Re: agenda prefix - fixed/max width

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Eraldo Helal <eraldo@eraldo.at>
Cc: Org-Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: agenda prefix - fixed/max width
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:05:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <028295ED-8DBC-4281-A43D-5DD736010045@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <938fae2d0910050727p1fea635fg5d0abfd25c95d991@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Eraldo

Why do you define categories longer than 7 characters if you don'e  
want to display them?

#+CATEGORY: evening

or a similar property at the right place ill get you there.

- Carsten

P.S.

After the next pull, you can also do this:

    (setq org-agenda-prefix-format " %-8.8:c ")

This should haveworked before, but did not, due to an error I cannot
figure out.  The latest git contains a worg-around.

On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Eraldo Helal wrote:

> I have set org-agenda-prefix-format to: (org-agenda-prefix-format "  
> %-8:c ")
> making the agenda look like so:
>
> home:    [ ] brainstorm redesign home
> evening school: [ ] chose DE spec.
> evening school: [ ] ask Lea re: spec topics
> evening school: [ ] brainstorm Learners Group
> eraldo:  [ ] brainstorm 4 perspectives
>
> If I change it to " %8:c " I get that:
>
>    home: [ ] brainstorm redesign home
> evening school: [ ] chose DE spec.
> evening school: [ ] ask Lea re: spec topics
> evening school: [ ] brainstorm Learners Group
>  eraldo: [ ] brainstorm 4 perspectives
>
> but what I want is this:  ;; limiting prefix to 7 characters
>
> home:    [ ] brainstorm redesign home
> evening: [ ] chose DE spec.
> evening: [ ] ask Lea re: spec topics
> evening: [ ] brainstorm Learners Group
> eraldo:  [ ] brainstorm 4 perspectives
>
> In other words: having a fixed prefix length resulting in showing only
> the set amount of characters.
> Why? Because it lines up the check boxes "[ ]" which is handy and
> looks nice for printing.
> I have some long category names / file names ... making the prefix
> verrry long no matter what setting I use at the moment. :(
>
> Any ideas how to fix that?
> Would be awesome if someone could help me get there. =]
>
> Greetings from Austria,
> Eraldo
>
>
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