Re: Customizing how inactive timestamps are displayed

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Girard <nicolas.girard@nerim.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Customizing how inactive timestamps are displayed
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:56:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FD3BFC-3E5E-420C-B97F-66937F15783A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51b0095d0912151357g3ac67f0cxa2c0d3b9ecc6bd43@mail.gmail.com>

On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:

> 2009/12/14 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>> in the agenda view, inactive timestamps are displayed like:
>>>
>>>  category: 12:50...... [ Some stuff
>>>
>>> Is the '[ ' intentional, or is caused by a bug in my configuration ?
>>> I find it a little bit disturbing, as my eyes keep looking for an
>>> hypothetic closing ']'...
>>
>> This is intentional, as an indication that this is indeed an
>> inactive time stamp.  While I can see that you might be
>> looking for the closing bracket, I also think that this is a
>> quite natural way to mark inactive time stamps.  Sure, I *could* make
>> this marker string a variable - what would you propose as better
>> options?
>>
>
> Hi Carsten,
>
> my personal taste would be some kind of horizontal sign, because it
> would look closer to what I'd have drawn myself using pen & paper,
> answering my own question "hey, what did I do today ?" (French people
> tend to use dashes when writing lists).
>
> That said, I'm using the free Inconsolata [*] font as my main font in
> emacs, which offers a rich collection of various geometric shapes &
> symbols. So, at no extra cost, I can enhance the aspect of my Org
> buffers.
>
> Attached is a little example to demonstrate what can be done. To get
> this result:
> 1. I had to redefine org-agenda-format-date-aligned so that I can
> replace the hardcoded lines surrounding dates with better looking ones
> 2. I used the "Watch" unicode character to represent scheduled events:
>    (setq org-agenda-scheduled-leaders '("⌚ " "⌚ "))
> 3. I replaced the hardcoded '[' character denoting inactive timestamps
> with a white triangle
>
> See ? Who said Org couldn't be sexier ?
>
> [*] http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

That *does* look nice!

Please pull and use `org-agenda-inactive-leader'

- Carsten

>
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> Nicolas
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- Carsten