It's there any function to determine current system date is holiday or not in elisp.
function like this.
(is-holiday (current-time))
The answer requires that the user set up a calendar of predefined holidays, like this example. I have included a test holiday for May 9 -- if the user wishes to test out this function on any day other than May 9, the user may wish to change the Arbitrary Test Holiday to whatever day the test is being performed -- after the function has been tested, the test entry can be removed.
For examples of how to format the holidays, please refer to the doc-string for the variable calendar-holidays within the library holidays.el -- e.g., holiday-fixed; holiday-float; holiday-sexp; (lunar-phases); (solar-equinoxes-solstices); holiday-hebrew; holiday-islamic; holiday-bahai; holiday-julian; holiday-chinese; etc.
How can you try out this example?: Block/copy/paste the code into your *scratch* buffer; and type M-x eval-buffer RET; and then type M-x is-holiday RET. It is a fully functional working draft. If you decide that you don't like it after you try it, just restart Emacs and you'll be back to where you were before you tried it.
The testing that was performed was done with the most recent public release of Emacs: GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2014-10-20 on builder10-6.porkrind.org.
(require 'holidays)
(defcustom my-custom-holiday-list (mapcar 'purecopy '(
(holiday-fixed 1 1 "New Year's Day")
(holiday-float 1 1 3 "Martin Luther King Day")
(holiday-float 2 1 3 "President's Day")
(holiday-float 5 1 -1 "Memorial Day")
;; ARBITRARY TEST HOLIDAY -- MAY 9
(holiday-fixed 5 9 "Arbitrary Test Holiday -- May 9")
(holiday-fixed 7 4 "Independence Day")
(holiday-float 9 1 1 "Labor Day")
(holiday-float 10 1 2 "Columbus Day")
(holiday-fixed 11 11 "Veteran's Day")
(holiday-float 11 4 4 "Thanksgiving")
(holiday-fixed 12 25 "Christmas")
(solar-equinoxes-solstices)
(holiday-sexp calendar-daylight-savings-starts
(format "Daylight Saving Time Begins %s"
(solar-time-string
(/ calendar-daylight-savings-starts-time (float 60))
calendar-standard-time-zone-name)))
(holiday-sexp calendar-daylight-savings-ends
(format "Daylight Saving Time Ends %s"
(solar-time-string
(/ calendar-daylight-savings-ends-time (float 60))
calendar-daylight-time-zone-name))) ))
"Custom holidays defined by the user."
:type 'sexp
:group 'holidays)
(defun is-holiday ()
"Is today a holiday?"
(interactive)
(let* (
(d1 (time-to-days (current-time)))
(date (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute d1))
ee
res-holidays
(displayed-month (nth 0 date))
(displayed-year (nth 2 date))
(holiday-list
(dolist (p my-custom-holiday-list res-holidays)
(let* (h)
(when (setq h (eval p))
(setq res-holidays (append h res-holidays)))))) )
(mapcar
(lambda (x)
(let ((txt (format "%s -- %s" (car x) (car (cdr x)))))
(when (eq d1 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian (car x)))
(push txt ee))))
holiday-list)
(if ee
(message "The following holiday(s) is/are today: %s" (nreverse ee))
(message "Today is not a holiday."))))
Related
How can I get the number of days between the given years, should I use loops?
Here's what I have now
(princ "Enter starting year: ")
(defparameter w (read))
(princ "Enter ending year: ")
(defparameter x (read))
(defun print-list (w x)
(format t "Starting year: ~a ~%" (list w))
(format t "Ending year: ~a ~%" (list x)))
(terpri)
(if(> x w)
(format t "Number of year/s: ~a ~%"(- x w))
(format t "Number of year/s: ~a ~%"(- w x)))
I'm trying to compute the days between years but the output was always failed.
