Re: [O] emacs.SE question re: org-agenda

[Tory S. Anderson]

Great question. I would love that functionality too (sorry; not real helpful, 
but a +1 vote!). 

"Loyall, David" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello.
>
> Here is a conversation from the emacs Stack Exchange question and answer 
> website.  It's from December.
>
> Asker> I would like to make it easy to find where are the free
> Asker> blocks of time in my org-mode agenda.
> Asker> 
> Asker> For instance, if I have two appointments one
> Asker> 9:30am-10:30am and another 11:15am-12:30pm, I would like
> Asker> to see at a glance that the 10:30am-11:15am block is
> Asker> free.
> Asker> 
> Asker> In other words, I want to be able to distinguish free
> Asker> time as easily as it is done in a graphical agenda such
> Asker> as Google calendar.
> Asker> 
> Asker> Is there a way to make the empty blocks of time easy to
> Asker> see? Perhaps to colorize the empty blocks that are
> Asker> longer than a given number of minutes?
>
> Commenter> Is the org-agenda-time-grid not sufficient for your
> Commenter> needs?
> Commenter> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Time_002dof_002dday-specifications.html
>
> Asker> The grid is not enough, as it shows ups even when the
> Asker> time is busy (e.g., if there's a 9:30am-10:30am meeting,
> Asker> there will be a grid line at 10:00am). I would like busy
> Asker> and non-busy times to be easy to distinguish.
>
> Asker> I have thought a little bit more about this
> Asker> functionality. I believe the most useful and simplest to
> Asker> implement would be to change the color of the time block
> Asker> (only the name of the time block, e.g., 8:00-9:00) for
> Asker> those time blocks that have more than a given amount of
> Asker> free time (e.g., more than 15 minutes). Both the color
> Asker> and the minimum free time should be user configurable.
>
> (from 
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5395/show-free-blocks-of-time-in-org-modes-agenda)
>
> A brief search of the most recent ~32k mailing list posts didn't tell me how 
> to answer this question.
>
> Does anyone here know?
>
> Cheers,
> --Dave