Re: [O] Global TODO: display more than the TODO heading line?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Maybe you can use `org-after-todo-state-change-hook' to store a note
>>> in a property, then display the content of this property in the column
>>> view -- but this is a bit hackish anyway.
>>
>> I've wanted this too -- if we're logging into a drawer (ie LOGBOOK),
>> shouldn't there be a relatively simple way of getting the drawer
>> contents, and taking the top (or bottom) log entry? 
>>
>> On the other hand, looking at `org-add-log-setup', maybe it wouldn't be
>> all that easy, either.
>
> We could have a new special property like "LAST_NOTE" that would
> retrieve the last note, but I doubt the use-case is general enough
> to require such a new special property.  The implementation would
> be 100% ad hoc...  if many users need this, please speak up!

No, that sounds like a bad idea... Unless log entries were later made
into first-class citizens, I think home-rolled ad hoc solutions are all
we should bother with.

E