In my init-File I have the cursor-type set to 'box. Still, when I open an org-file, the cursor is automatically set to 'bar. If I change the major mode to outline-mode, it is set to 'box, and when I change it back to org-mode, it is set to 'bar.

I tried region-evaluate on the line (setq cursor-type 'box) in an org-file, and the cursor changes to 'box. But I would like to have it set to box right away through init.el.

My theme is modus-operandi-tinted, and I looked there, but it just sets the color of the cursor, not its form. Could it be that setq cursor-type is not respected by org-mode?

(I use mixed-pitch mode.)

Thank you very much for any help!

Hello everyone! My first post in this new forum.

I read a lot for research, and to keep track of the read books I am experimenting with a combination of bibtex and org mode column view. I have list of my books in an org-file, which then is exported to a bib-file to be able to use org-cite-insert.

Now, to filter the list of books to show I need to set the :match criteria in the column view dynamic block. This works well for all exact matches. But for instance, if I want to match all the books I have read in a certain year (I have a field in the per-book-heading like: DATE_FINISHED), I cannot filter them out. If the value is, say, 2023-08-26, how can I filter that when I am looking only for the year?

It seems to me, :match is always looking at the whole entry, I cannot use:

:match "DATE_FINISHED=\"2023\"

I would have to use:

:match "DATE_FINISHED=\"2023-08-26\"

But I want all the books of 2023, not only those of the 26th of August. How could I solve this? Thank you very much for any hint!

Titus