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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: capture template for .ics invitation in vm
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 09:01:47 +0000
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On Saturday, 19 Dec 2015 at 08:24, prayner@unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> I'm trying to make a capture template for turning the very frequent
> invitations I get in .ics format (I think) into org agenda items.
> The basis is the ical2org awk script maintained by Eric Fraga.
> My template is defined as follows:
> ("i" "invite" entry (file+headline "~/.org/todo.org" "Tasks")
> 	 "* TODO %(org-capture-vm-invite)\n" :immediate-finish t)

Maybe have a look at the implementation of gnus-icalendar functions
which do what you want albeit for gnus and not vm?  gnus-icalendar.el
should be in your emacs distribution but, if not, it can be found in the
git version of gnus.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.5.1, Org release_8.3.2-416-g369955