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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Formatting Agenda entries
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:34:21 -0400
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Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> 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.
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> Sometimes it looks like this:=20
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>    W:    I Clear, 19-35 =E1=B5=92C    (Florence)
>    W:    I Partly Sunny, 19-26 =E1=B5=92C    (Berlin)
>=20
> (I is the icon).  I want it to look like:
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>    W:    I Clear,        19-35 =E1=B5=92C    (Florence)
>    W:    I Partly Sunny, 19-26 =E1=B5=92C    (Berlin)
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> The string I use is:
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> (setq org-google-weather-format
>        "%i %c, %l-%h %s    (%L)")
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> I tried something like=20
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>    (format "%s %-7s %s %s %s" "%i" "%c," "%l-%h" "%s" "(%L)")
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> 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.
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> Is that somehow possible?
>=20

Have you tried something like

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

perhaps? Seems to work for me.

Nick