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CHANGES TO REMIND
* VERSION 5.4 Patch 0 - 2025-??-??
- MAJOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Track which expressions and variables
Remind can prove to its satisfaction are "constant" - that is, that
will always have the same value on any Remind run as long as the
files are not edited. This allows "Purge Mode" to purge more
reminders than before.
See the new remind(1) man page section "NON-CONSTANT EXPRESSIONS"
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: add the "nonconst" built-in function (to
force an expression to be interpreted as non-constant) and the
"isconst" function to test if an expression is constant.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Add eval() built-in function that takes a
string argument and evaluates it as an expression.
- MINOR NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the trigbase() function and
corresponding $Tb system variable. See the remind(1) man page for
details.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Make $Tu a synonym for triguntil().
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: If coerce() fails, issue a more detailed
error message.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Using Hush mode "-h" with purge mode "-j"
suppresses the normal purge-mode diagnostics about reminders that
might not be purged. Instead, only the "#!P: Expired" purge-mode
lines are emitted.
- NEW FEATURE: remind: Add the catch() built-in function. This lets
you catch errors in expression evaluation. For example:
catch(2/0, "oops") returns "oops". The catcherr() function returns
the error message from the last catch() expression that failed, in
this case "Division by zero".
- IMPROVEMENT: remind: Remind can handle dates that require UTC to
Local conversion (and vice-versa) for years greater than 2038, even
on systems with a 32-bit time_t.
- IMPROVEMENT: rem2html: Include an anchor <a id="d$day"> in the HTML
calendar for each day box, where $day is the day number.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Allow the argument to monnum() to be a
string, in which case it's parsed as a month name and the
corresponding month number returned.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Allow the argument to wkdaynum() to be a
string, in which case it's parsed as a weekday name and the
corresponding weekday number returned.
- MINOR IMPROVEMENT: remind: Make the expression parser optimize away
"- INT_CONSTANT" and "! INT_CONSTANT".
- BUG FIX: tests: Don't use the obsolete "tail +2" syntax in test-rem.
Fix courtesy of Dick Marinus.
* VERSION 5.3 Patch 7 - 2025-05-06
- IMPROVEMENT: examples/astro: Make moonrise/moonset appear after