From: "Oliver Charles" <oliver.g.charles@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repeating events within a time range and ics exporting
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:47:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5641883d0812101647g5dc8fecfob7a41c7d752b491a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mksprk2tqzp.fsf@farmer.cs.uiuc.edu>
I asked a similar question myself, here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg09297.html.
Maybe this helps
-Ollie
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Ming-Wei Chang <mchang21@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Currently I am a student and I heavily use orgmode to manage my
> agenda. I must say that orgmode is very cool! I am using emacs 23
> from CVS and orgmode 6.14 now.
>
> Right now I am looking for a way such that I can schedule a task
> repeatedly within a time period. For example, I have a class on every
> Wed in Dec 2008. I hope that I can assign the task in the following way
>
> * Class A
> <2008-12-01 Wed 15:00-17:00 +1w>--<2008-12-31 Wed>
>
> However, currently orgmode seems not to support this kind of syntax.
>
> I know that I can use the diary sexp. For example, I can have
>
> * Class A
> <%%(and (diary-block 01 12 2008 31 12 2008) (= 3 (calendar-day-of-week date)))>
>
> It worked. Unfortunately, there are two problems of this approach.
>
> 1) It seems that I cannot specify the "hours" using this approach.
> For example, I try
>
> <%%(and (diary-block 01 12 2008 31 12 2008) (= 3 (calendar-day-of-week date))) 15:00-17:00>
>
> , and it is not working.
>
> 2) More importantly, it seems that entry with sexp cannot be exported
> when I tried to export my org files into a ics file. This is very
> bad for me, because I constantly upload my org agenda into google
> calendar. Therefore, this makes it unusable to me.
>
> I believe that somebody has already mention something like
> this. However, I tried to google it and still could not find the
> answer.
>
> Any comment on this?
>
> Best,
>
> Ming-Wei
>
>
>
>
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2008-12-08 19:18 Repeating events within a time range and ics exporting Ming-Wei Chang
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