Re: org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels and tags-todo

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Patrick Bahr wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use tags-todo searches in my custom agenda commands.  
> Unfortunately, tags-todo
> does not honour the org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels variable which I  
> want to use
> in order to ignore nested todo items. Is there a way to persuade  
> tags-todo to do
> this? I know that there is a variable org-agenda-tags-todo-honor- 
> ignore-options
> which does this for org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date etc. It would  
> be nice if
> there is something similar to this for org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels.

You know, interesting that you bring this up.
Not showing sublevels is something from the early days of Org-mode.
For a simple tag search, this might have made some sense.  However,
I was afraid that TODO items could get missing when turning this
on, so when we do a tags search that should list TODO entries
only, Org assumes that this is really a TODO search and *forces*
listing sublevels.

First of all, for tag searches, there is a separate variable
org-tags-match-list-sublevels which must be used.
However, as I said, the value is currently overruled during
tags-todo searches.

> Even
> better would be if this could be adjusted per individual tags-todo  
> search. For
> example for certain cases I do not want to see nested TODO items but  
> I do want
> to see nested WAITING items. With two tags-todo searches having  
> different
> behaviour on nested todo items this would be feasible.


I am now removing this restriction (hoping that no-one relies on
it), so setting the above variable should now work.

In fact I would urge you to *not* set it to nil globally, but to
*only* set it for specific searches, by using the options section
of the custom agenda command.  See Matt's excellent tutorial

   http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-custom-agenda-commands.php

for example on how to do this.

HTH

- Carsten