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+File: xemacs.info, Node: Holiday Customizing, Next: Date Display Format, Prev: Calendar Customizing, Up: Calendar Customization
+
+Customizing the Holidays
+........................
+
+ Emacs knows about holidays defined by entries on one of several
+lists. You can customize these lists of holidays to your own needs,
+adding or deleting 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 include all the holidays of the religions
+that it knows, 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 individual 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).
+
+ Here is a table of the possible kinds of holiday form. Day numbers
+and month numbers count starting from 1, but "dayname" numbers count
+Sunday as 0. The element STRING is always the name of the holiday, as
+a string.
+
+`(holiday-fixed MONTH DAY STRING)'
+ A fixed date on the Gregorian calendar. MONTH and DAY are
+ numbers, STRING is the name of the holiday.
+
+`(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.
+
+`(holiday-hebrew MONTH DAY STRING)'
+ A fixed date on the Hebrew calendar. MONTH and DAY are numbers,
+ STRING is the name of the holiday.
+
+`(holiday-islamic MONTH DAY STRING)'
+ A fixed date on the Islamic calendar. MONTH and DAY are numbers,
+ STRING is the name of the holiday.
+
+`(holiday-julian MONTH DAY STRING)'
+ A fixed date on the Julian calendar. MONTH and DAY are numbers,
+ STRING is the name of the holiday.
+
+`(holiday-sexp SEXP STRING)'
+ A date calculated by the Lisp expression SEXP. The expression
+ should use the variable `year' to compute and return the date of a
+ holiday, or `nil' if the holiday doesn't happen this year. The
+ value of SEXP must represent the date as a list of the form
+ `(MONTH DAY YEAR)'. STRING is the name of the holiday.
+
+`(if CONDITION HOLIDAY-FORM &optional HOLIDAY-FORM)'
+ A holiday that happens only if CONDITION is true.
+
+`(FUNCTION [ARGS])'
+ A list of dates calculated by the function FUNCTION, called with
+ arguments ARGS.
+
+ 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 init file:
+
+ (setq other-holidays '((holiday-fixed 7 14 "Bastille Day")))
+
+ *Note Init File::.
+
+The holiday form `(holiday-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:
+
+ (holiday-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
+ '((holiday-hebrew 10 2 "Last day of Hanukkah")
+ (holiday-islamic 3 12 "Mohammed's Birthday")
+ (holiday-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 Emacs Lisp's `if' or
+the `holiday-sexp' form. For example, American presidential elections
+occur on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of years
+divisible by 4:
+
+ (holiday-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. To include eclipses,
+for example, add `(eclipses)' to `other-holidays' and write an Emacs
+Lisp function `eclipses' that returns 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") ... )
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Date Display Format, Next: Time Display Format, Prev: Holiday Customizing, Up: Calendar Customization
+
+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 holds a list of expressions that can involve the variables
+`month', `day', and `year', which are all numbers in string form, and
+`monthname' and `dayname', which are 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))
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Time Display Format, Next: Daylight Savings, Prev: Date Display Format, Up: Calendar Customization
+
+Time Display Format
+...................
+
+ The calendar and diary by default display 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 European style, also known
+in the US as military, 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', which are all numbers in string form, and
+`am-pm' and `time-zone', which are both alphabetic strings. The
+default value of `calendar-time-display-form' is as follows:
+
+ (12-hours ":" minutes am-pm
+ (if time-zone " (") time-zone (if time-zone ")"))
+
+Here is a value that provides European style times:
+
+ (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.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Daylight Savings, Next: Diary Customizing, Prev: Time Display Format, Up: Calendar Customization
+
+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 rules
+for daylight savings time vary from place to place and have also varied
+historically from year to year. To do the job properly, Emacs needs to
+know which rules to use.
+
+ Some operating systems keep track of the rules that apply to the
+place where you are; on these systems, Emacs gets the information it
+needs from the system automatically. If some or all of this
+information is missing, Emacs fills in the gaps with the rules
+currently used in Cambridge, Massachusetts. If the resulting rules are
+not what you want, you can tell Emacs the rules to use by setting
+certain variables.
+
+ If the default choice of rules is not appropriate for your location,
+you can tell Emacs the rules to use by setting the variables
+`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)'. The values should be
+`nil' if your area does not use daylight savings time.
+
+ 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 values for Cambridge, Massachusetts are as follows:
+
+ (calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 4 year)
+ (calendar-nth-named-day -1 0 10 year)
+
+That is, the first 0th day (Sunday) of the fourth month (April) in the
+year specified by `year', and the last Sunday of the tenth month
+(October) of that year. If daylight savings time were changed to start
+on October 1, you would set `calendar-daylight-savings-starts' to this:
+
+ (list 10 1 year)
+
+ For a more complex example, suppose daylight savings time begins on
+the first of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. You should set
+`calendar-daylight-savings-starts' to this value:
+
+ (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'.
+
+ The variable `calendar-daylight-time-offset' specifies the
+difference between daylight savings time and standard time, measured in
+minutes. The value for Cambridge, Massachusetts is 60.