A simple set of functions to perform the calculation is the following:
(defun leap-year-p (year)
"return t if year is a leap-year, nil otherwise"
(or (and (zerop (mod year 4))
(not (zerop (mod year 100))))
(zerop (mod year 400))))
(defun days-of (year)
"return the number of days of a certain year"
(if (leap-year-p year) 365 366))
(defun days-between (start-year end-year)
"return the number of days between start-year (included)
and end-year (excluded)"
(when (<= start-year end-year)
(loop for year from start-year below end-year sum (days-of year)))
A few examples of call:
CL-USER> (days-between 2020 2022)
731
CL-USER> (days-between 1820 1999)
65470
CL-USER> (days-between 2020 2020)
0
CL-USER> (days-between 1980 1890)
NIL
You can use these function to solve your problem.
I'm just starting to use ses-mode in emacs, and I plan to use it with timestamps, but I do not manage to have them parsed in a way that I can then use.
I'm taking measurements on three days of the week, so my distances between one measurement and the other is either 2 or 3 days. I chose to use ses-mode in emacs because it runs on all of my computers, including the phone.
my spreadsheet contains datestamp, conductivity, temperature, and gallon count, a couple of subsequent lines would look like this:
2014-10-03 2.95 33.4 4031070
2014-10-06 3.07 33.5 4086930
2014-10-08 2.97 33.6 4119590
I would add two more columns, the first with the difference of days between the readings, the second with the "gallon-per-day" value.
I do not manage to have the string timestamp parsed into a format where I can do computations, staying within a simple emacs spreadsheet (SES).
I've tried date-to-time, but it always returns the same value (14445 17280).
parse-time-string gives me a 9-tuple which I can't directly pass to format-time-string.
The function encode-time helps:
(let ((l (parse-time-string "2014-09-12")))
(format-time-string "%d %m %Y" (encode-time 0 0 0 (nth 3 l) (nth 4 l) (nth 5 l))))
The following version uses cl-flet to avoid doubling of code if the encoding is needed multiple times. If you need the encoding also in other functions you can use defun instead of cl-flet.
(eval-when (compile) (require 'cl)) ;; for cl-flet
(let ((A2 "2014-10-08") ;; just for testing
(A1 "2014-10-03")) ;; just for testing
(cl-flet ((encode (str)
(let ((l (parse-time-string str)))
(encode-time 0 0 0 (nth 3 l) (nth 4 l) (nth 5 l)))))
(let* ((t-prev (encode A1))
(t-this (encode A2)))
(/ (time-to-seconds (time-subtract t-this t-prev)) (* 24 60 60)))))
As a function:
(eval-when (compile) (require 'cl)) ;; for cl-flet
(defun day-diff (date1 date2)
"Calculate the difference of dates in days between DATE1-STR and DATE2-STR."
(interactive "sDate1:\nsDate2:")
(cl-flet ((encode (str)
(let ((l (parse-time-string str)))
(encode-time 0 0 0 (nth 3 l) (nth 4 l) (nth 5 l)))))
(setq date1 (encode date1)
date2 (encode date2))
(let ((ret (/ (time-to-seconds (time-subtract date1 date2)) (* 24 60 60))))
(when (called-interactively-p 'any)
(message "Day difference: %s" ret))
ret)))
(put 'day-diff 'safe-function t)
An alternative using calc would be:
(require 'calc)
(defun day-diff (date1 date2)
"Calculate the difference of dates in days between DATE1-STR and DATE2-STR."
(interactive "sDate1:\nsDate2:")
(let ((ret (string-to-number (calc-eval (format "<%s>-<%s>" date1 date2)))))
(when (called-interactively-p 'any)
(message "Day difference: %s" ret))
ret))
If you omit the nice-to-have features this becomes almost a simple cell formula: (string-to-number (calc-eval (format "<%s>-<%s>" A1 A2))).
If you want to save the stuff in the spreadsheet you can put the defun in table cell A1. A more simple example:
(progn (defun day-diff (date1 date2) (string-to-number (calc-eval (format "<%s>-<%s>" date1 date2)))) (put 'day 'safe-function t) "Actual header")
To have a more convenient editing possibility you can switch to M-x lisp-mode.
There you find
^L
(ses-cell A1 "Actual Header" (progn (defun day-diff (date1 date2) (string-to-number (calc-eval (format "<%s>-<%s>" date1 date2)))) (put 'day 'safe-function t) "Actual header") nil nil)
which you can edit. But do not insert linebreaks! ses identifies cell-positions with line numbers in that file!
