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From: Carsten Dominik <C.Dominik@uva.nl>
Subject: Re: ITEM in column view in the agenda
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On May 29, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> 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.

I am now using 2 dots as ellipses, you can customize with with the  
variable
org-columns-ellipses.

>
>
> But now I get an error when entering column view:

Fixed, thanks.

- Carsten