From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mats Kindahl Subject: Re: Showing remaining time in agenda mode Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:02:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4E6DF4D2.2050401@oracle.com> References: <4E6DB601.8020306@oracle.com> <87litu3tdt.fsf@norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R35Dr-0006yv-R2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:02:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R35Dn-0003fd-54 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:02:47 -0400 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:27778) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R35Dm-0003fV-Va for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:02:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87litu3tdt.fsf@norang.ca> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bernt Hansen Cc: emacs-orgmode On 09/12/2011 01:14 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote: > Mats Kindahl writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been using Org-Mode with great success over the last year (or >> so). There is a number of items that I need to handle, and I am >> reading through the code to try to figure out how to do the various >> items. However, recently I switched to using 7.7, which disabled a >> feature I use (but it seems to just be a matter of setting it up >> again) but also seem to have a lot of additions that I need. >> >> Beginning of each week, I plan the coming week using the agenda mode >> to sort out tasks over the week. To do this efficiently, I have been >> looking at Effort for each task and the summary for the day, and when >> the default column view for the agenda showed Effort and Clock, this >> worked quite well if you manage to complete the tasks during a week. >> However, quite often I run across tasks that I cannot easily split >> into smaller tasks and which take more than a week to complete (even >> though the tasks themselves might be small, I can just spend a few >> hours each week on them), which forces me to make the math in the head >> to distribute the right amount for each day. >> >> Now, the default column view changed with 7.7, so I have no idea on >> how to set up the agenda column view to show the following: >> >> * Each "task line" should show Item, Effort, Clock, and Clock - Effort >> * Each "day line" should show the summary of (at least) the Effort >> and the Clock - Effort >> >> Does anybody know how to set this up, or do I need to go digging the code? >> >> Best wishes, >> Mats Kindahl > Hi Mats, > > Try customizing org-columns-default-format. Thanks Bernt, But how to define different formats for tasks and days and how to define the format for "Clock - Effort"? /Matz