Notable changes:
* Version 3.2 Patch 0 - 2020-01-03
- 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.
- 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)
- 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: TkRemind: Fix startup failure of TkRemind if options are at
default. :(
* Version 3.1 Patch 17 - 2019-11-15
- SYNTACTIC SUGAR: Make "SCANFROM -n" the same as "SCANFROM [today() - n]"
- BUG FIX: Fix failure when specifying a Jahrzeit in Adar. Fix
courtesy of Dov Feldstern
* Version 3.1 Patch 16 - 2018-11-09
- IMPROVEMENT: Add patch from Stephen Morgan to calculate astronomical and
nautical twilight in addition to civil twilight.
- IMPROVEMENT: Remind accepts DATETIME constants in ISO-8601 format and can
optionally be configured to output them that way too.
* Version 3.1 Patch 15 - 2015-07-27
- BUG FIX: Fix a buffer overflow found by Alexander Keller
- BUG FIX: Fix a typo in this file: was 2014 instead of 2015.
- BUG FIX: Make parser reject an AT followed by more than one time.
- BUG FIX: Make parser reject epeated delta or *repeat values.
* Version 3.1 Patch 14 - 2015-04-24
- 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
- CHANGE: Author name updated from "David" to "Dianne"
- 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.
* Version 3.1 Patch 12 - 2012-01-23
- 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.
* Version 3.1 Patch 11 - 2011-12-16
- 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.
* Version 3.1 Patch 10 - 2010-11-01
- NOTE: This is the 20th anniversary of Remind's first public release.
- ENHANCEMENT: Add the THROUGH keyword. You can omit blocks of dates with:
OMIT start THROUGH end
and the syntax REM start THROUGH end is equivalent to REM start *1 UNTIL end
- ENHANCEMENT: Add support for multibyte characters (eg, UTF-8) in calendar
output. Note that UTF-8 strings are still not supported in PostScript
output.
- ENHANCEMENT: Add support for UTF-8 line-drawing characters in calendar
output.
- ENHANCEMENT: You can have multiple TAG clauses in a REM statement.
- BUG FIX: Avoid spawning long-running background processes in "make test".
- BUG FIX: Don't declare variables in the middle of statements (old C
compilers choke.)
pkgsrc changes:
* Don't heap punishment on Apple and Microsoft users.
close PR#43791.
Changes to pkgsrc
* use INSTALL_SCRIPT from configure (patch-ab).
* update tclsh name, current its version in pkgsrc is 8.4.
CHANGES TO REMIND
* Version 3.1 Patch 9 - 2010-06-20
- MAJOR ENHANCEMENT: New "purge mode" to delete expired reminders. See
the PURGE MODE section of the remind man page.
- ENHANCEMENT: Support DURATION in TkRemind. Thanks to Marek Marczykowski.
- BUG FIX: Don't change the order of PS and PSFILE reminders. Bug found
by John McGowan.
- BUG FIX: "REM 1990-01-01 SATISFY 1" would yield a spurious parse error
in earlier versions of Remind.
- BUG FIX: Yom HaShoah is moved to Thursday if it would normally fall on
a Friday. Thanks to Jonathan Kamens for pointing this out.
* Version 3.1 Patch 8 - 2010-03-09
- ENHANCEMENT: Include some useful scripts in contrib/
- ENHANCEMENT: 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.
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: Set an icon photo window manager resource on TkRemind.
- POLICY CHANGE: Discourage use of Remind on MS Windows or Apple Mac OS X.
- BUG FIX: Ignore msgprefix() and msgsuffix() on RUN-type reminders.
- BUG FIX: Adjust Remind and Rem2PS so that SHADE specials don't obliterate
earlier MOON specials.
- BUG FIX: Fix bug in SCHED calculations if Remind is started in the middle
of a SCHED interval.
