Re: Increase width in agenda view?

[Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Johan Ekh wrote:
> Hi all, is it possible to increase the width in the Week-agenda
> view such that the TODO keyword and the title task text get
> more space? My tags to the right of the title text gets
> misaligned if the title text is too long.

If you are okay with hiding CATEGORY then you can try the following
hack from Manuel Hermenegildo[fn:1]

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;; With this typing "L" in agenda and todo buffers allows toggling
;; whether category/file names appear or not at the left or entries in
;; agenda/todo listings.
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(defvar my-org-agenda-list-category t)
(defun my-org-agenda-toggle-list-category ()
 "Toggles whether category/file name appears or not at the left
  of entries in agenda listings. Useful to unclutter listings."
  (interactive)
  (if my-org-agenda-list-category
      (progn
	(setq my-org-agenda-list-category nil)
	(setq org-agenda-prefix-format
	      '((agenda  . "  %-12:c%?-12t% s")
		(timeline  . "  % s")
		(todo  . "  %-12:c")
		(tags  . "  %-12:c")
		(search . "  %-12:c")))
	)
    (setq my-org-agenda-list-category t)
    (setq org-agenda-prefix-format
	  '((agenda  . "  %?-12t% s")
	    (timeline  . "  % s")
	    (todo  . "  ")
	    (tags  . "  ")
	    (search . "  ")))
    )
  (org-agenda-redo))
(my-org-agenda-toggle-list-category)

(add-hook
 'org-mode-hook
 (lambda ()
   (define-key org-agenda-keymap   "L" 'my-org-agenda-toggle-list-category)
   (define-key org-agenda-mode-map "L" 'my-org-agenda-toggle-list-category)
 ))
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Regards
-- 
Manish

Footnotes:
[fn:1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10909