[O] Org Agenda and recurring icalendar events
Hello together Im now running Emacs 25.1 with Org 8.3.5 on Windows. I love Emacs and Orgmode and I want to use it instead of Microsoft Office. But in order to replace MS-Outlook calendar by Org Agenda, and in order to sync Org Agenda with my Android phone, I would need all icalendar functionality, which is used by MS-Outlook and by Android, implemented in Orgmode. Most urgently missing are recurrence features like RRULE, EXDATE, DTSTART, DTEND, etc, and import and export of those from and to icalendar. The current implementation is only rudimentary. Emacs diary is not suitable - import and export from and to icalendar are also not working properly for most recurring events, and of course it misses the Orgmode features. My idea would be to introduce recurring icalendar elements like RRULE, EXDATE, DTSTART and DTEND as Org Properties, which would make importing and exporting them straightforward, I guess. Main work would be to make these dates show up in the Org Agenda properly. Wonderful would be to have this functionality as an official part of orgmode and maintained A similar work was started in 2013 already: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/74391 But thats all I was able to find on the web about this subject it seems no work is going on here - or does anybody know there is? Im wondering if this idea is of interest to anybody else to me this is a real killer feature for using Org Agenda. I had sent the below emails via bug-gnu-emacs, but there was no response was it the wrong place to send to ? I dont have Emacs development knowledge. Is there any expert here who could tell me if this is possible at all, whether this could become part of official orgmode and how, and what could the effort be is this a few weeks, or a few months, or much more work ? Thank you so much Kind regards Chris From: cschr [mailto:cs...@freenet.de] Sent: 12 August 2016 09:34 To: bug-gnu-em...@gnu.org Subject: RE: Subject: 25.0.94; Proposal to make orgmode agenda really useful RRULE might better be an orgmode PROPERTY too, like proposed for Recurrence End Date and Exceptions in <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/74391> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/74391 In fact, its several properties, but not all are needed for Android Sync. I only need: RRULE_FREQ, RRULE_INTERVAL, RRULE_BYDAY, RRULE_COUNT, RRULE_UNTIL. Also, EXDATE is needed which is not part of RRULE but part of VEVENT, and TRIGGER which is part of VALARM From: cschr [ <mailto:cs...@freenet.de> mailto:cs...@freenet.de] Sent: 10 August 2016 20:27 To: <mailto:bug-gnu-em...@gnu.org> bug-gnu-em...@gnu.org Subject: Subject: 25.0.94; Proposal to make orgmode agenda really useful I love emacs - its incredibly powerful and helpful - its almost all i ever dreamt of. One thing i miss urgently: make org agenda files fully sync with my icalendar files, including recurrance with end dates, and including alarms. RRule Exceptions would also be helpfull. Here are my ideas, and I would be curious to hear your plans: 1. Would it be an idea to implement a DIARY_RRULE function which can be used in date sexpr in org agenda (and maybe also the diary) and which accepts an icalendar RRULE string as parameter ? This could make icalendar export and import very easy (just copy the string), and implementation in elisp shouldnt be too hard (but thats something I can only guess - you know it better). 2. exceptions and end dates could also be implemented as org properties, as already proposed by <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/74391> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/74391 3. At the moment i am stuck because my icalendar file can only be imported into the diary: import into org files is restricted to single events (and maybe very simple recurring events?). And the diary import uses diary-date a lot which cannot be exported, and diary export does not create VALARms, and the ORG features are not available for the diary. Thanks a lot for your great work !!! Kind regards Christoph Schröder, Cham, Switzerland
[O] individual alerts
Hello Im a software developer and new to emacs. I want to maintain my calendar appointments in orgmode, and define individual alerts for each appointment (which also includes to have no alert for some appointments). Using the emacs diary is not enough for me I want orgmode! I found out already how to export SCHEDULED and DEADLINE timestamps from orgmode to iCalendar VEVENTs, but the VALARM TRIGGERs produced always have the same value (VALARM TRIGGER is always P0DT0H0M0S). How can I define an individual alert for each appointment in ORGMODE, and have the alert values exported as icalendar VALARM TRIGGERs? The :APPT_WARNTIME: property in orgmode seems to do nothing, nor does it seem to help if I add a WARNTIME text to the orgmode item this seems to work for emacs diary entries only. I would furthermore like my individual orgmode alerts to be interpreted by the emacs appointment system in order for emacs to notify me again this seems to always produce a constant notification Again: maintaining my appointments within the emacs diary is not an option for me I need the orgmode features Thanks very much Kind regards Christoph Schröder
