Re: adding more color to agenda events

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Scott Jaderholm <jaderholm@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: adding more color to agenda events
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:58:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <286a22d00313775b9b71f6b0e93d4f0b@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2e202b30702271330g5e6376a8md6017518865d3b9f@mail.gmail.com>

On Feb 27, 2007, at 22:30, Scott Jaderholm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there an easy way to add new faces to org-agenda?
>
> I would like to add a face for events including the text "meeting" or 
> "birthday" and other phrases. I'd also like to create a special face 
> for event subjects, such as Diary, life, or work (the first column in 
> agenda). It'd also be nice to be able to do faces based on tags.
>
> Is this possible without a lot of hacking?

There is special way of doing this.  In particular, the agenda does
*not* use font-lock, it sets its own faces.

However, there is a hook you can use, and the code to write for it
is relatuvely simple.  For example:

(add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook
    (lambda ()
      (save-excursion
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (while (re-search-forward "\\<birthday\\>  " nil t)
          (add-text-properties (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
             '(face secondary-selection)))
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (while (re-search-forward "\\<meeting\\>  " nil t)
          (add-text-properties (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
             '(face bold))))))

>
> Thanks,
> Scott
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