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From: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Bug: Description of org agenda columns format in manual not
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 07:50:11 +0000
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On Wednesday, 14 Aug 2019 at 15:57, Nick Dokos wrote:
> "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> I have this setting in my Emacs initialization:
>>
>> (setq org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%5TODO %TIMESTAMP %40ITEM %L=
OCATION %TAGS")
>>
>> HTH,
>> eric
>
> Shouldn't you be using org-columns-default-format instead?

No because it's about setting the columns format for the agenda view
alone, not the format for normal org buffers.  My error was in using a
deprecated variable; the actual variable is
org-overriding-columns-format.

The OP's post was actually about the documentation (which I
misunderstood).

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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.4-401-gfabd6d