Mercurial > emacs
changeset 60790:61b4f45aa6b8
(Importing Diary): Rename node from iCalendar. Document diary-from-outlook.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:08:14 +0000 |
| parents | e1f3e09e22da |
| children | fa4296e0e363 |
| files | man/calendar.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/calendar.texi Mon Mar 21 18:06:58 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/calendar.texi Mon Mar 21 18:08:14 2005 +0000 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ * Other Calendars:: Converting dates to other calendar systems. * Diary:: Displaying events from your diary. * Appointments:: Reminders when it's time to do something. -* iCalendar:: Converting diary events to/from iCalendar format. +* Importing Diary:: Converting diary events to/from other formats. * Daylight Savings:: How to specify when daylight savings time is active. * Time Intervals:: Keeping track of time intervals. @end menu @@ -1396,15 +1396,24 @@ list without affecting your diary file. You delete entries from the appointment list with @kbd{M-x appt-delete}. -@node iCalendar -@section iCalendar -@cindex iCalendar support +@node Importing Diary +@section Importing and Exporting Diary Entries + + You can transfer diary entries between Emacs diary files and a +variety of other formats. - The icalendar package aims at providing an implementation of the -iCalendar standard, as defined in ``RFC 2445 -- Internet Calendaring and -Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)''. It provides a means -for importing iCalendar (and the earlier vCalendar format) data into -Emacs diary files and vice versa. +@vindex diary-outlook-formats + You can import diary entries from Outlook-generated appointment +messages. While viewing such a message in Rmail or Gnus, do @kbd{M-x +diary-from-outlook} to import the entry. You can make this command +recognize additional appointment message formats by customizing the +variable @code{diary-outlook-formats}. + +@cindex iCalendar support + The icalendar package allows you to transfer data between your Emacs +diary file and iCalendar files, which are defined in ``RFC +2445---Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification +(iCalendar)'' (as well as the earlier vCalendar format). Importing works for ``ordinary'' (i.e. non-recurring) events, but (at present) may not work correctly (if at all) for recurring events.