From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ming-Wei Chang Subject: Repeating events within a time range and ics exporting Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:18:50 -0600 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9ldE-0004z6-Tc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:19:00 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9ldD-0004y9-9n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:19:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46732 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9ldC-0004xu-S8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:18:58 -0500 Received: from expredir6.cites.uiuc.edu ([128.174.5.97]:51827) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9ldC-0002ed-S9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:18:59 -0500 Received: from farmer.cs.uiuc.edu (farmer.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.240.18]) by expredir6.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mB8JIoti009043 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:18:50 -0600 (CST) 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 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