[O] MobileOrg does not sync with local Android calendar
Hi I set up MobileOrg and it now shows the appointments from my emacs diary and my orgmode agenda. But nothing shows in my local android calendar, although I configured MobileOrg to sync with the android calendar. Is this functionality known to work, at all, and are there any special preconditions ? I tried with two different smartphones - a Sony Xperia Pro with Android 4.0.4, and a Mobistel Cygnus with Android 4.4.2 Many thanks Regards - Chris
Re: [O] MobileOrg does not sync with local Android calendar
Thanks Ramon and Eric Are you using custom agenda views ? Someone wrote on the web that this is required - is he right ? Chris -Original Message- From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+cschr=freenet...@gnu.org [mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+cschr=freenet...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Sent: Sonntag, 31. Januar 2016 16:13 To: Eric S Fraga Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; cschr Subject: Re: [O] MobileOrg does not sync with local Android calendar On Sun, 31-01-2016, at 13:36, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Sunday, 31 Jan 2016 at 08:42, cschr wrote: >> Hi >> >> I set up MobileOrg and it now shows the appointments from my emacs >> diary and my orgmode agenda. But nothing shows in my local android >> calendar, although I configured MobileOrg to sync with the android >> calendar. Is this functionality known to work, at all, and are there >> any special preconditions ? I tried with two different smartphones >> – a Sony Xperia Pro with Android 4.0.4, and a Mobistel Cygnus with >> Android 4.4.2 >> > > It syncs with my calendar on cyanogenmod latest nightly snapshot on a > Nexus 4. I've had no issues in this regard in a very long time. > It has also worked for me for a long time in several tablets/phones. Right now it is working on two tablets (BQ edison 3 and Nexus 7) with stock android 4.4 and a phone with stock android 5. It has worked in the past with Android 4.1. > I think what I am using is roughly equivalent to android 5.1? Not > entirely sure however but definitely well past 4.x versions. Whether > this is relevant or not is unclear! -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25 Facultad de Medicina Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 28029 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-497-2412 Email: rdia...@gmail.com ramon.d...@iib.uam.es http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
[O] Dired does not correctly process file names with ornamented and special Characters in Emacs for Windows
Hello Filenames with ornamented or special characters are often not shown correctly in "dired", and cannot be opened. The strange thing is: sometimes it works properly, but I cant figure out under what circumstances - it seems to be completely arbitrary. Would anybody know how to make it always work ? Im on Windows 7-64bit, running a Emacs Version 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2015-11-10, which I downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/?source=typ_redirect I additionally installed msys2-64bit with mingw64, which is included in my Windows environment variable PATH (...;C:\Programme\msys2-64\mingw64\bin) Based on information I found on the web, I further added the following to my init.el file: ;; configure grep acc to http://jpstup.blogspot.ch/2011/02/getting-emacss-rgrep-working-in-windows.html ;; and http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/efaq-w32.html#Dired-ls (when (or (eq system-type 'windows-nt) (eq system-type 'msdos)) (setenv "PATH" (concat "C:\\Programme\\msys2-64\\usr\\bin;C:\\Programme\\msys2-64\\mingw64\\bin;" (getenv "PATH"))) (setq ;;find-program "C:\\Programme\\msys2-64\\usr\\bin\\find.exe" ;;grep-program "C:\\Programme\\msys2-64\\usr\\bin\\grep.exe" ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program t ;; use external ls insert-directory-program "c:\\Programme\\msys2-64\\usr\\bin\\ls.exe" ;; ls program name diff-command "C:\\Programme\\msys2-64\\mingw64\\bin\\diff.exe" ) ) ;; Prevent issues with the Windows null device (NUL) ;; when using cygwin find with rgrep. (defadvice grep-compute-defaults (around grep-compute-defaults-advice-null-device) "Use cygwin's /dev/null as the null-device." (let ((null-device "/dev/null")) ad-do-it)) (ad-activate 'grep-compute-defaults)
