Formatting Agenda entries

Formatting Agenda entries

[Rasmus]

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?

Thanks,
Rasmus

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Re: Formatting Agenda entries

[Nick Dokos]

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

Re: Formatting Agenda entries

[Rasmus]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Have you tried something like
>
> (setq org-google-weather-format "%i %-30c, %l-%h %s (%L)")
>
> perhaps? Seems to work for me.

I can honestly say I haven't.  I only tried to (format ...) way, which
didn't work. 

Thanks for pointing it out.

–Rasmus

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