cal or pcal to iCalendar?

Michael,

Michael DeBusk writes:

> I've long kept my (minimal) appointments in cal, and later in pcal.
> (A postscript calendar, converted to JPG, makes an ugly but useful
> wallpaper.) My girlfriend, a huge fan of her Windows-based PIM,
> sometimes has need of my appointments when making her own plans. I've
> been e-mailing her the details she needs, but I think it'd be handy to
> convert my pcal data file to iCalendar format and send her that. Her
> PIM supports iCalendar imports.

Possibly not what you're looking for but Emacs has a wonderful mode
called 'Org mode' which allows you to export your stuff to iCal. It has
the advantage of integrating (to some degree) with Gnus and bbdb.

As for automation you can use emacs -batch or emacs -f.

Don't forget to let us know what you use.

Cheers,
Phil Jackson
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:05:51 +0000, Phil Jackson
wrote:

> Possibly not what you're looking for but Emacs has a wonderful mode
> called 'Org mode' which allows you to export your stuff to iCal. It
> has the advantage of integrating (to some degree) with Gnus and bbdb.

I'm having enough trouble learning vim right now. (Thinking of prying
the arrow keys off of my keyboard!) I think emacs is over my head.

The "organizer" thing looks interesting, though. I think I have
something like that installed. (GJots, or something like that. I
intended to play with it to see if I found it useful.)

Maybe it's time to move off of cal and pcal.

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On 2007-02-13, Michael DeBusk wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:05:51 +0000, Phil Jackson
> wrote:
>
>> Possibly not what you're looking for but Emacs has a wonderful mode
>> called 'Org mode' which allows you to export your stuff to iCal. It
>> has the advantage of integrating (to some degree) with Gnus and bbdb.
>
> I'm having enough trouble learning vim right now. (Thinking of prying
> the arrow keys off of my keyboard!) I think emacs is over my head.

If you are having trouble learning vim, don't bother. You will
probably find emacs more to your liking.


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Michael DeBusk writes:

> I'm having enough trouble learning vim right now. (Thinking of prying
> the arrow keys off of my keyboard!) I think emacs is over my head.

You can get by with just a few emacs commands. There is a built-in
tutorial. It's also not "modal" that is - if you type, the characters
get inserted. You don't need to switch between insert mode and command mode.

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:34:54 -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson
wrote:

> If you are having trouble learning vim, don't bother. You will
> probably find emacs more to your liking.

Ah, but it's become a quest. :)

When I get to the point where I can vim without thinking about it, I'll
explore emacs. I'd like to be conversant in both.

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:43:27 +0000 (UTC), Bruce Barnett
wrote:

> You can get by with just a few emacs commands. There is a built-in
> tutorial. It's also not "modal" that is - if you type, the
> characters get inserted. You don't need to switch between insert mode
> and command mode.

That sounds like good sense to me. The browsing I've done of emacs
tutorials makes it look a little more complicated than that... lots of
C+X C+whatever to memorize.

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Michael DeBusk writes:

> That sounds like good sense to me. The browsing I've done of emacs
> tutorials makes it look a little more complicated than that... lots of
> C+X C+whatever to memorize.

Well, the most important is to insert and delete characters.
and how to save a file.

You can use the mouse and menu for these things.

Yes - emacs has a zillion commands.
But you only need to know a few.

There are many ways to do that. As you gain experience, you learn how
to do things without using the mouse, like move forward a word, delete
the last word, etc.

But as I said - you don't need to know this first thing.



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