Re: ITEM in column view in the agenda

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:09:31AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> no, this is not too much to ask, in particular since I am doing
> this kind of compaction (not duplicating info that is shown in
> other columns) already in the normal column view (i.e. in
> an Org buffer as opposed to the agenda buffer.  In fact, the
> function doing the compaction is already called, only it does
> not do anything because it is trying to match a headline.
> This can be easily fixed....... DONE.

Wow (again).

> This should now also work in agenda buffers, using the latest
> GIT version.  There is a new variable
> `org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item' which can be used
> to decide it the prefex should be removed.  The default
> it to remove it in column view, on order to optimize the use
> of the window width.

Works great!  FYI, I have org-columns-default-format set to:

%TODO %PRIORITY %40ITEM(Task) %Effort(ETC){:} %CLOCKSUM(Taken){:} %TAGS(Tags)

I noticed one tiny thing which could be improved - links are rendered
as their raw text.  I guess this will be slightly tricky to handle
since in many cases the text of the link will end up being truncated
by the %40 - but it would be VERY cool if it was handled gracefully,
e.g. by truncating with ellipses.