* help with gnus-icalendar.el and orgmode agenda
@ 2024-02-07 20:41 Stephen J. Eglen
2024-02-07 22:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
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From: Stephen J. Eglen @ 2024-02-07 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; +Cc: Jan Tatarik
hi,
I have the following snippet set up so that mu4e will parse icalendar
attachments and add them to an org file ... this seems to be the
standard prescription:
(when (fboundp 'gnus-icalendar-org-setup)
(setq gnus-icalendar-org-capture-file "~/todo.org")
(setq gnus-icalendar-org-capture-headline '("Calendar"))
(gnus-icalendar-org-setup))
gnus-icalendar.el is part of Emacs, authored by Jan Tatarik (cc'ed).
When I use this package on icalendar attachments, it creates entries
that look like this:
** [#B] subject of email
:PROPERTIES:
:ICAL_EVENT: t
...
:END:
<2024-02-22 18:30-20:00>
Note that the timestamp DOES NOT include a day of the week. With the
default settings of org-time-stamp-formats, i.e.
("%Y-%m-%d %a" . "%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M")
this means that the agenda does not show this entry -- which defeats the
purpose of me saving the icalendar entry! If I manually add the dayname
then the agenda item appears.
Looking inside gnus-icalendar.el, the relevant defun seems to be
gnus-icalendar-event--org-timestamp that creates the timestamp.
e.g. it includes this text to generate the timestamp:
(format "<%s %s-%s%s>" start-date start-time end-time repeat)
which does not include the dayname.
What is the best way to improve this code?
Best wishes,
Stephen
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* Re: help with gnus-icalendar.el and orgmode agenda
2024-02-07 20:41 help with gnus-icalendar.el and orgmode agenda Stephen J. Eglen
@ 2024-02-07 22:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-07 23:20 ` Stephen J. Eglen
2024-02-08 15:03 ` Ihor Radchenko
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From: Ihor Radchenko @ 2024-02-07 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen J. Eglen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Jan Tatarik
"Stephen J. Eglen" <sje30@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> When I use this package on icalendar attachments, it creates entries
> that look like this:
>
> ...
> <2024-02-22 18:30-20:00>
>
> Note that the timestamp DOES NOT include a day of the week. With the
> default settings of org-time-stamp-formats, i.e.
>
> ("%Y-%m-%d %a" . "%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M")
>
> this means that the agenda does not show this entry -- which defeats the
> purpose of me saving the icalendar entry! If I manually add the dayname
> then the agenda item appears.
<2024-02-22 18:30-20:00> is a valid timestamp. Agenda not handling it is
an oversight that should be fixed.
That said...
> (format "<%s %s-%s%s>" start-date start-time end-time repeat)
>
> which does not include the dayname.
could certainly be improved. Having a day name increases readability.
Also, we may change the format in future, adding time zones as well.
I recommend using `org-time-stamp-format' when creating Org mode
timestamps or even `org-element-timestamp-interpreter'.
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
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* Re: help with gnus-icalendar.el and orgmode agenda
2024-02-07 22:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
@ 2024-02-07 23:20 ` Stephen J. Eglen
2024-02-08 15:03 ` Ihor Radchenko
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From: Stephen J. Eglen @ 2024-02-07 23:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ihor Radchenko; +Cc: Stephen J. Eglen, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Jan Tatarik
> <2024-02-22 18:30-20:00> is a valid timestamp. Agenda not handling it is
> an oversight that should be fixed.
Thanks for checking this. If the agenda could parse these, great.
However, with a workaround (C-c C-c on the timestamp), I can handle this
for now.
Incidentally, org-lint says the following:
4422 low Potentially malformed timestamp <2024-02-22 18:30-20:00>.
Parsed as: <2024-02-22 Thu 18:30-20:00>
which helped me catch a few other timestamps.
Best wishes,
Stephen
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* Re: help with gnus-icalendar.el and orgmode agenda
2024-02-07 22:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-07 23:20 ` Stephen J. Eglen
@ 2024-02-08 15:03 ` Ihor Radchenko
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From: Ihor Radchenko @ 2024-02-08 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen J. Eglen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Jan Tatarik
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> <2024-02-22 18:30-20:00> is a valid timestamp. Agenda not handling it is
> an oversight that should be fixed.
Fixed, on main.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=62956196d
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
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