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From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: feature request: show context in agenda
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:33:20 +0530
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To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:
> In the agenda, it is difficult to find where you are in
> the hierarchy. I find that I have to switch to the outline,
> then scroll up, if I want to know what the parent headline
> is, or any ancestor.
>
> Others have proposed showing the parent headline, but that
> could clutter the agenda and will not show other ancestors.
>
> Here is a simple proposal: put the olpath of the current
> header in header-line-format.
>
> Then you always know where you are, without having to switch
> to the outline buffer.

+10

I proposed something similar six months ago.

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Manish