[Orgmode] Help with agenda-custom commands

[Paul Holcomb]

 I'm pretty new to elisp and I'm having difficulty figuring out how
 to implement two things in org-agenda-custom-commands:

 *) Is there a simple way to construct an agenda view that:
  -shows all past scheduled events for one TODO keyword only
  -skips for all others

 The only way I could figure out it could work is to write a large
 org-agenda-skip function that explicitly looks at subtrees and
 duplicates the org-scheduled-past-days check code.

 Unless I'm mistaken a block view won't work because the value of
 org-scheduled-past-days is local to the agenda command and not each
 block inside of it.


 *) Using a defconst symbol or function that evaluates to a stringp
 in place of an actual string in for the match field.  

 ex: 
      ("A" ""  tags-todo 'org-pah-todo-exclude nil nil)


           (type-of org-pah-todo-exclude)  
                ==> stringp

  I also tried using concat and format for that argument.  The error
  is always: 

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (quote 
org-pah-todo-exclude))
    string-match("/+" (quote org-pah-todo-exclude))
    org-make-tags-matcher((quote org-pah-todo-exclude))
    org-tags-view((4) (quote org-pah-todo-exclude))

  It seems like the evaluation order is at fault, but I couldn't get further.

 Any suggestions?
 
 Thanks,

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