Re: [O] Org agenda started behaving badly

[Nick Dokos]

Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> so out of nowhere my org agenda started behaving in a strange way.  It
> seems not to respect my TODO-keywords settings:
>
> (setq org-todo-keywords
>       '((sequence "TODO(t!)" "DONE(d!)")
>       (sequence "SOMEDAY(s!)")
>       (sequence "CANCELLED(c@)")
>       (sequence "WAIT(w!)" "|")))
>
> i.e., it now shows all the "CANCELLED" items as if "CANCELLED" was not
> a todo keyword at all.  When I visit the offending file and issue M-x
> normal-mode, everything is back to normal again.
>

What does C-h v org-todo-keywords RET say when you see the problem? Is
it possible that there is a local variable shadowing the global setting?

> Now the strange thing is, I haven't updated Org in a while.  I did now,
> but the problem persists.  I am on
>
> Org mode version 9.1.13 (release_9.1.13-791-g842002 @ [...])
>
> and
>
> GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (commit f1e65b7)
>
> I also can't remember changing my config (but it's quite possible that
> I'm forgetting something).
>
> What I did do is I updated some packages through the Emacs package
> manager, but I don't think this is related.
>
> Now I know this is a bit vague, but does anyone have any idea what might
> cause this, or how I could try to debug this problem?
>
> Of course, I have a lot of Org-mode-related customizations in my
> init.el, but I don't think they are related.  If I'm wrong, I can post
> them here, of course.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://mbork.pl
>
>

-- 
Nick

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