Re: [PATCH] Fix ox-icalendar export of diary timestamps

[Jack Kamm]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> I agree that it makes sense.
>>> However, it is technically a breaking change.
>>> May you please add a news entry as well?
>>
>> Thanks, I've updated the patch with a news entry now.
>
> Thanks!
> Applied, onto main.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=c07028671d

Hi, revisiting this old thread.

Unfortunately I found a case in the wild where this change caused a
temporary problem in org-caldav:
https://github.com/dengste/org-caldav/issues/315

I was able to fix the problem on org-caldav side, but it made me think
that I should have added an option to keep the old behavior (export
active timestamps excluding diary timestamps).

I attach a patch to do this, by adding an option `active-exclude-diary'
for `org-icalendar-with-timestamps' and `org-export-with-timestamps'.

>From d0b6c661528c5d7ae0f7fb3d393797aad2a291f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:10:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] org-(export,icalendar)-with-timestamps: active-exclude-diary
 option

* lisp/ox.el (org-export-with-timestamps): Add option
`active-exclude-diary' to export active timestamps without diary
timestamps.
(org-export--skip-p): Use new helper function
`org-export--skip-timestamp-p'.
(org-export--skip-timestamp-p): Helper function to decide whether
to skip a timestamp during export
* lisp/ox-icalendar.el (org-icalendar-with-timestamps): Add option
`active-exclude-diary' to export active timestamps without diary
timestamps.
(org-icalendar-entry): Use new helper function
`org-export--skip-timestamp-p' to decide whether to skip a timestamp.
* testing/lisp/test-ox-icalendar.el
(test-ox-icalendar/exclude-diary-timestamp): Test that diary timestamp
is excluded when `active-exclude-diary'.
---
 etc/ORG-NEWS                      |  4 ++++
 lisp/ox-icalendar.el              | 29 ++++++++++++++---------
 lisp/ox.el                        | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 testing/lisp/test-ox-icalendar.el | 15 ++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/ORG-NEWS b/etc/ORG-NEWS
index aebd0dedd..3b86ece18 100644
--- a/etc/ORG-NEWS
+++ b/etc/ORG-NEWS
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ This should have minimal impact on non-iCalendar 
exporters, since
 users who manually set ~org-export-with-timestamps~ to ~active~ will
 now have diary timestamps included as well.
 
+To export active timestamps only without diary timestamps, users can
+set ~org-export-with-timestamps~ and ~org-icalendar-with-timestamps~
+to ~active-exclude-diary~.
+
 *** =ob-calc.el=: Vector and matrix are now inserted as Org tables by default
 
 ~ob-calc~ now formats vector and matrix results as Org tables.  This
diff --git a/lisp/ox-icalendar.el b/lisp/ox-icalendar.el
index bb01f1a22..da6339381 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-icalendar.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-icalendar.el
@@ -202,18 +202,27 @@ (defcustom org-icalendar-categories '(local-tags category)
 (defcustom org-icalendar-with-timestamps 'active
   "Non-nil means make an event from plain time stamps.
 
-It can be set to `active', `inactive', t or nil, in order to make
-an event from, respectively, only active timestamps, only
-inactive ones, all of them or none.
+It can be set to `active', `active-exclude-diary', `inactive', t
+or nil, in order to make an event from, respectively, only active
+timestamps (with/without diary timestamps), only inactive ones,
+all of them or none.
+
+This variable has the same options as
+`org-export-with-timestamps', and takes precedence over it.
+However, note that this variable applies to all timestamps within
+an entry, whereas `org-export-with-timestamps' only applies to
+timestamps isolated in a paragraph containing only timestamps.
 
-This variable has precedence over `org-export-with-timestamps'.
 It can also be set with the #+OPTIONS line, e.g. \"<:t\"."
   :group 'org-export-icalendar
   :type '(choice
          (const :tag "All timestamps" t)
-         (const :tag "Only active timestamps" active)
+         (const :tag "Active timestamps, including diary timestamps" active)
+         (const :tag "Active timestamps, excluding diary timestamps"
+                 active-exclude-diary)
          (const :tag "Only inactive timestamps" inactive)
-         (const :tag "No timestamp" nil)))
+         (const :tag "No timestamp" nil))
+  :safe (lambda (x) (memq x '(t nil active active-exclude-diary inactive))))
 
