Thanks for your help, Alex.

The backslashes do get the string to evaluate correctly (now the value of org-stuck-projects is indeed set to what you’d think it would be set to, where the first element is a string), but this does not yield the right output — C-c # still yields no output, and I do know there are projects I define as unfinished in the relevant file.

When I crop out the +FILE=… part of the string, I get the output I’m expecting, so I’m pretty sure my problem is with the syntax of the FILE selector.

Thanks!
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Boyan Penkov
www.boyanpenkov.com

On May 16, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org> wrote:

> On 2014-05-16 22:12 Boyan Penkov wrote:
>> (setq org-stuck-projects
>>      ‘(“+FILE="~/todos/myTodos.org"+LEVEL=1" ("NEXT" "TODO") nil "”))
> 
> I have never used this feature, but this first element look odd to
> me. I would try this: “+FILE=\"~/todos/myTodos.org\"+LEVEL=1".
> 
> HTH,
> -- 
> Alexander Baier