Re: ITEM in column view in the agenda

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:49:20AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> On May 29, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Adam Spiers wrote:
> >
> >Works great!  FYI, I have org-columns-default-format set to:
> >
> >%TODO %PRIORITY %40ITEM(Task) %Effort(ETC){:} %CLOCKSUM(Taken){:}  
> >%TAGS(Tags)
> >
> >I noticed one tiny thing which could be improved - links are rendered
> >as their raw text.  I guess this will be slightly tricky to handle
> >since in many cases the text of the link will end up being truncated
> >by the %40 - but it would be VERY cool if it was handled gracefully,
> >e.g. by truncating with ellipses.
> 
> I cannot have links shown with parts hidden, because column view already
> uses display properties, and I don't think you can nest display  
> properties.

Hrm :-(

> Ellipses could be done, but so far I opted against is because you
> will loose even more characters.  Maybe it is actually better to
> make sure the user knows that some characters have been
> removed......  OK, done.

Hmm, you have a point about losing characters.  I'm not sure what's
best here.

But now I get an error when entering column view:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integerp nil)
  substring("Saturday   28 June 2008" nil)
  (let* ((org-complex-heading-regexp cphr) (prefix ...) (rest ...) (fake ...) (cleaned ...)) (if org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item cleaned (concat prefix cleaned)))
  org-agenda-columns-cleanu-item("Saturday   28 June 2008" nil nil (("TODO" "TODO" nil nil nil nil) ("PRIORITY" "PRIORITY" nil nil nil nil) ("ITEM" "Task" 40 nil nil nil) ("Effort" "ETC" nil ":" add_times nil) ("CLOCKSUM" "Taken" nil ":" add_times nil) ("TAGS" "Tags" nil nil nil nil)))
  org-columns-display-here((("TODO" . "") ("PRIORITY" . "") ("ITEM" . #("Saturday   28 June 2008" 0 23 ...)) ("Effort" . #("2:15" 0 4 ...)) ("CLOCKSUM" . #("0:00" 0 4 ...)) ("TAGS" . "")))
  byte-code(" [snipped...]
  org-agenda-colview-summarize(((129 ("Effort" . #("1:00" 0 4 ...)) ("TIMESTAMP" . "2008-05-31 Sat 12:30-13:30 +1w") ("ID" . [snipped...]