Dear Carsten, This sounds like a very good solution. I look forward to it being implemented.
Andrew -- Andrew Swann | Associate Professor | Tel +45 871 55767 | sw...@math.au.dk<mailto:sw...@math.au.dk> | http://home.math.au.dk/swann/ | Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 118, Bldg 1530, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark | Dept +45 871 50000 | Fax +45 8613 1769 From: Emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode-bounces+swann=math.au...@gnu.org> on behalf of Carsten Dominik <domi...@uva.nl> Date: Friday, 16 August 2019 at 10:19 To: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> Cc: Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com>, Org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> Subject: Re: [O] Bug: Description of org agenda columns format in manual not correct/misleading Hi, On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 9:50 AM Fraga, Eric <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk>> wrote: On Wednesday, 14 Aug 2019 at 15:57, Nick Dokos wrote: > "Fraga, Eric" <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk<mailto: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