Another nice alternative is to put the definition of your function into the file-local variable list.
Switch to lisp-interaction mode by M-x lisp-interaction-mode.
Go to the end of the file. There you find the lines:
;; Local Variables:
;; mode: ses
;; End:
Add your function definition as eval to this list:
;; Local Variables:
;; mode: ses
;; eval:
;; (progn
;; (defun day-diff (date1 date2)
;; (string-to-number (calc-eval (format "<%s>-<%s>" date1 date2))))
;; (put 'day-diff 'safe-function t))
;; End:
You can add the progn without the comment characters ;. In this case even indentation works. Afterwards you can call comment-region for the progn.
You can save the file and run M-x normal-mode. Afterwards the function is defined and you can use it in the spreadsheet.
In Emacs calendar, one can count days between two dates (including both the start and the end date) using the M-= which runs the command calendar-count-days-region. How can I count days excluding the weekends (Saturday and Sunday) and if defined holidays coming from the variables: holiday-general-holidays and holiday-local-holidays?
I think this essentially breaks down into three parts:
Count the days in a region
subtract the weekend days
subtract the holidays
Emacs already has the first part covered with M-= (calendar-count-days-region), so let's take a look at that function.
Helpful, but unfortunately it reads the buffer and sends the output directly. Let's make a generalized version which takes start and end date parameters and returns the number of days instead of printing them:
(defun my-calendar-count-days(d1 d2)
(let* ((days (- (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian d1)
(calendar-absolute-from-gregorian d2)))
(days (1+ (if (> days 0) days (- days)))))
days))
This is pretty much just a copy of the calendar-count-days-region function, but without the buffer reading & writing stuff. Some tests:
(ert-deftest test-count-days ()
"Test my-calendar-count-days function"
(should (equal (my-calendar-count-days '(5 1 2014) '(5 31 2014)) 31))
(should (equal (my-calendar-count-days '(12 29 2013) '(1 4 2014)) 7))
(should (equal (my-calendar-count-days '(2 28 2012) '(3 1 2012)) 3))
(should (equal (my-calendar-count-days '(2 28 2014) '(3 1 2014)) 2)))
Now, for step 2, I can't find any built-in function to calculate weekend days for a date range (surprisingly!). Luckily, this /might/ be pretty simple when working with absolute dates. Here's a very naive attempt which simply loops through all absolute dates in the range and looks for Saturdays & Sundays:
(defun my-calendar-count-weekend-days(date1 date2)
(let* ((tmp-date (if (< date1 date2) date1 date2))
(end-date (if (> date1 date2) date1 date2))
(weekend-days 0))
(while (<= tmp-date end-date)
(let ((day-of-week (calendar-day-of-week
(calendar-gregorian-from-absolute tmp-date))))
(if (or (= day-of-week 0)
(= day-of-week 6))
(incf weekend-days ))
(incf tmp-date)))
weekend-days))
That function should be optimized since it does a bunch of unnecessary looping (e.g. we know that the 5 days after Sunday won't be weekend days, so there is no need to convert & test them), but for the purpose of this example I think it's pretty clear and simple. Good Enough for now, indeed. Some tests:
(ert-deftest test-count-weekend-days ()
"Test my-calendar-count-weekend-days function"
(should (equal (my-calendar-count-weekend-days
(calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(5 1 2014))
(calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(5 31 2014))) 9))
(should (equal (my-calendar-count-weekend-days
(calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(4 28 2014))
(calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(5 2 2014))) 0))
(should (equal (my-calendar-count-weekend-days
(calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(2 27 2004))
(calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(2 29 2004))) 2)))
Lastly, we need to know the holidays in the range, and emacs provides this in the holiday-in-range function! Note that this function calls calendar-holiday-list to determine which holidays to include, so if you really want to search only holiday-general-holidays and holiday-local-holidays you would need to set your calendar-holidays variable appropriately. See C-h v calendar-holidays for the details.
