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I have installed org-journal and it seems to work well to create entries. However, I can't find and view them again. The documentation on EmacsWiki says to view the entry:

In calendar view:

  • j to view an entry

I'm not sure what is meant by "calendar view". I exececute M-x calendar and the bottom of the screen has a 3-month calendar and the days that have journal entries are highlighted. I move the cursor over one of the highlighted dates and press j. I get an error about undefined key.

So, what exactly is meant by "calendar view"? Does org-mode have its own calendar view?

Any advice appreciated.

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I'm the author of org-journal. As Rusi pointed out, the problem is that Emacs 23 does not support setq-local. You can backport setq-local from Emacs 24 to 23, but you'll have to delete or recreate org-journal.elc for the backport to take effect.

Nevertheless, I have removed the dependence on setq-local in the latest version of org-journal. Org-journal is now compatible with Emacs 23.1.1.

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C-j does seem to work (for me). And the README says there's a breaking change from j to C-j

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One or two more clarifications:

  1. Both j and C-j work (in calendar) -- current version of org-journal
  2. The date tracked by calendar is the date (encoded in) the file name not the date inside the file. So if my file contains "* Friday, 04/03/2015" but is itself having the name 20150402, then Thursday will be highlighted not Friday. IOW journal is not clever enough to detect/correct date-anomalies
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  • Neither j nor C-j work for me. And when you say '(in calendar)' do you mean M-x calendar? I did grab the version of org-journal from 2 days ago off the Github site. When I try j I get these errors: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function setq-local) (setq-local org-hide-emphasis-markers t) (save-current-buffer (set-buffer buf) (when (not had-a-buf) (view-mode) (setq view-exit-action ...)) (setq-local org-hide-emphasis-markers t) (org-show-subtree))
    – user1625344
    Commented Apr 3, 2015 at 3:58
  • github shows the C-j change as 3 days ago. So pull again and try. Also need org-version, emacs version.
    – Rusi
    Commented Apr 3, 2015 at 4:05
  • Emacs is 23.1.1 Org mode is 8.2.10 I reinstalled org-journal today. No change in behavior. Computer is gov't owned and not easy to update. Anything installed is in my home directory.
    – user1625344
    Commented Apr 4, 2015 at 2:26
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    setq-local introduced in 24.3. Try making this defn before load/require org-journal: (defmacro setq-local (var val) (list 'set (list 'make-local-variable (list 'quote var)) val))
    – Rusi
    Commented Apr 4, 2015 at 5:21
  • Hopefully now if your problem is solved do undo the downvote :-)
    – Rusi
    Commented Apr 4, 2015 at 15:03

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