Questions tagged [calendar]
is for the desk calendar in Emacs, which also provides a diary for events that can be used for managing projects and appointments. `M-x calendar` displays an interactive calendar for picking dates in a `calendar-mode` buffer.
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Any free form input methods for any calendars in Emacs?
Is there anything like the Quick Add Google Calendar feature from here, for Emacs-based or other free calendars?
Basically, I would like a small program to parse unstructured English, like this:
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capture day in calfw calendar and pass it to org-agenda
I am trying to capture from the calfw calendar and have the entry appear in the agenda buffer, in the same way that the emacs calendar does.
with bind c for capture it tells me that there is no cfw:...
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What is the point of Org-agenda?
I'm very new to GNU Emacs. The first thing I need is to schedule deadlines for events. As far as I understand, Org is at the core an outliner, so why come up with an Org agenda rather than implement, ...
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How can I run `calendar-redraw` automatically end of each day?
I keep calender remain open. End of the day calendar-today does not update itself, hance I have to run manually calendar-redraw usually I forget to run it.
End of each day or hourly if calendar is ...
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Extending calendar's compatible range
org-time-stamp-inactive RET 1969-05-02 inserts [1970-05-02 Sat] in the active buffer,
and generates this message: "year was forced into compatible range (1970-2037)". Thus this question: can ...
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Why doesn't this "diary sexp" work?
I've inserted this entry:
%%(diary-anniversary 01 27 1948) Arthur's birthday (%d years old)
in an .org file (that Emacs evaluates when I press C-c a ato obtain the agenda view) but in the agenda, on ...
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Headline colors not diplayed correctly, emacs-calfw
In emacs-calfw some headlines are not displayed correctly (wrong color) as shown in the screenshot below. I created an issue where I described the problem in more detail and also explained how to ...
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emacs 28.1 'parse-time-weekdays' - weekdays configuration doesn't working
Before Emacs 28.1 (Linux) I used:
(eval-after-load 'parse-time
'(progn
(setq parse-time-weekdays (nconc parse-time-weekdays
'(("so" . 0) ("mo" . 1) ("di" . 2)...
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Emacs calendar: how to reset column alignment
On my Agenda view (C-u C-c .) I have a "strange" effect. Line and column are not aligned:
How can I reset it?
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How to disable holiday display in Calendar
I'd like to completely disable the holiday feature in Calendar, and only show events from my only "diary" file. How can I do this?
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How to use calendar-compare-date?
I want to compare today's date with a saved date to see if the saved date is today's or before it. calendar-date-compare seems to be the function I need. The documentation C-h f calendar-date-compare ...
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Unexpected Error: (void-function check-calendar-holidays) in Calendar mode
I am trying to adapt this code from https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiaryMode for use in Emacs with calendar and diary.
(defun diary-schedule (m1 d1 y1 m2 d2 y2 dayname)
"Entry applies if ...
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date to time for french
I want to convert a lot of french dates in date to time
(date-to-time "june 7 2021 12:00:00" )
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(date-to-time "7 juin 2021 12:00:00" )
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Debugger entered--...
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Calendar holidays errors
After updating all the packages and switched to Emacs HEAD the holidays config I used to use now generate errors on Emacs start.
Config:
(setq
general-holidays
'((holiday-fixed 1 1 "New ...
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Exit Emacs Calendar without having to save the diary file
When I create appointments in Emacs diary via the calendar, I have to save changes to the diary file before being able to exit the calendar. I have tried to set up Emacs to automatically save the ...
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Insert TODOs and SCHEDULE items in calendar view
We can do this with 'k' in agenda. How to insert / capture tasks at Calendar in Emacs? It would be very useful. Thanks!
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Calendar: symbols-function-definition is void: "appt-make-list"
When in the "calendar", typing "d", which runs (diary-view-entries), gives me an error Symbols-function-definition is void: "appt-make-list".
It shows the (one) entry for ...
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Color calendar day according to number of event in org-agenda
I would like to color the background of each day in calendar according to the number of events in my org-agenda. The idea is to have a quick and visual idea of what are the busiest days. The code from ...
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showing lunar and solar ephemerides in Emacs agenda
Is there a way to show the calendar functions for phases of the moon? I know it's an inbuilt function of Emacs, but I have never seen it pop up in my agenda.
Thank you,
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How to debug org-caldav-sync?
I'm trying to sync Google Calendar over OAuth2 using org-caldav. However, when I execute M-x org-caldav-sync, the following error occurs:
*Messages*:
Contacting host: www.googleapis.com:443
json-...
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Schedule to "now" (current time) in date/time prompt (calendar)
I would like to be able to insert the current time with a shortcut when I schedule a task.
There is the "." for jumping to the current day (today), but I have not been able to figure out a shortcut ...
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Designate a speficied day of 20 days later
Strike "C-u C-c ." to insert the current datetime,
<2020-03-25 Wed 09:56>
How could I designate a accurate day of 20 days later,
Currently, I invoke "Shift+ right-arrow" step-move the ...
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Invoke a agenda-view integrated with a calendar
Usually, I check the agenda-view with a calendar as:
1. M-x org-agenda
2. invoke calendar by strike "c"
at this moment, the focus stay on the calendar
How could combine the two process?
If C-c a a ...
