Hi again all so i have a related question so ill continue in this thread. i have been using this command succesfully in the last few weeks
(defun z/export-to-ics () (interactive) (rename-file (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) "/home/zeltak/org/files/export/kcal.ics") (message "exported to ics")) this forces me to first open the file i want (meetings.org) and then launch the above command. is there a way to auto make the above function to auto export meeting.org each time without opening it first? thx Z On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Philip Hudson <phil.hud...@iname.com> wrote: > You have _two_ concerns here. First is what to do when you save > "meetings.org", second is what to do every half hour. Your code > handles both of them, essentially correctly, but in the wrong place. > > On 13 July 2016 at 09:41, Xebar Saram <zelt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thx > > > > i do have this now > > > > (defun z/save-meeting-to-ics () > > "If the current file is in '~/.dotfiles', the code blocks are > tangled" > > (when (equal (buffer-file-name) > > (expand-file-name "/home/zeltak/org/files/agenda/ > meetings.org")) > > This means the code will only execute if the current buffer is > "meetings.org" when it executes. That _is_ what you want when you save > meetings.org, but it _is not_ what you want when the timer executes. > > Break out the body of the `when' form into its own function, and call > that function from the timer, instead of `z/save-meeting-to-ics'. > > > (rename-file (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) > > "/home/zeltak/org/files/export/kcal.ics") > > (message "exported to ics"))) > > > > ;;run every 30 minutes > > > > (run-with-timer 0 (* 30 60) 'z/save-meeting-to-ics) > > ;;(run-with-idle-timer 600 t #'org-agenda-redo) ;; to rebuild it every > 600 > > second > > ;; (add-hook 'after-save-hook #'z/save-meeting-to-ics) > > > > yet i cant get the ics file to be created niether when i save the > > meeting.org file > > For this, you need to add `z/save-meeting-to-ics' to the Emacs global > variable `after-save-hook' using function `add-hook'. > > > nor every 600 seconds. > > You mean 1800 seconds, I think. > > > what am i missing here? > > > > thx > > > > Z > > > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Philip Hudson <phil.hud...@iname.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On 26 June 2016 at 16:38, Xebar Saram <zelt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Hi all > >> > > >> > so i have pathetic coding skill but managed somehow to come up with > this > >> > > >> > (defun z/save-meeting-to-ics () > >> > "If the current file is in '~/.dotfiles', the code blocks are > >> > tangled" > >> > (when (equal (buffer-file-name) > >> > (expand-file-name > >> > "/home/zeltak/org/files/agenda/meetings.org")) > >> > (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) > >> > (message "exported to ics"))) > >> > > >> > this does save the org file "meetings.org" to an ICS file in the same > >> > folder > >> > as the file. but i want to do 2 additional things: > >> > 1)save the resulting ICS file to a different directory > >> > 2)run this function every X hours (lets say every 2 hours) > >> > > >> > any clue guys? > >> > > >> > thx! > >> > > >> > Z > >> > >> For 1), change: > >> > >> (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) > >> > >> to something like this: > >> > >> (rename-file (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) your-preferred-pathname) > >> > >> For 2), evaluate this: > >> > >> (info "(elisp) Timers") > >> > >> -- > >> Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.ddns.net > >> @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 > > > > > > > > -- > Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.ddns.net > @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 >
