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From: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
To: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug] Must declare value as string in org-agenda-custom-commands easy customize interface
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:43:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjwtuo1f.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinHBf-GTYNUK_iG8RzBp3nTdCjddbMYLcf5A83j@mail.gmail.com>


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At Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:45:42 -0500,
Jeff Horn wrote:
> 
> Only a minor annoyance. Posting in case anyone else runs into the same issue.
> 
> In the easy customize interface, when setting the value for a variable
> in "local settings" for a custom command, the
> org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines value of "all" must be preceded by a
> single quote.[1] I expected this to automatically happen, as the easy
> customize interface generally takes care of such escaping.
> 
> The parenthetical "sexp" leads me to believe this is the intended
> behavior. Is this correct?

From my understanding this is correct.  The dialog allows you to set
an arbitrary symbol to an arbitrary value, i.e. not limited to another
symbol (e.g. 'all).  Thus a sexp is required and the single quote in
front of the symbol all is the short hand notation of (quote all).

Best,
  -- David
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-16 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-06 16:45 [bug] Must declare value as string in org-agenda-custom-commands easy customize interface Jeff Horn
2011-01-16 10:43 ` David Maus [this message]
2011-01-16 12:49   ` Jeff Horn
2011-01-18  9:02     ` Bastien

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