Re: icalendar: exporting times of day specified in heading?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jan 28, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Stephen Eglen wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> while it might be possible to do what you ask for, I think it is
>> error- prone because people might accidently have something in the
>> headline which looks like a time.  I don't mind so much if Org's
>> agenda stumbles over this, but I don't want to produce incorrect
>> icalendar files.
>>
>> Also, this icalendar export function is programmed in a messy way,  
>> and
>> I don't see a quick way to fix this.
>>
>> If you can make me a patch, I will take it.
>
> Thanks for this.  I did decide to bite the bullet and look into  
> this.  I
> think I have some working code, modifiying:
>  org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file
>
> so that it parses out the date at that point, conditional on
> org-agenda-search-headline-for-time being t.  In this way, it doesn't
> touch the ical export functions.
>
> I will double check and submit a patch for consideration.

Thanks!

>
> A small note though: along the way, I've sometimes noticed that diary
> entries   are included with a level 2 heading rather than a level 4
> heading.

I do not understand this.  Included where? How?  Can you please  
describe this
more extensively?

Thanks

- Carsten

>  I haven't been able to track this down, its just noticeable
> when I later browse agenda.org
>
> *** 2010-02-02 Tuesday
> **** 15:00-15:30 check me
>     <2010-02-02 Tue>
>
> i.e. that 2nd line is sometimes given two heaings, and is not within  
> the
> right level 3 heading.  Anything obvious I might want to look at when
> debugging?
>
> Stephen

- Carsten