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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
To: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>,
	"emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: Description of org agenda columns format in manual not correct/misleading
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:52:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADn3Z2+FCkkepFk5jhRJVn6BPv+xdgCXU8M88qA0Z5VxQiuaeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rxm7tql.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>

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Hi,

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 9:50 AM Fraga, Eric <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 14 Aug 2019 at 15:57, Nick Dokos wrote:
> > "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> >> I have this setting in my Emacs initialization:
> >>
> >> (setq org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%5TODO %TIMESTAMP %40ITEM
> %LOCATION %TAGS")
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> eric
> >
> > Shouldn't you be using org-columns-default-format instead?
>
> No because it's about setting the columns format for the agenda view
> alone, not the format for normal org buffers.  My error was in using a
> deprecated variable; the actual variable is
> org-overriding-columns-format.
>
> The OP's post was actually about the documentation (which I
> misunderstood).
>

I have discussed this problem with Allen Li, who fixed a bug in the agenda
column setting a while ago.

I think what is missing to make this more transparent is a variable
`org-default-columns-format-for-agenda' which is a proper user option.
This option can be set in your init.el or through customize, and it will
provide a default format for the agenda.  `org-overriding-columns-format
should ONLY EVER be used in the local setting section of a custom agenda
view.

This new variable is not available in master.

- Carsten

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-16  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-14 10:22 Bug: Description of org agenda columns format in manual not correct/misleading Andrew Francis Swann
2019-08-14 10:33 ` Fraga, Eric
     [not found]   ` <10CB20C9-FCC0-45F5-8B34-CBFB24FAA185@math.au.dk>
2019-08-14 10:43     ` FW: " Andrew Francis Swann
2019-08-14 10:47       ` Fraga, Eric
     [not found]     ` <87tvak81rd.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
2019-08-14 10:49       ` Andrew Francis Swann
2019-08-14 19:57   ` Nick Dokos
2019-08-15  7:50     ` Fraga, Eric
2019-08-16  7:52       ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2019-08-16 11:46         ` Andrew Francis Swann
2019-08-16 12:26           ` Carsten Dominik

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