Re: Custom agenda question

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Manish wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Once you've got your agenda organized right with todo's in order  
>>>> etc. then
>>>> it's just a little disruptive to go anywhere else for a little  
>>>> extra
>>>> detail to
>>>> get some more context. But I agree agenda should be as compact as
>>>> possible.. may be the extra lines could be a toggle switch?
>>>
>>> Hmmmm.
>>>
>>> I am not yet convinced, but I have made a little toy implementation
>>> for you and others to try out and commet on.
>>>
>>> Please get the latest version and press `E' in the agenda to
>>> toggle the display of a small amount (see variable
>>> `org-agenda-entry-text-maxlines') of text from the entry in
>>> the agenda.
>>
>> Thanks!  I like it very much so far.  Refreshing the agenda removes  
>> the
>> snippets/excerpts though.  Will use it for a few days and report  
>> back.
>
> Me too!  I just tried it for the first time this morning and I think
> this is going to be very useful.
>
> Lots of my tasks have website links which are exposed by this.  It  
> would
> be even more useful if I can click on the links to go there as in the
> regular org file.

I am using an overlay after-string property to display the text.
I don't want to move a way from the one-real-line-is-one-entry
paradigm, so this is as far as I'd like to go, and I do not
wnat to really "insert" this text.

We could make C-c C-o follow links also in the extra text,
and offer a link selection if there are several links, maybe.

- Carsten

>
> Even without that this hack looks like a keeper to me :)
>
> Thanks,
> Bernt
>
>