My Emacs version is 27.2 and Org is 9.4.4.

The value of "org-agenda-sorting-strategy" is:

((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down category-keep)
 (todo priority-down category-keep deadline-up)
 (tags priority-down category-keep deadline-up)
 (search category-keep))

Le 2 avril 2022 23:16:23 GMT+02:00, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> a écrit :
>perhaps try including your code and the emacs and org versins.  i
>think there have been recentish changes insorting strategy.
>
>might also try paradoxically deadline-down etc.
>
>On 4/2/22, Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> In org-agenda, for the todos list, I try to have tasks with deadlines at
>> top. With earliest deadline first.
>>
>> But, when I customize the variable "org-agenda-sorting-strategy" by adding
>> "deadline-up" for "todo" and "tags", it has no effect.
>>
>> Any advice ?
>
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