+
+ The two variables `calendar-daylight-savings-starts-time' and
+`calendar-daylight-savings-ends-time' specify the number of minutes
+after midnight local time when the transition to and from daylight
+savings time should occur. For Cambridge, Massachusetts both variables'
+values are 120.
+
+\1f
File: xemacs.info, Node: Diary Customizing, Next: Hebrew/Islamic Entries, Prev: Daylight Savings, Up: Calendar Customization
Customizing the Diary
a list of strings, each string a switch starting with `-'. For
example, the value could be `("-Pfoo")' to print on printer `foo'.
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Recursive Edit, Next: Dissociated Press, Prev: Hardcopy, Up: Top
-
-Recursive Editing Levels
-========================
-
- A "recursive edit" is a situation in which you are using XEmacs
-commands to perform arbitrary editing while in the middle of another
-XEmacs command. For example, when you type `C-r' inside a
-`query-replace', you enter a recursive edit in which you can change the
-current buffer. When you exit from the recursive edit, you go back to
-the `query-replace'.
-
- "Exiting" a recursive edit means returning to the unfinished
-command, which continues execution. For example, exiting the recursive
-edit requested by `C-r' in `query-replace' causes query replacing to
-resume. Exiting is done with `C-M-c' (`exit-recursive-edit').
-
- You can also "abort" a recursive edit. This is like exiting, but
-also quits the unfinished command immediately. Use the command `C-]'
-(`abort-recursive-edit') for this. *Note Quitting::.
-
- The mode line shows you when you are in a recursive edit by
-displaying square brackets around the parentheses that always surround
-the major and minor mode names. Every window's mode line shows the
-square brackets, since XEmacs as a whole, rather than any particular
-buffer, is in a recursive edit.
-
- It is possible to be in recursive edits within recursive edits. For
-example, after typing `C-r' in a `query-replace', you might type a
-command that entered the debugger. In such a case, two or more sets of
-square brackets appear in the mode line(s). Exiting the inner
-recursive edit (here with the debugger `c' command) resumes the
-query-replace command where it called the debugger. After the end of
-the query-replace command, you would be able to exit the first
-recursive edit. Aborting exits only one level of recursive edit; it
-returns to the command level of the previous recursive edit. You can
-then abort that one as well.
-
- The command `M-x top-level' aborts all levels of recursive edits,
-returning immediately to the top level command reader.
-
- The text you edit inside the recursive edit need not be the same text
-that you were editing at top level. If the command that invokes the
-recursive edit selects a different buffer first, that is the buffer you
-will edit recursively. You can switch buffers within the recursive edit
-in the normal manner (as long as the buffer-switching keys have not been
-rebound). While you could theoretically do the rest of your editing
-inside the recursive edit, including visiting files, this could have
-surprising effects (such as stack overflow) from time to time. It is
-best if you always exit or abort a recursive edit when you no longer
-need it.
-
- In general, XEmacs tries to avoid using recursive edits. It is
-usually preferable to allow users to switch among the possible editing
-modes in any order they like. With recursive edits, the only way to get
-to another state is to go "back" to the state that the recursive edit
-was invoked from.
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Dissociated Press, Next: CONX, Prev: Recursive Edit, Up: Top
-
-Dissociated Press
-=================
-
- `M-x dissociated-press' is a command for scrambling a file of text
-either word by word or character by character. Starting from a buffer
-of straight English, it produces extremely amusing output. The input
-comes from the current XEmacs buffer. Dissociated Press writes its
-output in a buffer named `*Dissociation*', and redisplays that buffer
-after every couple of lines (approximately) to facilitate reading it.
-
- `dissociated-press' asks every so often whether to continue
-operating. Answer `n' to stop it. You can also stop at any time by
-typing `C-g'. The dissociation output remains in the `*Dissociation*'
-buffer for you to copy elsewhere if you wish.
-
- Dissociated Press operates by jumping at random from one point in the
-buffer to another. In order to produce plausible output rather than
-gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the end of
-one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the next.
-That is, if it has just printed out `president' and then decides to
-jump to a different point in the file, it might spot the `ent' in
-`pentagon' and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'. Long
-sample texts produce the best results.
-
- A positive argument to `M-x dissociated-press' tells it to operate
-character by character, and specifies the number of overlap characters.
-A negative argument tells it to operate word by word and specifies the
-number of overlap words. In this mode, whole words are treated as the
-elements to be permuted, rather than characters. No argument is
-equivalent to an argument of two. For your againformation, the output
-goes only into the buffer `*Dissociation*'. The buffer you start with
-is not changed.
-
- Dissociated Press produces nearly the same results as a Markov chain
-based on a frequency table constructed from the sample text. It is,
-however, an independent, ignoriginal invention. Dissociated Press
-techniquitously copies several consecutive characters from the sample
-between random choices, whereas a Markov chain would choose randomly for
-each word or character. This makes for more plausible sounding results
-and runs faster.
-
- It is a mustatement that too much use of Dissociated Press can be a
-developediment to your real work. Sometimes to the point of outragedy.
