[Orgmode] Agenda view > Face for deadlines

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi all,

> But it's not yet as right as it should be (let me rephrase: as I would like
> it) because the face is only applied on the visible characters: the
> "separator" does not expand up to the right of the screen.
>
> An improved version (re readability) of the agenda view would be:
>
> Week-agenda (W19-W20):
> Saturday   15 May 2010 
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Personal:   18:00-19:00 Mar                                    
> :home::errands:
>
> [...]
>
> where `xxx' is just some textual way to represent background color.

In the same kind of thought, trying to enhance the way we (or I) visualize
tasks in the agenda, I have chosen some sort of "inverse video" face for
deadlines.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(my-org-deadline-yesterday ((t (:foreground "white" :background "#D80000" 
:weight bold))))
(my-org-deadline-today ((t (:foreground "white" :background "#E9A36A" :weight 
bold))))
(my-org-deadline-tomorrow ((t (:foreground "black" :background "#B4F1B3" 
:weight bold))))
(my-org-deadline-later ((t (:foreground "black" :background "#AACAFC"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

with the following code in my .emacs file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; faces for showing deadlines in the agenda
(setq org-agenda-deadline-faces
      '((1.01 . my-org-deadline-yesterday)
        (0.99 . my-org-deadline-today)
        (0.49 . my-org-deadline-tomorrow)
        (0.00 . my-org-deadline-later)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The result is the following:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Week-agenda (W20-W21):
2010-05-18 Tue _________________________________________________________________
  Personal:   17:15-17:20 Sarah!                                 :home::errands:
  refile:     Sched. 2x:  TODO [#A] Update reservations Scorpios       :refile::
x Family: xxx In  -1 d.:  TODO [#A] Photos-reportage Andre xxxx :home::computer:
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

where `xxx' is just some textual way to represent background color.

For the sake of clarity, I'd like the first 2 characters (in front of
`Family', in my example) not to be "impacted" by that face. Otherwise, when in
inverse video, they obfuscate the view of the day separators and of the
deadline lines.

Is there a way to do so?

FYI, my ultimate question of the agenda view is: is it easy to make [#A], [#B]
and [#C] priorities have their own faces, so that we can highlight them the
way we want?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban