Automatic reloading

[CyanMonkey]

I have a cron job that runs vdirsyncer every 30 minutes to sync with a caldav server. However any new events/changes that are downloaded to my computer are not updated in calcure. I have to quit calcure and then reopen calcure for the new events to propagate.

I am planning to leave calcure running indefinitely in a tmux session with my MUA, neomutt, and detach and attach the session as needed.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[anufrievroman]

I think it can be implemented. Would you prefer auto-reload every N minutes or reload upon key press? The little problem is that for some users it takes a long time to load huge ics files so it is not a default behavior.

Actually, I have exactly the same setup with tmux, neomutt etc, but most programs need to reloaded anyway, especially neomutt. But hopefully calcure will be more stable for long runs.

[CyanMonkey]

I think the reload every N minutes would be best for me but I would be happy with any implementation you can come up with.

Perhaps add in both but give the user the option to toggle the reload after N minutes?

[anufrievroman]

The most minimal implementation I could think of I just made in 4b44f3b5345373ccc5d01bf0c9527a344c71af59 Now pressing Q will reload ics user data. This will appear in the next version, or you can try by installing from main branch.

pipx install git+https://github.com/anufrievroman/calcure

About periodic reload I am not sure, I'll see how to better make it, because now we don't really measure past time in the program.

[CyanMonkey]

That will work for me, Thanks a bunch :)

[anufrievroman]

Okay, then I'll close the issue, thank you for your suggestion.