Hi Samuel,
i get the sense spacemacs has brought a lot of new users to emacs. i
don't use it but i have comments on your interesting and welcome
beauty tips.
This is definitely the case. I also don't use Spacemacs, but know a few people who got started thanks to it. I even have a friend who was a devoted vim user, and now swears by Spacemacs, particularly thanks to org-mode and magit :)
this is really impressive. does it have a fill column?
i would be over the moon if you could make headers in the agenda
variable pitch. not only would it look better and be consistent with
the outline, but it would conserve space.
I think you can configure most faces as you wish. For this, I have found the key "C-u C-x =" (which run what-cursor-position with the DETAILED argument enabled) very useful - among other things, it shows the face which is applied at the point under the cursor. Based on that, you can know which face you need to customize. For example, when running it on an agenda header line, I see the following:
There are text properties here:
day 737456
face org-agenda-date-today
By customizing this face to inherit from "variable-pitch", I was able to make those lines display in variable pitch font.
also, i would remove the second column, which seems not to do anything.
also, i removed colons from some columns in the agenda and think it
looks better. also i aligned all items. also, i made bare active
tses use a leader. also i made everything more compact except
categories which i widened. also, i removed [xd.] in leaders.
I would be interested to learn how to make these customizations. I have only recently been getting into agenda mode, so I have not customized much yet,
curious what the brackets mean in
("PROPOSAL" . "orange")
("[PROPOSAL]" . "orange")
Nothing special - only that I sometimes use TAG in my headers, and others I use [TAG], depending on how I think it looks better at the time :) This way it gets colorized correctly no matter what.
what does reformatting a buffer change?
I guess you are referring to the zz/org-reformat-buffer in my config? I got this from the mailing list, although I can't remember who posted it (sorry to the author! there goes my intention to always attribute things). It basically redoes all the spacing and indentation in the buffer. I run it every once in a while to uniformize things.
could tags be fixed to stay at a column by counting pixels?
I have not found a way to make that happen. The misalignment was bothering me, so in the end this is what I do:
- In =variable-pitch= mode, the default right-alignment for headline tags doesn't work, and results in the tags being misaligned (as it uses character positions to do the alignment). This setting positions the tags right after the last character of the headline, so at least they are more consistent.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle no :noweb-ref org-mode-custom-vars
(org-tags-column 0)
#+end_src
thank you for the tips.
Glad you found them useful!
Cheers,
--Diego