Re: [Ymusk-public] /alarm comand

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Hullo,

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:22:20AM +0100, Ignacio José Sueiras Fernández wrote:
>  This is my first serious post in this list... so I must say first that ymusk is
> the best mu** client ever made and it will be a reference for the future =)

	Ignacio, there's only you, me and Anastasia on this list, and we are
all already sold out to ymusk. Nice PR speech, though. Keep it somewhere
near for when someone will ask for a good client at the mush. :)

>  Well, I am working in some kind of alarm/notes/dates addon... and want to post
> here what I think it would be nice... to see what you think about it...
> 
>  Well first of all I will include an /alarm command. It will permit
> add/correct/delete alarms in some way... all these from the input window. Later
> I will implement the GUI in TK. To store the alarms, a file will be created on
> ~/ymusk dir... let's say in a file called alarms.ymusk for example.

	If the file resides in ~/ymusk, then I guess it could simply 
be named 'alarms'. Oh, detail: don't forget that someone can have many 
characters, with different alarms. So perhaps character.alarm files
are more in order?


>  It will be simple... if you want more powerful options use external programs...
> but it will be very useful... A simple list of things to do. When you type
> /alarm a list of alarms/dates will be printed on the output window (¿other
> window?... waiting oppinions) 

	I dunno. One or the other is nice. Since I'm a CLI guy, I would go
for the output window directly...

> in plain text or in red color if they are passed
> alarms or today alarms... every alarm will have a number of identification so
> you can easily modify it... The list will be printed when you start ymusk too
> and periodicaly tested...
>  Every alarm will consist of a date dd-mm-yyyy and a line for the description...
> i.e.
>       (1) 14-11-2000 Duel between Pipo and Popo!
>       (2) 16-11-2000 Bye some horses for our house. Date with my Count.
> 
>  I want to ask you if you think that it is useful to put hours too, I mean, if
> you are not online it will be useless and when you start ymusk, the alarms will
> be tested and you will be shown the daily ones and the passed ones (and future
> ones in other color)... so I think it will be useless...

	I think to be able to set a hour can be useful for, e.g., TP events.
We just have to check if the time has already passed when ymusk is 
opened, and show up the messages.

	Another feature we shoud have is recurrent events. So, all in all,
the configuration file could look like:

12:38 14-11-2000 = Lunch with Alvaro
15-11-2000 = Visit Church and repent
10-11-2000 @ 15 days = Go get my paycheck


Talking of time and stuff, I just realized that a function to find out 
what time it is in all the timezones could be cute. Something along the line
of 

/zone spain

would yield something like "12:34am (+ 5 hours)". It's mainly candy,
but it's candy I would like to have. :) Hmmm.... It's decided, it's
added on the wishlist. :)

Joy,
Yanick

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