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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.
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