Now we can wrap all this up in a new interactive function which does the three steps above. This is essentially another modified version of calendar-count-days-region that subtracts weekends and holidays before printing the results (see edit below before running):
(defun calendar-count-days-region2 ()
"Count the number of days (inclusive) between point and the mark
excluding weekends and holidays."
(interactive)
(let* ((d1 (calendar-cursor-to-date t))
(d2 (car calendar-mark-ring))
(date1 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian d1))
(date2 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian d2))
(start-date (if (< date1 date2) date1 date2))
(end-date (if (> date1 date2) date1 date2))
(days (- (my-calendar-count-days d1 d2)
(+ (my-calendar-count-weekend-days start-date end-date)
(my-calendar-count-holidays-on-weekdays-in-range
start-date end-date)))))
(message "Region has %d workday%s (inclusive)"
days (if (> days 1) "s" ""))))
I'm sure someone more knowledgeable about lisp/elisp could simplify/improve these examples considerably, but I hope it at least serves as a starting point.
Actually, now that I've gone through it, I expect somebody to come along any minute and point out that there is an emacs package that already does this...
Edit: DOH!, Bug #001: If a holiday falls on a weekend, that day is removed twice...
Once solution would be to simply wrap holiday-in-range so we can eliminate holidays which were already removed for being on a weekend:
(defun my-calendar-count-holidays-on-weekdays-in-range (start end)
(let ((holidays (holiday-in-range start end))
(counter 0))
(dolist (element holidays)
(let ((day (calendar-day-of-week (car element))))
(if (and (> day 0)
(< day 6))
(incf counter))))
counter))
I've updated the calendar-count-days-region2 above to use this new function.
I'm looking for a way to select next or previous month in both agenda view and the calendar. I've written a concept/prototype function (below), but it doesn't calculate the next or previous months and I would also need to rewrite the function every month.
The date format for the org-agenda-month-view is different than the date format for calendar-other-month. Further down below are some functions that are related to what I'm trying to accomplish -- e.g., calendar already has the ability to move forward or backward by month.
I think what may be needed is a function that identifies the month being viewed and then adds plus-or-minus one month (in the proper format) when hitting the next or previous button.
(defun lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch ()
"Select the month in agenda view."
(interactive)
(message "View: [7] JUL | [8] AUG | [9] SEP | [o]CT | [n]OV | [d]EC ")
(let ((a (read-char-exclusive)))
(case a
(?7
(org-agenda nil "a")
(org-agenda-month-view 201307)
(calendar)
(calendar-other-month 7 2013)
(lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch))
(?8
(org-agenda nil "a")
(org-agenda-month-view 201308)
(calendar)
(calendar-other-month 8 2013)
(lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch))
(?9
(org-agenda nil "a")
(org-agenda-month-view 201309)
(calendar)
(calendar-other-month 9 2013)
(lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch))
(?o
(org-agenda nil "a")
(org-agenda-month-view 201310)
(calendar)
(calendar-other-month 10 2013)
(lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch))
(?n
(org-agenda nil "a")
(org-agenda-month-view 201311)
(calendar)
(calendar-other-month 11 2013)
(lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch))
(?d
(org-agenda nil "a")
(org-agenda-month-view 201312)
(calendar)
(calendar-other-month 12 2013)
(lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch))
(?q (message "Abort"))
(otherwise (error "Either press \"q\" to quit, or select another option." )))))
Here are some related functions I've extracted from cal-move.el and calendar.el:
(defun calendar-other-month (month year &optional event)
"Display a three-month calendar centered around MONTH and YEAR.
EVENT is an event like `last-nonmenu-event'."
(interactive (let ((event (list last-nonmenu-event)))
(append (calendar-read-date 'noday) event)))
(save-selected-window
(and event
(setq event (event-start event))
(select-window (posn-window event)))
(unless (and (= month displayed-month)
(= year displayed-year))
(let ((old-date (calendar-cursor-to-date))
(today (calendar-current-date)))
(calendar-generate-window month year)
(calendar-cursor-to-visible-date
(cond
((calendar-date-is-visible-p old-date) old-date)
((calendar-date-is-visible-p today) today)
(t (list month 1 year))))))))
;;;###cal-autoload
(defun calendar-forward-month (arg)
"Move the cursor forward ARG months.
