It is already in the git master branch.

Carsten

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:46 PM Andrew Francis Swann <swann@math.au.dk>
wrote:

> Dear Carsten,
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> This sounds like a very good solution.  I look forward to it being
> implemented.
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> Andrew
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> *From: *Emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode-bounces+swann=math.au.dk@gnu.org> on
> behalf of Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
> *Date: *Friday, 16 August 2019 at 10:19
> *To: *"Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> *Cc: *Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>, Org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [O] Bug: Description of org agenda columns format in
> manual not correct/misleading
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>
> Hi,
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> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 9:50 AM Fraga, Eric <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
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> 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).
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> I have discussed this problem with Allen Li, who fixed a bug in the agenda
> column setting a while ago.
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> 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.
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> This new variable is not available in master.
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> - Carsten
>