From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Harkins Subject: Re: Agenda custom command problems Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:22:34 +0800 Message-ID: <87linmro2t.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> References: <87d390o8r2.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50381) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S2fkC-0007c0-92 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:22:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S2fk9-0006W9-Th for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:22:43 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:54525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S2fk9-0006W0-M5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:22:41 -0500 Received: by iajr24 with SMTP id r24so5163522iaj.0 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:22:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87d390o8r2.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org At Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:45:05 +0800, James Harkins wrote: > > Hi, > > Two questions about agenda custom commands. Hi, Any ideas on these? Short versions of the questions: 1. Why does Emacs ignore 2 out of 3 agenda custom commands, which I defined through the customize interface and appear in correct syntax in my ~/.emacs? 2. Why does (org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (time-up))) have no effect in a tags-todo search? James Details, for context: > 1. I've defined a few custom agenda commands, but the only one that actually appears in the agenda dispatcher is 'z'. If I open Emacs and immediately C-h v org-agenda-custom-commands, it says: > > Its value is > (("z" tags-todo "-ExamFdbk")) > > But... The following block is one of the arguments to custom-set-variables in my ~/.emacs. I used the customize interface to create the custom commands. > > '(org-agenda-custom-commands (quote (("z" tags-todo "-ExamFdbk" nil) ("1" "Course-related TODOs" tags-todo "+AudioClass|Lesson|MyConcert|Workshop11&-Wk11plugs-Wk11Docs" nil) ("2" "Spring semester TODOs" tags-todo "-Wk11plugs-Wk11Docs" ((org-agenda-files (quote ("~/Documents/xinghai/11-12-spring/semester-spr.org"))) (org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (time-up)))))))) > > If I manually execute the entire custom-set-variables block, after that, C-h v shows the complete value. > > Quite funny... it's all there, but Emacs doesn't process it during startup...? I've never seen that before with any other customize variable. All the other customize variables are set correctly. > > Any ideas how to fix? > > 2. I would like command "2" to show a subset of the TODOs (based on tags) in one given file, sorted in order of time stamp. Everything is working except the sorting: (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(time-up)) is so far not having any effect. The TODOs appear in the order of appearance in the file. > > I need time stamp order to see at a glance what I need to do today vs tomorrow, etc. > > ("2" "Spring semester TODOs" tags-todo "-Wk11plugs-Wk11Docs" > ((org-agenda-files > '("~/Documents/xinghai/11-12-spring/semester-spr.org")) > (org-agenda-sorting-strategy > '(time-up)))) > > How to make the sorting strategy apply to a tags-todo search? > > (Sorry if these are boring questions... I'm not as deep into org as people who are contributing emacs-lisp on list :) These are just things that seem like they should be working, according to the documentation, but they aren't.) -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks