Re: [O] Bug: agenda interaction with org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks, org-agenda-max-entries and org-enforce-todo-dependencies [8.3beta (release_8.3beta-785-gb5d9f4 @ /Users/yn/dotfiles/org.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Yuri Niyazov <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, that seems to me the behavior I am seeing. Are you saying that
> this is not a bug?

It doesn't look like one.

> It is certainly very surprising behavior. I had the "make blocked
> tasks invisible" setting for months, and then only recently started
> limiting the number of entries, so it took me quite some time to
> figure out why I was seeing only, for example, 4 items in the agenda
> when I was expecting to see 10 (which is where the
> org-agenda-max-entries setting is) - the two settings are not
> obviously related.

Documentation (e.g., docstrings) may be improved, then. Would you want
to suggest such an improvement?

> Also, this is inconsistent with other settings like
> org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done and
> org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled, which actively
> remove items from the agenda view. I understand that the setting has
> the verb "skip" rather than "dim" in it, but that's not enough of an
> indicator up front to know that the two settings work differently when
> it comes to counting towards the total.
>
>> You may want to skip altogether blocked tasks instead.
>
> What do you mean by that?

As you noticed, skipping is not the same as dimming. The latter is
purely visual. See `org-agenda-skip-function' to really skip tasks from
agenda, and probably `org-entry-blocked-p' to ignore blocked tasks.


Regards,