From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-agenda and org-agenda-columns, display time text property
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:49:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1e4bc0m.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a0c6e0a4eb89e03c929d134c8015f1e@freakingpenguin.com>
Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com> writes:
> It would be nice if there was a way to display the time text property
> while using org-columns in the agenda by modifying
> org-local-columns-format (or similar variables). Something like
>
> ;; in appropriate hook or similar
> (setq org-local-columns-format "%AGENDA_TIME %ITEM ..."
> ...
> a) it's overly wordy compared to the time text property e.g. [2023-11-18
> Sat 11:30] vs. "11:30 ┄┄┄┄┄ "
> b) repeating timestamps are displayed as [2023-11-11 Sat 14:30 +2d],
> meaning you can't tell what time a particular entry is scheduled.
>
> org-columns does add some unique advantages to org-agenda. For example,
> I like to add a LOCATION property to my entries and use %LOCATION to
> display the location in the agenda. It's a shame that there's a tradeoff
> when doing this.
>
> I have found an implementation that accomplishes this at
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/59940 and discussion at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2020-08/msg00090.html,
> but this seems to focus on a different problem related to
> org-agenda-columns-add-appointments-to-effort-sum. It does not look like
> the implementation discussed ever made its way in.
Providing a way to get some column values from agenda buffer does make
sense. Patches welcome!
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