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This is Info file elisp, produced by Makeinfo-1.52 from the input file elisp.texi. This file documents GNU Emacs Lisp. This is edition 2.0 of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, for Emacs Version 19. Published by the Free Software Foundation, 675 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation. File: elisp, Node: Display Table Format, Next: Active Display Table, Up: Display Tables Display Table Format -------------------- A display table is actually an array of 261 elements. - Function: make-display-table This creates and returns a display table. The table initially has `nil' in all elements. The first 256 elements correspond to character codes; the Nth element says how to display the character code N. The value should be `nil' or a vector of glyph values (*note Glyphs::.). If an element is `nil', it says to display that character according to the usual display conventions (*note Usual Display::.). The remaining five elements of a display table serve special purposes, and `nil' means use the default stated below. 256 The glyph for the end of a truncated screen line (the default for this is `$'). *Note Glyphs::. 257 The glyph for the end of a continued line (the default is `\'). 258 The glyph for indicating a character displayed as an octal character code (the default is `\'). 259 The glyph for indicating a control character (the default is `^'). 260 A vector of glyphs for indicating the presence of invisible lines (the default is `...'). *Note Selective Display::. For example, here is how to construct a display table that mimics the effect of setting `ctl-arrow' to a non-`nil' value: (setq disptab (make-display-table)) (let ((i 0)) (while (< i 32) (or (= i ?\t) (= i ?\n) (aset disptab i (vector ?^ (+ i 64)))) (setq i (1+ i))) (aset disptab 127 (vector ?^ ??))) File: elisp, Node: Active Display Table, Next: Glyphs, Prev: Display Table Format, Up: Display Tables Active Display Table -------------------- Each window can specify a display table, and so can each buffer. When a buffer B is displayed in window W, display uses the display table for window W if it has one; otherwise, the display table for buffer B if it has one; otherwise, the standard display table if any. The display table chosen is called the "active" display table. - Function: window-display-table WINDOW This function returns WINDOW's display table, or `nil' if WINDOW does not have an assigned display table. - Function: set-window-display-table WINDOW TABLE This function sets the display table of WINDOW to TABLE. The argument TABLE should be either a display table or `nil'. - Variable: buffer-display-table This variable is automatically local in all buffers; its value in a particular buffer is the display table for that buffer, or `nil' if the buffer does not have any assigned display table. - Variable: standard-display-table This variable's value is the default display table, used when neither the current buffer nor the window displaying it has an assigned display table. This variable is `nil' by default. If neither the selected window nor the current buffer has a display table, and if the variable `standard-display-table' is `nil', then Emacs uses the usual display conventions. *Note Usual Display::. File: elisp, Node: Glyphs, Next: ISO Latin 1, Prev: Active Display Table, Up: Display Tables Glyphs ------ A "glyph" is a generalization of a character; it stands for an image that takes up a single character position on the screen. Glyphs are represented in Lisp as integers, just as characters are. The meaning of each integer, as a glyph, is defined by the glyph table, which is the value of the variable `glyph-table'. - Variable: glyph-table The value of this variable is the current glyph table. It should be a vector; the Gth element defines glyph code G. If the value is `nil' instead of a vector, then all glyphs are simple (see below). Here are the possible types of elements in the glyph table: INTEGER Define this glyph code as an alias for code INTEGER. This is used with X windows to specify a face code. STRING Send the characters in STRING to the terminal to output this glyph. This alternative is not available with X Windows. `NIL' This glyph is simple. On an ordinary terminal, the glyph code mod 256 is the character to output. With X, the glyph code mod 256 is character to output, and the glyph code divided by 256 specifies the "face id number" to use while outputting it. *Note Faces::. If a glyph code is greater than or equal to the length of the glyph table, that code is automatically simple. File: elisp, Node: ISO Latin 1, Prev: Glyphs, Up: Display Tables ISO Latin 1 ----------- If you have a terminal that can handle the entire ISO Latin 1 character set, you can arrange to use that character set as follows: (require 'disp-table) (standard-display-8bit 0 255) If you are editing buffers written in the ISO Latin 1 character set and your terminal doesn't handle anything but ASCII, you can load the file `iso-ascii' to set up a display table which makes the other ISO characters