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From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Subject: Re: ITEM in column view in the agenda
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 00:11:58 +0100
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:09:30AM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:09:31AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > 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.

And one other cosmetic detail: every row in the item column begins
with three spaces, rather than the ideal of one (so that it's close to
but not completely flush with the | inter-column delimiter).