Hi Xiao-Yong,

I have applied this patch, thank you.

- Carsten

On 28.6.2013, at 06:55, Xiao-Yong Jin <jinxiaoyong@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jun 1, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Xiao,
>> 
>> I remember that I struggled with the problem that I had to make sure that column view used a fixed-width face - and this was the solution that worked - not a particular pretty one, admittedly.
>> 
>> Do you have an idea on how to change this code that it will always work?  I'd be very happy to accept a good patch.
>> 
>> - Carsten
> 
> Hi Carsten,
> 
> I wasn't sure what you were talking about until I tried out the theme, leuven... and that was really fanciful and totally screwed the column-view without your fixed-width face fix.
> 
> In order to make it more flexible, instead of just set it once when org-faces.el is loaded, I think enforcing it every time when column-view is called is a better choice.  Thus came the following little patch.
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/org-colview.el b/lisp/org-colview.el
> index a98deec..f3b8e42 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-colview.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-colview.el
> @@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ This is the compiled version of the format.")
>                             (get-text-property (point-at-bol) 'face))
>                        'default))
>          (color (list :foreground (face-attribute ref-face :foreground)))
> -        (face (list color 'org-column ref-face))
> -        (face1 (list color 'org-agenda-column-dateline ref-face))
> +        (font (list :height (face-attribute 'default :height)
> +                    :family (face-attribute 'default :family)))
> +        (face (list color font 'org-column ref-face))
> +        (face1 (list color font 'org-agenda-column-dateline ref-face))
>          (cphr (get-text-property (point-at-bol) 'org-complex-heading-regexp))
>          pom property ass width f string ov column val modval s2 title calc)
>      ;; Check if the entry is in another buffer.
> diff --git a/lisp/org-faces.el b/lisp/org-faces.el
> index 5472964..e968657 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-faces.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-faces.el
> @@ -217,12 +217,6 @@ column view defines special faces for each outline level.  See the file
>    "Face for column display of entry properties."
>    :group 'org-faces)
>  
> -(when (fboundp 'set-face-attribute)
> -  ;; Make sure that a fixed-width face is used when we have a column table.
> -  (set-face-attribute 'org-column nil
> -                     :height (face-attribute 'default :height)
> -                     :family (face-attribute 'default :family)))
> -
>  (defface org-agenda-column-dateline
>    (org-compatible-face 'org-column
>      '((t nil)))
> 
> In this way, the column-view face will not be bound only to the font family and size at the time of loading org-faces.el, but anytime column-view is called.  I'm not sure if I covered all the cases, but it seems to work well for me.  I hope the patch is not broken by the mail app, but I guess it is simple enough to read it in one sip of coffee, though I tracked the issue and wrote the patch with one cup.
> 
> Best,
> Xiao-Yong
> 
> PS. I realized it was almost a month-old email.  Org-mode is really good at remembering it for me.