Re: [O] How to match TODO items not SCHEDULED or DEADLINE'd

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

address@hidden (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:

> Nikolaus Rath writes:
>
>> On Apr 21 2015, Nikolaus Rath <address@hidden> wrote: 
>>> On Apr 21 2015, address@hidden (Jorge A.
>>> Alfaro-Murillo) wrote: 
>>>> Now, if you want to narrow the agenda (C-c a) or org-sparse-tree
>>>> (C-c /) to show TODO items not SCHEDULED or DEADLINE'd use the key
>>>> 'm' and the following match: 
>>>>
>>>> -SCHEDULED={.+}-DEADLINE={.+}+TODO="TODO" 
>>>
>>> This, however, works perfectly, thanks a lot! 
>>
>> Actually, it seems it does not work for some cases. If I have a file
>> with 
>>
>> * TODO Item 1 * TODO Item 2   SCHEDULED: <2015-04-24 Fri> * Heading
>> ** TODO Subitem 1 ** TODO Subitem 1   SCHEDULED: <2015-04-24 Fri> 
>>
>> end do the above procedure, I'm getting 
>>
>> * TODO Item 1 * TODO Item 2...  * Heading ** TODO Subitem 1... 
>>
>> Why is "Item 2" not being hidden?
>
> That is a good question, I don't know. It fails for me as well in the
> org-sparse-tree, but not in the agenda. In the agenda it only shows
> Item 1 and Subitem 1, as it should. I had never used the sparse tree,
> it might by what it is supposed to do, perhaps it shows by default all
> entries up to a certain level. Hopefully someone can answer, if not
> perhaps a new thread with just that issue could serve as a bug report.

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Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou