From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: agenda column view and/or location property visible in normal view Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:31:00 +0200 Message-ID: <8761ymnd9h.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> References: <8761ys1nc0.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcBA1-00080L-Mg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 05:04:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcBA0-0006G8-Ci for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 05:04:41 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22b]:49536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcBA0-0006Fq-6s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 05:04:40 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id hq7so2023982wib.4 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 02:04:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8761ys1nc0.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Thu, 9 May 2013 11:04:15 +0100") 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: Eric S Fraga Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Eric, Eric S Fraga writes: > due to my increasing use of MobileOrg and, as a result, the > synchronisation it provides with Google's calendar, I am finding that > using the :LOCATION: property in an appointment in org is quite > useful. However, most of the time I use org's agenda view to see my > appointments. I have a few questions, if I may: > > 1. I can use column view in the agenda to see specific > properties. However, column view doesn't work well with the time > grid. Is it possible to include the time information, as shown in > the normal agenda view, in a column view? I currentlly have > > : (setq org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%5TODO %40ITEM %LOCATION %TAGS") > > which works quite well except for the absence of time > information. Maybe you can use %TIMESTAMP for the time? > 2. Can the column view be customised to get rid of the | characters? > They make sense sometimes but I find them ugly in my agenda view. > > 3. alternatively, can one customise the line for the agenda view to > include specific properties (i.e. LOCATION in my case)? Probably > not... if not, it would be nice to have a fully customisable > org-agenda-line-format variable similar to what gnus provides for > summary lines, group lines, etc. Consider this a feature request > for org 9.0. ;-) See `org-agenda-prefix-format' -- maybe you can play with the %(exp) construct and try to retrieve infos with `org-entry-get' (which see.) Not tested... > As usual, none of the above is critical in any sense! Just me finding > yet more reasons to avoid getting real work done... ;-) Tested ;) -- Bastien