display as sequences of ASCII characters. For example, the character "o with umlaut" displays as `{"o}'. Some European countries have terminals that don't support ISO Latin 1 but do support the special characters for that country's language. You can define a display table to work one language using such terminals. For an example, see `lisp/iso-swed.el', which handles certain Swedish terminals. You can load the appropriate display table for your terminal automatically by writing a terminal-specific Lisp file for the terminal type. File: elisp, Node: Beeping, Next: Window Systems, Prev: Display Tables, Up: Emacs Display Beeping ======= You can make Emacs ring a bell (or blink the screen) to attract the user's attention. Be conservative about how often you do this; frequent bells can become irritating. Also be careful not to use beeping alone when signaling an error is appropriate. (*Note Errors::.) - Function: ding &optional DONT-TERMINATE This function beeps, or flashes the screen (see `visible-bell' below). It also terminates any keyboard macro currently executing unless DONT-TERMINATE is non-`nil'. - Function: beep &optional DONT-TERMINATE This is a synonym for `ding'. - Variable: visible-bell This variable determines whether Emacs should flash the screen to represent a bell. Non-`nil' means yes, `nil' means no. This is effective only if the Termcap entry for the terminal in use has the visible bell flag (`vb') set. File: elisp, Node: Window Systems, Prev: Beeping, Up: Emacs Display Window Systems ============== Emacs works with several window systems, most notably X Windows. Note that both Emacs and the X Window System use the term "window", but use it differently. An Emacs frame is a single window as far as X Windows is concerned; the individual Emacs windows are not known to X Windows at all. - Variable: window-system This variable tells Lisp programs what window system Emacs is running under. Its value should be a symbol such as `x' (if Emacs is running under X Windows) or `nil' (if Emacs is running on an ordinary terminal). - Variable: window-system-version This variable distinguishes between different versions of the X Window System. Its value is 10 or 11 when using X Windows; `nil' otherwise. - Variable: window-setup-hook This variable is a normal hook which Emacs runs after loading your `.emacs' file and the default initialization file (if any), after loading terminal-specific Lisp code, and after running the hook `term-setup-hook'. This hook is used for internal purposes: setting up communication with the window system, and creating the initial window. Users should not interfere with it. File: elisp, Node: Calendar, Next: Tips, Prev: Emacs Display, Up: Top Customizing the Calendar and Diary ********************************** There are many customizations that you can use to make the calendar and diary suit your personal tastes. * Menu: * Calendar Customizing:: Defaults you can set. * Holiday Customizing:: Defining your own holidays. * Date Display Format:: Changing the format. * Time Display Format:: Changing the format. * Daylight Savings:: Changing the default. * Diary Customizing:: Defaults you can set. * Hebrew/Islamic Entries:: How to obtain them. * Fancy Diary Display:: Enhancing the diary display, sorting entries. * Including Diary Files:: Sharing a common diary file. * Sexp Diary Entries:: Fancy things you can do. * Appt Customizing:: Customizing appointment reminders. File: elisp, Node: Calendar Customizing, Next: Holiday Customizing, Up: Calendar Customizing the Calendar ======================== If you set the variable `view-diary-entries-initially' to `t', calling up the calendar automatically displays the diary entries for the current date as well. The diary dates appear only if the current date is visible. If you add both of the following lines to your `.emacs' file: (setq view-diary-entries-initially t) (calendar) they display both the calendar and diary windows whenever you start Emacs. Similarly, if you set the variable `view-calendar-holidays-initially' to `t', entering the calendar automatically displays a list of holidays for the current three month period. The holiday list appears in a separate window. You can set the variable `mark-diary-entries-in-calendar' to `t' in order to place a plus sign (`+') beside any dates with diary entries. Whenever the calendar window is displayed or redisplayed, the diary entries are automatically marked for holidays. Similarly, setting the variable `mark-holidays-in-calendar' to `t' places an asterisk (`*') after all holiday dates visible in the calendar window. There are many customizations that you can make with the hooks provided. For example, the variable `calendar-load-hook', whose default value is `nil', is a normal hook run when the calendar package is first loaded (before actually starting to display the calendar). The variable `initial-calendar-window-hook', whose default value is `nil', is a normal hook run the first time the calendar window is displayed. The function is invoked only when you first enter Calendar mode, not when you redisplay