Re: Time Slots in Org-Agenda

[Tim Landscheidt]

steve-humphreys@gmx.com wrote:

>> >> See org-agenda-time-grid
>> >
>> > Where can I find some information on how to use it?

>> Menu help -> Describe -> Describe variable org-agenda-time-grid <RET>
>> or
>> <F1> v org-agenda-time-grid <RET>

> At first

> I have started with the following command, but emacs does not like it

> (setq times '(800 1000 1200))
> (setq freq '("daily" "today"))
> (setq org-agenda-time-grid '(freq times "---" "+++"))

> I also tried variants thereof.  My elisp is not so good
> but tried to have a look at the code.
> […]

The last line means: Set the variable org-agenda-time-grid
to a list that consists of the symbol (!) "freq", the sym-
bol "times", the string "---" and the string "+++".  How-
ever, you want the first and second elements to be the val-
ues of those variables, so you could say:

| (setq org-agenda-time-grid `(,freq ,times "---" "+++"))

or:

| (setq org-agenda-time-grid (list freq times "---" "+++"))

(NB: There are more subtleties to this (e. g., a symbol can
have separate meanings as a variable and a function (and I
really should finally read the elisp info file from begin-
ning to end :-)))), but my most common mistake is either to
quote something that I do not want to quote or not quote
something that I do want to quote.)

Tim