This gives me the opportunitie to publish my own attempt to implement telephone functionality into org. I'm using Linphone (http://www.linphone.org/) instead of Skype.
Best regards -- Michael Strey www.strey.biz
;;; org-dial.el --- Provide org links to dial with the softphone ;;; application linphone ;; Copyright (C) 2011 Michael Strey ;; Author: Michael Strey <mst...@strey.de> ;; Keywords: dial, phone, softphone, contacts, hypermedia ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; This program is distaributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ;;; Commentary: ;; `org-dial.el' defines the new link type `dial' for telephone ;; numbers in contacts (refer to org-contacts). Calling this link type ;; leads to the execution of a linphone command dialing this number. ;;; Code: (require 'org) ;; org link functions ;; dial link (org-add-link-type "tel" 'org-dial) (defcustom org-dial-program "linphonecsh dial " "Name of the softphone executable used to dial a phone number in a `tel:' link." :type '(string) :group 'org) (defun org-dial (phonenumber) "Dial the phone number. The variable phonenumber should contain only numbers, whitespaces, backslash and maybe a `+' at the beginning." ;; remove whitespaces from phonenumber (shell-command (concat org-dial-program (trim-phone-number phonenumber)))) (defun trim-phone-number (phonenumber) "Remove whitespaces from a telephone number" (setq trimmed_phonenumber (mapconcat 'identity (delete "(0)" (split-string phonenumber "[ /-]")) ""))) (provide 'org-dial) ;;; org-dial.el ends here