an existing Calendar window. But if you leave the calendar with the `q' command and reenter it, the hook runs again. The variable `today-visible-calendar-hook', whose default value is `nil', is a normal hook run after the calendar buffer has been prepared with the calendar when the current date is visible in the window. One use of this hook is to replace today's date with asterisks; a function `calendar-star-date' is included for this purpose. In your `.emacs' file, put: (setq today-visible-calendar-hook 'calendar-star-date) Another standard hook function adds asterisks around the current date. Here's how to use it: (setq today-visible-calendar-hook 'calendar-mark-today) A corresponding variable, `today-invisible-calendar-hook', whose default value is `nil', is a normal hook run after the calendar buffer text has been prepared, if the current date is *not* visible in the window. File: elisp, Node: Holiday Customizing, Next: Date Display Format, Prev: Calendar Customizing, Up: Calendar Customizing the Holidays ======================== Emacs knows about holidays defined by entries on one of several lists. You can customize theses lists of holidays to your own needs, adding holidays or deleting lists of holidays. The lists of holidays that Emacs uses are for general holidays (`general-holidays'), local holidays (`local-holidays'), Christian holidays (`christian-holidays'), Hebrew (Jewish) holidays (`hebrew-holidays'), Islamic (Moslem) holidays (`islamic-holidays'), and other holidays (`other-holidays'). The general holidays are, by default, holidays common throughout the United States. To eliminate these holidays, set `general-holidays' to `nil'. There are no default local holidays (but sites may supply some). You can set the variable `local-holidays' to any list of holidays, as described below. By default, Emacs does not consider all the holidays of these religions, only those commonly found in secular calendars. For a more extensive collection of religious holidays, you can set any (or all) of the variables `all-christian-calendar-holidays', `all-hebrew-calendar-holidays', or `all-islamic-calendar-holidays' to `t'. If you want to eliminate the religious holidays, set any or all of the corresponding variables `christian-holidays', `hebrew-holidays', and `islamic-holidays' to `nil'. You can set the variable `other-holidays' to any list of holidays. This list, normally empty, is intended for your use. Each of the lists (`general-holidays'), (`local-holidays'), (`christian-holidays'), (`hebrew-holidays'), (`islamic-holidays'),and (`other-holidays') is a list of "holiday forms", each holiday form describing a holiday (or sometimes a list of holidays). Holiday forms may have the following formats: `(fixed MONTH DAY STRING)' A fixed date on the Gregorian calendar. MONTH and DAY are numbers, STRING is the name of the holiday. `(float MONTH DAYNAME K STRING)' The Kth DAYNAME in MONTH on the Gregorian calendar (DAYNAME=0 for Sunday, and so on); negative K means count back from the end of the month. sTRING is the name of the holiday. `(hebrew MONTH DAY STRING)' A fixed date on the Hebrew calendar. MONTH and DAY are numbers, STRING is the name of the holiday. `(islamic MONTH DAY STRING)' A fixed date on the Islamic calendar. MONTH and DAY are numbers, STRING is the name of the holiday. `(julian MONTH DAY STRING)' A fixed date on the Julian calendar. MONTH and DAY are numbers, STRING is the name of the holiday. `(sexp SEXP STRING)' SEXP is a Lisp expression that should use the variable `year' to compute the date of a holiday, or `nil' if the holiday doesn't happen this year. The value represents the date as a list of the form `(MONTH DAY YEAR)'. STRING is the name of the holiday. `(if BOOLEAN HOLIDAY-FORM &optional HOLIDAY-FORM)' A choice between two holidays based on the value of BOOLEAN. `(FUNCTION &optional ARGS)' Dates requiring special computation; ARGS, if any, are passed in a list to the function `calendar-holiday-function-function'. For example, suppose you want to add Bastille Day, celebrated in France on July 14. You can do this by adding the following line to your `.emacs' file: (setq other-holidays '((fixed 7 14 "Bastille Day"))) The holiday form `(fixed 7 14 "Bastille Day")' specifies the fourteenth day of the seventh month (July). Many holidays occur on a specific day of the week, at a specific time of month. Here is a holiday form describing Hurricane Supplication Day, celebrated in the Virgin Islands on the fourth Monday in August: (float 8 1 4 "Hurricane Supplication Day") Here the 8 specifies August, the 1 specifies Monday (Sunday is 0, Tuesday is 2, and so on), and the 4 specifies the fourth occurrence in the month (1 specifies the first occurrence, 2 the second occurrence, -1 the last occurrence, -2 the second-to-last occurrence, and so on). You can specify holidays that occur on fixed days of the Hebrew, Islamic, and Julian calendars too. For example, (setq other-holidays '((hebrew 10 2 "Last day of Hanukkah") (islamic 3 12 "Mohammed's Birthday") (julian 4 2 "Jefferson's Birthday"))) adds the last day of