of the calendar to fit the terminal window if standard output
is a TTY.
- IMPROVEMENT: Add JSON-based output with "remind -pp" and "remind -ppp"
The JSON-based intermediate format preserves a lot more information
about the original reminder, allowing back-ends more insight into
the intent of the reminder, the recurrence used, etc. See the documentation
in "man rem2ps"
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind can "reverse-engineer" reminders that it creates
using the additional information in the "remind -pp" format, so it
doesn't create or use ugly comment blocks to delimit the reminders
it creates.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Add popup help to most buttons and controls.
- NEW FEATURE: Add support for $DefaultColor system variable, suggested
by Tim Chase.
- NEW FEATURE: The "-@[n][,m]" command-line option allows colored reminders
in Agenda Mode as well as in Calendar Mode. It also adds support for
terminal emulators that can handle the xterm 256-color escape sequences
as well as the true 24-bit color escape sequences.
- CHANGE: SPECIALs are now case-insensitive. Before, only SPECIAL COLOR
would work. Now you can use Special Color, special color, etc.
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Sat Jan 4 10:11:59 UTC 2020 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- defattr still needed to support SLE11-SP4
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Sat Jan 4 10:04:23 UTC 2020 - Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
- update to remind-3.2.0
- removed buildroot and defattr calls from spec. No londer needed.
- IMPROVEMENT: Add support for events spanning multiple days (with AT
and DURATION). Add trigeventstart() and trigeventduration()
introspection functions; see "MULTI-DAY EVENTS" in the man page.
- IMPROVEMENT: Add introspection functions trigback(), trigdelta(),
trigduration(), trigfrom(), trigpriority(), trigrep(),
trigscanfrom(), trigtimedelta(), trigtimerep(), and triguntil(). See
man page for details; thanks to Tim Chase for the suggestion.
- IMPROVEMENT: TkRemind: Use PNG images for the next month / previous
month buttons rather than -> and <-. Also use nice anti-aliased
moon phase images instead of ugly blocky bitmaps.
- CHANGE: Modify addition so that previously-illegal combinations
TIME + TIME, TIME + DATETIME and DATETIME + TIME are now allowed.
Also allow DATETIME - TIME. If t1 and t2 are expressions of type TIME
and dt is an expression of type DATETIME, then the following are now
equivalent (before, the expressions on the left-hand side would fail
with a "Type mismatch" error.)
t1 + t2 == t1 + coerce("INT", t2)
dt + t2 == dt + coerce("INT", t2)
t1 + dt == coerce("INT", t1) + dt
dt - t2 == dt - coerce("INT", t2)
- DOC FIX: Document previously-undocumented $MaxStringLen system variable
- DOC FIX: Various minor documentation fixes.
- BUG FIX: Specifying a DURATION without an AT clause results in an error.
Before, it would be accepted but not do anything useful.
- BUG FIX: Catch potential date overflow in slide() function
- BUG FIX: Fix compile error when compiling Romanian version; eliminate
compiler warning when compiling non-English versions.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Fix startup failure of TkRemind if options are at
default. :(
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Fri Aug 14 15:32:07 UTC 2015 - puzel@suse.com
- update to remind-3.1.15
- BUG FIX: Fix a buffer overflow found by Alexander Keller
(CVE-2015-5957)
- BUG FIX: Make parser reject an AT followed by more than one time.
- BUG FIX: Make parser reject repeated delta or *repeat values.
- NEW FEATURE: Putting the line __EOF__ in a .rem file causes
Remind to treat it as end-of-file.
- IMPROVEMENT: Use better PNG images for moons in the HTML display
- BUG FIX: The "-n" command-line option should really run in
"ADVANCE_MODE" rather than "CAL_MODE" internally; otherwise,
the substitution sequences may be misinterpreted.
- BUG FIX: A typo in clearing out MD5 sum context has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: Typo in Spanish translation was fixed.