CHANGES TO REMIND
* Version 3.1 Patch 5 - 2008-04-15
- MAJOR ENHANCEMENT: If you supply a directory name on the command line
or for an INCLUDE command, then Remind reads all *.rem file in that
directory (in the order returned by "glob")
- ENHANCEMENT: The plain-text calendar ("-c") can draw lines using VT-100
line-drawing characters if invoked as "-cl"
- ENHANCEMENT: The plain-text calendar can approximate SPECIAL COLOR reminders
using VT-100 color escape sequences if invoked as "-cc". (You can combine
the colors and line-drawing characters with -clc or -ccl.)
- ENHANCEMENT: The "-t" option can take a numeric argument n. In this case,
all reminders are assumed to have a delta of +n. (Without the argument,
an infinite delta is assumed, as before.) If a numeric argument is given,
the new system variable $DeltaOffset is set to the argument.
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: The "-i" command-line option can be used to define
a function as well as set a variable.
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: String constants can have embedded quotes "Like \"this"
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: tkremind works better on small screens like that of
the Eee-PC.
- BUG FIX: Minor fix to HTML output courtesy of Ian! Allen.
- BUG FIX: Parse error in calendar mode was fixed.
* Version 3.1 Patch 4 - 2008-02-03
- ENHANCMENT: tkremind respects the "-b1" option and operates in 24-hour
clock mode if the option is supplied.
- ENHANCEMENT: tkremind has been tweaked to look better with Tcl/Tk 8.5.
- CLEANUP: Version is kept only in configure.in instead of two different
places.
- CLEANUP: Added "const" qualifier to many places in the code that previously
lacked it.
- BUG FIX: A rare parsing error involving interaction between SATISFY and
SKIP has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: rem2html would output a horribly-wrong calendar for a 28-day
February starting on Sunday (such as February 2009.) This has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: The "-ivar=value" command-line option failed if Remind re-execed
itself because we overwrote argv[]. This has been fixed.
* Version 3.1 Patch 3 - 2007-10-15
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- rem2html now uses CSS for a much better-looking calendar.
NOTE: rem2html was completely rewritten and some of the command-line
options have changed!
- If a reminder has a DURATION clause, then the starting and ending times
are output in calendar mode.
+ BUG FIXES
- DST rules in "defs.rem" were updated to reflect new US/Canadian DST rules.
- If a REM command cannot compute a trigger date, the SATISFY expression
is not evaluated. This helps avoid spurious error messages in some
reminders.
* Version 3.1 Patch 2 - 2007-09-12
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- build.tk tries to set defaults for location, paper size, etc from an
existing "remind" installation if it detects one.
- In queue mode, wake up once a minute and recalibrate sleep time.
This should make Remind work better on laptops that suspend or
hibernate. Note that "remind -q" does *not* handle date-rollover
well; it simply exits if it notices date rollover. "remind -z0"
(as used by tkremind) handles date rollover properly; it rereads the
reminder file and rebuilds the queue if it notices date rollover.
- tkremind: Added some key bindings to make navigation easier.
- tkremind: Made calendar boxes use space more efficiently.
- remind: The functionality of "rem" is now built into remind. If you
invoke remind as "rem", then it uses a default filename. The installer
sets up "rem" as a symbolic link to "remind".
+ CHANGE
- "remind -p" no longer sorts SPECIAL reminders before non-SPECIAL.
*** THIS MAY AFFECT BACKENDS ***
Backends supplied by Roaring Penguin (rem2ps, rem2html and tkremind)
are known to work properly.
- "remind -p" no longer suppresses any AT-time associated with SPECIAL
reminders.
*** THIS MAY AFFECT BACKENDS ***
Backends supplied by Roaring Penguin (rem2ps, rem2html and tkremind)
are known to work properly.
+ BUG FIXES
- examples/defs.rem: A few corrections to Jewish holidays courtesy of
Art Werschulz.
- src/Makefile.in: Added install-nostripped target.
- SPECIAL COLOR now works more like MSG, including proper support for AT and
for the %" %" escape sequence.
- SPECIAL COLOR is queued correctly if it has an AT clause.
- Using the psshade() or psmoon() functions emits a warning on stderr. You
should use SPECIAL SHADE or SPECIAL MOON instead.
