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

[Paul Mead]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> 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.
>
>>
>>
>> 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. 


> 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