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Mon Apr 22 20:28:03 UTC 2013 - puzel@suse.com
- update to remind-3.1.13
- BUG FIX: Sunrise/Sunset calculations greatly improved thanks to
John McGowan. Accuracy should now be within a couple of
minutes in most places.
- BUG FIX: Allow specification of margins as low as 0 points in
rem2ps, courtesy of Jonathan Kamens.
- BUG FIX: Permit compilation with gcc 2.95 (which doesn't allow
variable declarations after non-declaration statements in a
block.)
- BUG FIX: Several minor documentation errors corrected courtesy
of Simon Ruderich.
- BUG FIX: Spurious test harness failure was fixed.
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Tue Feb 28 11:42:15 UTC 2012 - puzel@suse.com
- update to remind-3.1.12
- NEW FEATURE: Many substitution sequences "%x" have an alternate
mode denoted by "%*x". This alternate mode leaves out
prepositions. For example, in English "%i" might yield "on
01-25" while "%*i" yields only "01-25".
- BUG FIX: The "dusk" and "dawn" calculations were completely
wrong. They have been fixed. Also, sunrise/sunset calculations
have been tweaked, so the results may be off by a minute or two
compared to previous versions of Remind.
- BUG FIX: For some inexplicable reason, dawn was considered to
happen when the sun was 14 degrees below the horizon instead of
the standard 6 degrees for Civil Dawn. This has been fixed.
- BUG FIXES: Clarified the man pages and fixed some typos.
- BUG FIX: Add THROUGH to the remind.vim syntax highlighting file.
- ENHANCEMENT (?): Allow SPECIAL COLOR to be spelled SPECIAL
COLOUR.
- BUG FIX: Apply minor Debian cleanups reported by Kurt B. Kaiser.
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Mon Feb 20 06:17:56 UTC 2012 - mrdocs@opensuse.org
- disable make check - it breaks the build
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Mon Feb 13 10:54:29 UTC 2012 - coolo@suse.com
- patch license to follow spdx.org standard
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Wed Dec 22 12:32:25 UTC 2010 - puzel@novell.com
- clean up specfile
- enable 'make check' again
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Tue Nov 2 11:10:39 UTC 2010 - puzel@novell.com
- update to remind-3.1.10
- add the THROUGH keyword. You can omit blocks of dates
with: OMIT start THROUGH end
- add support for multibyte characters (eg, UTF-8) in calendar
output. Note that UTF-8 strings are still not supported in
PostScript output.
- add support for UTF-8 line-drawing characters in calendar
output
- you can have multiple TAG clauses in a REM statement
- avoid spawning long-running background processes in "make
test"
- don't declare variables in the middle of statements (old C
compilers choke.)
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Mon Jun 21 07:17:06 UTC 2010 - puzel@novell.com
- update to remind-3.1.9
- New "purge mode" to delete expired reminders. See
the PURGE MODE section of the remind man page.
- Support DURATION in TkRemind. Thanks to Marek Marczykowski.
- Don't change the order of PS and PSFILE reminders. Bug found
by John McGowan.
- "REM 1990-01-01 SATISFY 1" would yield a spurious parse error
in earlier versions of Remind.
- Yom HaShoah is moved to Thursday if it would normally fall on
a Friday. Thanks to Jonathan Kamens for pointing this out.
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Wed Mar 10 08:54:34 UTC 2010 - puzel@novell.com
- update to remind-3.1.8
- Add the $T, $Td, $Tm, $Tw, $Ty, $U, $Ud, $Um, $Uw, $Uy
special variables to make reminder files less wordy. See man page
for details.
- Ignore msgprefix() and msgsuffix() on RUN-type reminders.
- Adjust Remind and Rem2PS so that SHADE specials don't obliterate
earlier MOON specials.
- Fix bug in SCHED calculations if Remind is started in the middle
of a SCHED interval.
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Fri Jan 22 12:09:10 UTC 2010 - puzel@novell.com
- initial package for Contrib, based on obs://home:code933k/remind
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