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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