39 The Calendar and the Diary
Emacs provides the functions of a desk calendar, with a diary of
planned or past events. It also has facilities for managing your
appointments, and keeping track of how much time you spend working on
certain projects.
To enter the calendar, type M-x calendar; this displays a
three-month calendar centered on the current month, with point on the
current date. With a numeric argument, as in C-u M-x calendar, it
prompts you for the month and year to be the center of the three-month
calendar. The calendar uses its own buffer, whose major mode is
Calendar mode.
Mouse-2 in the calendar brings up a menu of operations on a
particular date; Mouse-3 brings up a menu of commonly used
calendar features that are independent of any particular date. To exit
the calendar, type q.
The basic features of the Calendar/Diary are described here.
see Advanced Calendar/Diary Usage, for information
about more specialized features.
