From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) Subject: Re: emacs.SE question re: org-agenda Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:50:48 -0500 Message-ID: <878uhfkg47.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8XLM-0005Yq-3N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:51:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8XLH-0000FY-SO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:50:55 -0500 Received: from mail-yh0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c01::236]:33972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8XLH-0000FT-Ns for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:50:51 -0500 Received: by mail-yh0-f54.google.com with SMTP id c41so717417yho.13 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:50:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (David Loyall's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:47:39 +0000") 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: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Great question. I would love that functionality too (sorry; not real helpful, but a +1 vote!). "Loyall, David" writes: > Hello. > > Here is a conversation from the emacs Stack Exchange question and answer website. It's from December. > > Asker> I would like to make it easy to find where are the free > Asker> blocks of time in my org-mode agenda. > Asker> > Asker> For instance, if I have two appointments one > Asker> 9:30am-10:30am and another 11:15am-12:30pm, I would like > Asker> to see at a glance that the 10:30am-11:15am block is > Asker> free. > Asker> > Asker> In other words, I want to be able to distinguish free > Asker> time as easily as it is done in a graphical agenda such > Asker> as Google calendar. > Asker> > Asker> Is there a way to make the empty blocks of time easy to > Asker> see? Perhaps to colorize the empty blocks that are > Asker> longer than a given number of minutes? > > Commenter> Is the org-agenda-time-grid not sufficient for your > Commenter> needs? > Commenter> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Time_002dof_002dday-specifications.html > > Asker> The grid is not enough, as it shows ups even when the > Asker> time is busy (e.g., if there's a 9:30am-10:30am meeting, > Asker> there will be a grid line at 10:00am). I would like busy > Asker> and non-busy times to be easy to distinguish. > > Asker> I have thought a little bit more about this > Asker> functionality. I believe the most useful and simplest to > Asker> implement would be to change the color of the time block > Asker> (only the name of the time block, e.g., 8:00-9:00) for > Asker> those time blocks that have more than a given amount of > Asker> free time (e.g., more than 15 minutes). Both the color > Asker> and the minimum free time should be user configurable. > > (from http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5395/show-free-blocks-of-time-in-org-modes-agenda) > > A brief search of the most recent ~32k mailing list posts didn't tell me how to answer this question. > > Does anyone here know? > > Cheers, > --Dave