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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Thomas Alexander Gerds <tag@biostat.ku.dk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org agenda extensions
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:43:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw26u6z1.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sj66c0cz.fsf@biostat.ku.dk> (Thomas Alexander Gerds's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:43:40 +0100")

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Alexander Gerds <tag@biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> thanks for looking into this! I understand your general point of
> view. however, the proposed changes would only slow down agenda creating
> if org-agenda-property-list is set, right?

Right.

> also, it certainly requires some insights to write
> org-agenda-overriding-agenda-format which could display non-special

(`org-agenda-overriding-agenda-format' is a confusing name IMHO.)

> properties. hence only a user who knows what she/he is doing would run
> into this problem.

Many users just copy stuff from the web, and some are not really
knowing what they do.

> anyway, could you propose a different approach to get this
> extension?

You can write a function for `org-agenda-finalize-hook' which would go
through the agenda lines, get the properties and display them.

That's a far better approach.

> ps: one limitation of org-agenda-columns seems to be that columns
> cannot be activated in two different agenda buffers simulaneously.

Yes, we can work on this.

Best,

-- 
 Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-11 10:47 org agenda extensions Thomas Alexander Gerds
2013-01-11 16:26 ` Bastien
2013-01-11 20:50   ` Thomas Alexander Gerds
2013-01-12  7:26     ` Bastien
2013-01-12  7:43       ` Thomas Alexander Gerds
2013-01-12  8:43         ` Bastien [this message]
2013-01-12  9:03           ` Thomas Alexander Gerds
2013-01-12  9:25             ` Bastien
2013-01-12  9:36               ` Thomas Alexander Gerds
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2013-01-11 13:35 Thomas Alexander Gerds

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