Hanukkah (since the Hebrew months are numbered with 1 starting from Nisan), the Islamic feast celebrating Mohammed's birthday (since the Islamic months are numbered from 1 starting with Muharram), and Thomas Jefferson's birthday, which is 2 April 1743 on the Julian calendar. To include a holiday conditionally, use either the `if' or the `sexp' form. For example, American presidential elections occur on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of years divisible by 4: (sexp (if (= 0 (% year 4)) (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (1+ (calendar-dayname-on-or-before 1 (+ 6 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian (list 11 1 year)))))) "US Presidential Election")) or (if (= 0 (% displayed-year 4)) (fixed 11 (extract-calendar-day (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (1+ (calendar-dayname-on-or-before 1 (+ 6 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian (list 11 1 displayed-year))))))) "US Presidential Election")) Some holidays just don't fit into any of these forms because special calculations are involved in their determination. In such cases you must write a Lisp function to do the calculation. The function should return a (possibly empty) list of the relevant Gregorian dates among the range visible in the calendar window, with descriptive strings, like this: (((6 27 1991) "Lunar Eclipse") ((7 11 1991) "Solar Eclipse") ... ) File: elisp, Node: Date Display Format, Next: Time Display Format, Prev: Holiday Customizing, Up: Calendar Date Display Format =================== You can customize the manner of displaying dates in the diary, in mode lines, and in messages by setting `calendar-date-display-form'. This variable is a list of expressions that can involve the variables `month', `day', and `year', all numbers in string form, and `monthname' and `dayname', both alphabetic strings. In the American style, the default value of this list is as follows: ((if dayname (concat dayname ", ")) monthname " " day ", " year) while in the European style this value is the default: ((if dayname (concat dayname ", ")) day " " monthname " " year) The ISO standard date representation is this: (year "-" month "-" day) This specifies a typical American format: (month "/" day "/" (substring year -2)) File: elisp, Node: Time Display Format, Next: Daylight Savings, Prev: Date Display Format, Up: Calendar Time Display Format =================== In the calendar, diary, and related buffers, Emacs displays times of day in the conventional American style with the hours from 1 through 12, minutes, and either `am' or `pm'. If you prefer the "military" (European) style of writing times--in which the hours go from 00 to 23--you can alter the variable `calendar-time-display-form'. This variable is a list of expressions that can involve the variables `12-hours', `24-hours', and `minutes', all numbers in string form, and `am-pm' and `time-zone', both alphabetic strings. The default definition of `calendar-time-display-form' is as follows: (12-hours ":" minutes am-pm (if time-zone " (") time-zone (if time-zone ")")) Setting `calendar-time-display-form' to (24-hours ":" minutes (if time-zone " (") time-zone (if time-zone ")")) gives military-style times like `21:07 (UT)' if time zone names are defined, and times like `21:07' if they are not. File: elisp, Node: Daylight Savings, Next: Diary Customizing, Prev: Time Display Format, Up: Calendar Daylight Savings Time ===================== Emacs understands the difference between standard time and daylight savings time--the times given for sunrise, sunset, solstices, equinoxes, and the phases of the moon take that into account. The default starting and stopping dates for daylight savings time are the present-day American rules of the first Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October, but you can specify whatever rules you want by setting `calendar-daylight-savings-starts' and `calendar-daylight-savings-ends'. Their values should be Lisp expressions that refer to the variable `year', and evaluate to the Gregorian date on which daylight savings time starts or (respectively) ends, in the form of a list `(MONTH DAY YEAR)'. Emacs uses these expressions to determine the starting date of daylight savings time for the holiday list and for correcting times of day in the solar and lunar calculations. The default value of `calendar-daylight-savings-starts' is this, (calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 4 year) which computes the first 0th day (Sunday) of the fourth month (April) in the year specified by `year'. If daylight savings time were changed to start on October 1, you would set `calendar-daylight-savings-starts' to (list 10 1 year) For a more complex example, suppose daylight savings time begins on the first of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. You would set `calendar-daylight-savings-starts' to (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (calendar-absolute-from-hebrew (list 1 1 (+ year 3760)))) because Nisan is the first month in the Hebrew calendar and the Hebrew year differs