 (defcustom org-icalendar-include-todo nil
   "Non-nil means create VTODO components from TODO items.
@@ -744,11 +753,9 @@ (defun org-icalendar-entry (entry contents info)
                                    (org-element-contents inside))
                 'timestamp
               (lambda (ts)
-                (when (let ((type (org-element-property :type ts)))
-                        (cl-case (plist-get info :with-timestamps)
-                          (active (memq type '(active active-range diary)))
-                          (inactive (memq type '(inactive inactive-range)))
-                          ((t) t)))
+                (unless (org-export--skip-timestamp-p
+                          (plist-get info :with-timestamps)
+                          (org-element-property :type ts))
                   (let ((uid (format "TS%d-%s" (cl-incf counter) uid)))
                     (org-icalendar--vevent
                      entry ts uid summary loc desc cat tz class))))
diff --git a/lisp/ox.el b/lisp/ox.el
index 6ef0d2699..646d09b51 100644
--- a/lisp/ox.el
+++ b/lisp/ox.el
@@ -802,10 +802,11 @@ (defcustom org-export-with-timestamps t
   "Non-nil means allow timestamps in export.
 
 It can be set to any of the following values:
-  t          export all timestamps.
-  `active'   export active timestamps only.
-  `inactive' export inactive timestamps only.
-  nil        do not export timestamps
+  t                        export all timestamps.
+  `active'                 export active timestamps, including diary 
timestamps.
+  `active-exclude-diary'   export active timestamps, excluding diary 
timestamps.
+  `inactive'               export inactive timestamps only.
+  nil                      do not export timestamps
 
 This only applies to timestamps isolated in a paragraph
 containing only timestamps.  Other timestamps are always
@@ -816,10 +817,12 @@ (defcustom org-export-with-timestamps t
   :group 'org-export-general
   :type '(choice
          (const :tag "All timestamps" t)
-         (const :tag "Only active timestamps" active)
+         (const :tag "Active timestamps, including diary timestamps" active)
+         (const :tag "Active timestamps, excluding diary timestamps"
+                 active-exclude-diary)
          (const :tag "Only inactive timestamps" inactive)
          (const :tag "No timestamp" nil))
-  :safe (lambda (x) (memq x '(t nil active inactive))))
+  :safe (lambda (x) (memq x '(t nil active active-exclude-diary inactive))))
 
 (defcustom org-export-with-todo-keywords t
   "Non-nil means include TODO keywords in export.
@@ -1857,13 +1860,23 @@ (defun org-export--skip-p (datum options selected 
excluded)
                         (lambda (obj)
                           (or (not (stringp obj)) (org-string-nw-p obj)))
                         options t))))
-       (cl-case (plist-get options :with-timestamps)
-        ((nil) t)
-        (active
-         (not (memq (org-element-property :type datum) '(active active-range 
diary))))
-        (inactive
-         (not (memq (org-element-property :type datum)
-                    '(inactive inactive-range)))))))))
+       (org-export--skip-timestamp-p
+        (plist-get options :with-timestamps)
+        (org-element-property :type datum))))))
+
+(defun org-export--skip-timestamp-p (with-timestamps timestamp-type)
+  "Decides whether to skip a timestamp during export.
+WITH-TIMESTAMPS should be a valid option for
+`org-export-with-timestamps'.  TIMESTAMP-TYPE should be the
+`:type' property of a timestamp element."
+  (cl-case with-timestamps
+    ((nil) t)
+    (active
+     (not (memq timestamp-type '(active active-range diary))))
+    (active-exclude-diary
+     (not (memq timestamp-type '(active active-range))))
+    (inactive
+     (not (memq timestamp-type '(inactive inactive-range))))))
 
 
 ;;; The Transcoder
diff --git a/testing/lisp/test-ox-icalendar.el 
b/testing/lisp/test-ox-icalendar.el
index c7c74c526..8c0ab6377 100644
--- a/testing/lisp/test-ox-icalendar.el
+++ b/testing/lisp/test-ox-icalendar.el
@@ -143,5 +143,20 @@ (ert-deftest test-ox-icalendar/diary-timestamp ()
             (should (search-forward "RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=1SU"))))
       (when (file-exists-p tmp-ics) (delete-file tmp-ics)))))
 
+(ert-deftest test-ox-icalendar/exclude-diary-timestamp ()
+  "Test icalendar exclude of diary timestamps."
+  (let* ((org-icalendar-with-timestamps 'active-exclude-diary)
+         (tmp-ics (org-test-with-temp-text-in-file
+                   "* Test entry with 2 timestamps
+<%%(diary-float t 0 1)>
+<2025-01-12 Sunday>"
+                   (expand-file-name (org-icalendar-export-to-ics)))))
+    (unwind-protect
+        (with-temp-buffer
+          (insert-file-contents tmp-ics)
+          (save-excursion
+            (should (not (search-forward "RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=1SU" nil 
t)))))
+      (when (file-exists-p tmp-ics) (delete-file tmp-ics)))))
+
 (provide 'test-ox-icalendar)
 ;;; test-ox-icalendar.el ends here
-- 
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