Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 9:50 AM Fraga, Eric <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 Aug 2019 at 15:57, Nick Dokos wrote: > > "Fraga, Eric" <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > > >> I have this setting in my Emacs initialization: > >> > >> (setq org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%5TODO %TIMESTAMP %40ITEM > %LOCATION %TAGS") > >> > >> HTH, > >> eric > > > > Shouldn't you be using org-columns-default-format instead? > > No because it's about setting the columns format for the agenda view > alone, not the format for normal org buffers. My error was in using a > deprecated variable; the actual variable is > org-overriding-columns-format. > > The OP's post was actually about the documentation (which I > misunderstood). > I have discussed this problem with Allen Li, who fixed a bug in the agenda column setting a while ago. I think what is missing to make this more transparent is a variable `org-default-columns-format-for-agenda' which is a proper user option. This option can be set in your init.el or through customize, and it will provide a default format for the agenda. `org-overriding-columns-format should ONLY EVER be used in the local setting section of a custom agenda view. This new variable is not available in master. - Carsten