from the Gregorian year by 3760 at Nisan. If there is no daylight savings time at your location, or if you want all times in standard time, set `calendar-daylight-savings-starts' and `calendar-daylight-savings-ends' to `nil'. File: elisp, Node: Diary Customizing, Next: Hebrew/Islamic Entries, Prev: Daylight Savings, Up: Calendar Customizing the Diary ===================== Ordinarily, the mode line of the diary buffer window indicates any holidays that fall on the date of the diary entries. The process of checking for holidays can take several seconds, so including holiday information delays the display of the diary buffer noticeably. If you'd prefer to have a faster display of the diary buffer but without the holiday information, set the variable `holidays-in-diary-buffer' to `nil'. The variable `number-of-diary-entries' controls the number of days of diary entries to be displayed at one time. It affects the initial display when `view-diary-entries-initially' is `t', as well as the command `M-x diary'. For example, the default value is 1, which says to display only the current day's diary entries. If the value is 2, both the current day's and the next day's entries are displayed. The value can also be a vector of seven elements: if the value is `[0 2 2 2 2 4 1]' then no diary entries appear on Sunday, the current date's and the next day's diary entries appear Monday through Thursday, Friday through Monday's entries appear on Friday, while on Saturday only that day's entries appear. The variable `print-diary-entries-hook' is a normal hook run after preparation of a temporary buffer containing just the diary entries currently visible in the diary buffer. (The other, irrelevant diary entries are really absent from the temporary buffer; in the diary buffer, they are merely hidden.) The default value of this hook does the printing with the command `lpr-buffer'. If you want to use a different command to do the printing, just change the value of this hook. Other uses might include, for example, rearranging the lines into order by day and time. You can customize the form of dates in your diary file, if neither the standard American nor European styles suits your needs, by setting the variable `diary-date-forms'. This variable is a list of forms of dates recognized in the diary file. Each form is a list of regular expressions (*note Syntax of Regular Expressions: Rexgexps.) and the variables `month', `day', `year', `monthname', and `dayname'. The variable `monthname' matchs the name of the month, capitalized or not, or its three-letter abbreviation, followed by a period or not; it matches `*'. Similarly, `dayname' matchs the name of the day, capitalized or not, or its three-letter abbreviation, followed by a period or not. The variables `month', `day', and `year' match those numerical values, preceded by arbitrarily many zeros; they also match `*'. The default value of `diary-date-forms' in the American style is ((month "/" day "[^/0-9]") (month "/" day "/" year "[^0-9]") (monthname " *" day "[^,0-9]") (monthname " *" day ", *" year "[^0-9]") (dayname "\\W")) Emacs matches of the diary entries with the date forms is done with the standard syntax table from Fundamental mode (*note Syntax::.), but with the `*' changed so that it is a word constituent. The forms on the list must be *mutually exclusive* and must not match any portion of the diary entry itself, just the date. If, to be mutually exclusive, the pattern must match a portion of the diary entry itself, the first element of the form *must* be `backup'. This causes the date recognizer to back up to the beginning of the current word of the diary entry. Even if you use `backup', the form must absolutely not match more than a portion of the first word of the diary entry. The default value of `diary-date-forms' in the European style is this list: ((day "/" month "[^/0-9]") (day "/" month "/" year "[^0-9]") (backup day " *" monthname "\\W+\\<[^*0-9]") (day " *" monthname " *" year "[^0-9]") (dayname "\\W")) Notice the use of `backup' in the middle form because part of the diary entry must be matched to distinguish this form from the following one. File: elisp, Node: Hebrew/Islamic Entries, Next: Fancy Diary Display, Prev: Diary Customizing, Up: Calendar Hebrew- and Islamic-Date Diary Entries ====================================== Your diary file can have entries based on Hebrew or Islamic dates, as well as entries based on our usual Gregorian calendar. However, because the processing of such entries is time-consuming and most people don't need them, you must customize the processing of your diary file to specify that you want such entries recognized. If you want Hebrew-date diary entries, for example, you must include these lines in your `.emacs' file: (setq nongregorian-diary-listing-hook 'list-hebrew-diary-entries) (setq nongregorian-diary-marking-hook 'mark-hebrew-diary-entries) If you want Islamic-date entries, include these lines in your `.emacs' file: (setq nongregorian-diary-listing-hook 'list-islamic-diary-entries) (setq nongregorian-diary-marking-hook 'mark-islamic-diary-entries) If