Re: [O] ANN: org-ql agenda block support

[Samuel Wales]

thanks for your clarification.  i had thought that it did the
daily/weekly agenda also.  that's the one that is slow for me.


On 9/7/19, Adam Porter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> i was merely trying to get a sense of the degree to which it is a
>> drop-in replacement (which i think you have said it is not).
>
> Right, it doesn't do everything Org Agenda does.  Since Org Agenda does
> also serve as a kind of "search view," org-ql can largely serve as a
> replacement for that aspect of it, providing several advantages.  But it
> doesn't implement the daily/weekly-style agenda view, so it doesn't
> replace that part of it.
>
> I'll probably refactor and rename it soon, removing "agenda" from the
> name to reduce confusion.  In the future I may work on an a
> daily/weekly-style view as well, which might again be called
> org-ql-agenda.
>
>> the question is whether the display can be made similar enough to a
>> highly customized traditional agenda so that diff of the agenda buffer
>> can find any bugs in either traditional or ql agenda.
>
> In some cases, perhaps, but while I do want to add more features from
> Org Agenda, my goal isn't necessarily to reproduce it in every aspect.
>
>> respecting things like org-agenda-inactive-leader will reduce the need
>> to munge in order to make them similar enough.  not a big deal.
>
> That's an interesting feature.  If I do support it in the future, it
> will probably come after implementing a more complex Agenda-like view
> that will be quite different from Org Agenda.
>
>> adding text properties like the agenda does is great for that too as a
>> lot of user code likely uses them.  so that will stop actual breakage.
>
> Yes, with respect to text properties, I do intend to copy what Org
> Agenda does, for the most part.
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
>
>


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