Exporting to ical with emacs

[Boyd Kelly]

Hi,

I hope this is not too much off topic.  I have now progressed to running emacs -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-export-icalendar-all-agenda-files)' --batch which is working mostly fine.  However I want to try and sync with another calendar, and so I have put the following in my .emacs file:

(setq org-icalendar-include-todo t)

(setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)

(setq org-icalendar-use-scheduled '(todo-start event-if-todo event-if-not-todo))

(setq org-icalendar-use-deadline '(todo-due event-if-todo event-if-not-todo))

(setq org-combined-agenda-icalendar-file "~/gtd/combined.ics")

When I do a C-c C-e I (Export all files to ical) from within emacs it effectively adds the UID property to the todo items in the 'agenda.org' files.  if however I run emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs  as above from the command line, it respects all the setting above from .emacs, but not org-icalendar-store-UID.  Not knowing emacs (and preferring VIM!!), I have tried to add some things like (require calendar) in my init, but with no results. 

Any ideas?  Or any pointers to debug what might be happening?

bk

[Herbert Sitz]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Boyd Kelly <bke...@coastsystems.net> wrote:

I hope this is not too much off topic.  I have now progressed to running emacs -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-export-icalendar-all-agenda-files)' --batch which is working mostly fine.  However I want to try and sync with another calendar, and so I have put the following in my .emacs file:

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Any ideas?  Or any pointers to debug what might be happening?

Boyd -- Sorry, doing have any ideas.  You might ask the question on the orgmode newslist.  I bet they can help you.

Also, depending on much you like orgmode you may want to check out using it with the EVIL vim emulator in Emacs.  EVIL has a decent vim-like feel, especially with a couple of tweaks.  If main goal is to use orgmode in EVIL you will want set of vim-like keybindings in EVIL for orgmode functions.  I offered a start for that in an old post on orgmode newslist, and someone else made a few improvements.  I think a decent little project would be to do f  ull keybindings for orgmode in EVIL:  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52815/match=evil

Hope that helps,

Herb

[Boyd Kelly]

Wow!  Thanks!

Boyd

[Herbert Sitz]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Boyd Kelly <bke...@coastsystems.net> wrote:

Wow!  Thanks!

Boyd

Besides needing the org keybindings, main thing in EVIL that bugs me is that out-of-box it's still easy to get stuck in Emacs' minibuffer command line, needing to press ctrl-G instead of ESC to get out of it.  You can get fix for that and some other ideas here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8483182/emacs-evil-mode-best-practice