Movement is backward if ARG is negative."
(interactive "p")
(calendar-cursor-to-nearest-date)
(let* ((cursor-date (calendar-cursor-to-date t))
(month (calendar-extract-month cursor-date))
(day (calendar-extract-day cursor-date))
(year (calendar-extract-year cursor-date))
(last (progn
(calendar-increment-month month year arg)
(calendar-last-day-of-month month year)))
(day (min last day))
;; Put the new month on the screen, if needed, and go to the new date.
(new-cursor-date (list month day year)))
(if (not (calendar-date-is-visible-p new-cursor-date))
(calendar-other-month month year))
(calendar-cursor-to-visible-date new-cursor-date))
(run-hooks 'calendar-move-hook))
;;;###cal-autoload
(defun calendar-backward-month (arg)
"Move the cursor backward by ARG months.
Movement is forward if ARG is negative."
(interactive "p")
(calendar-forward-month (- arg)))
;;;###cal-autoload
(defun calendar-forward-year (arg)
"Move the cursor forward by ARG years.
Movement is backward if ARG is negative."
(interactive "p")
(calendar-forward-month (* 12 arg)))
;;;###cal-autoload
(defun calendar-backward-year (arg)
"Move the cursor backward ARG years.
Movement is forward is ARG is negative."
(interactive "p")
(calendar-forward-month (* -12 arg)))
;;;###cal-autoload
(defun calendar-scroll-left (&optional arg event)
"Scroll the displayed calendar left by ARG months.
If ARG is negative the calendar is scrolled right. Maintains the relative
position of the cursor with respect to the calendar as well as possible.
EVENT is an event like `last-nonmenu-event'."
(interactive (list (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)
last-nonmenu-event))
(unless arg (setq arg 1))
(save-selected-window
;; Nil if called from menu-bar.
(if (setq event (event-start event)) (select-window (posn-window event)))
(calendar-cursor-to-nearest-date)
(unless (zerop arg)
(let ((old-date (calendar-cursor-to-date))
(today (calendar-current-date))
(month displayed-month)
(year displayed-year))
(calendar-increment-month month year arg)
(calendar-generate-window month year)
(calendar-cursor-to-visible-date
(cond
((calendar-date-is-visible-p old-date) old-date)
((calendar-date-is-visible-p today) today)
(t (list month 1 year))))))
(run-hooks 'calendar-move-hook)))
(define-obsolete-function-alias
'scroll-calendar-left 'calendar-scroll-left "23.1")
;;;###cal-autoload
(defun calendar-scroll-right (&optional arg event)
"Scroll the displayed calendar window right by ARG months.
If ARG is negative the calendar is scrolled left. Maintains the relative
position of the cursor with respect to the calendar as well as possible.
EVENT is an event like `last-nonmenu-event'."
(interactive (list (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)
last-nonmenu-event))
(calendar-scroll-left (- (or arg 1)) event))
(define-obsolete-function-alias
'scroll-calendar-right 'calendar-scroll-right "23.1")
Here's my take:
(defvar lawlist-month)
(defun lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch ()
"Select the month in agenda view."
(interactive)
(message "View: [1-9] [o]CT [n]OV [d]EC, j(next), k(prev).")
(let* ((a (read-char-exclusive))
(month (case a
(?o 10)
(?n 11)
(?d 12)
(?j (or (and lawlist-month (mod (1+ lawlist-month) 12)) 1))
(?k (or (and lawlist-month (mod (1- lawlist-month) 12)) 1))
(t (and (> a ?0) (<= a ?9) (- a ?0))))))
(if (setq lawlist-month month)
(let ((year (nth 5 (decode-time (current-time)))))
(org-agenda nil "a")
(org-agenda-month-view
(read (format "%d%02d" year month)))
(calendar)
(calendar-other-month month year)
(lawlist-org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch))
(message "Aborted"))))
It still misses some functionality like saving the window configuration and
recovering on abort.
UPD
The updated code can be found in this gist.
