On 10 Oct 2011 17:45, "Chris Wallace" <chris.wallace@cimr.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 10/10/11 14:52, Jason Dunsmore wrote:
>>
>> Chris Wallace<chris.wallace@cimr.cam.ac.uk>  writes:
>>
>>> I want to include in my agenda only things that are TODO, or are
>>> scheduled and not marked DONE, or have a deadline and are not marked
>>> DONE.  This is how agenda worked a year ago before I went on maternity
>>> leave, and now something has changed and I am seeing lots of DONE
>>> tasks which had a deadline -780 days ago.
>>>
>>> I have tried removing all org customisations relating to the agenda
>>> and todo list, and have read the agenda part of the manual, but I
>>> can't get this to work.

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> thank you for the quick reply.  I do have those variables set.  I have now
commented one by one every line in my org setup and customisation and found
that the problem only occurs when customize includes the line:
>
> '(org-todo-keywords (quote ((sequence "TODO" "DONE" "|" "CANCELLED"))))
>
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> Chris.
>
>

Chris,

I believe this is indeed the problem. The pipe chr '|' sperates done from
not done states: todo states on the left of it are considered undone and on
the right, done. So, swap 'DONE' and '|' and I expect you will be sorted.

Best,

Brian vdB