-And keep dissociwords out of your documentation, if you want it to be
-well userenced and properbose. Have fun. Your buggestions are welcome.
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: CONX, Next: Amusements, Prev: Dissociated Press, Up: Top
-
-CONX
-====
-
- Besides producing a file of scrambled text with Dissociated Press,
-you can generate random sentences by using CONX.
-
-`M-x conx'
- Generate random sentences in the `*conx*' buffer.
-
-`M-x conx-buffer'
- Absorb the text in the current buffer into the `conx' database.
-
-`M-x conx-init'
- Forget the current word-frequency tree.
-
-`M-x conx-load'
- Load a `conx' database that has been previously saved with `M-x
- conx-save'.
-
-`M-x conx-region'
- Absorb the text in the current buffer into the `conx' database.
-
-`M-x conx-save'
- Save the current `conx' database to a file for future retrieval.
-
- Copy text from a buffer using `M-x conx-buffer' or `M-x conx-region'
-and then type `M-x conx'. Output is continuously generated until you
-type <^G>. You can save the `conx' database to a file with `M-x
-conx-save', which you can retrieve with `M-x conx-load'. To clear the
-database, use `M-x conx-init'.
-
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-File: xemacs.info, Node: Amusements, Next: Emulation, Prev: CONX, Up: Top
-
-Other Amusements
-================
-
- If you are a little bit bored, you can try `M-x hanoi'. If you are
-considerably bored, give it a numeric argument. If you are very, very
-bored, try an argument of 9. Sit back and watch.
-
- When you are frustrated, try the famous Eliza program. Just do `M-x
-doctor'. End each input by typing `RET' twice.
-
- When you are feeling strange, type `M-x yow'.
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Emulation, Next: Customization, Prev: Amusements, Up: Top
-
-Emulation
-=========
-
- XEmacs can be programmed to emulate (more or less) most other
-editors. Standard facilities can emulate these:
-
-Viper (a vi emulator)
- In XEmacs, Viper is the preferred emulation of vi within XEmacs.
- Viper is designed to allow you to take advantage of the best
- features of XEmacs while still doing your basic editing in a
- familiar, vi-like fashion. Viper provides various different
- levels of vi emulation, from a quite complete emulation that
- allows almost no access to native XEmacs commands, to an "expert"
- mode that combines the most useful vi commands with the most
- useful XEmacs commands.
-
- To start Viper, put the command
-
- (viper-mode)
-
- in your init file. *Note Init File::.
-
- Viper comes with a separate manual that is provided standard with
- the XEmacs distribution.
-
-EDT (DEC VMS editor)
- Turn on EDT emulation with `M-x edt-emulation-on'. `M-x
- edt-emulation-off' restores normal Emacs command bindings.
-
- Most of the EDT emulation commands are keypad keys, and most
- standard Emacs key bindings are still available. The EDT
- emulation rebindings are done in the global keymap, so there is no
- problem switching buffers or major modes while in EDT emulation.
-
-Gosling Emacs
- Turn on emulation of Gosling Emacs (aka Unipress Emacs) with `M-x
- set-gosmacs-bindings'. This redefines many keys, mostly on the
- `C-x' and `ESC' prefixes, to work as they do in Gosmacs. `M-x
- set-gnu-bindings' returns to normal XEmacs by rebinding the same
- keys to the definitions they had at the time `M-x
- set-gosmacs-bindings' was done.
-
- It is also possible to run Mocklisp code written for Gosling Emacs.
- *Note Mocklisp::.
-
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-File: xemacs.info, Node: Customization, Next: Quitting, Prev: Emulation, Up: Top
-
-Customization
-*************
-
- This chapter talks about various topics relevant to adapting the
-behavior of Emacs in minor ways.
-
- All kinds of customization affect only the particular Emacs job that
-you do them in. They are completely lost when you kill the Emacs job,
-and have no effect on other Emacs jobs you may run at the same time or
-later. The only way an Emacs job can affect anything outside of it is
-by writing a file; in particular, the only way to make a customization
-`permanent' is to put something in your init file or other appropriate
-file to do the customization in each session. *Note Init File::.
-
-* Menu:
-
-* Minor Modes:: Each minor mode is one feature you can turn on
- independently of any others.
-* Variables:: Many Emacs commands examine Emacs variables
- to decide what to do; by setting variables,
- you can control their functioning.
-* Keyboard Macros:: A keyboard macro records a sequence of keystrokes
- to be replayed with a single command.
-* Key Bindings:: The keymaps say what command each key runs.
- By changing them, you can "redefine keys".
-* Syntax:: The syntax table controls how words and expressions
- are parsed.
-* Init File:: How to write common customizations in the init file.
-* Audible Bell:: Changing how Emacs sounds the bell.
-* Faces:: Changing the fonts and colors of a region of text.
-* Frame Components:: Controlling the presence and positions of the
- menubar, toolbars, and gutters.
-* X Resources:: X resources controlling various aspects of the
- behavior of XEmacs.
-