2009/12/14 Carsten Dominik : > > On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote: > >> Hi again, >> in the agenda view, inactive timestamps are displayed like: >> >>  category: 12:50...... [ Some stuff >> >> Is the '[ ' intentional, or is caused by a bug in my configuration ? >> I find it a little bit disturbing, as my eyes keep looking for an >> hypothetic closing ']'... > > This is intentional, as an indication that this is indeed an > inactive time stamp.  While I can see that you might be > looking for the closing bracket, I also think that this is a > quite natural way to mark inactive time stamps.  Sure, I *could* make > this marker string a variable - what would you propose as better > options? > Hi Carsten, my personal taste would be some kind of horizontal sign, because it would look closer to what I'd have drawn myself using pen & paper, answering my own question "hey, what did I do today ?" (French people tend to use dashes when writing lists). That said, I'm using the free Inconsolata [*] font as my main font in emacs, which offers a rich collection of various geometric shapes & symbols. So, at no extra cost, I can enhance the aspect of my Org buffers. Attached is a little example to demonstrate what can be done. To get this result: 1. I had to redefine org-agenda-format-date-aligned so that I can replace the hardcoded lines surrounding dates with better looking ones 2. I used the "Watch" unicode character to represent scheduled events: (setq org-agenda-scheduled-leaders '("⌚ " "⌚ ")) 3. I replaced the hardcoded '[' character denoting inactive timestamps with a white triangle See ? Who said Org couldn't be sexier ? [*] http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html -- Nicolas