Re: Agenda view: ignoring everything that is DONE

[Chris Wallace <chris.wallace@cimr.cam.ac.uk>]

On 10/10/11 14:52, Jason Dunsmore wrote:
> Chris Wallace<chris.wallace@cimr.cam.ac.uk>  writes:
>
>> I want to include in my agenda only things that are TODO, or are
>> scheduled and not marked DONE, or have a deadline and are not marked
>> DONE.  This is how agenda worked a year ago before I went on maternity
>> leave, and now something has changed and I am seeing lots of DONE
>> tasks which had a deadline -780 days ago.
>>
>> I have tried removing all org customisations relating to the agenda
>> and todo list, and have read the agenda part of the manual, but I
>> can't get this to work.
>
> You can use:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t)
> (setq org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done t)
> (setq org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-done t)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Jason,

thank you for the quick reply.  I do have those variables set.  I have 
now commented one by one every line in my org setup and customisation 
and found that the problem only occurs when customize includes the line:

'(org-todo-keywords (quote ((sequence "TODO" "DONE" "|" "CANCELLED"))))

This I set from within customize-variable, and appears to follow the 
description given for that variable.  Perhaps it is clashing with 
something else, I will keep searching, but if you know of anything else 
that is possibly responsible I would be grateful.

Chris.


> This is in the FAQ:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#removing-done-items-from-agenda
>
> Regards,
> Jason