Re: Formatting Agenda entries

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use org-google-weather.el to display the weather condition of a couple
> of cities in my Agenda.  I would like to format the strings so that
> certain elements are aligned.
> 
> Sometimes it looks like this: 
> 
>    W:    I Clear, 19-35 ᵒC    (Florence)
>    W:    I Partly Sunny, 19-26 ᵒC    (Berlin)
> 
> (I is the icon).  I want it to look like:
> 
>    W:    I Clear,        19-35 ᵒC    (Florence)
>    W:    I Partly Sunny, 19-26 ᵒC    (Berlin)
> 
> The string I use is:
> 
> (setq org-google-weather-format
>        "%i %c, %l-%h %s    (%L)")
> 
> I tried something like 
> 
>    (format "%s %-7s %s %s %s" "%i" "%c," "%l-%h" "%s" "(%L)")
> 
> but this obviously doesn't work as the strings are only expanded in the
> Agenda buffer.  Thus, I need to format my string after placeholders have
> been expanded but before it's actually displayed in the Agenda buffer.
> 
> Is that somehow possible?
> 

Have you tried something like

(setq org-google-weather-format "%i %-30c, %l-%h %s (%L)")

perhaps? Seems to work for me.

Nick