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Display sunrise and sunset time from agenda view
I set the diary file as
(setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
(setq org-agenda-diary-file "~/Documents/OrgMode/ORG/src/standard-diary") ;;2020-03-02 10:47:06
(setq diary-file "~/Documents/OrgMode/ORG/...
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Check agenda of a particular day from calendar
In calendar-mode to invoke d on a specified day, it will prompt the activitiesof the day from file ~/diary.
Is it possible to invoke an agenda view of a particular day from calendar?
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Create a google calendar event from natural text
I receive many emails that have some events in them which I currently have to enter manually into my Google calendar. It would be great if I can automate this process as much as possible using some ...
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How to get date+interval? (revisited)
I have a deadline that is some date in the past(such as 12/26/2019) + interval (e.g. 15d). How would I get it in Emacs? In a previous post under the same title I posted an example with interval = the ...
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Yearly calendar view of agenda (with colored background)
I would like to have a yearly calendar view of my agenda. The code from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9547912/emacs-calendar-show-more-than-3-months shows how to display a calendar for the whole ...
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How to get date+interval?
I have a deadline that is 12/12/2019+15d+1m. How would I get it in Emacs? This should be straightforward but have not found it. The right answer is 01/27.
UPDATE:
The question is not about combining ...
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Modify emacs calendar starting week number
I want to change emacs default calendar week number so that it starts at a manually preset date.
Normally the year is broken into 52 weeks and week 1 is the one that contains the 1st of January. I'd ...
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Help with basic diary/calendar features
I have created two diary entries, I can't see them in the week agenda. Why is that? Also I would have expected 11/15 to be highlighted, or something like that, to indicate an event was planned that ...
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How to schedule exclusively with the keyboard?
If you look a the screenshot the cursor is locked in the echo area. If want to select the date, I have to click on one with the mouse. Do I, or there is a way to do with the keyboard?
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Also the ...
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Display all the months from M-x calendar
M-x calendar would display a three-month calendar and C-u M-x calendar could select the center of the three month.
How could display an arbitrary numbers of months, for instance view all the month in ...
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Avoid scheduling tasks in vacation in orgmode
I recently started using orgmode and I wonder if there is any way to avoid scheduling (or deadlineing) tasks during my week of vacation.
I already found a way to highlight regional holidays (followed ...
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Hiding items in org-agenda view and calendar
When I still used Emacs Diary as my default organizer I valued its ability to mark items on the calendar. One could also make an entry that was NOT so marked by placing an ampersand before the entry. ...
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mark a second type of holidays in calendar
Emacs calendar can show holidays, so I know when I'm required to stay at home. ;)
(lets say: these are marked with red background, and this feature is already working)
But what if I'm a teacher ...
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Is there a natural language date parser in Elisp/Emacs?
I use Emacs (Spacemacs) for email, and one of the most common tasks I have is converting an email containing a date and time to an item in my schedule. I noticed that calendar mode can convert certain ...
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Outlook Calendar in org agenda
I would like to integrate the calendar from my outlook into my orgmode agenda.
I am looking for a solution with the following features
Should be implemented in elisp only, so that I can run this on ...
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In org-mode, what variable controls the placement of the calendar view when called from a capture template?
I have a question related to this one: when I am in a capture template (for writing a TODO task, for example) and I want to open the calendar with C-c C-s (bound to org-schedule, so that I can set a ...
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european-calendar-style not working
I have the following in my init.el file:
(setq org-agenda-span 36)
(setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday 1)
(setq european-calendar-style t)
However, diary blocks are still interpreted as month first, ...
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Can I copy a date from M-x calendar into kill ring or buffer
I would like to be able to run M-x calendar, navigate to a date, press some keystroke which would do one of the following:
place the selected date onto the kill ring
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close the calendar and ...
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How to add event to google calendar?
I would like to have a function to add an event to my google calendar, and I don't want to sync or download the calendar. What's the most simple solution to that?
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Twilight times in addition to sunrise/sunset?
The sunrise-sunset function from solar.el computes sunrise and sunset. I would also like to have a function that computes the end/beginning of
civil twilight (center of sun 6 deg below horizon)
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Calfw - How to integrate with Google calendar?
From the man page I read to insert theese statements into init.el
(require 'calfw-ical)
(cfw:open-ical-calendar "http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/.../basic.ics")
What I don't undertand is what I ...
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how to disable trailing spaces in emacs calender buffer
how to remove the red area that i think related to trailing spaces
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execute cfw:command means?
I've installed calfw to have a better calendar view in org mode
https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-calfw
Following instructions I arrived to:
the command `cfw:open-calendar-buffer', switch to the ...
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Insert date using a calendar
How can I do the following in emacs:
Suppose the cursor is at position A in my text. Then
open a calendar
chooses the date by clicking with the mouse or navigating with the keyboard
insert the ...
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How to retrieve the date under the cursor in emacs calendar as the format day.month.year like 15.07.2018
Is there a way to retrieve the date under the cursor in emacs calendar as the format day.month.year like 05.07.2018 as a clipboard content?
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What is the purpose of calendar diary block entries?
What are calendar diary block entries about? I've been looking around the web and I can't figure out why I would use that particular format, or how to use it, aside from assigning a starting and ...
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recurring event on weekend day or bank holiday, change to next working day
If there is a recurring event on weekend day or bank holiday, if there a way to change it to next working day?
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