Re: [O] how to show deadlines in global to-do list?
At Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:01:05 -0500, emacs-orgmode-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:01:36 + (UTC) From: Herbert Sitz hes...@gmail.com To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Subject: Re: [O] how to show deadlines in global to-do list? James Harkins jamshark70 at gmail.com writes: I like the out-of-the-box to-do list, except one thing: I would like to see the items' deadlines. The weekly agenda view shows the deadlines, but I need a view where I can see *only* to-do items and their deadlines. Here is one way: Include this line in your org-file's config lines, or just stick it in if you don't have config-line block: #+COLUMNS: %45ITEM %18DEADLINE ... snip Okay! This is great. Poking around orgmode's info docs turned up the variable org-columns-default-format. Supposedly the variable can be customized, but M-x customize-apropos doesn't find it. In any case: (setq org-columns-default-format %45ITEM %18DEADLINE) in my .emacs forces the to-do column list to include the deadline, if available, with no #+COLUMNS line per file. That's good enough for now: C-a t C-c C-x C-c -- and I know sometime later, when I have a little more time, I can try to crack the custom-search syntax. Thanks! I doubt I would've found my way to column view so quickly on my own. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
Re: [O] how to show deadlines in global to-do list?
At Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:01:05 -0500, emacs-orgmode-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:01:36 + (UTC) From: Herbert Sitz hes...@gmail.com To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Subject: Re: [O] how to show deadlines in global to-do list? James Harkins jamshark70 at gmail.com writes: I like the out-of-the-box to-do list, except one thing: I would like to see the items' deadlines. The weekly agenda view shows the deadlines, but I need a view where I can see *only* to-do items and their deadlines. Here is one way: Include this line in your org-file's config lines, or just stick it in if you don't have config-line block: #+COLUMNS: %45ITEM %18DEADLINE ... snip Thanks, that's very helpful. It means I can focus my documentation searches on a couple of options rather than several dozen :) -- now that I know that to-do + column view is a good way (if not the best way). James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
Re: [O] how to show deadlines in global to-do list?
James Harkins jamshark70 at gmail.com writes: I like the out-of-the-box to-do list, except one thing: I would like to see the items' deadlines. The weekly agenda view shows the deadlines, but I need a view where I can see *only* to-do items and their deadlines. Here is one way: Include this line in your org-file's config lines, or just stick it in if you don't have config-line block: #+COLUMNS: %45ITEM %18DEADLINE Now either save and reload or press ctrl-cctrl-c on the #+COLUMNS line. Now do your agenda search. Once in agenda, turn on column view by pressing: ctrl-cctrl-xctrl-c This is a more-or-less temporary solution. I'm sure there's way to make the columns setting above a default without having to put the config line in your buffers, but don't remember offhand. I believe turning on column-view is a setting you can include when defining a user-defined search. . .
[O] how to show deadlines in global to-do list?
Hi, Apologies if this is a common question -- I did do some google searching, but didn't find a straightforward answer and the agenda options are too complex for me to figure out quickly -- I'm too busy to devote a couple of hours figuring out the right way. I like the out-of-the-box to-do list, except one thing: I would like to see the items' deadlines. The weekly agenda view shows the deadlines, but I need a view where I can see *only* to-do items and their deadlines. I read in the manual about creating custom agenda views, and I see a lot about defining custom searches, but it isn't obvious (to me) how to customize the display of an existing search. I also checked M-x customize-group for agenda options, to do display options and line format, but I don't see anything self-evident. (I don't want to make a custom time-grid view searching only todos: I want the todos displayed in *priority* order, just, if there's a deadline, show it.) I'm quite busy and I have approximately 5 more minutes to devote to this, so if somebody could send me a simple way to add deadlines to the to-do list, I'd be much obliged. Thanks. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal. -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
