William Xu writes: > Now I try to test it extensively. Even with all your changes, I find > when I use org-agenda-todo to change the todo-state inside the agenda > buffer, the new state isn't always prettified. > > Do you see the same behaviour? Oops. Yes, I do see the same behaviour. I only did light testing on master and I had some unrelated changes nullifying the problem you observe on my testing branch. See the updated patch.