No, column view can not be sorted, only tables can.  You can
capture a column view into a table, and then sort the table.

- Carsten

On Dec 22, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Christopher DeMarco wrote:

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 06:17:49PM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote:

  Seems I mistyped a variable name.  I just tested
  the following, and it works for me:
     (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
           '(("p" "Projects" tags "+xxx|+xx|+x"
              ((org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%20ITEM %DEADLINE")
               (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)))))

  This does work for me, at least to some extend.  There may still be issues
  which have to do with local and global bindings, which I have
  not been able to sort out.

That does work nicely, thanks!  One last thing -- can I specify the
column used to sort the items?

Sorry to have resent the NDR rather than the original message :-/


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