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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Richard Lawrence <rwl@recursewithless.net>
Cc: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving Emacs' iCalendar support
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:40:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfmwyoa9.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r08cqye8.fsf@ohm.mail-host-address-is-not-set>

Richard Lawrence <rwl@recursewithless.net> writes:

>> So I'd suggest looking at the existing Emacs/Org applications that use 
>> iCal, and designing your API so that such applications would find it 
>> easy to use (not that it should directly imitate what already exists, 
>> unless such APIs are already ideal).

Some kind of icalendar parser could be useful.

In Org mode, we currently do icalendar export by hand-writing iCalendar
entries as strings and need to be careful about things like line endings
and special symbols.

What could be done instead is some kind of Elisp API similar to
`xml-parse-region' and `xml-print', so that things like escaping
symbols, exact literals, newlines, etc are handled behind the scenes, and
we could instead just define an AST and "print" it into a valid
iCalendar file.

So, my suggestion would be something akin xml.el and maybe (optionally)
https://github.com/ndwarshuis/org-ml - to manipulate the AST.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-22 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-18  9:01 Improving Emacs' iCalendar support Richard Lawrence
2024-10-18  9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-19  8:22   ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-19 10:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20  5:08       ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-20  5:21         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-18 12:58 ` Sebastián Monía
2024-10-19  8:28   ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-19  5:44 ` Adam Porter
2024-10-19  8:39   ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-20  3:09     ` Adam Porter
2024-10-22 18:40     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-10-23  7:29       ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]       ` <87plnr6zvk.fsf@>
2024-10-23  8:09         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-23  9:05         ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-23 10:03           ` Björn Bidar
2024-10-23  9:01       ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-23 20:24         ` Ferdinand Pieper
2024-10-24 14:52           ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-24 17:45             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-25 12:53               ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-25 18:59                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-21  6:10 ` Björn Bidar
2024-10-21  6:22 ` Visuwesh
2024-10-23  9:15   ` Richard Lawrence
2024-10-23  9:45     ` Visuwesh
     [not found] ` <87wmi29eaf.fsf@>
2024-10-26 17:49   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-28 10:44     ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]     ` <87r080tslf.fsf@>
2024-10-28 19:09       ` Ihor Radchenko

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