I've added other years besides current, with support for j/k, as well as h/l for years.
In Emacs, when you display the calendar with M-x calendar, you get a three-month display – last month, this month, and next month – in a new window that's just 8 lines tall.
Is it possible to generate a twelve-month calendar in a full-size window?
12-MONTH CALENDAR -- SCROLLS BY MONTH (FORWARDS / BACKWARDS)
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;; ;;;
;;; Scroll a yearly calendar by month -- in a forwards or backwards direction. ;;;
;;; ;;;
;;; To try out this example, evaluate the entire code snippet and type: ;;;
;;; ;;;
;;; M-x year-calendar ;;;
;;; ;;;
;;; To scroll forward by month, type the key: > ;;;
;;; ;;;
;;; To scroll backward by month, type the key: < ;;;
;;; ;;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
(eval-after-load "calendar" '(progn
(define-key calendar-mode-map "<" 'lawlist-scroll-year-calendar-backward)
(define-key calendar-mode-map ">" 'lawlist-scroll-year-calendar-forward) ))
(defmacro lawlist-calendar-for-loop (var from init to final do &rest body)
"Execute a for loop.
Evaluate BODY with VAR bound to successive integers from INIT to FINAL,
inclusive. The standard macro `dotimes' is preferable in most cases."
`(let ((,var (1- ,init)))
(while (>= ,final (setq ,var (1+ ,var)))
,#body)))
(defun year-calendar (&optional month year)
"Generate a one (1) year calendar that can be scrolled by month in each direction.
This is a modification of: http://homepage3.nifty.com/oatu/emacs/calendar.html
See also: http://ivan.kanis.fr/caly.el"
(interactive)
(require 'calendar)
(let* ((current-year (number-to-string (nth 5 (decode-time (current-time)))))
(month (if month month
(string-to-number
(read-string "Please enter a month number (e.g., 1): " nil nil "1"))))
(year (if year year
(string-to-number
(read-string "Please enter a year (e.g., 2014): "
nil nil current-year)))))
(switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create calendar-buffer))
(when (not (eq major-mode 'calendar-mode))
(calendar-mode))
(setq displayed-month month)
(setq displayed-year year)
(setq buffer-read-only nil)
(erase-buffer)
;; horizontal rows
(lawlist-calendar-for-loop j from 0 to 3 do
;; vertical columns
(lawlist-calendar-for-loop i from 0 to 2 do
(calendar-generate-month
;; month
(cond
((> (+ (* j 3) i month) 12)
(- (+ (* j 3) i month) 12))
(t
(+ (* j 3) i month)))
;; year
(cond
((> (+ (* j 3) i month) 12)
(+ year 1))
(t
year))
;; indentation / spacing between months
(+ 5 (* 25 i))))
(goto-char (point-max))
(insert (make-string (- 10 (count-lines (point-min) (point-max))) ?\n))
(widen)
(goto-char (point-max))
(narrow-to-region (point-max) (point-max)))
(widen)
(goto-char (point-min))
(setq buffer-read-only t)))
(defun lawlist-scroll-year-calendar-forward (&optional arg event)
"Scroll the yearly calendar by month in a forward direction."
(interactive (list (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)
last-nonmenu-event))
(unless arg (setq arg 1))
(save-selected-window
(if (setq event (event-start event)) (select-window (posn-window event)))
(unless (zerop arg)
(let ((month displayed-month)
(year displayed-year))
(calendar-increment-month month year arg)
(year-calendar month year)))
(goto-char (point-min))
(run-hooks 'calendar-move-hook)))
(defun lawlist-scroll-year-calendar-backward (&optional arg event)
"Scroll the yearly calendar by month in a backward direction."
(interactive (list (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)
last-nonmenu-event))
(lawlist-scroll-year-calendar-forward (- (or arg 1)) event))
There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this. I was able to knock up the following code, which will show all twelve months, in a row, in a separate frame.
