Russell Yanofsky writes:
> Hi list,
>
> I've been having a problem where my agenda column format is ignored every
> other time I load or refresh the agenda, which makes it very hard to use.
> When this happens, I see the following error in *Messages*: "Making
> org-agenda-overriding-columns-format buffer-local while locally let-bound!"
> which led me to experiment and find that when I delete the following lines
> from the org-agenda-finalize function, the problem seems to be fixed:
>
> - (if (and (boundp 'org-agenda-overriding-columns-format)
> - org-agenda-overriding-columns-format)
> - (org-set-local 'org-agenda-overriding-columns-format
> - org-agenda-overriding-columns-format))
>
> I'm wondering what these lines were intended to do, and if it's safe to
> delete them.
>
It's most probably the wrong thing to do. For one, you are not supposed
to set org-agenda-overriding-columns-format. The docstring says:
,
| org-agenda-overriding-columns-format is a variable defined in
`org-colview.el'.
| Its value is nil
|
| Documentation:
| When set, overrides any other format definition for the agenda.
| Don't set this, this is meant for dynamic scoping.
`
> My org-agenda-custom-commands value is:
>
> '(("n" "Agenda and all TODO's" ((agenda "" nil) (alltodo "" nil)) nil)
> ("r" "Russ Agenda" agenda ""
> ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Russ Agenda")
> (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)
> (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%80ITEM %TAGS %7TODO %5Effort{:}
> %6CLOCKSUM{Total}"))
> ("~/public_html/agenda.html"))
> ("q" "Russ Todos" alltodo ""
> ((org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)
> (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%80ITEM %TAGS %7TODO
> %20SCHEDULED %5Effort{:} %6CLOCKSUM{Total}")
> (org-agenda-skip-function (quote (org-agenda-skip-entry-if (quote todo)
> (quote ("DEFERRED")
> (org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (scheduled-up effort-up
> ("~/public_html/todo.html"))
> )
You probably should use org-agenda-columns-current-fmt instead of
org-agenda-overriding-columns-format. Untested and quite possibly
wrong, or at least not the whole story; but until an agenda expert
chimes in, it might be a useful first step.
Nick