Re: After years without issues, Orgmode now fails to apply agenda filters to preset templates

[Pedro]

Hi Tory,

I use the same version emacs and orgmode version as you, and I have 
similar needs as you: filtering org-agenda by tags, etc.

I will share my whole section of org-agenda-custom-commands as it is, I 
hope you can followup it nicely. Find it attached in file: 
agenda-filters.org

Cheers,
Pedro

On 5/25/24 21:26, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> webdev@toryanderson.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
> > After years without issue where I could choose, for example, to see my
> > daily work agenda, the filters are now failing to be applied. This is
> > in org 9.6.15, as shipped with my emacs 29.3. I have verified that
> > this problem is the same in =emacs -Q= without any other packages:
> > when I choose my agenda view, such as "C-a w d" for my daily work
> > agenda, I still get an agenda buffer named "Org_Agenda(wd)", but none
> > of my preset filters have applied. I skimmed the documentation and I
> > haven't seen any changed syntax. Here is my definition from my
> > =use-package org= =:custom= section:
> >
> > #+begin_src lisp
> >        (org-agenda-custom-commands
> >             '(("w" . "Work")
> >               ("wd" "Work Day"
> >                ((agenda ""
> >                         ((org-agenda-span 1)
> >                          (org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil)
> >                          (org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset
> >                           '("+ODH\\|AGENDA\\|CONFERENCE" 
> > "-TSA\\|PRIESTHOOD")))))
> >                nil)))
> > #+end_src
> According to the docstring of `org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset',
>
>      ...The preset filter is a global property of
>      the entire agenda view.  In a block agenda, it will not work reliably to
>      define a filter for one of the individual blocks.  You need to set it in
>      the global options and expect it to be applied to the entire view.
>
> So, you should set this variable as a part of global agenda command
> settings, not inside individual block.
>
> Not a bug.
> Canceled.
>
> > Why has this stopped applying my filter when it worked for so long? Is
> > it a bug, or do I need to change something to make it up-to-date?
> I have no idea because you did not tell which Org mode version had your
> settings working. I suspect that it could have happened around the time
> Org mode switched from dynamic binding to lexical binding, but it is
> just a blind guess.

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