Russell Yanofsky <r...@yanofsky.org> writes: > Hi list, > > I've been having a problem where my agenda column format is ignored every > other time I load or refresh the agenda, which makes it very hard to use. > When this happens, I see the following error in *Messages*: "Making > org-agenda-overriding-columns-format buffer-local while locally let-bound!" > which led me to experiment and find that when I delete the following lines > from the org-agenda-finalize function, the problem seems to be fixed: > > - (if (and (boundp 'org-agenda-overriding-columns-format) > - org-agenda-overriding-columns-format) > - (org-set-local 'org-agenda-overriding-columns-format > - org-agenda-overriding-columns-format)) > > I'm wondering what these lines were intended to do, and if it's safe to > delete them. >
It's most probably the wrong thing to do. For one, you are not supposed to set org-agenda-overriding-columns-format. The docstring says: ,---- | org-agenda-overriding-columns-format is a variable defined in `org-colview.el'. | Its value is nil | | Documentation: | When set, overrides any other format definition for the agenda. | Don't set this, this is meant for dynamic scoping. `---- > My org-agenda-custom-commands value is: > > '(("n" "Agenda and all TODO's" ((agenda "" nil) (alltodo "" nil)) nil) > ("r" "Russ Agenda" agenda "" > ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Russ Agenda") > (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t) > (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%80ITEM %TAGS %7TODO %5Effort{:} > %6CLOCKSUM{Total}")) > ("~/public_html/agenda.html")) > ("q" "Russ Todos" alltodo "" > ((org-agenda-view-columns-initially t) > (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%80ITEM %TAGS %7TODO > %20SCHEDULED %5Effort{:} %6CLOCKSUM{Total}") > (org-agenda-skip-function (quote (org-agenda-skip-entry-if (quote todo) > (quote ("DEFERRED"))))) > (org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (scheduled-up effort-up)))) > ("~/public_html/todo.html")) > ) You probably should use org-agenda-columns-current-fmt instead of org-agenda-overriding-columns-format. Untested and quite possibly wrong, or at least not the whole story; but until an agenda expert chimes in, it might be a useful first step. Nick