[Orgmode] Re: Trouble setting variables in custom agenda command

[Matthew Lundin]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> Could anyone please try to reproduce this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On May 27, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
>
>> I have the following in my .emacs (long lines, sorry):
>>
>>    (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>          '(("c" "The Cycle"
>>              ((agenda ""
>>                       (
>>                        (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format
>> "%75ITEM %7Effort{:} %7CLOCKSUM{Total} %15TAGS %SCHEDULED")  ;; no
>>                        (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)
>> ;; no
>>                        (org-agenda-start-with-log-mode t )
>> ;;  no
>>                        (org-agenda-ndays 1 )
>> ;; yes
>>                        (org-agenda-skip-
>> function
>>                                                                           ;; 
>> yes
>>                         '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp "\\*
>> TODO")))))
>>               nil nil)))
>>
>> Why don't the first three variables get set (or at least their effects
>> aren't visible in the Agenda buffer), but the last two do?
>>
>> What am I missing in the manual that would have made this clear?

I can reproduce this. I evaluated and ran the custom agenda command and
got the last two variables (org-agenda-ndays and
org-agenda-skip-function), but no column view or log view.

- Matt