FR: Two column view enhancements

FR: Two column view enhancements

[Daniel J. Sinder]

Two feature requests to make column view a little more polished:

First, it would be nice if hl-line-mode, or something like it, 
worked in column view.  If I've got my emacs frame filling my 
physical screen and %ITEM in the left-most column, sometimes my eyes 
need help with properties in the right-most column to see which item 
they are paired with.

Second, sometimes my property values are too long to fit in the 
column width I've allocated (e.g., %20NOTE).  I was thinking it 
would be great if the entire value could be placed in the echo area 
of emacs when I move the cursor into a "cell"?

As always, thanks to Carsten, and the growing list of contributors, 
for org-mode.

Dan

Re: FR: Two column view enhancements

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Daniel J. Sinder wrote:

> Two feature requests to make column view a little more polished:
>
> First, it would be nice if hl-line-mode, or something like it,  
> worked in column view.  If I've got my emacs frame filling my  
> physical screen and %ITEM in the left-most column, sometimes my eyes  
> need help with properties in the right-most column to see which item  
> they are paired with.

I cannot make hl-line work (I think), because the columns
are using overlays with display properties, and I believe
that this does not merge well with another overlay face.

But what you might want to do is to configure the face
org-column (M-x customize-face RET org-column RET)
and turn on the underline attribute.  Not sure if this helps, though.

> Second, sometimes my property values are too long to fit in the  
> column width I've allocated (e.g., %20NOTE).  I was thinking it  
> would be great if the entire value could be placed in the echo area  
> of emacs when I move the cursor into a "cell"?

That does get a bit noisy for my taste.  Is the "v" key not enough?   
If not maybe I can make this optionally.

- Carsten

Re: FR: Two column view enhancements

[Daniel J. Sinder]

On 03/28/2008 06:04 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> I cannot make hl-line work (I think), because the columns
> are using overlays with display properties, and I believe
> that this does not merge well with another overlay face.

Thanks anyway.  I suspected it might be a problem due to overlays, 
but I didn't know enough to know for sure.

I've now noticed that left-right scrolling for very wide column 
views, does not scroll the column headings with the content.  Can 
that be done?

> 
>> Second, sometimes my property values are too long to fit in the column 
>> width I've allocated (e.g., %20NOTE).  I was thinking it would be 
>> great if the entire value could be placed in the echo area of emacs 
>> when I move the cursor into a "cell"?
> 
> That does get a bit noisy for my taste.  Is the "v" key not enough?  If 
> not maybe I can make this optionally.

"v" is perfect -- thanks.  I didn't know about it.

Dan

Re: FR: Two column view enhancements

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 29, 2008, at 1:39 AM, Daniel J. Sinder wrote:

> On 03/28/2008 06:04 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>> I cannot make hl-line work (I think), because the columns
>> are using overlays with display properties, and I believe
>> that this does not merge well with another overlay face.
>
> Thanks anyway.  I suspected it might be a problem due to overlays,  
> but I didn't know enough to know for sure.
>
> I've now noticed that left-right scrolling for very wide column  
> views, does not scroll the column headings with the content.  Can  
> that be done?

This is difficult, but it can be done.  Will be in the next push.

- Carsten

>
>
>>> Second, sometimes my property values are too long to fit in the  
>>> column width I've allocated (e.g., %20NOTE).  I was thinking it  
>>> would be great if the entire value could be placed in the echo  
>>> area of emacs when I move the cursor into a "cell"?
>> That does get a bit noisy for my taste.  Is the "v" key not  
>> enough?  If not maybe I can make this optionally.
>
> "v" is perfect -- thanks.  I didn't know about it.
>
> Dan
>
>