At Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:01:05 -0500, emacs-orgmode-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:01:36 +0000 (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
