[Orgmode] Re: Agenda view > Day separator

[Markus Heller]

On 5/17/2010 4:23 AM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Eric and Carsten,
>
> Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 May 2010 20:27:27 +0200, Carsten Dominik<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > Take a look at the variable org-agenda-format-date.
> > > Or you can write your own function to do something fancier, maybe based on
> > > `org-agenda-format-date-aligned'.
> >
> > Thanks Carsten. This did the job. I modified your function to add a 120 long
> > blank string at the end of the date [...] and I have a clear date separator!
> > Underline would work as well, of course.
>
> Another version, I guess, from what you wrote. No length hard-coded, except
> for the 10 characters of the ISO date and 1 space after.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>      (setq org-agenda-format-date
>            (concat "%Y-%m-%d "
>                    (make-string (- (window-width) 11) (string-to-char "_"))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The agenda view is much, much clearer now...

That's a nice piece of lisp, thanks for sharing.

Just curious, how can I get the day of the week in there as a string?

Thanks
Markus