From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tomas Nordin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Importing an ical event to org Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:34:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87efer4fx4.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <87efev66p8.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87pnyf137d.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534883612 6544 195.159.176.226 (21 Aug 2018 20:33:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 20:33:32 +0000 (UTC) To: Eric Abrahamsen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 22:33:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fsDLD-0001ZV-Sz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:33:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55793 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsDNK-0001ff-7V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:35:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsDMs-0001R5-Ez for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsDMp-0001yt-2j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:52967) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsDMh-0001pb-0S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CD4B20F87 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:34:48 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1534883688; bh=AWGupD1uc3Wy1sUEDxAnRp7UKB4KxQXuUmvDVYV1+0k=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:From; b=aitENGgrzjH3DVnBRP5NjRFPRWORdFRkKQm5zMMDjSFwWJtOawkL47HPVmCAcI/7V 5PCYcdK930XQZF8DAheyewpGawAVYvHYGwvuKSHbp11SHtdShBpgWTJjwAEx1H+m/k 4/eWFhAd07B5mtByl0TMODQYeOmP32FrW0uoZAdCSH8ig+YN5eRf49D4g6MziymUmZ lyn32VeRv1qnKqnmBV310CsTsy0x1CO1kJbBYi71Bb0WAq2/2zPR5yIBjtMak1c4bG Bl2Rr6f9GLn/U3t36kDFaHsqlEWm9OwIpSTFjNZ3fLU8+7xA+bBcBcoCURbc90IROP y9CmJT0gmYjZg== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 41w2Tz5Vsvz9rxF; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:34:47 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87pnyf137d.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.66 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117707 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Tomas Nordin writes: > >> Hello List >> >> I was wondering if somebody would like to share a nice method to import >> an ical event. Or just share some method already available I have >> missed. With some services on the web you get the option to add an event >> to your calendar. One of the options might be "ical", providing an .ics >> file for download. I would like to add that event as an org event in my >> org file I use for events. > > There's the org-caldav package in MELPA, you can try that. When it You see, that's the available method I had simply missed, I already use that for syncing to my calendar service. I guess I missed it since it doesn't seem to have any *intended* command for importing an arbitrary file on your computer. I evaled the function `org-caldav-import-ics-to-org' given the ics file as argument and it was added as I wanted into my `org-caldav-inbox' file. > works, it does exactly what you want. It often doesn't work, though -- > I'm not blaming the author, DAV stuff is bizarre and unreliable. I've > been using it with a Radicale server, and after some bug fixes it > worked great. Now it's suddenly stopped working again, for no reason I > can see, and I've been too lazy to figure out why. It's been working fine for me so far with the calendar stack simple-calendar and DAVdroid on my phone, posteo calendar service on-line and emacs org stuff here on my computer. Thanks -- Tomas