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From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Subject: Re: ITEM in column view in the agenda
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:01:02 +0100
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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:06:52AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On May 29, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:
> >On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:49:20AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> >>Ellipses could be done, but so far I opted against is because you
> >>will loose even more characters.  Maybe it is actually better to
> >>make sure the user knows that some characters have been
> >>removed......  OK, done.
> >
> >Hmm, you have a point about losing characters.  I'm not sure what's
> >best here.
> 
> I am now using 2 dots as ellipses, you can customize with with the
> variable org-columns-ellipses.

Perfect!  2 dots is a great default.

> >But now I get an error when entering column view:
> 
> Fixed, thanks.

Works a treat - looks beautiful :-)  Many thanks!