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@node Calendar/Diary, Document View, Dired, Top
respectively.
@findex appt-activate
- To enable appointment notification, use the command @kbd{M-x
-appt-activate}. With a positive argument, it enables notification;
-with a negative argument, it disables notification; with no argument,
-it toggles. Enabling notification also sets up an appointment list
-for today from the diary file, giving all diary entries found with
-recognizable times of day, and reminds you just before each of them.
+ To enable appointment notification, type @kbd{M-x appt-activate}.
+With a positive argument, it enables notification; with a negative
+argument, it disables notification; with no argument, it toggles.
+Enabling notification also sets up an appointment list for today from
+the diary file, giving all diary entries found with recognizable times
+of day, and reminds you just before each of them.
For example, suppose the diary file contains these lines:
@end example
@vindex appt-message-warning-time
+@vindex appt-warning-time-regexp
@noindent
Then on Mondays, you will be reminded at around 9:20am about your
coffee break and at around 11:50am about lunch. The variable
@code{appt-message-warning-time} specifies how many minutes (default 12)
-in advance to warn you.
+in advance to warn you. This is a default warning time. Each
+appointment can specify a different warning time by adding a piece
+matching @code{appt-warning-time-regexp} (see that variable's
+documentation for details).
You can write times in am/pm style (with @samp{12:00am} standing
for midnight and @samp{12:00pm} standing for noon), or 24-hour
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