you want both Hebrew- and Islamic-date entries, include these lines: (setq nongregorian-diary-listing-hook '(list-hebrew-diary-entries list-islamic-diary-entries)) (setq nongregorian-diary-marking-hook '(mark-hebrew-diary-entries mark-islamic-diary-entries)) Hebrew- and Islamic-date diary entries have the same formats as Gregorian-date diary entries, except that the date must be preceded with an `H' for Hebrew dates and an `I' for Islamic dates. Moreover, because the Hebrew and Islamic month names are not uniquely specified by the first three letters, you may not abbreviate them. For example, a diary entry for the Hebrew date Heshvan 25 could look like HHeshvan 25 Happy Hebrew birthday! and would appear in the diary for any date that corresponds to Heshvan 25 on the Hebrew calendar. Similarly, an Islamic-date diary entry might be IDhu al-Qada 25 Happy Islamic birthday! and would appear in the diary for any date that corresponds to Dhu al-Qada 25 on the Islamic calendar. As with Gregorian-date diary entries, Hebrew- and Islamic-date entries are nonmarking if they are preceded with an ampersand (`&'). There are commands to help you in making Hebrew- and Islamic-date entries to your diary: `i h d' Add a diary entry for the Hebrew date corresponding to the selected date (`insert-hebrew-diary-entry'). `i h m' Add a diary entry for the day of the Hebrew month corresponding to the selected date (`insert-monthly-hebrew-diary-entry'). `i h y' Add a diary entry for the day of the Hebrew year corresponding to the selected date (`insert-yearly-hebrew-diary-entry'). `i i d' Add a diary entry for the Islamic date corresponding to the selected date (`insert-islamic-diary-entry'). `i i m' Add a diary entry for the day of the Islamic month corresponding to the selected date (`insert-monthly-islamic-diary-entry'). `i i y' Add a diary entry for the day of the Islamic year corresponding to the selected date (`insert-yearly-islamic-diary-entry'). These commands work exactly like the corresponding commands for ordinary diary entries: Move point to a date in the calendar window and the above commands insert the Hebrew or Islamic date (corresponding to the date indicated by point) at the end of your diary file and you can then type the diary entry. If you want the diary entry to be nonmarking, give a numeric argument to the command. File: elisp, Node: Fancy Diary Display, Next: Including Diary Files, Prev: Hebrew/Islamic Entries, Up: Calendar Fancy Diary Display =================== Diary display works by preparing the diary buffer and then running the hook `diary-display-hook'. The default value of this hook hides the irrelevant diary entries and then displays the buffer (`simple-diary-display'). However, if you specify the hook as follows, (add-hook 'diary-display-hook 'fancy-diary-display) then fancy mode displays diary entries and holidays by copying them into a special buffer that exists only for display. Copying provides an opportunity to change the displayed text to make it prettier--for example, to sort the entries by the dates they apply to. As with simple diary display, you can print a hard copy of the buffer with `print-diary-entries'. To print a hard copy of a day-by-day diary for a week by positioning point on Sunday of that week, type `7 d' and then do `M-x print-diary-entries'. As usual, the inclusion of the holidays slows down the display slightly; you can speed things up by setting the variable `holidays-in-diary-buffer' to `nil'. Ordinarily, the fancy diary buffer does not show days for which there are no diary entries, even if that day is a holiday. If you want such days to be shown in the fancy diary buffer, set the variable `diary-list-include-blanks' to `t'. If you use the fancy diary display, you can use the normal hook `list-diary-entries-hook' to sort each day's diary entries by their time of day. Add this line to your `.emacs' file: (add-hook 'list-diary-entries-hook 'sort-diary-entries) For each day, this sorts diary entries that begin with a recognizable time of day according to their times. Diary entries without times come first within each day. File: elisp, Node: Included Diary Files Included Diary Files ==================== If you use the fancy diary display, you can have diary entries from other files included with your own by an "include" mechanism. This facility makes possible the sharing of common diary files among groups of users. Lines in the diary file of this form: #include "FILENAME" includes the diary entries from the file FILENAME in the fancy diary buffer (because the ordinary diary buffer is just the buffer associated with your diary file, you cannot use the include mechanism unless you use the fancy diary buffer). The include mechanism is recursive, by the way, so that included files can include other files, and so on; you must be careful not to have a cycle of inclusions, of course. To enable the include facility, add lines as follows to your `.emacs' file: (add-hook 'list-diary-entries-hook 'include-other-diary-files) (add-hook 'mark-diary-entries-hook 'mark-included-diary-files)