Re: Re: Some in-file properties and other settings not recognized

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Some in-file properties and other settings not recognized
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:25:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1923D9E3-3189-439F-BE72-E3EC5D875DA4@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4oyqmvol.fsf@gmail.com>

On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Paul Mead wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>>
>> When you press C-c C-c at a property drawer or at a property drawer,
>> you are presented with e menu.  What option do you select?
>
> I didn't see the menu, so I've just gone back to try and re-create the
> error. It seems that I was exiting the menu rather than selecting an
> option in my haste to switch windows, so wasn't selecting anything. I
> can now see that simply making the PROPERTIES drawer visible has the  
> effect of
> dimming the blocked todos once I refresh. If I refresh without making
> the drawer visible they do not dim.

Is this Emacs 21?

>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Similarly, I have (setq org-agenda-align-tags-to-column 100) in my
>>> configuration file. This setting is also not recognised when I  
>>> show my
>>> task list. I have to open my config file (pdm-org.el), go to the   
>>> line in
>>> question and hit C-x C-e. Then when I refresh the agenda view,  
>>> the  tags
>>> all shift to the right columns.
>>
>> This must mean that your file pdm-org.el is not read at all, or
>> not read in time for the agenda construction, or that the setting
>> is overwritten in some other place, for example by a
>> custom-set-variables form in another init file.
>
> All the other customizations in that file are working OK. I have
> (require 'pdm-org) in my .emacs and the only other items which pertain
> to org-mode which come after that line are the Customize settings for
> org-agenda-files (which seem to be working fine) and org-stuck- 
> projects
> (which I also have a problem with!)
>
> I'm quite prepared to believe that I have some items in the wrong  
> order
> - I'm fairly unsophisticated in elisp terms, but I have a  
> minimal .emacs
> with (require... lines for a series of mode-specific customization
> files.

One thing you can try:

1. Start Emacs, and check what the value of org-agenda-align-tags-to- 
column is.

2. Create an agenda, then check again.

3. do C-x C-e in the line in pdm-org.el as you described, and then
    check the value of the variable again.

This should tell us something.
>
>
>
>> Or maybe you have first
>>
>> (org-agenda-list)
>>
>> in .emacs, and then
>>
>> (load-file "~/pdm-org.el")
>>
>> or some trick like this?
>>
> I don't seem to have that variable set anywhere. Is that a problem?
>
>>> This is happening the same on two machines (both Windows I'm  
>>> afraid),
>>> with org-mode versions reported as 6.22b and 6.22trans.
>>>
>>> I still have my earlier problem with the stuck projects view not
>>> ignoring inherited tags.
>>
>> I do not remember this one, can you send a link to the message?
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>
> Umm, let me see...
>
> Don't think I can paste the nntp link, but on Gmane it's at:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/11398
>
> Thanks
> Paul
>
>
>
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