a weird question. I want to be able to color specific days in different background in the Org-agenda buffer (created with org-agenda-list). I want it to be lets say every Monday and Wednesday. The aim is to get a nice visual queue to not schedule meeting during theses days so i can focus on actual work :). Ideally i would like the day header and all the time slots to get a different background on these specific days. any clue if that's possible?
The following is a custom function, set with the built-in variable org-agenda-day-face-function, that controls the colors of the date header in the *Org Agenda* buffer generated by calling org-agenda-list. In the context of the function calendar-day-of-week, Monday is 1 and Wednesday is 3.
If another forum participant would like to tackle the entries that appear underneath this date header, please feel free to write up an alternative answer.
(defun my-org-agenda-get-day-face-fn (date)
"Return the face DATE should be displayed with."
(let ((day-of-week (calendar-day-of-week date)))
(cond
((or (= day-of-week 1) (= day-of-week 3))
'(:background "red"))
((org-agenda-todayp date)
'org-agenda-date-today)
((member day-of-week org-agenda-weekend-days)
'org-agenda-date-weekend)
(t 'org-agenda-date))))
(setq org-agenda-day-face-function 'my-org-agenda-get-day-face-fn)
*Org Agenda*buffer created withorg-agenda-list-- i.e., notorg-tags-view, and notorg-search-view? Are the specific days to be arbitrarily determined by the user, or programmatically determined based upon a certain criteria (if so, what)? Will they be every Monday and Wednesday, or will they be the 1st, 8th, 9th, and 25th of only November, 2016? Is it just the divider line containing the date that should change color, or is it the task itself (e.g., the title only of the task)? Please give some specific thought as to the new feature request. – lawlist Nov 25 '16 at 18:54