Re: bug? setting todo keywords

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it
Cc: emacs-orgmode Org-Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug? setting todo keywords
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:25:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB2DC500-2D65-497A-8916-E74C4C55C82B@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536092.79697.qm@web28304.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Hi Giovanni,

I am doing exactly what you do:  C-c C-e after the setq form, then
M-x normal-mode.

Works perfectly.

The only reason I can think of is that you somehow managed to make
org-todo-keywords a local variable.  This can happen with
a File Variable section in the buffer, or if you
have something like

(make-variable-buffer-local 'org-todo-keywords)

in .emacs or elsewhere.

You can check in the org buffer with

C-h v org-todo-keywords RET

If the variable is local in that buffer, the Help window will say so.

org-todo-keywords should *not* be a local variable.

However, if it is, your setq evaluation will set the local value
only.  Then you restart the major mode with normal-mode or similar,
and the first thing this will do is *deleting* all local variables.

HTH

- Carsten

On Mar 4, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:

>
> Hello everybody
>
> I'm not able to change the todo keywords in a file
> with "setq org-todo-keywords" and restarting org-mode
> as described in the manual § 5.2.1 .
>
> Org-mode version 6.23b
> GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-02-01 on SOFT- 
> MJASON
> M$Widows XP
>
> ---------------------file---------
>    -*- mode: org; -*-
> * TODO 1st head
>
> (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "FEEDBACK" "VERIFY" "|"  
> "DONE" "DELEGATED")))
>
>  # + SEQ_TODO: TODO FEEDBACK VERIFY DONE
>
> (setq org-todo-keywords '((type "Fred" "Sara" "Lucy" "|" "DONE")))
> --------------
>
> If I
> + go to )))
> + C-x C-e
> + M-x normal-mode  (to restart Org-mode)
>
> the * TODO sequence is still TODO DONE
>
> The sequence is changed  (feedback, delegated...)
> - if I change it via the customization interface
> - if I use #+SEQ_TODO: and C-c C-c on it
>
> I'm puzzled! the sequence is changed with the "type" keyword
> (setq org-todo-keywords '((type
>                        ^^^^^^^^^
>
> Is it a bug or do I miss something?
>
> cheers,
> Giovanni
>
>
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