Re: After years without issues, Orgmode now fails to apply agenda filters to preset templates

[Ihor Radchenko]

webdev@toryanderson.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> After years without issue where I could choose, for example, to see my
> daily work agenda, the filters are now failing to be applied. This is
> in org 9.6.15, as shipped with my emacs 29.3. I have verified that
> this problem is the same in =emacs -Q= without any other packages:
> when I choose my agenda view, such as "C-a w d" for my daily work
> agenda, I still get an agenda buffer named "Org_Agenda(wd)", but none
> of my preset filters have applied. I skimmed the documentation and I
> haven't seen any changed syntax. Here is my definition from my
> =use-package org= =:custom= section:
>
> #+begin_src lisp
>       (org-agenda-custom-commands
>           '(("w" . "Work")
>             ("wd" "Work Day"
>              ((agenda ""
>                       ((org-agenda-span 1)
>                        (org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil)
>                        (org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset
>                         '("+ODH\\|AGENDA\\|CONFERENCE" 
> "-TSA\\|PRIESTHOOD")))))
>              nil)))
> #+end_src

According to the docstring of `org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset',

    ...The preset filter is a global property of
    the entire agenda view.  In a block agenda, it will not work reliably to
    define a filter for one of the individual blocks.  You need to set it in
    the global options and expect it to be applied to the entire view.

So, you should set this variable as a part of global agenda command
settings, not inside individual block.

Not a bug.
Canceled.

> Why has this stopped applying my filter when it worked for so long? Is
> it a bug, or do I need to change something to make it up-to-date?

I have no idea because you did not tell which Org mode version had your
settings working. I suspect that it could have happened around the time
Org mode switched from dynamic binding to lexical binding, but it is
just a blind guess.

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