Hi Phil,
Not directly relevant, but here's what I use to synchronize the
calendar information in the other direction: from iCalendar calendars
to emacs org-mode. The whole setup is rather hacky and complicated (I
didn't really have time to make it more presentable) but it might be
still useful
Carsten, Piotr and Pete,thanks for the replies so far - great to hear that it's possible to do plain ascii editing and still have the same data ready for syncing. I tried to play with the ideas you mentioned, but I found out that I have no .ics-files in ~/Library/Calendars. I knew I had my iCal