Export an event

[jasonwryan]

It would be great to be able to select an event and then export it as a list of space separated fields (sort of a reverse --new) to stdout so that it could be scripted to send to an email client as a sort of rudimentary invitation.

This would complete the calendaring "lifecycle".

[geier]

Do you imagine this a feature for khal or ikhal?

[jasonwryan]

Mmm: good question. I hadn't really thought through it (sorry). I guess the simplest aproach would be from ikhal--probably by hitting e on a selected event.

[untitaker]

Sort of related, i think adding more options to retrieve the original filepath of an event would help users scripting around this.

[geier]

yeah, I really want to make the printing of events fully customizable, kind of like strftime.

[fpytloun]

I would also welcome this export feature.
Maybe extend it to sending invitations directly (which is my use-case), for example invite people in event view. Uppon save, open mail client (eg. Mutt, maybe just execute configurable command) with new mail and attached ICS.
It probably shouldn't be so difficult to implement, basically it's about this: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt, section 4.2.11 (MEMBER and PARTSTAT).

Now one has to search all ics files manually to find correct file and send it as mail attachment manually.

[geier]

just adding an events as an attachement to an email is easy, implementing (parts of ) RFC5546 not so much. Butt I'll see if we can do it in two parts. Also see #132

[geier]

events can now be exportet from ikhal, see #306