From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Thompson Subject: Re: Extended-period events in agenda views Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <6E1780D8-187C-47BE-A1C1-C6EB746C8BE7@fastmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54548 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PD1CE-0005lv-4j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:41:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PD1C9-0006xo-CF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:41:34 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60250) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PD1C9-0006xk-5V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:41:33 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PD1C6-0007YO-Cw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:41:30 +0100 Received: from 207.35.236.200 ([207.35.236.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:41:30 +0100 Received: from thompson.chris by 207.35.236.200 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:41:30 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Konrad Hinsen fastmail.net> writes: > There are a couple of long-lasting "events" that I would like to show > in my agenda view. A typical example would be school vacation periods, > but there are others: absences of a colleague, availability of some > instrument, etc, Their common feature is that they can last very long > (several weeks) and that they don't really occupy my agenda. I just > want to know when planning something if a given day is in period X or > not. So I'd like to see at a glance (using a specific font, color, one- > letter prefix etc.) if a day falls into a certain predefined period. > Simply adding a corresponding event to my agenda leads to visual > clutter: it gets marked on every single day of the period. > > Is there any way to get what I am looking for? Just a suggestion... Would Julien Danjou's patch from three days ago adding support for category icons in the agenda be helpful to you? -- Chris