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I'm looking for a way to mark vacation days in my agenda view. This would probably be triggered best by category (so when a header is marked as a vacation).

I found this post which is getting quite old, and he says it has been implemented into Emacs but I can't see it anywhere.

Does anyone know where I start getting something like this working? Programming is not my strong suit.

Emax2020
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  • You can use the diary file `(setq org-agenda-include-diary t)`; or you can create a custom sexp in your agenda file; or you can create individual entries or a span in your agenda file; or, you can hack the code (which as you said, may be the most difficult option). Which do you prefer? – lawlist Jan 27 '19 at 17:22
  • I'm not very familiar with any of these solutions: diary - I know it exists and it has good implementations (like remember birthdays etc) but Org-mode takes care of that for me, so I don't use it and don't have a diary file. Custom sexp - what do you mean by that? a custom search? that would bring colors? I haven't seen anything like that. individual entries -- that do what? how do you get them to color? and hacking the code.. way out of my league... :p Which one do you think is easier? Possible the individual entries, if you can expand on that? – Emax2020 Jan 27 '19 at 20:04
  • Here are a couple of examples from the manual: https://orgmode.org/manual/Timestamps.html *and* https://orgmode.org/manual/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html#Weekly_002fdaily-agenda – lawlist Jan 27 '19 at 20:40
  • I'm using timestamps and (to the best of my knowledge) you can't manipulate these to be in different colors. As for the dairy, I don't have a diary file. I don't understand how these links relate to the problem? – Emax2020 Jan 28 '19 at 01:47
  • The variable cited in the original question above is `org-agenda-day-face-function`. The doc-string for that variable says that the custom function must have one argument for the date, and the function must return a face or nil. Here is an example of an answer that I previously wrote-up where someone wanted to colorize the date header differently for Mon./Wed.: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/28923/2287 In the link to the link in the original question above, Julien Danjou provides a custom function that tests the category (which is an optional properties drawer). `:CATEGORY: vacation` – lawlist Jan 28 '19 at 06:24

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