Celebrat

Celebrat is a very simple, non-interactive, text-mode calendar application.

Adding and removing events is achieved by editing a data file (usually ~/.celebrat) with any text editor. When celebrat is launched it prints all pending events on the standard output; most of users call if from their startup script for login shells (~/.profile of ~/.login). Here is a sample data file and the output it generates.

It is very handy and useful. You'll like it.

Download

The latest stable release is celebrat-1.1.0.tar.gz.

The latest snapshot is celebrat-20070325.tar.gz.

You can browse the archive for earlier versions.

Authors

Celebrat was originally written by Johan Walles. Until year 2003 it was maintained by Daniel Bungert.

Today it is maintained by Anthony Baire.

Copyright

Celebrat is a free software. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

This version is about to be released, I have stopped working on the core so it is quite stable and usable. The latest snapshot can be found in the archive.

News

Release 1.1.0 - 23 December 2003

Since June I have been working on this new release.. Here are the main features:

Fixed daylight saving time bug
New types of periodic events (Monthly, Weekly, Daily) and replaced `Festivity' with `Yearly'
`floating' dates (for example `the last Sunday of May' for Mother's Day)
Nagging tag: if set on an event celebrat will nag you until you remove it from the data file instead of throwing it automatically and silently
Implemented a small daemon so as to put messages directly on the terminal or on screen sessions when a event is due
Rewrote the parser using re2c, now error messages are more verbose and the data file can contain comments. Moreover celebrat saves its structure and doesn't mess it up when updating.
Implemented a option for generating the output in the form of a calendar.

Localisation

Translations are not actively maintained. If you are interested in translating celebrat's messages into your own language or in updating an existing translation, please contact me so as to have your work included in future releases.

The French translation is up to date and the Finnish, German, Spanish & Swedish translations need updating.