From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34024 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Sebold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: vCalendar/iCalendar support for Gnus? Date: 03 Jan 2001 11:17:14 -0600 Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ae9augc9.fsf@lynx.ionific.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170026 28270 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:13:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:13:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6274D049D for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:18:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB27866; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:18:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:17:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18730 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:16:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [195.204.10.139]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D503D049D for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:17:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA13344 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:17:38 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: webuser229.lcms.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 978542258 11062 208.167.163.229 (3 Jan 2001 17:17:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jan 2001 17:17:38 GMT X-Face: KviMK/n@>[)^qaI{Lpl^/~TBbx0FI*=>m%|v%69pVbA~Eu+@S3?[ioF>k}7b0(TZIle..zs -U=po%Tr;2bo,WH01K|,QP7}+-&kb^QO I thought about this a while back... ....... I don't think I want > Calendar stuff within Emacs. Startup up Gnome Calendar... how would > you have such a nice interface within Emacs??? You can't :(... it > wouldn't be nice :( I just fired up GNOME Calendar for the first time, to see the nice interface. Eh. It doesn't look particularly groundbreaking to me. But perhaps I don't have the latest one. (I did update to the latest Helix GNOME recently, though.) I don't see any reason why: 1) all of those interfaces couldn't be replicated in Emacs, or 2) why you would want your calendar so "far away," in an application sense, from your mail client, current todo lists, diary, appointment reminders, etc. Of course if you aren't doing all this in Emacs already, then perhaps it isn't that big of a deal for you. Also, it would be nice to be able to deal with this from a tty, rather than requiring an X11 interface every time I need to consult it. > It would still be nice to have all the Emacs lisp magic.............. _This_ strikes me as being the most important thing. If the calendar not only could speak this distributed-calendar language that all these Outlook users rave about, but could be customized and automated in Emacs Lisp....well, I might actually have to use it. That said, I haven't seen the need in my own work to automate my own schedule that completely. And if it ever did become so overwhelming that I could no longer figure out when I was free for a meeting, or send someone a copy of my to-do list...well, I should think my employer could pay for a secretary for me then. That would have to be an astounding work load. Maybe if I was the CEO or something. (Just my opinion. But this feature creep seems to be getting sillier by the minute to me.) -- Charles Sebold Random Answer to an Emacs Very Frequently Asked Question: Change from Unix to Mac or DOS files using M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system. -- 8th of Teveth, 5761 -- Zippy: Griffy, I think th' INTERNET may come from the DEVIL... Griffy: He's definitely got a piece of Ebay. -- Zippy the Pinhead, 20 November 2000