Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > Jack, may you take a look? > Maybe we should just document `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration' > to the manual?
I think it's a good start to document `org-agenda-default-appoint-duration' in the manual, I drafted a patch for it (attached). IMO it should be possible for ox-icalendar to export events without DTEND since the iCalendar spec explicitly allows this. However it will take me some time to look into it. Maybe the best way would be to introduce a new customization, `org-icalendar-default-duration', with default value of 2 hours, but could be set to `nil' which would mean no DTEND is created; and its value would be overridden when `org-agenda-default-appoint-duration' is non-nil. This would preserve back-compatibility while allowing a new option to specify no duration, or some other duration besides 2 hours.
>From d9596bff6f85162362e3a836e7bc631fc9f8361e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Kamm <jackk...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 19:47:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document ox-icalendar use of org-agenda-default-appointment-duration --- doc/org-manual.org | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org index d5d92b749..ae22f4caa 100644 --- a/doc/org-manual.org +++ b/doc/org-manual.org @@ -16590,6 +16590,12 @@ certain built-in types (see ~icalendar-export-sexp-enumerate-all~), are exported up to ~icalendar-export-sexp-enumeration-days~ into future.]. +#+vindex: org-agenda-default-appointment-duration +If a timestamp contains a time, but doesn't have an explicit end time +(i.e. time range), then by default the exported event will have a +duration of 2 hours, but this can be overridden with +~org-agenda-default-appointment-duration~. + #+vindex: org-icalendar-include-todo The iCalendar export backend can also incorporate TODO entries based on the configuration of the ~org-icalendar-include-todo~ variable. -- 2.49.0
