Re: column view bug

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi George,

despite your excellent description (thanks for that) I cannot
reproduce this problem, it works just fine for me.

Could someone else please try as well?  Thanks!

- Carsten

On Sep 13, 2009, at 7:57 PM, George Pearson wrote:

> Running org 6.30e and emacs 22.3.1.  Running under fully updated
> Windows XP.
>
> Summary:  in column view of a weekly agenda, the rows showing the
> days in the week are positioned differently depending on whether
> or not there is any item for the day.
>
> For a test file (see below), this is what I see in column view
> for the weekly agenda.  (You'll need a fixed-width font to view it
> properly).
>
> CATE | ITEM                                | E | P | A |
> Week-agenda (W37-W38):
> Sunday     13 September 2009
> Monday     14 September 2009 W38
>    | Tuesday    15 September 2009        | . |   |   |
> Test | TODO task 1                         |   |   |   |
> Wednesday  16 September 2009
>    | Thursday   17 September 2009        | . |   |   |
> Test | TODO task 2                         |   |   |   |
> Friday     18 September 2009
> Saturday   19 September 2009
>
> Note the alignment difference between Tuesday and Thursday and
> the other dates.
>
> Note also I am including the CATEGORY in the display, via:
>
> (org-columns-default-format "%CATEGORY %35ITEM %Effort{:} %PRIORITY
> %ALLTAGS")
>
> The problem is *NOT* VISIBLE if the %CATEGORY is removed, so one
> MUST include it to view the problem.
>
> This is probably not a issue with a normal agenda, in which there
> are tasks to do every day.  I actually discovered this problem using
> a custom view, intended to show only appointments for the week.  But
> the test file shows that the problem can be seen even without
> a custom agenda.
>
> By the way, I couldn't show it in this posting, but the Tuesday and
> Thursday lines, along with their TODO items, have a light grey
> background, whereas everything else has a white background.  This
> shading problem is odd in appearance, and it happens WHETHER OR NOT
> %CATEGORY is use, and so would be a separate, but related, fix.
>
> Here's the test .org file I used:
>
> #+STARTUP: odd
> #+STARTUP: hidestars
> #+STARTUP: logdone
> #+SEQ_TODO: TODO NEXT PENDING | DONE(d!) CANCELLED(c@)
>
> #+CATEGORY: Test
> * Test
> *** TODO task 1
>  SCHEDULED: <2009-09-15 Tue>
> *** TODO task 2
>  SCHEDULED: <2009-09-17 Thu>
>
> ===
>
> To display the result shown at the top of this message, I open
> the test.org file in emacs, then type:
>
> C-a < a
>
> Then in the resulting agenda window, switch to weekly if not
> already, and get column mode with
>
> C-c C-x C-c
>
>
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