* Version 3.1 Patch 1 - 2007-08-23
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the "nonomitted" function that solves a number of
moving-reminder-in-response-to-holiday problems. The real-world
problems solved are the "moving-garbage-day" problem and the
"six-day-school-cycle" problem.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- A few minor performance improvements in response to profiling runs.
+ BUG FIXES
- Prevent compilation failure with gcc 2.95.
- Fix trailing "s" bug with -k option. This was fixed in Debian's release,
but the Debian maintainer never bothered to let me know.
- Removed obsolete scripts: kall, rem, remind-all.sh, remind-all.csh
- Made "-n" output always use "/" as date separator for consistency with
"-p" and "-s".
- Moon PNG images are transparent. Output of moon phases in rem2html
improved slightly.
- Various man-page fixes.
* Version 3.1 Patch 0 - 2007-07-14
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the FROM clause. This lets you write reminders like:
REM Mon FROM 16 July 2007 UNTIL 13 Aug 2007 MSG Some Mondays...
- Remind now has a new datatype: A DATETIME object represents a date AND
a time (to the nearest minute). DATETIME constants are written
as '2007-09-01@14:33'. Various operators and functions have been
modified to do sensible things with DATETIMEs and several new DATETIME
functions have been added.
- The SPECIAL COLOR reminder type has been hacked to behave more like
a MSG type. It sorts properly and is emitted as a normal reminder
in non-calendar mode. Simlarly, SPECIAL HTML sorts with -g as well.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- TkRemind can e-mail you reminders if you don't dismiss the popup window
after one minute. This is useful if you need to leave your workstation
but want reminders to "follow" you via e-mail.
- A new "-y" option to Remind generates tags for all reminders that lack
a TAG clause. This may be useful for conversion tools that want each
reminder to have a unique identifier.
- A new "tzconvert" function lets you convert datetimes between different
time zones. It's only as good as your C library, so test thoroughly
please! Based on a patch from Stefan Wehr.
- TkRemind sorts reminders by invoking Remind with the '-g' option.
- The time and date separator characters can be changed at runtime by
setting $TimeSep and $DateSep respectively.
- The simple calendar ('-s') option can be immediately followed by an 'a'.
This causes Remind to output reminders with deltas before the actual
trigger date. Based loosely on an idea from Frank Terbeck.
+ MINOR CHANGES
- Default date separator is now '-' instead of '/'
- trigdate() and trigtime() behave differently - they return the integer 0
if the last reminder could not be computed or did not have an AT clause
(respectively).
- Maximum length of variable names has been increased from 12 to 16 characters.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed a potential memory leak in queue.c
- Fixed compile error on Mac OS X.
- Fixed behaviour of "-sa" option so deltas correctly obey omitted days
and the scheduling function (if one is used).
- rem2ps would produce invalid PostScript in some rare cases
(eg, for February 2007). This has been fixed.
CHANGES TO REMIND
* Version 3.0 Patch 24
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Permit the DURATION of a reminder to be as high as you like. Previously,
DURATIONs could be at most 23:59. Fix courtesy of Paul Pelzl.
- The "-n" flag can be usefully combined with "-s", "-p" and "-l" now.
Fix courtesy of Paul Pelzl.
+ BUG FIXES
- The "-k" command escapes all characters except those known to be
safe, rather than attempting to escape only characters thought to be
unsafe.
- Removed the crufty code that supported non-ANSI C compilers.
- Removed all support for non-UNIX/non-Linux systems.
- Fixed a bug in the tokenizer that could make Remind segfault. Fix courtesy
of Stan Tobias.
* Version 3.0 Patch 23
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the COLOR special for putting colored reminders in the calendar.
Supported by the HTML, Tcl/Tk and PostScript back-ends.
- Many minor tweaks to tkremind.
- Added ability to specify paper size in inches or centimetres to rem2ps.
- Added the "-l" option to Remind. This outputs additional information
for back-end programs that use the "-p" output format. Currently
used only by the "tkremind" back-end.
- Fixed dates for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut if 5 Iyar falls on a
Saturday. (Hebrew calendar fix.)
- Added support for the Icelandic language, courtesy of Björn Davíðsson.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed parser error for unterminated date constant: '2005/01/01
