Remind

[Lenore Horner]

On Aug 14, 2009, at 16:42 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 22:00, Lenore Horner wrote:
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>> I'm trying to learn the calendar tool Remind and am having trouble  
>> using color.  I have groups of entries that I'd like to color the  
>> same way and I really don't want to have to type
>> special color 255 0 0
>> every time I want an appointment to show in red.  I've tried using  
>> both set and fset to create shortcuts to no avail - they all  
>> complain that special is unknown.  Does anyone have any ideas how I  
>> might do this?
>>
>> I thought I could get this streamlined enough to replace iCal, but  
>> this color business is a pain.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Lenore
>>
>> (I don't know if it will help, but I am trying to install wyrd.   
>> Unfortunately it's not going smoothly.)
>
> I'm not familiar with that software; you might want to ask in a  
> support venue dedicated to that software.
>
A good idea, but I actually gave up before my subscription came back  
(and there was zip in their archives).  I finally got Smultron  
snippets working which dodged the problem by substituting a 2-stroke  
short-cut for the clunkiness.