From: Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Showing timestamps in agenda items
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 11:00:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130707110042.73bbadca@khumba.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8sfD4Kt1fPzv0ko+bnd2U=v7tpcWTcG_RiZzfQNjNLjfw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 10:22:34 -0700
Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/13, Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've developed a habit of typing items like this:
> >
> > * Foo Event <2013-07-07 Sun>..<2013-08-07 Wed>
> >
> > The effect of this used to be agenda entries that looked like:
> >
> > Sunday 7 July 2013
> > foo: Foo Event ..<2013-07-07 Sun>
> >
> > Saturday 7 August 2013
> > foo: Foo Event <2013-08-07 Wed>..
> >
> > It worked great for long, passive events that I only wanted to see
> > the beginning and end of, with a terse construct. Listing many
> > dates was great too, only stripping the current date for any
> > appearance in the agenda:
> >
> > * Bar Event <2013-07-08 Mon>,<2013-07-10 Wed>,<2013-07-12 Fri>
> >
> > Monday 8 July 2013
> > foo: Bar Event ,<2013-07-10 Wed>,<2013-07-12 Fri>
> >
> > At some point (I think between 7.8 and 7.9) all dates stopped
> > appearing in the description part of agenda lines, so now all that
> > shows is:
> >
> > Sunday 7 July 2013
> > foo: Some Event ..
> >
> > This is not as useful, as I could already put dates that I didn't
> > want visible on a following line. I've searched the org-adenda
> > options but haven't found a way to affect this behaviour. I
> > haven't looked at the code yet :). How much effort would it be to
> > do this? Showing all dates in agenda descriptions would be alright
> > too.
> >
> > My next choice might be to do:
> >
> > * Foo
> > ** Foo starts <2013-07-07 Sun>
> > ** Foo ends <2013-08-07 Wed>
> >
> > But I'm open to other ideas.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan
>
> Perhaps this note from my .emacs might help.
>
> ;;
> ;; removing timestamps
> ;;
> ;; the variable seems to be completely ignored. it always
> ;; removes active timestamps no matter what the setting of this
> ;; variable is. it never removes any other timestamps or time
> ;; specifications.
> ;;
> ;; if it is fixed, then i might want it for inactive as beg.
> ;; with a wide screen it is less important.
> ;;
> ;; this does not work for inactive (i tested it) as displayed
> ;; with the [ ] feature.
> ;;
> ;; (setq org-agenda-remove-times-when-in-prefix 'beg)
> (setq org-agenda-remove-times-when-in-prefix nil)
> ;; default is t.
> ;; (setq org-agenda-remove-times-when-in-prefix t)
Thanks Samuel. I'd tried playing around with this as well and I
confirm that it doesn't seem to do anything. It does sound like the
correct feature though, doesn't it?
Found a better workaround: hitting ": RET" (or anything to change the
entry) will display the headline unmodified...
- Bryan
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2013-07-07 15:25 Showing timestamps in agenda items Bryan Gardiner
2013-07-07 17:22 ` Samuel Wales
2013-07-07 18:00 ` Bryan Gardiner [this message]
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