Re: Custom agenda question

[Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
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> On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Manish wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:44 AM, Anthony Fairchild wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to get the text underneath a todo heading to show up in
>>>> the
>>>> agenda screen?
>>>
>>> No this is not possible.
>>
>> It would be real nice to be able to toggle the effect of
>> org-agenda-add-entry-text-maxlines even in agenda view. Follow mode is
>> not
>> exactly the same thing because when turning it off it leaves the window
>> behind
>> which has to be killed with C-x 1.
>
> You can also kill the window with "o", a bit easier.

Oh, yes.  I had forgotten about this.  Thanks.

>
>
>> But since we have it already working for
>> printing agenda and not for screen display, I am sure there are sufficient
>> reasons behind it. But then it's Org mode -- anything is possible. :)
>
>
> For me, the reason is that the agenda should be compact, as
> much as possible.

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?

-- 
Manish>