Re: [O] Remove filename from agenda view?

[Boyan Penkov]

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Boyan Penkov




On Jan 4, 2013, at 2:02 AM, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On 4.1.2013, at 06:28, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Boyan Penkov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> In the default agenda view (C-c a), the leftmost column is the org-mode 
>>> file name from which the given item stems.  However, I use a single file 
>>> for all my actionables, and would like to eliminate this column, as it 
>>> wastes 12 or so characters worth of space on the left of the agenda.
>>> 
>> 
>> Not quite: it is the "category" of the item which, if absent, is
>> defaulted to the filename. Check section 10.4.1, "Categories", of
>> the org manual for more information - evaluate the following:
>> 
>>      (info "(org) Categories")
>> 
>>> Can anyone point me in the right direction with a .emacs file snippet?
>>> 
>> 
>> AFAIK, you cannot eliminate it in any simple way.
> 
> Well, you can customize org-agenda-prefix-format and remove the "%-12:c" from 
> each of the strings where you do not want the category to be shown.  Note 
> that the two leading space characters in these formats are necessary IIRC, 
> for technical reasons.
> 
> (setq org-agenda-prefix-format
>      '((agenda . " %i %?-12t% s")
>        (timeline . "  % s")
>        (todo . " %i ")
>        (tags . " %i ")
>        (search . " %i "))

I can confirm that this works pretty brilliantly.

Thanks, Carsten!

> 
> 
> - Carsten
>