Re: how to show deadlines in global to-do list?

[James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com>]

At Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:01:05 -0500,
emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org wrote:
> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:01:36 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Herbert Sitz <hesitz@gmail.com>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [O] how to show deadlines in global to-do list?
> 
> James Harkins <jamshark70 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I like the out-of-the-box to-do list, except one thing: I would like
> > to see the items' deadlines. The weekly agenda view shows the
> > deadlines, but I need a view where I can see *only* to-do items and
> > their deadlines.
> > 
> Here is one way:
> 
> Include this line in your org-file's config lines, or just stick it in if you
> don't have config-line block:
> 
> #+COLUMNS: %45ITEM %18DEADLINE
... snip

Okay! This is great. Poking around orgmode's info docs turned up the variable org-columns-default-format. Supposedly the variable can be customized, but M-x customize-apropos doesn't find it. In any case:

(setq org-columns-default-format "%45ITEM %18DEADLINE")

in my .emacs forces the to-do column list to include the deadline, if available, with no #+COLUMNS line per file.

That's good enough for now: C-a < t C-c C-x C-c -- and I know sometime later, when I have a little more time, I can try to crack the custom-search syntax.

Thanks! I doubt I would've found my way to column view so quickly on my own.

James


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