On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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>> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
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>> > In my gradesheets I use overlays to display the grade property in
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>> > -- that way I can see at a glance approximately how my students are
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>> > ;; still imperfect, but good enough for me.
>> > (defun org-grading-overlay-headings ()
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>> Why don't you use column view instead?
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> um.  because...  um.... I guess I had some reason a year ago when I
> designed this system. Looking at it again today, column view looks great...
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small question: Is it possible to get one or more columns to always line up
o nthe right hand side of the buffer? Or to assign a width to the first
column (in my case the item name) that is somehting like "buffer-width
minus 30"?



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