(require 'cl)
(require 'calendar)
(defun twelve-month-calendar ()
(interactive)
(let ((calendar-buffer (get-buffer-create "12-month calendar"))
(month 12)
(year 2012))
(set-buffer calendar-buffer)
(setq calendar-frame (make-frame))
(make-variable-buffer-local 'font-lock-face)
(set-face-attribute 'default calendar-frame :height 70)
(set-frame-width calendar-frame 300)
(erase-buffer)
(dotimes (i 12)
(calendar-generate-month month year 0)
(calendar-increment-month month year -1))
(calendar-mode)))
You might need to tweak it a bit, depending on your screen/font size.
I modified "12-MONTH CALENDAR -- SCROLLS BY MONTH (FORWARDS / BACKWARDS)" answer and adapted it to Emacs post 23.3 version - no calendar-for-loop macro - and changed scroll from by one month to by one year. This version show entire calendar for current year. Going backwards which < and forwards > by one year. It doesn't show on full screen, but half screen, which make it easy to use when working which vertical splits and it's more like extended version of build in calendar.
;; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9547912/emacs-calendar-show-more-than-3-months
(defun farynaio/year-calendar (&optional year)
"Generate a one year calendar that can be scrolled by year in each direction.
This is a modification of: http://homepage3.nifty.com/oatu/emacs/calendar.html
See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9547912/emacs-calendar-show-more-than-3-months"
(interactive)
(require 'calendar)
(let* (
(current-year (number-to-string (nth 5 (decode-time (current-time)))))
(month 0)
(year (if year year (string-to-number (format-time-string "%Y" (current-time))))))
(switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create calendar-buffer))
(when (not (eq major-mode 'calendar-mode))
(calendar-mode))
(setq displayed-month month)
(setq displayed-year year)
(setq buffer-read-only nil)
(erase-buffer)
;; horizontal rows
(dotimes (j 4)
;; vertical columns
(dotimes (i 3)
(calendar-generate-month
(setq month (+ month 1))
year
;; indentation / spacing between months
(+ 5 (* 25 i))))
(goto-char (point-max))
(insert (make-string (- 10 (count-lines (point-min) (point-max))) ?\n))
(widen)
(goto-char (point-max))
(narrow-to-region (point-max) (point-max)))
(widen)
(goto-char (point-min))
(setq buffer-read-only t)))
(defun farynaio/scroll-year-calendar-forward (&optional arg event)
"Scroll the yearly calendar by year in a forward direction."
(interactive (list (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)
last-nonmenu-event))
(unless arg (setq arg 0))
(save-selected-window
(if (setq event (event-start event)) (select-window (posn-window event)))
(unless (zerop arg)
(let* (
(year (+ displayed-year arg)))
(jarfar/year-calendar year)))
(goto-char (point-min))
(run-hooks 'calendar-move-hook)))
(defun farynaio/scroll-year-calendar-backward (&optional arg event)
"Scroll the yearly calendar by year in a backward direction."
(interactive (list (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)
last-nonmenu-event))
(farynaio/scroll-year-calendar-forward (- (or arg 1)) event))
(define-key calendar-mode-map "<" 'farynaio/scroll-year-calendar-backward)
(define-key calendar-mode-map ">" 'farynaio/scroll-year-calendar-forward)
(defalias 'year-calendar 'farynaio/year-calendar)
It's not easy to do this, the code to generate calendar is:
(defun calendar-generate (month year)
"Generate a three-month Gregorian calendar centered around MONTH, YEAR."
;; A negative YEAR is interpreted as BC; -1 being 1 BC, and so on.
;; Note that while calendars for years BC could be displayed as it
;; stands, almost all other calendar functions (eg holidays) would
;; at best have unpredictable results for such dates.
(if (< (+ month (* 12 (1- year))) 2)
(error "Months before January, 1 AD cannot be displayed"))
(setq displayed-month month
displayed-year year)
(erase-buffer)
(calendar-increment-month month year -1)
(dotimes (i 3)
(calendar-generate-month month year
(+ calendar-left-margin
(* calendar-month-width i)))
(calendar-increment-month month year 1)))
Here, (dotimes (i 3) ...) generate 3 months in a row.
So if you want to generate more than 3 months in more than 1 row, you must override calendar-generate function by yourself, same as #Luke said.