Am Dienstag, 4. Juni 2013, 09:07:18 schrieb Nick Nick Dokos: > AW <alexander.will...@t-online.de> writes: > > I'd like to have an external calendar file displayed in org and was very > > glad to find a hint in the manual. The name of the external calendar file > > is "office.ics". > > > > So I wrote into my .emacs-file: > > > > (icalendar-import-file "office.ics" "Diary") > > (setq org-agenda-include-diary t) > > > > As you can imagine, that caused an import of "office.ics" _every_ time I > > started Emacs. So I ended with a huge calendar file full of (no, not > > stars)[1] repetitions of "office.ics". > > You can import the ics file into some temporary diary and > delete the temporary diary upon exit from emacs: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (setq tmp-diary (make-temp-file "diary")) > (icalendar-import-file "/path/to/office.ics" tmp-diary) > > ;; make it the default... > (setq diary-file tmp-diary) > ;; so that org-agenda can find it > (setq org-agenda-include-diary t) > > ;; delete the tmp diary on exit > (add-to-list 'kill-emacs-hook > (function > (lambda () > (delete-file tmp-diary)))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > That assumes that you don't have any other diary files > that you are interested in including. If you do, the basic > idea will still work but will require more fiddling. > > Untested.
Hi Nick, thank you for these lines. I realised that I've got a bug in one of my .emacs- files, but I have to dig where: in Windows or Linux. However, both installations of Emacs should format the date exactly the same way. I will report when back on the surface, Regards, Alexander
