On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Chris Wallace <chris.wall...@cimr.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On 10/10/11 14:52, Jason Dunsmore wrote: >> >> Chris Wallace<chris.wall...@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"))))
I think you need "DONE" on the other side of the pipe for your desired action to work properly. ,--- http://orgmode.org/manual/Workflow-states.html). --- | The vertical bar separates the TODO keywords (states that need action) | from the DONE states (which need no further action). `--- John > > 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 > > >
