On Wednesday, 14 Aug 2019 at 15:57, Nick Dokos wrote:
> "Fraga, Eric" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I have this setting in my Emacs initialization:
>>
>> (setq org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%5TODO %TIMESTAMP %40ITEM %LOCATION %TAGS")
>>
>> HTH,
>> eric
>
> Shouldn't you be using org-columns-default-format instead?
No because it's about setting the columns format for the agenda view
alone, not the format for normal org buffers. My error was in using a
deprecated variable; the actual variable is
org-overriding-columns-format.
The OP's post was actually about the documentation (which I
misunderstood).
I have discussed this problem with Allen Li, who fixed a bug in the agenda column setting a while ago.
I think what is missing to make this more transparent is a variable `org-default-columns-format-for-agenda' which is a proper user option. This option can be set in your init.el or through customize, and it will provide a default format for the agenda. `org-overriding-columns-format should ONLY EVER be used in the local setting section of a custom agenda view.
This new variable is not available in master.
- Carsten