On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gmane.emacs.orgmode as well.
>
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > - as I understand it this system will only work with entries that have
> > been added via "i" in a calendar-mode org agenda view.  When I try to
> > add items this way I am never prompted for a time, only a date.  Am I
> > missing something here?
>
> hi Matt,
> Carsten accepted a patch of mine a while ago that allows you to do stuff
> like the following from the agenda:
>
> "i d RET 09:00-09:30 meeting with Joe"
>
> and the time is extracted from the text you enter, if you set:
>
> (setq org-agenda-insert-diary-extract-time t)
>
> this is super, stephen thank you.
had some difficulties with google's timezone handling but those appear to be
fixed now.  seems to be woring perfectly!

for a real two-way sync to work with this method, I think we need access to
uid's of google calendar events.  If I read the documentation properly, the
underlying gdata-python library doesn't support uid queries.  So I filed an
enhancement bug:
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/issues/detail?id=444&q=uid
maybe someone with a better coding sense can improve it; in any case, we can
all follow its progress at that url.

matt



>  Stephen
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