Russell Yanofsky r...@yanofsky.org 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
