From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Oliver Charles" Subject: Re: Repeating events within a time range and ics exporting Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:47:34 +0000 Message-ID: <5641883d0812101647g5dc8fecfob7a41c7d752b491a@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAZiK-0004fb-Lz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:47:36 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAZiJ-0004eD-Oa for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:47:36 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47232 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAZiJ-0004e3-K0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:47:35 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f17.google.com ([209.85.221.17]:64646) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LAZiJ-0005qm-6v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:47:35 -0500 Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so1083401qyk.18 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:47:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >